Tequilla Vs Scotch Whisky

...who ever has ever had a few shots of tequila down the throat will know what I am talking about...more than the alcoholic kick, the whole process of having it, there is a feeling of being "raw"..having the "shotz" is something like a wild act...
...come down to having a fine scotch of 12-18years, and suddenly realize that its all about being classy...rich with spending a lifetime maturing in those barrels before flowing magically through your gullet...

...the very reason for drawing a comparison of this nature on Sachin Tendulkar, past and present, is the fact that both are absolutely enjoyable, thoroughly effective and each capable of delivering a punch! ...what differs is the mood..
you associate a 'scotch on the rocks' in your coach of your living room, perhaps so because you would know the elements of the drink only when you concentrate on it rather than gulp it down like you would do with a shotz of tequila...

Sachin Tendulkar no longer is the 'Superman' of cricket, rather the adjective could justified as the 'Lord of the Rings'...If there cricket were truly a "Hindu Religion", he would have been the "Shankaracharya"...

He is an epitome of batsmanship in cricket, whos legends will be recalled decades down the line...would be rightly said that he is the 'Soul' of Modern Indian Cricket...But is the 'Mortal' withing slowly being revealed? Just when he began to show glimpses of what he had been, slowly unearthed cruel reminder...

the little man seems aging...the reason I say it seems, is not for his age, but for the time he has spent in the middle...I wonder what playing 600 something International Innings actually mean with 25,000 something runs off that willow!! would be a mind boggling figure if someone were to estimate the number of times a cricket ball has hit sachin's bat!

...as Harsha Bhogle rightly pointed out instantly after Sachin's pull shot, something didnt seem right about it...the innings truly characterized a sort of an "enigma" around Tendulkar...he probably has the same "engine" beneath but somewhere the tuning has been changed...
Sachin has alot of to give to the game as yet, and I wouldnt be suprised if he were to hang around for another 2 years, post the current series..the man is good enough to be in any World XI, truly by the instinct he has, but somewhere he seems dragging his muscles too far...

...maybe still trying to gulp down tequilas, when he knows he can do no more than couple of pegs of fine Scotch..