Sachin Saathie....In The Memory....

His name was Sachin....the gully cricketer who admired every game of the legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar...who had International records to his credit...

Sachin...was a modest small-town lad who worked with his father in his cycle repair shop... but Sachin's only dream was to be like Sachin Tendulkar.... the legendary cricketer...

Sachin's love for his cricketer god and the sport was so intense that Sachin had made a bat and ball of wood and practiced daily after his work hours...

One day Sachin was on his way back home from the cycle repair shop.... when suddenly his friend came running and disclosed the news that Sachin Tendulkar has come at the nearby city for fulfilling a social cause... Sachin was really excited to get a glimpse of his Cricket god and probably get a chance to meet him... Sachin grabbed his handmade wooden bat and ball and sped on his cycle as fast as he could with the hope to meet Sachin Tendulkar...It fell dark and Sachins cycle was moving with speed on the highway.... when suddenly a truck rammed into his cycle and everything turned blackout.....

Sachin was lying in a pool of blood... with the totally crushed cycle a few feet away from him.... crowd of people and murmurs is what he could hear.... his wooden bat and ball were miserably in pieces...

Sachin tried to talk to the people around him but to his shiver and shock....no one listened to him... he was even more shaken when he saw policemen covered his face with a white sheet of cloth and an ambulance took him away....it was then Sachin realized that he was dead...

His wish to meet his idol cricketer Sachin Tendulkar remained unfulfilled...

Sachin's belongings were taken away with the police as it was an accident..... but while taking away his corpse... the police and the ambulance person found a note which had fallen from the shirt pocket of Sachin...

The cop opened the partly blood-soaked letter which read....a note....in Marathi...

सचिन साठी...

"सचिन... तूम्ही माझे आवड़ते खेलाडू आहात....

मी असो की नसो....पण तुम्ही माझ्या ह्दयात कायमचे राहणार....

माझ्या हातनं बनवलेला चेंडू अनं ब्याट...मी तूम्हाला समर्पित करतो....जेव्हा पण आमची भेट झाली...तुम्हाला हा चेंडू अनं ब्याट दाखवायच आहे...तुम्ही ह्या चेंडू अनं ब्याट वर सहि करून मला धन्य करणार....

The cop read the note and his eyes were pink with tears floating...

Due to the entire episode of an accident on a highway... there was huge traffic accumulated and jammed the roads.... among many vehicles... there was a white Mercedes almost stuck near the accident spot....a chauffeur dressed in crisp white uniform and cap came out of the car... enquiring about the mishap.... the chauffeur was non other than Sachin Tendulkars driver who learnt about the tragedy....the chauffeur went to the cops and introduced himself ....and offerred to take the bat and ball made by the late Sachin....to his cricketer god Sachin Tendulkar....the cops were reluctant initially but later handed over the sports equipment which was hand made by poor Sachin.... to the chauffeur...

Later the chauffeur met Sachin Tendulkar and narrated the tragedy to the cricketer... Sachin Tendulkar was greatly moved by the unfortunate incident and the dedication of Sachin...

A few days later Sachin Tendulkar visited the village where Sachin once lived and Sachin Tendulkar announced a Cricket academy to be made in the village to train the village kids ..... Sachin Tendulkar had seen the photos of the handwritten note of late Sachin for Sachin Tendulkar...."सचिन साठी"... clicked by his chauffeur at the accident spot showed by the cop...

Sachin Tendulkar named the Cricket academy as सचिन साठी.....in the memory of late Sachin.... with tear-filled eyes...