India’s cricketing maestro Sachin Tendulkar is set to compete with the likes of FIFA’s world footballer of the year Lionel Messi, tennis sensation Rafael Nadal and newly crowned Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel for the 2011 Laureus World Sportsman award.
Tendulkar, who was recently named the ICC Player of the Year, will also compete with the likes of Sri Lanka’s spin king Muttiah Muralitharan and footballers like Diego Forlan and Andres Iniesta, who both had an outstanding World Cup representing their respective nations, for the individual award of sporting excellence.
Does Tendulkar merit the award ahead of his competition? I think so.
The man like a fine wine keeps getting better with age, and at the age of 37 is having one of his best years in his cricketing career, which has stretched a little over two decades.
Tendulkar has been in sublime form, scoring consistently well throughout the year. In February this year, he became the first cricketer to score a double century in an ODI, hitting an unbeaten 200 against South Africa.
He then went on to complete 14,000 runs in Test cricket later in the year and score his 49th Test century, surpassing his own records at both instances. And he achieved all this despite some people expecting him to hang up his boots and doubting his ability to carry on carrying Indian cricket on his shoulders like he has in the past, like he has been doing all these years.
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