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Please don't post such lame things in future. These things are of no use.
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Sourav
Please don't post such lame things in future. These things are of no use.
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
k.... :)
Kovichukadheenga.
Players like srinath, sadagoppan rames, sujeeth somasunder aalalukku oru opinion sollikite dhan irupaanuga. adhayellam perusa eduthukka koodathu.
Adhai inge post seyyaradhu avanugalukku thevai illadha pablicitee. :P.
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hey illa.... i was :x after read this news in paper...Quote:
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As Nerd said b4...oru match adikkalennathum they started to bash again....i thought u guys wil give some 'comment' on this...thats y posted it... :)
Oh appidi vaareengala ...okok :lol:
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annaatha aaduraarah innaikki ?
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viru than doubt.... :?
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http://cricketnext.in.com/news/dhoni.../35979-13.html
New Delhi: Top Indian players including captain MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar have said that they are unwilling to tour Paksitan.
CNN-IBN has learnt that India's senior players are unwilling to go in January for their scheduled three-Test and five-ODI series.
According to sources Dhoni, Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh have all expressed their unwillingness to go to Pakistan.
The players believe that in spite of assurances from the PCB, the security threat in touring Pakistan is simply too great at the moment.
PCB chief Ejaz Butt is scheduled to tour India early next month to try and convince the BCCI but that plea is now likely to fall on deaf ears.
CNN-IBN did report earlier that the Ministry of External Affairs is also unlikely to clear the tour.
Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is in Delhi with the message that Pakistan wants more cricketing and diplomatic ties with India.
Virtually snubbing Pakistan's interior secretaryy, Qureshi said Pakistan wanted more people to people contacts with India and welcomed Dhoni's boys and other Indians to Pakistan.
Interior secretary Kamal Shah had said on Tuesday that diplomatic ties with India could be affected if New Delhi cancelled the January cricket tour.
The PCB has assured full security for the team, but the Ministry of External Affairs is uncomfortable with the high security risk. A final decision is expected in two weeks.
http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...056&na=1&nst=1
MASTER BLASTER'S STATS No 1:
The Maestro's stats ll b updated after each game in this thread!
Tests-154
Runs-12,273
Batting average-54.30
100s-40
50s-51
Top score-248
Wickets-42
Bowling average-53.02
Best bowling-3/10
Catches-100
Upto the end of Australian series 2008.
ODIs-419
Runs scored-16,422
Batting average-44.26
100s-42
50s-90
Top score-186*
Wickets-154
Bowling average-44.12
5 wickets in an innings-2
Best bowling-5/32
Catches-126
Upto the end of England series 2008
Twenty 20s-12
Runs scored-386
50s-3
Top score-69
Batting average-35.09
Wickets-2
Best bowling-1/12
Bowling average-32.50
Catches-8
ODIs
Ducks-20 times
1-20 times
2-16 "
3-10 "
4-12 "
5-8 "
6-8 "
7-7 "
8-9 "
9-4 "
10-5 "
therefore, 1-10 : 99 "
11-10 "
12-5 "
13-3 "
14-5 "
15-6 "
16-4 "
17-6 "
18-6 "
19-4 "
20-2 "
therefore, 11-20 : 51 "
21-8 "
22-3 "
23-3 "
24-2 "
25-4 "
26-2 "
27-4 "
28-6 "
29-3 "
30-6 "
therefore, 21-30 : 41 "
31-4 "
32-5 "
33-1 "
34-3 "
35-5 "
36-7 "
37-4 "
38-3 "
39-6 "
40-4 "
therefore, 31-40 : 42 "
41-4 "
42-1 "
43-1 "
44-4 "
45-5 "
46-0 "
47-3 "
48-3 "
49-2 "
50-2 "
therefore, 41-50 : 25 "
51-1 "
52-3 "
53-4 "
54-4 "
55-2 "
56-0 "
57-4 "
58-0 "
59-0 "
60-1 "
therefore, 51-60 : 19 "
61-1 "
62-5 "
63-4 "
64-1 "
65-6 "
66-1 "
67-3 "
68-2 "
69-2 "
70-2 "
therefore, 61-70 : 27 "
71-1 "
72-1 "
73-1 "
74-1 "
75-0 "
76-0 "
77-2 "
78-1 "
79-1 "
80-1 "
therefore, 71-80 : 9 "
81-3 "
82-4 "
83-1 "
84-1 "
85-1 "
86-1 "
87-1 "
88-2 "
89-2"
90-1 "
therefore, 81-90 : 17 "
91-2 "
92-0 "
93-5 "
94-1 "
95-2 "
96-0 "
97-2 "
98-1 "
99-3 "
therefore, 91-99 : 16 "
100-6 "
101-2 "
102-1 "
104-1 "
105-2 "
110-2 "
112-1 "
113-1 "
114-1 "
115-1 "
117-2 "
118-2 "
120-1 "
122-2 "
123-1 "
124-1 "
127-2 "
128-1 "
134-1 "
137-1 "
139-1 "
140-1 "
141-3 "
143-1 "
146-2 "
152-1 "
186-1 "
therefore, 100s-42
P.S: All the Stat posts that follow are taken from the same link here.
Courtesy: Sachin Orkut Community.
Stats No:2
The Maestro has 87 100+ runs partnership in ODIs
with
Manjrekar- 102 (1)
Azhar- 127,175,129,109,121,112,120,121 (8)
Kambli- 164,117 (2)
Jadeja- 105,100,108,176,163,108,120*,132,143 (9)
Prabhakar- 144,161 (2)
Sidhu- 231 (1)
Ganguly-126,116,169,159,175,115,252,197*,127,153,141,102,1 57,133,193,101,258, 244,103,154,100,134,113,116,150,140 (26)
Laxman- 104,199,190,110 (4)
Dravid- 180,140,237*,331,180,114,169,105,106,118,158 (11)
Robin Singh- 100 (1)
Badani- 135* (1)
Sehwag- 107,134,153,103,182,103,130,106,105,107,136 (11)
Kaif- 102 (1)
Dhoni- 129,126 (2)
Irfan Pathan- 164,125 (2)
Yuvi- 105,122 (2)
Gambhir- 173,102 (2)
Rohit- 123 (1)
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Stats no:3
SRT/Tests/2008
Matches: 11
Inns:21
NO:2
Ave:47.73
H.S:154 N.O
100's:3
50's:3
Stats No:4
http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...56&na=2&nst=10
SRT/ODI's/2008
Sachin's ODI stats 4 the year 2008
Matches : 12
Total Runs : 460
Top score : 117*
100s/50s : 1/3
Batting average : 37.42
Strike rate : 81.73
Boundaries (4s/6s) : 46/0
Catches : 6
http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...597&na=1&nst=1
Excerpts from the book 'Sachin TendulkarMasterful'
Excerpts from one of the best books written on master “Sachin Tendulkar Masterful”. The authors of the book are Peter Murray and Ashish Shukla and the book was published in the year 2001-2002.
Shukla and Murray think that "Tendulkar fills a vacuum in a nation bereft of role models" and that he is a "unifying symbol" across the diversity of India. He will never be as rich as US basketball star Michael Jordan, and yet he escapes the censure which that legend faces about being too greedy and lacking social responsibility. In his quiet, unobtrusive way, Tendulkar assists programs to help Mumbai slum children. On field, hardly anyone has detected contretemps by him.
How many individuals have the honor of having biographies written about them when they are 29? How many sport stars can singularly lift a nation's mood? How many cricketers can dream of earning the ultimate eulogy, as from former South African cricket hero Barry Richards, "that for sheer entertainment, Sachin will keep cricket alive"?
If the classic cricket writer, Neville Cardus, were alive, I wonder if he might have fumbled for apposite language to describe Tendulkar. We are fortunate to be living in his age and watching him live, for cricket will never be the same after he hangs up his bat.
In the words of his Mumbai and India colleague, Ravi Shastri, "He is someone sent from up there to play cricket and go back." The day he goes back, cricket will be poorer.
THE EARLY YEARS
Under Achrekar, Tendulkar’s life was now charted to a new course. His new coach’s method were simple and time tested and demanded enormous discipline. Achrekar believed in putting his wards into math situations and sometimes the young Tendulkar would play in as many as 13 matches in a day. In the huge Sivaji Park, where dozens of matches are held every Sunday, Tendulkar would get dismissed in one match and then promptly take a fresh guard in another close by game.
He was pushed harder and harder by coach Achrekar in his new pursuit, practicing each day between 7 and 9 am and 3.30 and 6.30 pm. In between he would play matches . If Tendulkar fell for a low score in one match, his coach would take him to another game so he could bat again.
Recalls Achrekar: “In the process, Tendulkar sometimes found he played for about 13 diffrent teams. One day when he was 14, he scored a century in the Giles Shield and then a double century in the Harris Shield”.
Tendulkar remembers to this day “ It was a big thing to get that coin for myself. I lost a coupel of times but I have 13 coins with me. I didn’t spent that money.”
“At the age of 12 and 13 I was practicing 12 hours a day. Seven till nine in the morning, then playing the game from 9.30 to 4.30 and then practicing again from 5.30 to 7.00 pm. Once I played 54 matches in a row! My friends had music and films and I had cricket.
What brought Tendulkar to national consciousness was his unbeaten 664-run stand with Vinod Kambli for Sardharshan School in the inter-school tournament in 1988.
Tendulkar was only 15 when he played his first class cricket, for Mumbai, then Bombay. In keeping true to the fairytale, he registered a century - a feat he was to repeat in his first appearance in the Deodhar and Duleep Trophy.
