God has been kind, it just happened: Tendulkar

The Ravi Shastris have run out of “adjectives,” but the phenomenon of our times, Sachin Tendulkar, continues to epitomise modesty. So much so that his day-after reaction was no more than “God has been kind... It just happened...” Off the field, too, Sachin doesn’t cease to amaze. Speaking to The Telegraph in the VIP Room of the Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Terminal in Gwalior, on Thursday afternoon, Sachin said: “Of course, it feels very nice, but that moment is over now...” The moment in question being his becoming the first, in four decades of ODIs, to score a double hundred (against South Africa, at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium). As the three-match series is already in the bag, Sachin won’t be seen in action in the concluding ODI, on Saturday. Waiting to board Flight CD 8818, to New Delhi, en route to Mumbai, Sachin informed that he’d probably take a 10-day break. “Some charity commitments are pending... I haven’t had the time this season... I’ll try and fulfil whatever I can over the next few days... After that, I’ll begin preparing for the IPL, perhaps around March 5...” One such commitment is expected to involve a day’s ‘coaching’ to the winners of the online auction during The Joy Of Giving Week (September 27-October 3) last year. Proceeds will go to the Mumbai-based Apnalaya, an institution which is special for the Tendulkars.

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