Sachin Tendulkar in mind's eye

LUDHIANA: They have never seen Sachin Tendulkar with naked eyes, but his image is very clear in their minds. Sachin’s gesture of celebrating his 40th birthday on April 23 this year with 100 blind students in Kolkata have further fuelled the dream of these seven blind students in Ludhiana for meeting and spending time with this ‘God of Cricket’, as they have heard him and heard of him, but never met him in person.
Their love for Sachin oozed out as soon as this correspondent just talked about Sachin. Kapil Dev, 24, who has played many national tournaments for the blind still regrets that he could not take part in the January 2013 tournament for the blind at Mumbai where Sachin had come. “I could not go because of my exams, and when I came to know of Sachin having gone there, I was so upset. His breaking of Saeed Anwar’s record of 194 runs against South Africa continues to be most memorable,” he said.