FIRST TEST KARACHI NOVEMBER 15-20, 1989
Also making his debut alongside was Salil Ankola and Waqar Younis for Pakistan. Tendulkar’s turn to bat came on the second day of the first Test. He was only 16 years and 205 days at that time.
“ I was too young to be frightened by anything” recalls Tendulkar.
Wasim Akram was almost unplayable in his first spell and had the Indian openers out in no time at all.
So, Tendulkar walked out with board presenting a sorry sight at 4/41.The youngster was in daze and did’nt know what was happening around him. He was peppered by short pitched deliveries by the ramping Pakistani bowlers and realized instantly how quality cricket differed from the school cricket and even a few domestic class cricket. After scratching 15 runs . not in great style by long definition, Tendulkar was cleaned up by Waqar as his third victim.
India ended with 262 in next morning and Pakistan replied in there second innings with a total of 305/5 declared. Now with a target of 453 in front of them, wining was out of question for India. India was able to save the match by a determined innings from a very fine gritty unbeaten innings of 113 by Manjrekar.
The famous characteristics of Tendulkar were evident this early in his career. Private and intense and extremely determined to succeed at highest level. He was up and on his with a half century under his belt in the next Test. It was also the Test when he was subjected from a verbal assault by Akram. According to an apocryphal tale, Tendulkar is said to have walked up the fiery left-arm paceman and asked him why he had to sledge so hard when his bowling itself was in class of its own.
“After that half century, I knew I could survive at this level of cricket” Says Tendulkar. Survive, he did.
FAMILY LIFE
In India’s entertainment world nothing is better than cricket or films. It is only natural that stars of these two spheres seek acceptance and respect in each other’s area of influence but Tendulkar has shown no such frailty in his temperament. He would rather spend time with the people he has grown up with or his immediate family.
The third son of four siblings, three brothers and a sister, Tendulkar was born on 24th April, 1974. His father was a Marathi poet and a writer who earned his living as a professor. His mother worked for the Life Insurance Corporation. It is a measure of importance they attached to values, as stressed by a whole lot of ordinary middle class Indian parents, that even after their youngest son had become rich and famous, his parents quietly kept up the schedule they had followed with such discipline and dignity for decades.
When his parents worked, Sachin was looked by his nanny(grandmother) Laxmibai. She looked after him for 11 years. “he was a wonderful child, very mischievous and extremely restless. He would take a box and play the dhol (drum) and sing loudly like a joker” recounts Laxmibai.
“Even as a toddler, Sachin was attracted to a cricket. When he was two and a half years old, he used to insist that I throw ball at him. It was a plastic ball and he batted with a dhoka (washing stick)”says Laxmibai. “We used to go to the terrace and play. I was the first bowler he faced in his life. His first cricket bat was gifted to him on a birthday”.
One person who never watches Sachin play, not even on television, is his brother Ajit. It is quiet ironic the man whose whole sole mission was to see younger brother succeed in the cricket world, can’t bring himself to actually watch him in action.
Word is still not out in public as to how the affair between Anjali and Sachin blossomed and culminated in their marriage. Daughter of an industrialist father and British mother, Anjali has an easiness about her which compliments Tendulkar perfectly.
Anjali has been a source of strength in Tendulkar’s life. She has been a support and not hindrance in Tendulkar’s pursuit for still greater heights in his career. Unlike the kids of rich and famous, Sara and Arjun are allowed to mingle freely with the neighbors children and even those of helpers.
The media has fallen over each other to secure an interview of people who form his family. They haven’t succeeded so far. There has been no interview of his father when he a alive, or his mother or for that matter his brother or sister. Requests to interview his wife are always met with a definite NO.
Faith is centre to Sahin’s psyche. A firm believer in God. He says he visits the temple at night when it is not crowded and peaceful. Ganapati and Sai Baba are two of his favorite deities and he believes his talent and success is all because of God’s grace.
TEST CAREER
His best knocks have spanned the entire length of his career. He did’nt need time to grow into the harsh environs of international cricket. Somehow, he always looked prepared to take on the world’s best in unfamiliar conditions. Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis in his first series, Richard Hadlee in the next, Merv Hughes, Craig McDermott, Paul Reiffel and Allan Donald in his subsequent tours could’nt dislodge a young boy of 15 from his journey to be a cricketing icon.
Tendulkar was only 18 when he first toured down under.
During the first four encounter Australia gained advantage with 3-0 lead. In the fifth test at Perth. Australia scored 346 in their first innings. India were in trouble soon at 130/5.
Tendulkar, meanwhile at the other end was building a little master piece for himself.
Raju(night watchman) was gone without adding any on the next morning score now 135/6, Hughes with this chest free of any restrain from shirt buttons, many pounds of flesh seemingly hanging out of his awesome fame, a growling visage heightened by a walrus-like moustache, pounded away his full repertoire at the baby-faced youngster.
Tendulkar, unlike on the other day was in the mood to dominate. He cut the Victorian fast bowler for a four and continued to play his shots till he reached his half century. Hi senior Kapil Dev stays long enough to stretch the score to 7 for 159 though his contribution was only 4 runs. Prabhakar was out without socring India now were 8 for 159.
