Tendulkar will know when to go
Sachin Tendulkar has played far too long, and for the most part with unmatched brilliance, to wait for some kindly soul to tell him that he is past his shelf-life, says Nirmal Shekar, writing in the Hindu .
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Sachin Tendulkar has played far too long, and for the most part with unmatched brilliance, to wait for some kindly soul to tell him that he is past his shelf-life, says Nirmal Shekar, writing in the Hindu.
In sport, quite often, not being a genius may be a virtue of sorts. For, the very tag, ‘genius,' might lead you to delude yourself into the belief that nothing is impossible, even after 22 or 23 years of wear and tear in international sport as the country's most celebrated sports icon. A lot has been said — especially by former sportspersons who themselves stayed on well beyond their use-by date — about Sachin Tendulkar's ODI career. Whatever the intentions, these gems of seemingly timely advice are clearly uncalled for. No matter his form in the ODI tri-series down under, Sachin Tendulkar will be the first to know when his time is up.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo