Sachin Tendulkar is going strong after two decades on the cricket pitch, but he has just been given “run-out” on the “Marathi pitch”.

The master blaster, who had said at a recent Press conference that he was a “proud Maharashtrian”, but an Indian first, has come in for flak from the Shiv Sena.

Advising Sachin to stay away politics, Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said in an open letter on the front page of his organisation’s newspaper, Saamna: “You have played like a king and become a multi-millionaire, no one has issues with that. But at a press conference, you said you are proud of being Marathi but are an Indian first. This has hurt Marathi people.”

Thackeray recalled that Sachin said all Indians had an equal right on Mumbai and said: “What was the need for this? You have been ‘run-out’ on the Marathi pitch. When the Marathi people wrested Mumbai, you weren’t even born.”

Source: http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/shiv_sena_to_sachin_stick_to_sports.php

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