Tendulkar is now left with only wicket keeper Kiran More and Javagal Srinath to do what he can for the Team. He started playing some short as he was falling short of partners.
At drinks break, India are 188 for 8.
The second hour of the day was Tendulkar’s in every macro second of the term. He brought a rousing climax to an innings which would be hailed as one of the greatest ever seen down under. Men many years his senior would’nt dream of a counter attack this belligerent and breathtaking against an awesome attack on a designer pitch. Runs were now almost scored by Tendulkar. When Reiffel bowled no ball to bring up the 200 of the innings, it was a long time since a run had come without Tendulkar’s bat coming into the picture. A four and three in this over took Tendulkar into the90’s. The Aussies were now intent to deny Tendulkar the strike, the bowling reshuffles are done almost every over to break the rhythm - when skill fails, the mind games come into play - this seems to be policy.
In the over followed by Mc Dermott there a dashing 4 from Tendulkar. An outstanding innings of three and a quarter hours, with 14 fours from 135 balls, is almost divine in its scope and breath. In all 98 runs are added in the opening session and Tendulkar’s contribution is 81 to More’s 11. India are 8 for 233 at the Lunch break.
Tendulkar soon completed his Ton. India lost that game, but cricket in general had found reasons to remember the match. It was Tendulkar’s game out and out. In days to come, the little lad would be hailed as the next Bradman - by the none other than the Don himself
The winds of change were blowing stronger than ever. India humiliated by Sri Lanka in the 1996 world cup semi-finals at Eden garden, was in a mood of retribution. Someone needed to be held accountable for India’s embarrassment. Azhar paid the price after India lost 1-0 to England in the series. The Sidhu episode did’nt do him any credit, nor his own form.
Tendulkar, meanwhile, was looking more lustrous than ever. Ever. He had an outstanding world cup and his century in the first test at Edgbaston more r less unofficially anointed him as India’s future skipper.
This hundred was remarkable innings in its own right. It was Tendulkar’s ninth century at the tender age of 23 and no-one doubted he was the most out standing right-hander in the game at that moment. The Telegraph of London was lyrical “For anyone to score so freely on a dry and crcking surface was prize winning feat; for one to do so while wickets tumbled all around was the mark of a champion”.
India scored 214 in there first innings with Tendulkar also scoring 20 odd runs. England replied with 313 runs.
Next innings saw a brilliant knock from Tendulkar. Tendulkar came to the crease with score board reading 17/2. England bowling attack was decent with the likes of Dominic Cork, Chris Lewis, Allan Mullally and Ronnie Irani.
Tendulkar’s first boundary was a steer on the third man boundary. He seemed set to bide his time and score off the bad balls. The state of the wicket dictated a cautious approach what with the ball swinging and dipping in helpful conditions and the Indian innings in complete disarray. Tendulkar went to the other extreme - watchful defence was interspersed with cracking stroke play. Irani’s arrival on the bowling crease was a moment of rare opportunity and Tendulkar on-drove smashed past the covers and then pulled a fur to end a productive over. In Irani’s next over, Tendulkar repeated the dose with the cover boundary and a pulled four.
Tendulkar’s pace did’nt slacken even after debutant Sunil Joshi became the fifth batsman to be out for 68 and he was soon past his half century. Tendulkar was beginning to get under their skin because of control, power and supreme authority he was displaying in the middle.
The visible sign of it all appeared when Lewis made a ball climb past the outside edge of Tendulkar’s bat and everyone blasted a high decibel appeal at the umpire. Tendulkar on 76 at this stage, suggested the ball had gone pat his upper arm. It seemed to bring out in the open all frustration of England captain Mike Atherton. He finger-wagged at the batsman, suggesting Tendulkar had no business to give his opinion to the umpire. It got ugly to the point where umpire David Shepherd had to step in and ask England captain to watch his step - and his mouth. Indeed, Atherton was lucky to get away with just a reprimand from match refree Cammie Smith at the Tea interval.
Tendulkar duly reached his hundred after tea, he scored 122 in only177 balls and included a high percentage of boundary hits - 19 fours and a six in all. The rest of the team contribution was only 97 runs, including 14 extras.
This innings at Edgbaston was to bring far reaching changes in Tendulkar’s career. He was appointed captain - at 24 - as soon as India finished the tour of Blighty with a 1-0 Test scoreline against it.
He took a team to Toronto for a five match India-Pak series - a sham tourney at best of times and defeated Mark Taylor’s men in one off Test at Ferozshah Kotla in New Delhi to suggest captaincy was his for keeps. He also defeated Hanie Cronje’s men 2-1 in a three Test series, a series which caused much bitterness and heart burn among the Proteas who were not prepared to accept a loss in the Test arena.
