I think he meant in this particular innings. I disagree with him on that as well.
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I think he meant in this particular innings. I disagree with him on that as well.
May be because of the initial lull in scoring. I mean the initial 40 runs. But once laxman was out when he was near 40 the entire batting upto 160 was pure class.
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Sachin is amazing, seriously! What a great innings :clap: :clap:
and MOM too....
That NZ commentator [Ex-NZ Bowler] looks to be a Sachin fan. He asked to give comments about Sachin's innings to Vettori and MS. :clap:
Cricket mania of a different kind
Sachin Tendulkar 70 not out at the end of day’s play isn’t merely a line on a scoreboard but a situation pregnant with possibilities. Several times in India, I’ve written Tendulkar-approaching-a-hundred stories, anticipating a busy day ahead in the middle of chaos and excitement in the stands. The momentum starts within minutes of Tendulkar walking into the pavilion unbeaten at stumps.
Requests for passes pour in from people standing outside the stadium gate, from cab drivers who take you to your hotel, and the extra courteous waiter who sticks around longer than usual after their room-service trip. It triggers ‘sudden illness’ leave applications in offices and guarantees serpentine queues at the ground the next day.
On Friday, Hamilton did have a ‘Tendulkar 70 not out’ situation but the buzz that I’m programmed to expect was missing. There was no lathi charge, no sorry faces of ticket-less fans who grudgingly look at your media pass, and I didn’t expect to hear that unique request once made to me by a group of boys outside Green Park in Kanpur, “Bhaiya andar ghusva do na (please get us in).”
But even at Seddon Park, below the surface of calmness, there was a distinct drone reminiscent of the familiar noise one hears on such days back home. There may have been a population disparity, but the per capita anticipation was roughly at par. There were couples walking in with folding chairs, with a slot on the hand-rest for a beer can, families with fully stacked ice boxes, young girls with giant umbrellas under their arms, and older ladies rubbing sun screen on their arms . At an ice-cream cart inside the premises, the vendor gave me two scoops instead of one and winked, “It’s your double-hundred day.”
On the grass banks of the stadium, there was the usual sight of kids wearing India jerseys with posters made from magazine cuttings. But next to them, resting on two easy chairs just beyond the picket fence, was an old couple. Mr Fan was reading a thick, dog-eared Cricket book while Mrs Fan was solving a crossword puzzle in a thick book. In India, too, there are puzzles to solve on such days — being stranded outside the stadium despite having a valid ticket, reaching the stands and finding that the designated seat is already occupied.
I asked the couple about the books and they smiled. “They’re for when Tendulkar is at the non-striker end!”
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cr...t-kind/437111/
Kalebarathula main matter marandhu pochu
Sachin has went past 12500 runs and he is now in 12589 and counting :thumbsup:
The Elephant Strikes Back: Sachin Tendulkar Pulls Further Away from the Crowd
3rd December, 2006
Ricky Ponting scores his 33rd Test match century against England at Adelaide during the second Test match in the Ashes series.
With this, the Australian is now just two behind Sachin Tendulkar. Surely he is going to surpass Tendulkar’s tally of 35 even before the end of this series.
27th January, 2008
Ricky Ponting finally gets to his 34th Test century. Sachin Tendulkar is now on 39. This isn’t going to be as easy as it seems!
Present Day
Sachin Tendulkar scores his 42nd Test match hundred, his 85th international century, his 18th score of over 150, his third in his last four matches, and the numbers just keep on pouring. Tendulkar yet again stretches the gap to five Test match hundreds, and the man Sanjay Manjrekar referred to as the “Elephant in the Room” keeps his steady pace.
He is still five centuries clear of Ponting, and over 1,600 runs ahead. If recent form is any indication to go by, the odds are stacked in the favour of Tendulkar extending his lead.
In their last six test matches or 11 innings, Tendulkar has scored 650 runs at an average of 72.22, while Ponting has been decidedly more mediocre with 483 at 43.9.
Player
S. Tendulkar
R. Ponting
Matches
6
6
Innings
11
11
Not outs
2
0
Runs
650
483
Highest
160
101
Average
72.2
43.9
Balls Faced
1164
719
Strike Rate
55.8
67.2
100s
3
1
50s
2
4
Ducks
0
3
The Tendulkar graph is going just one way, and that is up, while Ponting is not having the best of patches. He is not in bad form, but just being inconsistent. Like Tendulkar he crossed 50 five times, but the glaring difference is in the "ducks" column—three to Tendulkar’s nil.
