Sachin goes into hiding as enthusiastic fans turn country into circus on his birthday

(from News That Matters Not, India’s first-ever students-managed news humour website, in association with Sportskeeda)

On the eve of World Cricket Day yesterday, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar went into hiding. The explanation given by his close aides has suggested that the star bowler and mediocre batsman is trying to avoid requests from fans to go for World Cup T20, which he has already refused to.

However, there are other versions to Tendulkar’s decision to go underground. A TV channel has suggested that in this season of “Income Tax vs Cricket” matches, he might be expecting I-T raids to investigate how much he earned while bribing ICC to declare his birthday as World Cricket Day. Sachin’s fans have given a counter-statement to this allegation. “ICC declared World Cricket Day in April not because Sachin’s birthday falls in this month, but because its considered as All Fools’ Month,” said the admin of the “Sachin Fans” Facebook group, who also runs the All India Morons Association.

Despite all the fun we poke at Sachin, NTMN wishes him a very happy birthday, on the condition that he doesn’t mistake these birthday balloons as cricket balls

Meanwhile, as Sachin’s bungalow turns into a fortress for security on the occasion of the birthday, millions of cricket fans have turned the country into a circus. Leading jokers like Cricketculture Minister for Agriculture, Sharad Powerless called a press conference to specifically say that he had nothing to say about Sachin’s birthday.

The day has already been declared a non-gazetted holiday. People plan to come out on streets and cut cakes at chowrahas and stop moving traffic to offer them some cake. Shashi Tharoor has decided to spend the day off Twitter and Sunanda Pushkar. The Agra asylum has been opened to visitors for the occasion, and inmates have been allowed to stroll outside.

Fans woke up as early late as midnight and got into celebratory mood. “I woke up at 1 am and sent a happy-birthday SMS to a randomly guessed phone number. I hope that Lord Sachin will read it and will give me a darshan someday,” said Nik Amma, a 2-year-old Sachin fan.

(Original link: http://www.newsthatmattersnot.com/2010/04/sachin-goes-into-hiding-as-enthusiastic.html)