Things started to go wrong for Tendulkar from this stage onwards. India was on a tour to two daunting tours of South Africa and West Indies in the first half of 1997 and the years schedule also included a visit to Sri Lanka freshly crowned world champions and on their sub-continent’s cricketing super power neighbors- Pak.
South Africa won the first Test of the series convincingly. The revenge of the defeat they had against India was already on its way. The second test was scheduled at Newlands in Capetown. SA again piled up 529 with centuries from Gary Kristen, Macmillan and Klusener. India were slumped to 58 for 5.
Tendulkar was joined by Azhar on the crease. The second session of he day though saw a partnership of rare magnificence unfold in front of a packed audience. It was Saturday and all the fans at converged at Newlands in the hope of a quick demolition of their heroes. The message was clear when Azhar picked up 3 fours in Kluseners initial offerings and followed next with 2 more in bowler’s next over.
Tendulkar’s duel with Allan Donald at the other end was a classic confrontation. Donald steamed into bowl with his customary hostility, using his vast experience and the supposed upper hand of the first Test to test the mettle of the young champion. Tendulkar was presenting the full face of the blade mostly, which grew broader and broader as minutes ticked by. A punched drive past mid off Donald, followed by one executed in the extra cover region was too good to be true. The South African had no inkling the carpet would be pulled from under their feet so quickly. They stood rooted to their as fours flowed in all directions.
When Azhar was dismissed for 115 in 110 balls with 19 fours and a six at 280 for six, the two had added 222 runs for the sixth wicket in just 40 overs. It was a signal for Tendulkar to grow more hectic in its stroke play. He became the last man to be dismissed for 169 from a six and a half hours of batting, inclusive of 26 fours. India was all out for 359 and SA replied with 256/6 declared. India were all out on the merely 144 runs on the final day for a comfortable win in no way detracted from the big story of the match and it was Tendulkar’s masterly innings and his stand with Azhar. It would remain one of the most memorable moments of Test cricket ever played in the history of the game.
A particular distressing period for master was the Barbados Test of 1997 against the WI. India failed to make 120 runs to win the Test. It marked a real low in the young master’s life. One would never forget the next morning after the match with downcast Indians at the airport trying to catch a plane to Antigua where the next test was scheduled. Nobody dared to come close to him, not coach nor the senior members of the side.
India had ended the third day with 100/1. Next day Sidhu got out after scoring 64 runs scorecard 115/2. Dravid was settling into his groove nicely when Tendulkar took guard for the second time in the match. The belligerence from Tendulkar was astonishing as he struck 155 runs from just 191balls, including four sixes and 14 fours and provided a supersonic momentum to the innings, India declared at 418 for four and set Australia a target f 348 runs.
This was Tendulkar’s 3d test century in 7 appearances against Australia. The power he imparted to his strokes was breathtaking and his placement was impeccable. He reserved his special attention for Warne, repeatedly coming down the track and hitting him aginast the spin in the vacant onside field and on afew occasions even managed straight sixes over the bowlers head. He reached his half century from just 64 balls and hundred off another 63, a span in which he hit 3 sixes.
Chennai was again the venue of Tendulkar’s next epic instance. It was against the arch rivals Pakistan. Pakistan batted first and scored 238/10 India in reply scored 254/10. In there next innings Pakistan scored 286/10 leaving India a target of 271 runs. India lost both its openers with only 6 on the board. India 40/2 at the end of days play with Rahul and Sachin both at the crease. Rahul soon out in the next morning. Saqlain, at the other end was keeping Tendulkar quiet and caused him to mistime his strokes. Saqlain soon claimed the wickets of Azhar and Ganguly. Progress in the morning session was slow as India pushed and prodded only 46 runs.
Indeed, by the time the Tea brake was taken India had advanced there score by only 107 runs in 4 hours. India though were not to lose a single wicket in afternoon session as Tendukar and Nayan Mongia dug there heels in.
As Tendulkar’s innings went into overdrive in the final session, it was also a signal of extreme distress for him. Everytime he went forward, pain shot through his back to his lower half and he was jolted everytime he made a forward motion. Sensing his physical discomfort, the Pakistani bowlers were intent on drawing him forward, Looking at Tendulkar, one could see he was in no position to carry on batting but somehow he pulled along, even twice driving Akram down for four.
With India now closing in on the Pakistan’s target, the two batsman were seen consulting more often in the middle. The stand grew and was now worth 136 runs when Mongia, went to hit Akram and was caught at mid-on. Tendulkar was visibly very tired and suffered from spasms in the back. He seemed to finish the game in hurry and smashed Saqlain straight into the sightscreen for four and then pulled him for another boundary at square leg.
But, then trying to loft the next ball over the bowlers head, he holed out to Akram at deep mid off. India still needed 17 runs to win were finally bowled out and were short of 12 runs. Tendulkar had batted heroically for 405 minutes and hit 18 fours from 378 balls for his valiant 136 runs.
