Twenty one years is an age when you can go to a bar and legally drink beer in India. Twenty one years is an age at which a male here can, as a constitutional right, get married. For Sachin Tendulkar, 21 years, means the period he has been padding up in international cricket.
All this started in 1989, when 16-year-old Tendulkar confidently took strike against the deadly Pakistan duo of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam,
When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of, Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters.
Much has changed in the world since young Tendulkar burst into the cricket scene. Time notes many such events, “The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Manmohan Singh was yet to “open” the Nehruvian economy.
It seems while time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar.
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