Okay, so I'm not the biggest Sachin Tendulkar fan (I've always been a Rahul Dravid man myself), but I have to admit that this all-or-nothing approach the Media takes with him is a bit much. It's feast or famine with him, literally.
Case in point, a recent recap of the Mumbai Indians narrow loss to the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL titled: The Brittle Master.
The columnist takes Sachin to task for lowering himself and Sanath Jayasuriya into the middle order because the Indians had collapsed every time they had failed to fire in their previous matches. Umm, that sounds reasonable to me. The columnists then questions Sachin's decision to hold back a little bit while building a foundation and then cutting loose. Again, seems reasonable to me.
And then, after the Indians lost coming this close to pulling the match out (being outfoxed by Shane Warne, who apparently really should have been the Australian Captain all along), the columnist ends with this: "India collapsed then, Mumbai choked now. The Tendulkar shadow refuses to leave Mumbai."
India collapsed then? And now his shadow refuses to leave Bombay?
Come on man, come on!
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CricInfo: The Brittle Master
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