Header : courtesy Meera – Thanks a lot !!!!!!!

No its not Sushmita, so what if over 1500 hits on my blog have been people searching for her and not its not Angelina Jolie or Sharone stone either… 

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make no mistake about the fact that the biggest attraction of my blog are my tales with my biwi who is the biggest star for me !!! I have also seen that its these posts that get the maximum response !!!!

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Tomorrow I complete 8 years of marriage with her and its been a fantastic journey… all along there are countless moments to treasure. Marrying your best friend in a way helps in a lot of ways but mostly coz you dont have to please her or impress her to win her over infact you can spend most of the time pulling her legs  the flipside is sometimes getting your own pulled too…

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The years have largely been fun and more often than not we are always trying to win points in conversations always trying our hand at dry sarcasm and humour… Make no mistake about it I have won way too many such conversations with her and my humour is definitely better than hers !!!!! and MOST definitely more drier !!!!   

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the one disadvantage is you can’t boast about your past to others with the best friend around as she can always foil your plans by telling ur friends that he is kidding Imagine the ignominy !!!!! (friends suddenly term you as PHENKU !!!! )

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Anyways coming back to the point over a period of time I have always written my best friend, my wife coz I simply love her a lot and she is always in my mind. So I just want her to read a few of the old posts that were dedicated to her… !! ( also incase you have missed any, dig IN !! )

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I wrote poems for her too !!!!!!

1.) Love

simply the story of me and my best friend !!

2.) Lonely without you

rhyming while missing her and definitely not her housekeeping !!! (geez people never trusted me)

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An Instance when the male insensitivites take over :

3.) Whats in the heart must be brought to the lips

apart from being a best friend, she is the most caring wife one could ever hope for..

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Poems and love apart… our relationship is largely about Salt and Pepper moments of life !!! Its Spicy !!!

4.) tail firmly between the legs

about how dominantly this lady has been treating her poor husband

5.) his n hers 

A few 55 word fiction stories to showcase our quibbles and dedication to winning over each other…

6.) sniff sniff

 marriage is not just about fun… its about tears… and how wive’s squeeze them out of their husbands !!!

And least but not the least… my high expecations while marrying my best friend were about getting a fat Dowry !!! I mean pataoing a Senior Managerial post ka Aadmi’s daughter must yield some sort of rewards dont you think ??? Bangla ?? Gaadi ?? Kuch to milna hi chahiye na ???

Well well well… this is one post about my high hopes of dowry and them crashing completely :

7.) The Dowry that went Awry

This is a sad post that most find hillarious… the world has no compassion I tell ya… !! Incidentally I have also entered this post as my entry in the Most Masaledaar Event – Humour category contest at Indiblogger. Suggest you guys also go and vote for it !!! I mean if you actually like it !!!!

Finally before I sign off here is a song for my biwi… I used to sing this a lot to woo her in the days of me trying to patao her… it worked… she wont agree it worked, she insists she pataoed me, since it was she who proposed me… but who will explain the lil kid that she was made to do every thing she did… She simply played into my hands !!!!!

Thank God Man Ka Meet Mil Gaya !!!!!!

Happy Anniversary Sweetheart !!!!

Darkness spreads,
moon starts to shine,
twinkling stars are the audience,

breeze brings chills,
the flame flickers,
wax melting,

the flame flickers,
fighting against over powering odds,
weakening as the breeze picks up…

More hands needed,
More cover needed,

We shall be the shields…
We shall be the knights…

One year has since passed but the flame in our hearts still flickers… 

Beware before using Fevicol… Janmo Janam tak saath nahi chodenga.. !!!!

I absolutely love this ad… !! Fevicol always comes up with the best… and the background has been sung by some child artist… I m not sure who it is has a really really wonderful voice !!!!

this is specially for Nri’ friends who cant see this ad !!!!

listening Sakshi ????

p.s. – Awesomely busy so wont be in touch… !!! but will come back soon !!

