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'Impossible Is Nothing...' reads the billboard of a product, at the south extension shopping area. Sachin Tendulkar endorses that brand. Bleary eyed, I pick up the newspaper at my doorstep to learn that Tendulkar has been dropped from the one day squad. That billboard cruelly sneaks into my mind as I go through the concerned article. My thought starts to take a journey backwards in time. Some of the most thrilling moments I have experienced as a cricket follower can be credited to the little master. Starting from the first one. Incidentally, my first memory of watching a cricket match on television is that of a festival match during the Indian tour to Pakistan in 1989.

To create something is not easy. I say that after a month of trying. My mind and heart was working full time to post another item on this page. But I have been unsuccessful in writing anything remotely readable. I am completely disappointed with myself. I was of the opinion that I was good with words; good in analyzing situations and that I had loads of opinion on a lot of matters. Last month happened to erase all misconceptions I had about myself. Like always, after I am bitten by truth, I am in the mood to rationalize.