What if Tendulkar had born in Calcutta?

By John Cheeran
Just a thought.
What if Sachin Tendulkar had born in Calcutta?
He would never go out of the Indian team. If selectors decided to leave him out of the Test or the one-day squad, let us say, for a variety of reasons, his supporters would be bringing down the roof of Eden Gardens.
May be they would burn Calcutta.
For they had done it for lesser reasons like India on the verge of losing their World Cup semifinal to Sri Lanka in 1996 and when Shoaib Akhtar contributed to Tendulkar's down fall in the Asian Test Championship match against Pakistan in 1999.
Later these 'enlightened' incidents were used as an excuse by Pakistan to brand whole of India as sour losers.
And Board of Control for Cricket in India, run by mobsters, would force selectors to pick Tendulkar even if he comes up with a sequence of scores 0, 1, 0, 9, 0, 0, 0.
Calcutta would reason that he has scored maximum number of one-day centuries; he has broken all records in Test cricket. How can you ask him stop playing cricket for India, they will ask, I'm sure.
If the mob could force a 'has been' player to the current Indian Test squad on the basis of having scored 10,000 one-day runs, that too mostly against weak bowling attacks, what would they do with an icon like Sachin Tendulkar?
How can Calcutta crowd ever digest the thought of a modern cricket colossus being left out of the team? Won't their pride be punctured?
May be this is one of the smaller mercies of life.....
Tendulkar luckily happens to be an Indian first, because he comes from Mumbai.
Hence he could say no to Indian captaincy for a second time. Born in Calcutta, Tendulkar would have been choked to death by his supporters' stubborn demands.
Thank you, Mumbai!