For me he is not God of cricket, neither I worship him nor ever made a collage of his pics.
For me he is not a superhero without any weakness or flaw.
For me he is a normal human being with whom I could relate too. A person with middle class upbringing and deep rooted family values. A down to earth, shy and humble human being. A person who may be having few weaknesses as any of us can have. But still he is a role model for me and millions of Indians because he is not just a brilliant cricketer but more than that.
Is it only cricket records that make him great? I don’t think so. His wife thinks he is the best husband, his children find him the best father, Ajit thinks he is best brother, for his parents he is ideal son. It is possible to find many persons like this but along with this if he is ideal pupil for Ramakant Achrekar, Best team men for his captain, For all his junior teammates he is Sachin pa ji, For all his seniors he is favorite, All from his generations in the team are his friends, He commands respects from his opponents too…………
With all this he carried the burden of expectation of millions of crazy cricket fans who have opinion on every aspect of cricket and most of the times he gave smiles on our faces..
When I saw him playing I was never sure of him not getting out in next few balls (apart form 1-2 years around 2010).. He was not like Dravid or some other players for whom you can think they will provide stability…. We Indians love drama with all the twist and turns and a hero among all that … Sachin with his style of batting wrote that kind of scripts, as a opener lot of fire work in initial overs then calculated middle overs and heart stopping climax was usual norms in most part of sachin’s carrier.. if we compare his matches to a movie then Most of the times he was successful in providing fast pace, jaw dropping, thrilling first half which raised our expectation from the movie but he was not always present till the climax and as we know end was always not happy… our expectation was him to be present in each frame of movie and happy ending all the time but that’s not possible for any cricketer even for Sachin… I want to remember him as a hero who has given many superhits and many more super duper first halves…
Hardwork, dedication and emphasis on basics are his some of the qualities to be learned and apply in life but besides that I learned from him being humble whatever you become … In Bhajji , Symonds episode I am dead sure that he would have definitely taken class of Bhajji but in front of entire world he was the reason which closed the Monkeygate episode and stood with his teammate… I learned to stand by with your team in all the deeds…. Family values are important and should be given utmost respect is another thing that I learned from him… List is long….
If we talk about Bharat Ratna then Keeping all the politics aside if as an individual I had to select 2 persons whom I have seen in my life times then they would be Kalam Ji and Sachin just because they have huge positive influence on my life and I hope on millions of other Indians too. That definitely helped in creating good Indians and good citizens and in turn a better society and finally a better India in which we have to live…
For me he was a role model, is a role model and will always be…
Rainbow of Shamsher's life 