Yesterday the batting maestro became the first ever batsman of the history of Cricket to cross the barrier of 200 in one day international. The little master, like Sir Don who is responsible to introduce a word in dictionary: like Bradman, will be responsible for adding a word! After playing 20 years and more, he still able to reach or conquer milestone that was untouched for over 42 years!
I don't know but like some of my friends to term him the undoubted best in Indian Sports, I've some doubt in my mind. Most of us carry a very short term memory. How can we forget about Dhyan-Chand? To see his stick works, one of the supreme of an European nation requested him to play for his country.
First individual gold medal winner in shooting, Avinav Bindra is one of the brightest star in Indian Sports along with Saina who is still flourishing and we only can wait for her better performance. I personally feel in Tennis especially in doubles Lee and Bhupati are two stalwarts and unfortunately their pair was broken while they were among top three seeded.
There are so many like even in Cricket we've Mr. Kapil Dev and Gavaskar. Prior to Mr. Dev people can hardly imagine that India can produce genuine pacer and Sachin's comment about Gavaskar itself says about his legacy.
But still as per sheer performance and the time during which a player can be in top, Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand and Sachin Tendulkar definitely claim a distinct position though its really difficult to make a comparative studies among the different sports which have different parameters.
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