This is what you can do when you are in Love...

After almost 4 decades and 2961 matches since the start of One Day Internationals, someone scored a 200 and this someone is none other than the Superman of Indian Cricket, the Master Blaster, The God of World Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar. No adjective is enough today to describe the master. A new record got a worthy achiever and this can happen only when you are in Love with what you do. A very few people can come close to what Sachin has achieved in his 20 year old career, with a wooden stick. Hats off to the Master. A true Sachin fan would have shed a few tears down his cheeks when he had seen Sachin reached the Holy score of 200 off the 3rd ball of the last over. I was not the lucky one to see it but listening to FM radio was no different. One could hear the roar of the audience coming from the headphones connected to the radio.

It was simply amazing and I, myself, being a cricket fan, consider myself lucky enough to be born at a time, when I can see Sachin batting Live. It seems like 2010 is the year Sachin was waiting for, to break rest of the records. India has played 4 tests so far this year and Sachin has scored 4 centuries, with one in each of the four tests, thereby equalling Gavaskar's and Dravid's record of 4 consecutive tons in tests and one short of Gambhir, who has 5 and with the form he is in, he will definitely break Sir Don Bradman's record of 6 consecutive tons. Today, I am falling short of words to describe his knock of 200.

These kinds of innings also help nations to come close together. Former Pak greats Miandad, Aamir Sohail and the previous record holder for highest score in ODIs, Saeed Anwar were all praising Sachin on his wonderful knock. Australian legend Warne consider himself lucky as he was not bowling to Sachin today.

Now, as records are meant to be broken, a question arises in my mind. Which batsman can break this record or is anyone out there who dare to do it? Lets leave this question open to discussion as of now. I will definitely come back to it sometime later.

Talking about the match today, it was a crucial one for both the teams. India would have sealed the series after winning this one and SA were in a desperate need for a comeback after a close call in Jaipur. But, after Sachin's 200, the competition proved out to be a dead rubber. SA lost it by a huge margin of 153 runs.

Well, apart from Sachin; Karthick, Dhoni and Pathan also played decently and helped India retain their No. 2 spot in the ODIs with this win.