What keeps Tendulkar going?
Dileep Premachandran, in his blog in the Guardian , says Sachin Tendulkar's attitude and passion for the game motivates him to give it his best in each match, irrespective of where it is being played or who he's playing against.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Dileep Premachandran, in his blog in the Guardian, says Sachin Tendulkar's attitude and passion for the game motivates him to give it his best in each match, irrespective of where it is being played or who he's playing against.
So what is it that has kept him going this long? A few years ago, when talking about his first matches in the India cap, he told me: "To be honest, I remember little of my first tour of Pakistan. I was just so excited to be part of the Indian team. I just wanted to go out and play as much as possible." When I suggested that not much had changed, he just smiled.
That boundless enthusiasm, rather than the mountains of runs and all those centuries, is at the heart of his greatness.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo