My favourite athlete: Sachin Tendulkar
...ld. With eyes on the ball, powerful hands, perfect foot work and great timing, lightning fast reaction, Sachin Tendulkar is a batsman who can play almost any ball and send it across the boundary lines. Almost any shot, right from cover drives, straight drives, mid-on, mid-off, mid-wicket, square leg, gully, reverse sweep, pull, hook played by this great batsman is a spectacular moment to watch. In The Amazing Master Blaster, Mr. Bhushan Parulekar points out that “You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick”.(“Sachin Tendulkar”) His cracking shot and the sound that is created when his bat makes a perfect contact with the ball kissing it and dispatching it to the boundary, has made his fans go crazy. Sachin Tendulkar is not only a great batsman; he is a man with great ethics and rules as well. Sachin is believed to be very polite and soft spoken player in Indian team, who is always ready to learn and share knowledge. Even though the Author of “Sachin Tendulkar : Legend at 25” states “no one can forget the sportsman spirit he showed when in England during the World Cup, hearing of the death of his father, he flew to India and was back on his duty for the next match and navigating India to next stage” (“Chaturvedi Ajay”). Being an international player, he never mind turning down the Mumbai Cricket Team captaincy and play under the captaincy of other junior players than him. He never liked pressure on himself and is happy playing as a player instead of playing as a captain. “When I’m in the middle, the only thing that comes to mind is that I’m a batsman and the team expects something from me and I should be able to live up to my teammates expectations” (Times of India.). He always believed in reality and tries to live up to his own expectations and set targets which are achievable and try and live up to that. Sachin Tendulkar has reached a level in cricket world which very few cricketers can attain in their lives. Sachin has dominated every match he has played one or other way, he has almost destroyed attacks of any bowler in cricketing world. He became the nightmare for all the bowlers in the world. Sachin as passed and set many records, he has records for maximum centuries in both test and one day internationls, maximum runs in One Day Internationals. He has maximum man of the match a...