The crowd was cheering on: ‘Go Sachin go
Sachin go’ and ‘We want Sachin, we want Sachin’. The adrenaline levels in
Sachin’s veins should have been soaring. His mind would have had racing
thoughts, no? What if this does not happen right? I have been waiting for this.
More than me the whole world has been waiting for this. What if I do not live
up to what I believed I could? Will I let people down? Will I let myself down?
Will I let my country down? The apprehension must have been tremendous in his
mind don’t you think? And then Shakib Al Hasan’s the ball came as if from
nowhere; and the smooth single, lead Sachin to the 100th run of his
100th century…