Almost all the times I am humming some tune or some song… many times I hum a song and it strikes I dont have that song… and I mentally make a note that I want to download that song.. !!

however whenever I reach a cd store or a download site I just cant remember which was the song I wanted… sigh..

just now I m trying to download a song that I was humming yesterday evening but now I cant remember… pah..

does it happen to you ?? or m i growing so old ??

the other most funny thing is when discussing with friends or wife suddenly we come to a juncture where we can visualise a song but cant get the lyrics.. like this one instance with my friend…

he : hey do you remember that song,
me : which ?
he : that song its very nice..
me : which ?
he : arre… it was on the tip of my tongue…
me : whos in the movie…
he : vinod khanna…
me : heroine ??
he : arre.. I dont know her name… but not very famous.. she has hazel eyes.. !
me : who else…
he : arre yaar… its a sad song.. it was … shit I cant recall… !!!
me : who else is in the movie.. ??
he : cant remember… !!!

then 2 hours later that guy calls me up and tells me.. “there is asrani in the movie and shatrughan sinha tooo !!!!”

excitedly I ask, “is meena kumari also there in the movie ???”

he : yes yes… old lady…

Abe Saale…. pehla bolna tha na… Sun !!!

Koi hota jisko apna, hum apna keh lete yaaro… paas nahi to door hi hota… lekin koi mera apna !!!!!! from Mere Apne movie !!!!!

if this situation happens in front of me… Geez… I cant sleep or do anything till I remember that song !!!!!!! And this friend of mine is also like that… its like we lose sleep till we dont guess that song…

does it happen to you too ?????

This Sunday I donned the chef hat and fed dinner to biwi… here is the recipe.. that I had to share since long… I dont know if its common but still !!!

I come from a Jain family and hence cooking Eggs is not easy, while it was impossible in Bharuch with my mom, who would surely kick me out of her house if she knew I eat Eggs !!!!

The other police in my Indore house now is my son… I and my wife are terrified of the thought if he suddenly tells my mom about the eggs !!!!!

Neways… This is egg bhurji. I dont know if its something new or not, I used to think its pretty common but anyways… !! This is originally a dish that was first brought to Gujarat by the Parsi’s !! They call it “Akuri” in Bharuch it is known as Bhurji !! I must her also claim that Bharuch Laaris (street hawkers) serve the best bhurji in the world. Also I recommend it to be cooked in oil and not in ghee or butter as that makes it sweet. Bhurji in Bharuch is a spicy spicy dish !!!!

here we go…

first get the eggs in a manner that my son cannot see… finally when my wife couldnt locate any space… she decided her purse is the best place to hide them !!!!

Then the veggies that biwi had cut in advance, normally I do it but since I chopped the salad in the morning she did it this time :

Then fry the onions, a couple of garlic flakes, ginger and green chillies in oil till golden brown on a slow flame… while doing this I broke 3 eggs in a bowl and added a spoon of milk to it and whisked them away to glory !!! I love breaking eggs and whisking them… there is a pleasure in it that is hard to explain

I just love doing this with a wooden then add the tomatoes and fry them with red chilli powder, salt, turmeric and garam masala as per taste… take my advice.. the spicier the better !!!

this is after adding the masala’s !!!!

after adding the three eggs this is how it looks like… you gotta constant stir it softly and give it a feel like a scrambled egg !!

and than garnish it with coriander leaves !!!!!! tell me does it look delicious ??

This is how I served it to her !!!!! You can eat it with Roti / Paratha / Bread / Toast !!!!

one more pic with the ketchup bottle although we didnt use it… the colours look nice in the pic.. !!

and finally the proof that we finished it off with the help of a few slices of bread that were roasted in butter !!! I loved adding lemon to most things and I did squeeze a bit in my part !!!!!!!

A very dear friend of mine who is busy in her son’s wedding sent me this recipe which is authenticated as she is a Parsi. This is her method :

plain egg akuri (its not bharuchi akuri).Chop 3 onions finely.

Fry them in 2 tbsp ghee/butter (or oil will also do) till golden brown.

Add 1 tsp ginger garlic paste

1 chopped tomato

3 chopped green chillies

few sprigs of chopped coriander

1/4 tsp red chilly powder

1/4 or less turmeric powder and fry all this for few mins

Cook till all of it is mixed properly on low heat.

Take three eggs and beat them in a bowl add salt and 3 tbs of milk if desired.

add them to the mixture and stir on low heat till desired thickness (like scrambled eggs)

Serve hot with plain bread or on toast.

Enjoy

“Okay Okay its over now, I m going to sleep Good Night!!!”

Now that is after telling him names of all animals that exist according to my knowledge in India, Asia, Africa, Australia, Amazon and America !!!

No don’t you think its easy, its not just animals, the names of the animals are to be followed by birds, reptiles and insects too for each destination. We are fair to all no discrimination between animals, birds, reptiles and insects tooo… !!!!!!