His conversion rate is also hurting Ponting. Off his five fifties, three have been over 80, including a 99 in the match at Melbourne, where he came amazingly close to getting a hundred in each inning for a fourth time! Scary.
That match, though, has been his best outing in terms of runs scored during this period.
Tendulkar, on the other hand, has scored hundreds against Australia, England, and New Zealand during this period, with two further fifties against Australia. In fact, in the last 14 months Tendulkar has had just one blip, the tour of Sri Lanka, where he scored a paltry 95 in six innings at 15.83.
He has been in imperious form against Australia, both home and away, and against England, and he has now begun in grand style against New Zealand.
While Tendulkar is going to get two more Test caps in this series, Ponting has only one more inning to look forward to in the current series against South Africa, which gives the Little Master a chance to further stretch this gap.
The race is very much in its final few stages here. With both men in their mid-30s, it is difficult to see Tendulkar going beyond 2011 and Ponting beyond 2012-13.
The onus is on Tendulkar to make it as difficult for the Tasmanian as possible to get hold of one of the most prestigious records in the game.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...from-the-crowd
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/ne...ectid=10562781
David Leggat: Sachin provides days to savour
4:00AM Saturday Mar 21, 2009
By David Leggat
When Babe Ruth slammed his record-breaking 60th home run for the New York Yankees in 1927, he celebrated in typically understated style: "60! Count 'em, 60. Let's see if some son of a bitch can match that."
It took 34 years before Roger Maris went one better, also for the Yankees.
Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in the pool at the Munich Olympics in 1972. No one would match, let alone topple that, right?
That belief held good until last year, when Michael Phelps made the Water Cube in Beijing his personal splash pool in winning eight golds, which if you stop and consider for a moment is a stunning achievement in a sport where world records fall these days like autumn leaves.
And what about Roger Bannister, whose 3m 59.4s mile at Oxford in 1954 broke a barrier thought impossible?
New Zealand's middle-distance legend John Walker retired having slid below the 4m barrier 135 times. The present world mark is 3m 43.13s by Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj in Rome almost 10 years ago.
There is no such thing as a record that's not meant to be broken, and that's the beauty of them: the thought that one day someone will better what's been done, and who will do it, and where and when, and might you be there to witness it.
I'll venture one record which won't be overtaken.
Hell will freeze over before a batsman retires with a test average superior to Don Bradman's 99.94. Forget fluky numbers bulked up by not outs, or those who aren't around long enough to allow a reasoned assessment of them to be made. Proper test batsmen are what we're talking about.
Which brings us to Sachin Tendulkar, who yesterday stroked his 42nd test century. He is five clear of Australian captain Ricky Ponting. After that, in terms of current players who might catch him, forget it.
The next best are fellow-Indian Rahul Dravid on 26, Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene on 25 and West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul on 21. None will get near Tendulkar.
But one day he will be eclipsed. Ponting could do it. Or someone not yet born.
Ponting is 34, a year younger than Tendulkar. But although time is running out on Mumbai's most famous citizen, he's still got life left in him, as he amply demonstrated against bowlers largely powerless to stop him doing much as he pleased yesterday.
When will Tendulkar retire? Answer: when it suits him. But he'll certainly be around until the 2011 World Cup.
That gives him two years at least. Eight more centuries give him 50. He's got 43 in ODIs. A double of 50 in each form of the game has a nice ring to it. It is certainly within his capabilities.
He's talked of the desire to play the game being intact, that despite the runs, the adulation, the records, it is the love of playing for his country, and the challenges that brings, which continue to stir him.
The three great batsmen of the past 10 years are Tendulkar, Ponting and West Indian Brian Lara.
Whom you prefer is a matter of personal choice: Ponting's hard-headed craft, Lara's shot-making brilliance or Tendulkar's technical perfection and style?
Bradman reckoned Tendulkar to be the closest thing to himself at the crease. On this tour New Zealand crowds have seen two demonstrations of his capabilities, a sizzling 163 off 133 balls in an ODI in Christchurch and now a superb 160. Days to savour.
http://cricketsbestvideos.blogspot.com/
Click on the second video to see sachin talking 2 ravi shasthri after the match.
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But next to them, resting on two easy chairs just beyond the picket fence, was an old couple. Mr Fan was reading a thick, dog-eared Cricket book while Mrs Fan was solving a crossword puzzle in a thick book. In India, too, there are puzzles to solve on such days — being stranded outside the stadium despite having a valid ticket, reaching the stands and finding that the designated seat is already occupied.
I asked the couple about the books and they smiled. “They’re for when Tendulkar is at the non-striker end!”