You are the most cherished athlete of your country. You have crossed every obstacle, broken every record, established your superiority over every bowling line up. You are worshiped by millions. A nation is waiting for you to touch another milestone, to conquer a peak, people thought was beyond human capabilities. You put your head down, focus for 4o overs, spend over 3 hours on wicket and do it. A nation jumps in joy, the world salutes you, the cricketing websites are down, unable to cope with the traffic this feat has generated. You walk out thinking, you have done something that no soul could possibly do till eternity. TV stations have prepared special broadcasts, sweet shops are overwhelmed with customers, billionaires are pulling out their check books, corporations are planning to announce millions to honor you. Its just 3-1/2 hours away and 50, may be 100 crore rupees may be heading your way. The minnows have soon lost their first wicket, the batting pair then bats as if they have little interest in chasing down the total and make 100 runs in almost 25 overs. The target appears too much for the slender, boyish, small statured batsmen. But they start to build up, however even by 48th over it looks too much. Irfan Pathan comes to bowl, who gave just 4 runs in his previous over and opposition needs 33 runs from balls. Then in next 8 balls 26 runs are scored. The minnows have humbled the world champions. And instead of pocketing crores of rupees, you are trying to justify pace of your innings or speculations about your retirement.
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He deserves the criticism
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this is not reality, arleittar will soon arrive and brief you on how it all happened. when tortois.. i mean tendulkar scored 100, indians donated the match as indian cricket could only handle so much win in a day.
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he is a great player but always unlucky for his team
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All the Indian forums I have visited today are criticising him, which is a shame. The best thing he can do now is retire gracefully. A great cricketer and a legend.
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^ or just play on and have fun as long as he can keep scoring and is fit. just stop the slow down in the 90s.
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Irony is that he is still good enough to make into playing 11 of any team in the world, but he is up against his own legacy. He was too good and now he is much below par than what he used to be.
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It is a very humbling lesson for everyone. The game of cricket is bigger than the legend of a man.
The lion who scored 46 off 25 balls and the geedaR who scored for himself, both will look back at this game with a very different perspective.
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Sachin need not retire .
Last night’s fiasco was just thing that happened somehow…
I believe we could have done better,Sachin could have done better. But it happened one day before.It's a thing of past. Why should SATE retire just because of this match.It's a silly and absured call .He should go on as long as he wants,as long as his potential and caliber do justice to him.Last night's debacle was just a lesson and we do not take it to heart.
Lets see how many other players and how many other teams have had such a record.If there were a player like Sachin,it would have been quite justified to call for his retirement.But here is a gem ,a precious and and unavailable-anywhere one, and a group of people are calling it a black stone…
We want Sachin to continue and revel us again ,in coming times … 
You will see a different India tomorrow.
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This is the critical point where the true selflessness of a 'Legend' is tested/revealed. Reputation Vs Character. Reputation demanded to get the milestone one way or the other. Character demanded to still play naturally (without thinking about the milestone) & kick aside the "bheek" that you can only get at the cost of the reputation of a team/nation.
Also, such incidents reveal the reality to blind followers. That only the REAL GOD can't be humbled. Better not to play GOD by comparing humans with GOD (in whichever sense). Otherwise, This would be the result. Tendulakar should have publically annonced a long time ago, "DON'T call me GOD, in whichever sense you mean it! I am a human, and the real GOD deserves the respect of HIS title only reserved for HIM. Please destroy the temples that are made with my name." (this would actually have indicated his humbleness in front of the ONE whom he looks at with a thankful gesture every time he gets a century)
Had he annouced it even once, he wouldn't have faced the humility that he has faced at the end of his career. Because when you don't bluntly/openly (even once) disagree to a 'title' persistently given to you, you are in a way (indirectly) agreeing to/ loving it. Hence, you suffer sooner or later when you can't cope with it!
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^^
have you even read his interviews before posting this nonsense
GOD thing is just more of humorous way used in india.
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It is a very humbling lesson for everyone. The game of cricket is bigger than the legend of a man.
The ** lion ** who scored 46 off 25 balls and the geedaR who scored for himself, both will looek back at this game with a very different perspective.
i know everyone has their opinion
but what u posted is pure BS.comparing a player of sachin class on just one match
that how a player who is out of form will play,remove his 100 india would have posted 220-230.as the above poster mentioned he was just too good a player before
still most of the teams will take him for the amount of runs he scores
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^ BS @ remove his score and india would make 200-220.. he slowed down.. still did a good job but the slowing down did not help.. there were many explosive batters after sachin that would have done well against BD.
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its better to play for the team than forself a team’s victory is more important than making the records i l prefer pakistan has as no such records but inshahallha they win each n every 1
those 46 runs r far far better than sachin’s century
come on green time now its ur time to smash these indians 
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^Yes… Now we all know who smashed who 