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I couldnt sleep with this churning in my mind, I wanted to start this post with some choicest abuses and even wanted to title the post as something outrageously foul but the saner me or should I say the cynic in me or the coward in me was fearing. You never know you could be facing a lawsuit or even worse they would threaten me to tender an apology on my blog or else they would spam my blog (their rotten minds could well think of it)… they could even threaten me to beat me up and throw me out of my house if I did not tender an apology and hence I had to use the nicer or should I say the more milder language.

When big celebrities and definitely more powerful people than me like Amitabh’s, Karan Johar’s can immediately bow down and apologise for crimes they didnt commit… alas the common me has no scope to voice his opinion does he ??

When the whole world is busy singing Sachin’s praises at his completing 20 years some lunatic journalist asks a ridiculous question to which Sachin gives a most logical and most simple answer is being dragged into a controversy by some idiot who thinks Mumbai is his property.

The biggest sucker of them all is the media who will now let the idiot have all the lime light in the world by highlighting this over and over again. No matter how disgusted Arnab is with the speaker on his channel he will still invite him and actually provide a platform for them to spit their venom.

Isnt this what is happening, the idiots arent that silly after all, they are using the celebrities for instant fame. Target or malign a celebrity, rake up a controversy, the suckers (read media) will then harp day and night about how and what happened. They will invite the idiots on their channel and give them what they desire the most, VISIBILITY !!

Ideally Sachin should not be responding to this, Sachin is as Maharashtrian as any Maratha man is and incidentally he is also as Indian as any Indian can be, the poor guy is just busy playing his game, but they wont leave him alone, coz he is their ticket to more limelight !!!!! 

Elephants always carry on in their merry way worrying about their own job and never mind the barking dogs. But really some one needs to turn around and give these dogs a real piece of their mind.

How much is too much ??

Part – II

Like I said in my last post its impossible to list down all Sachin moments !! The joys Sachin has provided to Indian cricket lovers cannot be measured… they are simply way too many, however I am gonna try and point out Ten moments of Tendlya that are most clearly etched in my mind !

1.) He sledged too !!

As surprising as it sounds it is true and though not a lot of people know of this but at one point in life Sachin initiated sledging and the receipient of all people was none other than Glenn Mcgrath !!!!!

It was the knockout world cup in Nairobi with Ganguly the new captain and India was entering a new era, Dada always encouraged his players to talk back to the opponents. Mcgrath was bowling well in the opening overs and Sachin and Sourav were opening and Sachin told Sourav we need to unsettle him and Sachin charged down the track and hit Mcgrath for a scorching boundary down the ground and said something to him. This was unusual for Sachin to say something without being provoked. Next ball Mcgrath was treated again disdainfully and this time again Sachin charged him and the ball went soaring down the ground for six and typically Mcgrath went for a bouncer which was promptly & disdainfully hooked for a massive six that went sailing out of the stadium after which Mcgrath looked at Sachin & Sachin said “@#$@ off and bowl”   !!!! I saw his lips on TV and I am sure that were the exact words in his mouth !!!

Mcgrath and Aussies were rattled… though Sachin scored only 37 odd runs but he did the damage psychologically, Mcgrath and Aussies were taken aback by this fiery attitude !!! All along they had only been giving it to the Indians suddenly they were getting it back. This match also marked the entry of Yuvraj who smacked a sparkling 80. But for me this match will always be remembered for Sachin taking Mcgrath by the Scruff of the neck. I have always thought Sachin needed to treat Mcgrath a lot like this. Those 4-5 shots in that match will always remain etched in my memory !

2.) Let me Open !

If ever an injury was a blessing this was it, 27th March, 1994 at Eden Park, Auckland it was Najyot Singh Sidhu who got injured and India were chasing a moderate 146 on a seaming track. Sachin approached Azhar and Ajit Wadekar, the skipper and manager on that tour and asked if he could open.

 He also told them if he failed he would never come to them again !!!!

What followed till this day is hair raising for me early in the morning I remember the bold strokes and the mauling the Kiwi bowlers received. Sachin was on an express train and he demolished the Kiwi bowlers and an opener was born !!! Till day I can never forget the exhilaration I felt watching him open and tear the bowling apart !!! That was the beginning of a long journey for Sachin as an Indian opener, a journey that has been most exciting and spell bounding !

