Anirudh Lohia|Me and My Theories

As most of the great veterans of Indian Cricket bowed their head to pay homage to Dilip Serdesai, there was not a single current Mumbai Ranji player present there I leave apart the players from other states.

I strongly feel that that it’s high time that we should remind ourselves that it was the stories of Serdesia’s and Durrani’s that kept cricket alive in middle class homes. Had our past cricketers not played for 200 Rs. and traveled in a local train to play an international match the next set of players would never have got 10,000 Rs. and next would never have got more.

That generation gave a lot of hope to Indian Cricket. It was only in 1959 that we believed that Australia were beatable, we did not believe that England could be beaten in England until 1971. Till 1969 nobody even dreamt of India winning a test series overseas.

What a great opportunity it was to tell our Junior Cricketers who know about Gavaskar, Kapil, Kumble and Tendulkar’s but don’t know that Tiger Pataudi played with one eye and one leg before a disbelieving audience in Melbourne, Polly Umrigar once played a stirring Test match in Port-of-Spain bowling 72 overs for 124 runs and 5 wickets apart from making 56 and a second innings 172 not out in a little over 4 hours.

It’s time that we should stand up and start respecting our Heroes.

Huh!! Yet another milestone for the little champion, crossing 15000 run mark in ODI. And to be realistic still many established players can just dream of reaching such milestones. I am sure many will agree on this that nothing united our country more than Sachin’s batting in it’s prime.

Last match was special because after a long time we saw our little champion bat like a true champion.

But what was more remarkable in that innings we saw our hero play the way is best at ATTACK!!

It all started with a pull of Makhya Ntini’s short ball and after that every time someone banged short the ball had to be fetched form the boundary. The vintage innings included some of the shorts that the little master is a expert at. Short Arm Jab over the infiled, cover drive, Pull and Hooks and last but not the least his flick pads. Auh!! It had all.

I just wish Sachin plays the way he did in this match for the rest of his career, because he at his best when he is attacking.