Letters To The Editor
"The Master calls time"
The above titled news was published in your daily on October 11. Sachin Tendulkar's aggregate in 7 innings in India's last Test series against Australia was merely 192, "boasting" of a meagre average of 32 and a single half century only! Just prior to it, Sachin contributed 112 runs from 6 Test innings, averaging 18.66, against England! Sachin aggregated 63 runs from 3 innings against New Zealand, averaging 21! If the last 20 Test innings of Sachin are taken into consideration, it would get scandalously exposed that the "god" had aggregated merely 428 runs at an average of 22.52! Still far from sacking him from the team, the combination of selectors, BCCI mandarins and "pundits" were shamelessly supporting the case of Sachin! In contrast, despite reigning as India's most successful Test batsman during the period between late 2006 and mid 2008 and averaging a brilliant 54 against Australia in the 2008 home series and scoring a match-winning innings of 85 in the last Test of the series at Nagpur, the "old" Sourav Ganguly, aged 36, was brutally forced to call it a day to infuse "new blood" in the team! In contrast, just witness how the failure "kid" of 40 years was being pampered in the most atrocious fashion possible! Was Sachin Tendulkar greater than the team, nation and the game as a whole?
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