3.) The master v/s the wizard

The world has never seen anything like Shane Warne, a leg spinner par excellence a total freak a genius !!! Imagine if a guy who spins the ball 2 feet on any surface comes of all places to India where the pitches are slow and grip and dodgy with the bounce, it can be a batsman’s worst nightmare come true.

The year was 1998 and Mark Taylor’s Australia came to India looking for a test series win that eluded them since many years. In a tour match before the tests Sachin made a double century for Mumbai against the Aussies and Mumbai defeated Australia in a 4 day match !!!!

The first match started in Chennai and I remember how the contest was billed as Sachin v/s Warne and all Indians expected Sachin to smash Warne and in the first innnings Sachin hit Warne for a boundary off the first ball he faced and the crowd was in raptures… before the crowd could settle Warney had Sachin guiding one ball in the hands of Mark Taylor at first slip and you could hear a pin drop in Chennai !!

The wizard cast his spell.. it was ominous… Sachin was out for just 4 !!!!

In second innings India was 77 runs in the arrears, Sachin joined Dravid with India just 44 runs ahead and it was all resting on Sachin’s shoulders.

This innings for me is one of the best I have ever seen against spin bowling. Warne couldnt get Sachin out early and Warne himself claims that he goes around the wicket only when he is in his most aggressive frame of mind. From around the wicket Warne was bowling in the rough in the second innings with the ball spinning almost 3 feet at times. But Sachin in his most aggressive mode would continuously slog sweep Warne over the midwicket fence. This innings was a sparkling effort and the shots in the match were breathtaking and nerve wrecking. I remember all the times I was at tenterhooks and nervous that he is going to hit one in the air and its gonna be all over… but amazingly he scored a 155 not out and there are no words to describe this assault on Warne. This innings won us the Test Match and the tone for the series was set !!!!

Important to note though is that before this match Sachin had practised with Laxman Sivramana Krishnan, former Indian legspinner, after digging up the area outside the leg stump and asking him to bowl in the rough. Just goes to show that inspite of the God given gifts and natural talent the guy is a thinker and above all a real hardworker who will put in all to serve his country !!!!

4.) A team man to the core…

While in Sharjah it was usual for India to lose to Pakistan ever since Javed Miandad struck that six off Chetan Sharma, this stadium was jinxed for India. It was in 1996 in an ODI match when Sachin batted magnificiently for a century and had a big partnership with Sidhu. In the end overs India seem to have lost its way with Sachin out and Sidhu run out.

The Indian skipper then Azhar was feeling very low and promoted even Srinath above him to slog. It was here that Sachin went and sat next to his skipper and reassured him and asked him to just go in and give his best and the pep talk seemed to have done wonders as Azhar went in and bludgeoned the hapless Ata ur Rehman and returned with a 10 ball 29 and India crossed the 300 mark for the first time in ODI’s and finally the jinx in Sharjah was broken !!!! Again a Sachin Century !!!

Sachin was not just a batsman, above all he was a team man, even if you ask Sachin he wants to be remembered as a team man more than a batsman !!!!

5.) The inferno at Sharjah

This innings is one of the biggest memories all around the world about Sachin and I guess everyone knows enough about this. The way Tony Greig would scream when Sachin would pelt six after six of the hapless Aussie bowlers is now permanently stored in the hearts of all cricket fans.

Cricket is a team game… but amazingly these were two innings where an individual simply bludgeoned the opposition lone handedly.

6.) The World Champs Conquered

I dont know how many consider this as an achievement of Sachin, rather lots consider it a team effort. But I am sure for Sachin it was most special to win the Carlton and United series in Australia last year. Not just they win this series but Sachin scored in both finals and I feel this was a very very satisfying performance at the end of a tumultous tour.

The difference in this series though was apart from Sachin all other players in the team played above their potential under a young skipper who is most admired by Sachin himself !

The silver lining of this series was Sachin’s century in the final where he shephered the youngsters around and did not let the hard work go down !!!!

7.) The blitz in Centurion

In the 2003 world cup we witnessed a match that was overly hyped, people didnt mind if India didnt win this world cup but they badly wanted team India to win the duel between the arch rivals. The atmosphere was electric the crowd was amazing and the stage set.

Set 270 odd to win Sachin and Sehwag tore into the Pakistani bowling, while Sehwag went early Sachin smashed his way to a match winning 98. For the masses this was a sensational innings as Sachin smashed the arch rival bowlers Waqar, Wasim & Shoaib was a treat that can be watched over and over again !!!

