When about 19 years back two Acherakar boys from Mumbai's Shardashram had a 664 run partnership noone would have thought that one of them would be then would go on to become Sachin Tendulkar. The thing is that one of them was Sachin Tendulkar was such an historic event that it overshadows most of the events of that decade and maybe even that century. Noone can deny the god like status Sachin has achieved today but even God shows their best as kids. About Kambli people remember more for his stupid hairstyles (or no-hairstyles) and his crying after the SriLanka semi-final loss at Eden Garden's 1996 rather than his double double centuries against England. He was a good enough batsman always there but never so much there.Now its the turn of two kids from Hyderabad, India's new sporting hot-pot( Sania and Saina emerging from there) to give us Mohammad Shahbaz Tumbi and B Manoj Kumar. These two non-teenagers have broken one of the longest standing records in Under-18 cricket( Infact highest partnership in CLASS of Cricket) in India scoring 721 runs in a partnership for their school and hope they continue the good efforts till they grow up and play for India one day.
Hoping that both of them goes the Sachin way, not his friends way.
*This one was originally blogged at Sportolysis
Technorati tags: Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, Kambli, Sports
2 comments:
I saw this news being hyped all over the TV news channels and the radio I listen to. I wouldn't be surprised if they are a flash-in-the-pan type. I wouldn't hesitate to say that the media kills talent more often than not.
obivously yes...kids will strt doing ads for school books and end up on cola cans
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