Sachin: The long goodbye

Sometimes, a purer, deeper, more truthful script emerges from the one that has been carefully written and blows us away. Sachin’s farewell party has been some months in the making and a lot went into contriving a big finish. A new series was hastily put together, an appropriate team was found (unthreatening but not a rank minnow), Sachin’s last test was also to be his 200th, a nice fat round number to end things with and finally the venue was Mumbai, his home ground, so that his mother could finally see him play.

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