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Sachin Tendulkar, the maestro has met with very difficult times off late, he has never performed so badly in a test series before, than the just concluded series vs SriLanka. Before the Srilanka tour, he was approached by a film producer for a few minutes role, the role demanded him to perform a small temple service in his movie which was a tribute to the Lord's miracles. All the actors, devotees & sports persons were doing their roles free of cost. This was being done to promote the “Siddhi Vinyak” temple & was a good ploy to bring more funds for the temple trust.

Sachin is known to be a very big devotee of the Hindu God, right from his childhood, he has also been very grateful to the God, he used to visit “Siddhi Vinayak” temple whenever he gets free of his Cricketing commitments. The same God who made him a super star, on his own words.

He later promised the producer to meet him after the Sri lanka tour, so that he could act the small role with his wife. This role actually was not acting also, it would have been like a home video, since he only needed to do the “Aarti”(service) in the temple for few minutes, which he would do anyways with or without the camera.

For giving second preference, the Lord punished him, he could not even score 100 runs in all 6 innings put together vs Srilanka, which is by far the biggest failure of his career. Add insult to injury, Sachin also suffered an injury, this injury stopped his international cricket for further month & a half. Instead of keeping his promise to the Lord or the movie producer, he finally refused to act for the small role as well.

Maybe he has infuriated the Lord even further by refusing to act in the movie, altogether. With so many talented junior cricketers aspiring to make it to test level, Sachin's dismal performance in the last Srilanka series, this was not at all the time to play with the mighty Lord's wrath. The lord who made him a big star that he is today, also knows how to pull the plug out.

The biggest challenge of playing the visiting Australians at home is starting, the Aussies known to target the biggest player on opposite ranks (Sachin Tendulkar), now he will face the enemy without his divine Armour in this series. All these 19 years of international career, he was blessed with the divine Armour. None of the fans including myself would like Sachin to fade away, he is also going to be in great pressure to perform due the retirement announcement made by his colleague Saurav Ganguly who too was slowly phased out due to his age & dwindling form.

The selectors are already on their way to phase out the seniors one by one, the Lord also not favoring him, Sachin will have to fully rely on his extraordinary talent, which made him the World's greatest batsman that he is, even now. Everybody knows, Sachin never likes to lose to anybody not even to his own son in a game of ludo, now the fierce competitor & winner should make a piecemeal with the Lord or finally try to extend his winning streak with the Lord also.

This Australia series will decide, tussle between the Lord & the Master.