The celebrations that night were something that I have never seen till date !!!!

8.) Is the ground pretty of my innnings ???

One of the most pretty grounds in the world is the Newlands in Cape town with the table mountain as a back drop. India’s performance in South Africa always has been pathetic however on one afternoon after lunch Sachin and Azhar set about taking the Proteas bowlers to task.

I must say I am yet to see such attack by batsmen in a test match on lead bowlers of an opposition team. While Azhar threw the bat hard Sachin was perfection always in perfect position matching stroke for stroke. Both the guys batted like a dream with each over leaking 2-3 boundaries and the rate at which the runs came with a team that was so much under the hammer in that entire tour was unbelievable.

Sachin in this innings just showed the youngsters back then Rahul & Sourav in the team that there was no demon in the Proteas attack. A fantastic innings on a fast track against 4 fast bowlers !!!

At the end I am sure people must be wondering if the innings was prettier or the ground !!!

9) There is a freak in me too !!!

If I think there is one thing that Sachin has not given proper attention to its his leg spin. He is a very very talented leg spinner and there is a lot of potential there but Sachin has always not given it enough time. As a legspinner Sachin is very very underrated !!!!

I still remember his two wickets in 2001 in Eden Gardens when the team badly needed it. Had India not won that match at Eden Gardens I am sure Indian cricket would not be where it is today.

Another instance was in an Odi at Kochi where Australia was at 203 for 3 in the 31st over chasing India’s 310 run target where Sachin was introduced and he picked up 5 wickets to turn the match.

It was during this time that Warne said that Sachin gave him nightmares… I wonder if some Aussie batsman quietly thanked the fact that Sachin wasnt bowling enough !

I immensely enjoy watching him bowl and unlike his batting where he is in total control of his emotions he shows a lot more emotions when he bowls. There is almost a small kid like excitement in him, he smiles a lot and he gets really hyper when he bowls !!!!

10) If we could bring a smile on the faces of people we would consider ourselves lucky !!!!

The England test match in chennai in a lot of ways was an unbelievably special moment in his 20 year career. The circumstances before that match with the November attacks in Mumbai and the match started amidst glum moments add to that India was set an unlikely 387 in the fourth innings on a fast deteriorating Chennai track.

The going was tough but Virender Sehwag on the fourth evening went hell for leather leaving the English bowlers worried. But when Sehwag fell the score read 117/1. Dravid fell and the score read 147/2 with Sachin walking in… It was Dejavu and it remined of that Match against Pakistan in this very ground when Sachin failed to get India over the line.

In my heart a sinking feeling that its not impossible but improbable, time and again we have been there and not achieved the same in the 4th innings but Sachin had different idea’s and he along with Gambhir, Laxman & Yuvraj sealed the deal for India and chased down a near impossible target !!!!

After the match Sachin who was unbeaten at the end of the match dedicated the victory to the people who lost their lives in the attack in Mumbai. He simply said that if we managed to bring even a small smile on the faces of people we would consider ourselves lucky.

Just goes to tell you Cricket is much more than a sport in India !!!!

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These are my favourite 10 memories not in any particular order.

One must keep in mind when discussing Sachin Tendulkar as a batsman that cricket is a team game. Purely from a batting perspective he is the most perfect batsman I have seen. People must understand that for a guy who was born in the subcontinent this man has scored tons of runs in Australia, a true test of a batsman from the subcontinent. He is an excellent runner between wickets a very safe and agile fielder even today at 37, a medium pacer in his early days now a leg-spinner, a former captain and the most dedicated servant of Indian cricket.  

There are not enough superlatives in my dictionary to describe Sachin. But I must say this Sachin is a batsman par excellence, the most precious team man and a son India prides upon !!!! May he score many more runs and end his career with the 2011 world cup which I am sure is in his mind !!!!

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The journey begins…

I was 12 years old then as I sat on the dining table of my Mama’s house watching my cousin another cricket freak read the Indian Express and telling his dad, “this kid has just scored a century in the Irani Trophy Final, he will be in our team soon.”

That was the first I heard of the marvel named Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. At 15 years in Ranji Debut he scored a century, in his debut in Deodhar trophy he again scored a century and ended his first Ranji season as Mumbai’s highest run scorer. In the ensuing Irani Trophy final he again scored a century !!!!!!!!!

