Oh no! Not again...

If there ever was a case of a picture saying a thousand words:

The secret to removing The Great Man has been revealed: let him get to 95. I think - don't quote me on this - he's been dismissed almost half a dozen times in the nervous nineties over the last year. Mohan, you fancy a statsguru of his ODI scores since the bilateral series with South Africa in the UK before the Test tour of England? The one they won 2-1? Perhaps you could it append it to this post.

Postscript - 23 November 2007
Some flowing prose from a favourite cricket writer, Rohit Brijnath in The Hindu:

Tendulkar’s body may have healed and allowed him a fuller expression of strokes, but it is his confidence in himself, confidence that was shaken and rattled surely but never extinguished, that carried him on. He still gets beaten some days, but he is also more fluent, too, astonishing no less in his ability to rack up scores of 99, 93, 8, 17, 99, 8, 55, 71, 94, 30, 0, 16, 43, 79, 47, 72, 21, 4, 99, 29, 97 in his last 21 one-day innings.

What does Tendulkar play for? Team, himself, pride, records? Maybe he plays because part of him is just a boy who finds himself when bat meets ball. Maybe he plays because of a boy agog in the stands. Maybe he has summoned this last reservoir of energy to show a kid, now old enough to understand, why, for 18 years, the world has made such a fuss about his father.