_{Dominance is not the right word. Yes, Sachin Tendulkar dominates. Because Sachin like no other batsman today brings art into his craft and craft into his art.} 

   _{Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born in the year 1973 at Mumbai. His Father Ramesh Tendulkar was a school teacher. Sachin as a child explored the environment around him unlike today's children who live in structural surrounding most of the time. He had an uninhabited access to homes, trees and playgrounds and the freedom was tempered by the intellectual culture at Sahitya sahawas colony. He was 10 he had a cricket bag bigger than him and he would start for his practice at 6 am . When he was 11 he moved in with his paternal uncle to concentrate on cricket. After that he took training from coach Ramakanth Achrekar, in his school days he made headline with that 664 runs unbeaten partnership with Vinod Kambli for third wicket in Sharadashrama vs St.Xavier's school, Tendulkar 326 not out and Kambli 349 not out. When he was at 16 he entered into the Indian Cricket team. He was the youngest Indian cricketer to play in an International Match.}

  
   <sub>Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom.

   Listen to this story about Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Normal men set normal targets for a tournament. An Indian bowler may have fantasized about five wickets on Sharjah's dead track last month, a batsman prays for a 50. But Sachin ...
Did you set a goal for Sharjah?
"I did."
Which was ...? "I never disclose these things".
Yeah, but now that the tournament's over ...
"I decided to win the tournament for India".</sub>

   _{It is absolute impertinence that a man could even think like this. Genius seems too mild a word. People in India stand for hours waiting for him; when he plays they switch on their television sets and switch off their lives. It is hard for him. Says Tendulkar now: "People expect too much of me. A hundred every innings. They call and say, 'You scored a 100 in Kanpur, why not in Delhi?' They must accept my failures." But the reason for their extravagant demands is Tendulkar himself.
   His entire 1998 has been a flirtation with cricketing exaggeration; he has played with such majesty that good men seem mediocre in comparison. Sighs Saurav Ganguly: "People do not score nine centuries in a career, he did it in one year." In 27 matches, with six of them at better than a run-a-ball. And there's more:}

• _{He leads the world's best batsmen with the year's (1998) best one-day average of 65.31 and a Test average of 81.17.}
• _{In India's victories during 1998, a staggering 28.55 per cent of the runs have been scored by him.}
• _{In the last four tournaments India has won, he has been the man of the match in every final.}
• _{And he now has more centuries (27 in one-dayers, 24 in Tests) in total than any man alive.}

   <sub>The "silent murderer", as Vinod Kambli calls him. He offers no explanation for his ascent in form, just saying, "I wanted to prove my commitment."

   It seems too simple, as if there must rest some darker reason. Aha, perhaps it is his self pride that has been bruised, and he attempts now to make up for his inadequacy as captain. But that sounds too artificial. Perhaps it is just that at 25 he is no longer an excitable apprentice but an assured craftsman.

   Tendulkar, who says "I've always played to win, why should I lose", is obsessive. When he was 16 on his first tour to Pakistan, Sanjay Manjrekar beat him in a set of tennis. When Manjrekar refused to play a second set Tendulkar, like a child whose doll has been stolen, begged, pleaded, to get a chance to salvage his honor.</sub>

  
   _{There is also a brutality to these men. To chase perfection is to make no allowance for mercy. Would Tendulkar, aware that his friend, a bowler, was on the edge of selection to the Indian team, gift his wicket away in a qualifying match? "No, why should I give him false confidence? He may be my close friend but that's off the field. I never compromise on my cricket." It's happened too. During the 1994 Challenger Series, Tendulkar remarked that Mumbai teammate Paras Mhambrey was a "very fine prospect", except when the very fine prospect bowled to him he went for 41 runs in the first four overs.}