A Tendulkar’s lay on the physio’s bench, match refree Cammie Smith announced at the presentation ceremony that it was he, and not Afridi and Saqlain (87/10), who was the Man of the Match. Tendulkar was in no position to collect the award but he would have bargained it with anything else to win the match for his country. He says now “In my heart and heart I know, Pakistan had given it up”, he pauses to think, then repeats “They had given it up”. Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram was magnanimous in defeat. “I have long said that Tendulkar is the best batsman in the world and today we saw one of the finest innings I have have ever seen played.”
It was a long, long time before he overcame the trauma of that reverse in Chennai. Even now, a mention of that match makes his visage a grim one.
ONEDAY CAREER
The reason that Tendulkar is considered the most complete batsman ever is his awe-inspiring record in both Test and one day international cricket. (Old Records)With 32 centuries, more than 11,000 runs (average of 44) and 105 wickets in the shorter version of the game, Tendulkar has left his nearest competitors light years behind.
Tendulkar became an opener of choice rather than one groomed for the role by his seniors. He pleaded to be given a chance to open the innings in a one day game at Auckland against New Zealand. Navjot Sidhu, the regular opener, luckily pulled out due to a neck strain .As it turned out, the game was virtually over in the first 15 overs. He smashed 82 off 49 balls with 15 fours and 3 sixes, most of them in front of the wickets. His power and style was captivating on the day. This was his 70th knock of his day career and it was only a matter of time before his maiden century would arrive, assured as he was of opening innings from now on.
His next innings in Sharjah against UAE took him past 2,000 one day internationals runs and he followed it up with 73 against arch rivals Pakistan. People who watched this innings would remember it long for the duel it showcased between Tendulkar and Akram. Tendulkar first crashed Akram through covers and then swung him over square leg for a six. Akram’s response was to bowl a short quick delivery which, even on a slow Sharjah surface, climbed up steeply to leaving a dent on Tendulkar’s helmet.
He scored his maiden ODI century against Australia at the Premadasa Stadium in Sri Lanks in tht 1994-1995 Singer Cup. He scored 110 runs from 130 balls.
Fittingly, some of Tendulkars best knock came during the year 1998 when he amashed 1894 runs from 33 innnings at 65.31 with as many as 9 hundreds. Four of them against Australia: three of them, each a masterpiece in its own right.
At the Kochi one-dayer, he "bowled leg spin at the right-handers and off spin to the left-handers" and ended with figures of five wickets for 32 runs in 10 overs. India’s 300 plus target had suddenly begun to appear too small. The 200 of the Australian innings was up in the 32nd over. Michael Bevan and Steve Waugh were proving a great influence in the middle ver and had put on 70 runs in just 11 overs. Tendulkar wa already in the middle of his spell when he tasted his first success. It came in the form of Waughs wicket who pushed back a chance for the bowlers to accept when on 26. Darren Lehmann, shortly fell leg before to Tendulkar. Tendulkar, then had the prized wicket of Bevan, stumped by Mongia for 65. Bevan was beaten both in air and off the pitch to set up a leg-ide stumping by Mongia. India suddenly sensed a turnaround to their fortunes. Tendulkar was to account for Tom Moddy and Damien Martyn as well and Australia crashed to 268 all out.
The two sides then left for Sharjah to play a triangular series which also featured New Zealand. India had an inconsistent run till the it came to the final league game of the tournament. Australia were already through to the finls and Indias fate rested on mathematical equation. When the Australian made 284, India seemed as good as out of the tournament
To start with, Tendulkar did’nt start hammering the bowlers from the first ball. But the first aggressive shot was devastating enough Tendulkar coming down the track to Kasprowicz and seeing the bowler drop the ball short, swinging his bat in an arc with such robust power that the ball lay many a tier deep at the midwicket boundary. It was a savage stroke followed by another six off the same bowler in the same direction. Tendulkar had signaled his intention to take on the Australians.
A dust storm in the middle of the innings almost disrupted the Indian plans. All of a sudden, the skyline in Sharjah was filled with sandy dust and game needed to be stopped.
Tendulkar walked off from the field but did’nt enter the dressing room. He kept sitting outside, with his helmet on, and waiting for the sky toclear. Millions, in India and worldwide were glued to their television sets, unable to break themselves free even when the decent hour for sleep was long gone past. The weather did clear and Tendulkar was allowed to accomplish his unfinished job.
Sunil Gavaskar at the commentators box had sensed something sensational. He kept saying Tendulkar would not rest at just Indias qualification and indeed would try to win the game. Tendulkar did seem to go for the juglar. Instead of getting tired in the heat, his forearm seemed to impart more swing and power to his shots. Steve Waugh was the one to be mauled during this onslaught: the Australian captain conceding 65 runs in his nine overs.
Tendulkar departed only after he had taken India to safe shores. His 143 from 131 balls till then being his highet one day cricket contained 9 fours and 5 sixes. When he departed India had already qualified for the finals. Who knows if Tendulkar was around, India might have pulled off an improbable win.
But Tendulkar was very much around when India were asked to repeat the act against Australia. In the finals, two days lter. It was a special day for another reason: Tendulkar, on, this day of 24th April was celebrating his 25th Bday.
Australia batted first and scored 272 for six. In reply, India lost Ganguly cheaply. Nayan Mongia was sent as a pinch hitter. Sensing the game would swiftly drift away from his team, Tendulkar indulged in some hectic hitting with Mongia. Mongia raised 28 for himself in 41 balls but Tendulkar hit through the line and found the gaps at will. So impressive was the recovery that the second wicket fell at 128 in the 25th over. India still needed close to 150 in remaining 25 overs.
Tndulkar had worked out the batting details to such a nicety that he eased off the gas pedal. He understood there was no need to go for big hitting, instead he shifted his focus on staying the wicket. Tendulkar was finally out leg before to Kasprowicz for 134 from 131 balls with 12 fours and 3 sixes. His last three innings against Austrlia has yielded 80,143 and 134.
Tendulkar was Man of the series, was gifted the keys of a new car, an award for hitting the most sixes(9) as well as a prize for scoring the fastest 50 off 44 balls.
If the Australians were to believe that the Tendulkar nightmare was now over, it surfaced again, albeit in a different country, it was at the mini world cup in Dhaka, , he scored his 3 consecutive century against Aussies, getting 141 in 127 balls with13 fours and 3 sixes and then capturing four wickets as a bowler.
Despite Tendulkar’s growing stature, the little master was still to strike an innings of mammoth proportion in one-day cricket. Tendulkar's epic unbeaten 186 in 151 balls with 19 fours and 4 sixes against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999 was described by the press as "batting mayhem", another stroke-studded knock that is his career best. Tendulkar and Dravid added 331 runs for the second wicket to push India to 376/2.
Tendulkar, as his score would convey, was unstoppable. There were orthodox drives and pulls interspersed with clever and hard running between the wickets.
THE RICHEST CRICKETER IN THE WORLD
Chances are, if you are at home or driving on the road in India, the smiling face of Tendulkar would accost you somehow. At home, you turn on the television or in office if you are catching up on the scores on the Internet, a Tendulkar site would blip up and down to wean away your attention. It’s like one of the sleazy dotcoms on the net, you open one and it won’t allow you to go away all that easily. You close one and another would pop up and so on and so forth before you are finally broken away from the spell.
An interesting sight greeted one at Centurion Park in November 2001 when India were engaged in a five-day "unofficial" Test against South Africa. The sightscreen at the far end had a digital advertisement on the entire length and breadth of it. It featured Italian automaker Palio’s new budgeted small car at the bottom of the hoarding, with more than two-third of it being adorned by Tendulkar’s face, giving a restrained even dignified smile. At the end of every over, with the striking batsman’s back at the ubiquitous sightscreen, the Palio advertisement like a venetian blind would slowly open in front of a few thousand spectators at Centurion Park — and in front of millions of television viewers in India and across the world.
Palio is only one of the latest to ride on the Tendulkar bandwagon of good image and high profile. He is the best known face in India, better than some of the superstars of Bollywood, India’s Mumbai based film industry which produces more movies than even Hollywood, and a recent market survey suggested he enjoys more popularity than even the Prime Minister of India. Everything seems to be going for him: immensely successful and yet so young; a career unblemished by not even a hint of scandal (at a time when the match-fixing scandal was at its height Tendulkar was one of the rare few to avoid the scrutiny); an extremely dependable family man and a celebrity who espouses moral values rather than be a walking billboard for vulgar money.
Money is important to him but not to the extent he compromises on his image or his privacy. Still, he happens to be the richest cricketer in the world.
If Tendulkar is cricket’s most marketable commodity, the late Mark Mascarenhas was the one who created that profile.
Mascarenhas, who liked being in the company of cricketers, then played a gamble which created a bigger stir and had his profile zooming further up on the horizon. WorldTel signed on the little genius Tendulkar for one and half million dollars annually for five years making him the most expensive cricketer ever. "It was a big risk," said WorldTel chief Mark Mascarenhas. "Somebody told me that he was available and that he wanted someone to represent him. I consulted people like Ravi Shastri and decided on signing the genius."
Till then Tendulkar, even though a major star and a captain-incumbent in 1995, was not such a hot property in the stakes of the advertising industry. His contract with Action Shoes, was worth a mere Rs 2 lakhs apparently. Even though cricket was popular, its visual appeal was greatly impaired by the poor quality of telecast from Doordarshan, and sponsors were few and far between. What also helped in cricket’s image transformation was the fact that India was undergoing a major change in its political climate and for the first time in its history, had gone for open markets. It allowed foreign television networks and multi-national companies to make a pitch in India and cricket was a natural extension for this local and foreign business opportunity. Mascarenhas thus hedged his bets on Tendulkar and he didn’t have any regrets. He acquired the right to market Tendulkar in 1996 for the guaranteed payment of $ 7.5 million (Rs 31.5 crore) over five years. In just under three years, WorldTel had raised $ 10 million (Rs 42 crore) in Tendulkar’s name. Mascarenhas had after all backed a real star.
