Sachin Tendulkar

"Viv Richards could terrorise an attack with pitiless brutality, Lara could dissect bowlers with surgical and magical strokes, Tendulkar can take an attack apart with towering simplicity. From the start he had an uncanny way of executing his strokes perfectly. Tendulkar was born to bat,"

This is the comment by guru of cricket writing Peter Roebuck for a crickter who started his career at his teenage exactly 21 years back. Yes, This is none other than Sachin Tendulkar. At that the Sunil Gavaskar had a bet with him of Rs.1000, that he couldnot play for india even for 10 years, But Master has shown his geniusness.

If you want to know how difficult it has been for Tendulkar to become the greatest cricketer India has ever had, listen to Roebuck again:

"The runs, the majesty, the thrills, do not capture his achievement. Reflect upon his circumstances and then marvel at his feat. Here is a man obliged to put on disguises so that he can move around the streets, a fellow able to drive his cars only in the dead of night for fear of creating a commotion, a father forced to take his family to Iceland on holiday, a person whose entire adult life has been lived in the eye of a storm."

He made many record, but his greatness is in his cool behaviour, his way of living, and more important with all of these record his feet is still at ground. He is still an Indian.

It has been an incredible journey for this magician of cricket. And he is still pulling off new tricks and hitting fresh milestones. How does he do it?