The don of his era
Ayaz Memon, writing in Mint , pays tribute to Sachin Tendulkar ahead of the batsman's 37th birthday
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Ayaz Memon, writing in Mint, pays tribute to Sachin Tendulkar ahead of the batsman's 37th birthday. He singles out this current season has Tendulkar's best ever, for his sheer consistency in all three formats.
But for sheer quality of batsmanship and consistency in run-getting, there has been no season like the current one. Too much has already been written over the past 45 days about his magnificent form in the Indian Premier League (IPL), but that is only one-third of the story. In seven Tests this season, he made five centuries, and even if two of these came against lowly Bangladesh, three were made against the quality attacks of Sri Lanka and South Africa.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo