Tendulkar: 20 years of undiminished aura

Amlan Chakraborty
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) In an era where 15 minutes of
fame is the order of the day and icons often have hidden feet
of clay, Sachin Tendulkar remains a glorious exception, his 20
years of undiminished aura showing no signs of waning.

No other cricketer has managed to seamlessly combine both
statistics and aesthetics to underline his greatness like
Tendulkar did, retaining the innocence and humility of his
early days all along.
Since his debut on November 15, 1989, the teen with curly
hair and a sing-song voice has grown so much in stature that
now men who matter sit up and take note every time Tendulkar
says something.
Tendulkar's wicket would catapult any domestic bowler to
national reckoning. He puts in a word and Mahendra Singh Dhoni
is anointed India captain. He suggests splitting one day
cricket into four innings of 25 overs each – not an original
idea– and ICC agrees, in principle, to put it on trial.
It has been a long journey for the batting great and
Tendulkar is not interested in retirement talks yet.
That he was very special was evident right from his
school days and the first evidence of his precocious talent
was the unbeaten 664-run stand he shared with buddy Vinod
Kambli in the Lord Harris Shield Inter-School Game in 1988.
While Kambli's was a meteoric rise, spectacular but
shortlived, Tendulkar's was marked for greater glory. More PTI
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