The writing was on the wall and Sachin was on the plane to Pakistan to play against the worlds best pace attack in their own den.

A 16 year old kid was off to live a dream it might seem but hey he was off to Pakistan of all places to face Wasim, Waqar and Imran backed with Abdul Qadir !!!! Whilst I honestly wasnt a very keen cricket follower then… I still marvel at the stories from that tour… the series was fought hard and in the last test at Sialkot it was 38/4 with India leading by 100 odd runs in their second innings. Suddenly the series had come alive… Pakistan could win..

In walked the 16 year old at 38/4… it was like being thrown to the wolves… Akram, Imran and Waqar let it rip. Sachin discovered fast that international cricket on the field was the last place to find friends as the pace bowling trio bounced Sachin constantly and one from Waqar found its mark, only Srikanth and Sachin in that match batted in a helmet without a grill and Sachin paid the price. He was struck flush on his nose and was bleeding profusely…

As the physio checked Sachin, Sidhu put an arm on Sachin to inquire if he would like to go off… Pat came the reply from the 16 year old who simply said, “Paaji Main Khelenga !!”

That one line tells me even today that age is only a number, this 16 year old had a heart of a full grown man !!!! At one point the umpire Holder in that match had to warn Akram for persistent short pitched bowling. Sachin and Sidhu saved that match and it ended in a draw.

First test series ended with 215 runs at an average of 35 odd runs !!!

In the only ODI on that trip Sachin made a duck on debut… !!

That entire trip of Pakistan was marred by unruly crowd behaviour that would pelt orange peels and stones on the Indian players on the field. I particularly remember this one charity match in Peshawar where the crowd jeered and taunted Sachin and came with posters citing,“Sachin go back and have milk”.

It was during this match that Sachin hit Mustaq Ahmed for 2 sixes in an over, this led to Abdul Qadir the mentor of Mustq Ahmed to taunt Sachin, “Bache ko kya maar rahe ho, hume maar ke dikhao”

Sachin didnt reply to Qadir, but when Qadir came to bowl, Sachin hit him for 6, 0, 4, 6, 6, 6. Yes 28 runs in an over and that was it !! The kid had arrived well and truly. The champion legspinner from Pakistan had been hit and his ego badly bruised.

Incidentally this is when I fell in love with this magnificient game cricket for the first time in life, suddenly my hero Diego Maradona had just been replaced by another curly wonder boy Sachin !!!!!

As a kid I had always heard stories of Perth from my dad and my cousin about how fast a track it was and how bouncy the pitch there was. Sachin on his first tour of Australia made a century in Sydney in 1992 along with Ravi Shashtri who made a double century. Sydney though was the only track in Australia that came even remotely close to India in bounce. Everyone from cricket greats to a lil fan in me wanted to see how we batted in Perth, THE WORLDS FASTEST PITCH.

Australia was armed with Craig Mcdermott, Michael Whitney, Merv Hughes & Paul Reifel and they were raring to go on a green WACA wicket after the Australians scored 350 odd in the first innings Sachin walked in at 69-2…

For a player from the subcontinent this was his biggest test, the worlds fastest pitch against 4 pronged fast bowling attack this was the moment of truth for the guy and he smashed the bowlers to all parts of the ground. He made 118 of the best quality and till date I have not seen such square cutting by any player on such a lively track !!!!!

This led to Merv Hughes telling the Aussie captain Allan Border, “This lil prick is going to score more runs than you !!!!”

After establishing himself in the hearts of all Indians at the end of the Pakistan tour, it was here in 1992 where Sachin established himself as a cricketer that the whole world watched. The Benaud’s, the Chappell’s, the Richards, the Lawry’s, the Greig’s all took notice of the innings in Perth.

The long journey in international cricket which had loads of accolades and a few brickbats was just beginning for this shy lad from Mumbai, he had established himself and the next decade or two would be when the world would watch him !!!!

From that day to today Sachin has travelled a long distance giving us endless memories and hundreds of moments of ecstacy !!!

On Sunday, 15th of November, Sachin completes 20 years in international cricket with his 160th test match for his beloved India. Over the past 20 years Sachin has given us endless memories, endless reasons to smile on a day when things havent gone well its Sachin’s batting that can lift your mood !!!!

Its almost impossible to list all of Sachin’s moments but I will try to list a few more of his memories that I think are special but that will be in part II of this post !!!!

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