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As Sachin Tendulkar prepares to become history''s highest run getter, Satish chapparike weaves an evocative picture of the champ
It was a breezy, balmy October evening. I recall I was walking under the giant Shivaji statue next to Udhyan Ganesh Mandir. The faithful in the temple premises and the Bengal Club were in a festive mood and the Durga Puja pandal shone bright as the sun’s last rays fell on the decorations.
But my own pilgrimage was different – to Mumbai’s historic Shivaji Park. There, in the middle of the grounds, were 30 to 40 cricket nets and over 500 boys in white busy with their classes. For them the lovely evening and the festive spirit everywhere meant nothing. They were all consumed entirely by their bats and balls. The one and only goal of Madhav, Arjun, Samanth, Gokhale and the rest was to bat like 'him'. Like the great Sachin – the son of Marathi novelist Ramesh Tendulkar.
On October 7, two days before the start of the Bangalore Test, Shivaji Park was abuzz with anecdotes celebrating the master blaster's world record. Would he now subdue Brian Lara in the Bangalore Test? And if not there, then in the second Test at Mohali? What really was happening to him? Why had he so abruptly ceased scoring those news-making runs in those memorable innings?
But in that greatest of all nurseries of Indian Cricket – yes, in Shivaji Park – none of those boys had the time to muse like me. There was only space here for spirited batting and bowling – and no one you got to snatch a word with dreamed of setting records. It was the spirit of the Gita all the way – chase the goal not the reward. Just like Sachin did.
Bat like Sachin. Live like Sachin. That was what these boys were here to learn.
Yes, on that evening, despite the cruel diagnoses being made in the media, Sachin was in every cricketing soul in the country’s finest lab. “There! You did it! That would have made even him proud! There! Yes! Yes! Hold the bat like him. No, not like that, but like that!” one kid was shouting to his mate. And I could see that none of this was about dreaming, but doing. And doing it like him. There was a great deal more in the same vein at the legendary 'Guru' Ramakanth Achrekar's nets. As I observed the spectacle I could not help going down memory lane to visit those old days – and every time I did that the dominant image was of a chubby, baby-faced, ten-year-old with curly hair, carting his cricketing kit bravely into Shivaji Park.
So, well, it was hard to believe that only five days back this prodigy was sweating at the Chinnaswamy Stadium; and the way he had looked around him it would have seemed as though he was entering it for the first time in his life. But just the same, after that injury and the break it forced him to take, Sachin seemed happy to be at Bangalore’s National Cricket Academy, two weeks ahead of the Indian team camp. He was clearly making plans that he would have no time for when the rest of them touched base.
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As Sachin Tendulkar prepares to become history''s highest run getter, Satish chapparike weaves an evocative picture of the champ
It was a breezy, balmy October evening. I recall I was walking under the giant Shivaji statue next to Udhyan Ganesh Mandir. The faithful in the temple premises and the Bengal Club were in a festive mood and the Durga Puja pandal shone bright as the sun’s last rays fell on the decorations.But my own pilgrimage was different – to Mumbai’s historic Shivaji Park. There, in the middle of the grounds, were 30 to 40 cricket nets and over 500 boys in white busy with their classes. For them the lovely evening and the festive spirit everywhere meant nothing. They were all consumed entirely by their bats and balls. The one and only goal of Madhav, Arjun, Samanth, Gokhale and the rest was to bat like 'him'. Like the great Sachin – the son of Marathi novelist Ramesh Tendulkar.
On October 7, two days before the start of the Bangalore Test, Shivaji Park was abuzz with anecdotes celebrating the master blaster's world record. Would he now subdue Brian Lara in the Bangalore Test? And if not there, then in the second Test at Mohali? What really was happening to him? Why had he so abruptly ceased scoring those news-making runs in those memorable innings?
But in that greatest of all nurseries of Indian Cricket – yes, in Shivaji Park – none of those boys had the time to muse like me. There was only space here for spirited batting and bowling – and no one you got to snatch a word with dreamed of setting records. It was the spirit of the Gita all the way – chase the goal not the reward. Just like Sachin did.
Bat like Sachin. Live like Sachin. That was what these boys were here to learn.
Yes, on that evening, despite the cruel diagnoses being made in the media, Sachin was in every cricketing soul in the country’s finest lab. “There! You did it! That would have made even him proud! There! Yes! Yes! Hold the bat like him. No, not like that, but like that!” one kid was shouting to his mate. And I could see that none of this was about dreaming, but doing. And doing it like him. There was a great deal more in the same vein at the legendary 'Guru' Ramakanth Achrekar's nets. As I observed the spectacle I could not help going down memory lane to visit those old days – and every time I did that the dominant image was of a chubby, baby-faced, ten-year-old with curly hair, carting his cricketing kit bravely into Shivaji Park.
So, well, it was hard to believe that only five days back this prodigy was sweating at the Chinnaswamy Stadium; and the way he had looked around him it would have seemed as though he was entering it for the first time in his life. But just the same, after that injury and the break it forced him to take, Sachin seemed happy to be at Bangalore’s National Cricket Academy, two weeks ahead of the Indian team camp. He was clearly making plans that he would have no time for when the rest of them touched base.
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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