THIS GREAT WALL OF INDIA NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION. KNOWN AS MR.DEPENDABLE, HE WAS TEAM INDIA'S KNIGHT. HE STOOD TALL IN ALL THE DIFFICULT SITUATIONS AND EMERGED AS A VICTORIAN. SIMPLICITY,CLASS,DISCIPLINE,DEDICATION,DETERMINATION AND ELEGANCE ARE SOME VIRTUES WHICH CONCRETE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WALL.
HE IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST CLASSICAL TEST BATSMEN IN THE WORLD.JUST WHEN PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT HE IS FIT FOR ONLY TEST CRICKET, HE PROVED THEM ALL WRONG.APART FROM THE 13,289 RUNS IN TEST CRICKET, HE IS ONE OF THE SEVEN CRICKETERS IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CRICKET WHO HAVE MORE THAN 10,000 ODI RUNS TO THEIR NAMES. HIS ODI RUNS COUNT UPTO 10,889.NOT JUST BATTING, HE HOLDS THE RECORD OF 210 CATCHES AS A NON-WICKET-KEEPER IN TEST CRICKET AND 196 CATCHES IN ODI- WHICH IS THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD.
MANY RECORDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO LINK THEMSELVES TO HIS NAME.DRAVID ACCORDING TO ME HAS THE BEST PERSONA .HIS PERSEVERANCE IS BEYOND DEFIANCE . HE HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS LIKE ME TO BE DEDICATED,PATIENT AND OPTIMISTIC. ALSO I HAVE LEARNED FROM HIM TO HOLD ON TO THE CORRECT TECHNIQUE, NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS THINK OR DO. HIS DEFENCE WAS OFTEN CRITICIZED AND EVEN GOT HIM THE TITLE OF A SLOW PLAYER. BUT HE PROVED THE WORTH OF HIS TECHNIQUE AS THE SAME DEFENCE MADE HIM HOLD HIS WICKET IN ENGLAND, WHERE NOBODY COULD EVEN ADAPT TO THE DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER INSTANCES THAT MADE HIM STAND TALL AND TALLER AND PERHAPS THE TALLEST IN MY EYES. I HAVE BEEN WORSHIPING HIM FOR OVER 11 YEARS NOW..EVER SINCE I AM A FOUR YEAR OLD. I HAVE WRITTEN A HANDFUL OF POEMS ON HIM TOO.WHENEVER I HEAR OF THE TERM ROLE MODEL, IT IS ONLY HIM I CAN THINK OF.WHAT MAKES HIM STAND OUT OF THE CROWD IS THE FACT THAT HE IS DEEPLY ENGROSSED AND COMMITED TO THE SPORT. DUE TO HIS 100% COMMITMENT, HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO FACE THE TOUGHEST OF SITUATIONS. NAME ONE THING AND HE WOULD BE READY TO DO IT FOR INDIA, BE IT WICKET-KEEPING OR OPENING , FEILDING AT THE SLIPS ..AND WHAT NOT.THE WORDS I AM USING CANNOT FATHOM THE DEPTH OF THE AMOUNT OF RESPECT I HAVE FOR HIM. HE WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONE WHOM I WILL LOOK UPTO IN MY LIFE AND LEARN..JUST LIKE HIM, WHO YET REMAINS A STUDENT OF THE SPORT AND IS NEVER TIRED OF LEARNING MORE.
INSPITE OF ALL THE 17 YEARS OF HIS CONTRIBUTION TO CRICKET, HE HAS ALWAYS GONE UNNOTICED.HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN OVERSHADOWED.BUT I FEEL THAT MAY THE DARKEST OF SITUATIONS COME FORTH, HE WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE TO BE DIVINE WITH THAT KIND OF A HALO THAT ENCIRCLES HIM..AND TO THIS MAN'S WORSHIP ,WHO I DEFINE AS GOD, I COMMIT MY ENTIRE LIFE...I PLEDGE TO ALWAYS WORSHIP HIMTHE SAME WAY OR PERHAPS EVEN MORE....
HE IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST CLASSICAL TEST BATSMEN IN THE WORLD.JUST WHEN PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT HE IS FIT FOR ONLY TEST CRICKET, HE PROVED THEM ALL WRONG.APART FROM THE 13,289 RUNS IN TEST CRICKET, HE IS ONE OF THE SEVEN CRICKETERS IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CRICKET WHO HAVE MORE THAN 10,000 ODI RUNS TO THEIR NAMES. HIS ODI RUNS COUNT UPTO 10,889.NOT JUST BATTING, HE HOLDS THE RECORD OF 210 CATCHES AS A NON-WICKET-KEEPER IN TEST CRICKET AND 196 CATCHES IN ODI- WHICH IS THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD.
MANY RECORDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO LINK THEMSELVES TO HIS NAME.DRAVID ACCORDING TO ME HAS THE BEST PERSONA .HIS PERSEVERANCE IS BEYOND DEFIANCE . HE HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS LIKE ME TO BE DEDICATED,PATIENT AND OPTIMISTIC. ALSO I HAVE LEARNED FROM HIM TO HOLD ON TO THE CORRECT TECHNIQUE, NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS THINK OR DO. HIS DEFENCE WAS OFTEN CRITICIZED AND EVEN GOT HIM THE TITLE OF A SLOW PLAYER. BUT HE PROVED THE WORTH OF HIS TECHNIQUE AS THE SAME DEFENCE MADE HIM HOLD HIS WICKET IN ENGLAND, WHERE NOBODY COULD EVEN ADAPT TO THE DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER INSTANCES THAT MADE HIM STAND TALL AND TALLER AND PERHAPS THE TALLEST IN MY EYES. I HAVE BEEN WORSHIPING HIM FOR OVER 11 YEARS NOW..EVER SINCE I AM A FOUR YEAR OLD. I HAVE WRITTEN A HANDFUL OF POEMS ON HIM TOO.WHENEVER I HEAR OF THE TERM ROLE MODEL, IT IS ONLY HIM I CAN THINK OF.WHAT MAKES HIM STAND OUT OF THE CROWD IS THE FACT THAT HE IS DEEPLY ENGROSSED AND COMMITED TO THE SPORT. DUE TO HIS 100% COMMITMENT, HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO FACE THE TOUGHEST OF SITUATIONS. NAME ONE THING AND HE WOULD BE READY TO DO IT FOR INDIA, BE IT WICKET-KEEPING OR OPENING , FEILDING AT THE SLIPS ..AND WHAT NOT.THE WORDS I AM USING CANNOT FATHOM THE DEPTH OF THE AMOUNT OF RESPECT I HAVE FOR HIM. HE WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONE WHOM I WILL LOOK UPTO IN MY LIFE AND LEARN..JUST LIKE HIM, WHO YET REMAINS A STUDENT OF THE SPORT AND IS NEVER TIRED OF LEARNING MORE.
INSPITE OF ALL THE 17 YEARS OF HIS CONTRIBUTION TO CRICKET, HE HAS ALWAYS GONE UNNOTICED.HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN OVERSHADOWED.BUT I FEEL THAT MAY THE DARKEST OF SITUATIONS COME FORTH, HE WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE TO BE DIVINE WITH THAT KIND OF A HALO THAT ENCIRCLES HIM..AND TO THIS MAN'S WORSHIP ,WHO I DEFINE AS GOD, I COMMIT MY ENTIRE LIFE...I PLEDGE TO ALWAYS WORSHIP HIMTHE SAME WAY OR PERHAPS EVEN MORE....
