Today the master blaster celebrates his 33rd birthday and here's wishing him the best of health, and form! I won’t harp on Sachin's earlier conquests. That’s history now. Forget about all the records in his name and the ones he's close to breaking. I want to see the Sachin of the 90's. He had to carry the burden of the entire team for most of his career. Now that isn’t required. All he needs to do take good care of himself and go out there, play is natural game, enjoy himself. Play as he has never before. Don’t care if other batsmen surpass him. How many of them can claim to have such a long career and such consistency. Not one. Sachin will ofcourse have to win over his personal demons-fitness and self-doubt and make the WC2007 his crowning glory, Inshallah!
April 24, 2006
