Is it to be imagined that Sachin Tendulkar should fail in Mumbai, to emerge a World Cup winner
Is it really to be imagined that Sachin Tendulkar, one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game ? and one capable, as we saw against Pakistan, even when playing erratically and repeatedly being dropped, of making 85 runs and emerging as man of the match ? should fail on this day in his home town, Mumbai, to emerge a World Cup winner, and possibly with his 100th international century under his belt? Even were he to fail, then surely some other Indian star ? the rampaging Virender Sehwag, perhaps, or Yuvraj Singh, with his knack of coming up with something decisive when it's needed ? would do the job for him. And yet is it really conceivable that a second of the world's greatest cricketers, even when struggling with injury, should fail, if he plays ? and they may not be able to stop him ? to stamp the name Muttiah Muralitharan on the result? Or that tested performers like the valiant wicketkeeper-opener captain Kumar Sangakkara, from a nation which may remember that a generation ago Sri Lanka was deemed by many English wiseacres unfit for test cricket, should fail to ensure that he leaves on a winning note? For Murali, at 39 ? as for now-retiring captains Ricky Ponting, Andrew Strauss and Daniel Vettori, and very likely too for Tendulkar, who'll be 41 in 2015 ? it is going to be the commentary box next time. On that basis, the non-aligned, which of course after last weekend includes the English, ought perhaps to hope for a tie. But that surely is truly unthinkable.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/02/unthinkable-honours-even-editorial
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