Tendulkar’s rise coincided with the subcontinent’s emergence as the commercial hub of world cricket. In 1992, the India rights for the World Cup were bought for the Rs 25 lakh; for the 1996 World Cup it cost Rs 42 crore. Cricket became the national opiate. It meant that if Adidas pays Leander Paes Rs 12 lakh plus hefty bonuses, for Tendulkar it does not bulk at a crore and more per year in a six-year deal worth a couple of million dollars. Says G. Kannan, general manager, marketing, "At first glance it is a huge figure. But on analysis, if you look at his value, it appears reasonable." This is not a man to waste time bargaining over. During the 1996 World Cup, MRF representatives walked into Mascarenhas’ room and said they wanted the rights to Tendulkar’s bat. A deal was done in seconds.
When the time for Tendulkar’s renewal of contract came up in 2000, there were many who were willing to throw their hats in the ring and see if Tendulkar would catch the bait. They assumed Tendulkar would distance himself from Mascarenhas, as he had done to Ajay Jadeja, one of his real pals before the match-fixing disclosures dragged the latter in its pit. Tendulkar, against the sentiments of many, walked ahead and signed another deal with Mascarenhas.
The money promised by Mascarenhas to Tendulkar was huge even outrageous. He assured Tendulkar of a sum of Rs 100 crore over the next five years, a figure which matched what the accounts of the Indian cricket board showed as profit for its massive operations.
Tendulkar has already signed on with Britannia, HomeTrade, Boost, MRF, Adidas, Visa, Pepsi and more recently Fiat Palio. Each of these contracts is said to average about Rs 1.5 crore a year.
Tendulkar brings his own clinical efficiency for his sponsors off the field. He is known to refuse a cola in public and insists on Pepsi which he endorses. This story would help drive the point home: Recently he was travelling on a private airline and was offered a cola by an airhostess. He politely turned it down and asked for Pepsi. A fellow passenger, impressed by the icon’s brand loyalty, conveyed this to Vibha Paul Rishi, executive vice-president (marketing) of Pepsi, who interacts with Tendulkar on the company’s behalf. Rishi dashed off a letter thanking Tendulkar. The little genius’ response was typical: "You can always expect that from me." "That’s typical Sachin," said Vibha". It’s pretty hard initially to get him to sign up for you. But once he does, he is totally committed to the product."
Tendulkar has cultivated his image sensibly. Unafraid of interviews, careful not to court controversy, he is, says sports entrepreneur Lokesh Sharma, "a winner with the boy-next-door face". He will never earn what basketball icon Michael Jordan does, yet he escapes the censure Jordan faces. As the American writer Frank Deford put it, "This Jordan is a conglomerate, they say, too greedy, lacking social responsibility."
Tendulkar is a mini-conglomerate. More comfortably, social consciousness is not a required part of his agenda.
Quietly, one hears, he does his part, like assisting a programme that helps Mumbai slum children. But Indians, interested only in what he does at the wicket, do not quibble over how much he earns. Why should they? When last could one man alone lift a nation’s mood?
Stats No:5
This is the master's test records against the current world no.1 team & 4 times world cup winners!
IN INDIA:
Matches- 13
Runs- 1226
Highest Score- 177
Batting avg- 53.33
100s- 4
Wkts- 4
Best bowling(innings)- 3/31
Catches- 6
IN AUSTRALIA:
Matches- 16
Runs- 1522
Highest Score- 241*
Batting avg- 58.53
100s- 6
Wkts- 7
Best bowling(innings)- 2/10
Catches- 13
Stats No:6
Sachin's Test record against aussies year wise!
1991:
Matches- 2
Runs- 78
Highest Score- 40
Batting avg- 19.50
100s- 0
Wkts- 0
Best bowling(innings)- nil
Catches- 2
1992:
Matches- 3
Runs- 290
Highest Score- 148*
Batting avg- 72.50
100s- 2
Wkts- 3
Best bowling(innings)- 2/10
Catches- 3
1996:
Matches- 1
Runs- 10
Highest Score- 10
Batting avg- 5.00
100s- 0
Wkts- 0
Best bowling(innings)- nil
Catches- 0
1998:
Matches- 3
Runs- 446
Highest Score- 177
Batting avg- 111.50
100s- 2
Wkts- 1
Best bowling(innings)- 1/41
Catches- 2
1999:
Matches- 2
Runs- 229
Highest Score- 116
Batting avg- 57.25
100s- 1
Wkts- 0
Best bowling(innings)- nil
Catches- 0
2000:
Matches- 1
Runs- 49
Highest Score- 45
Batting avg- 24.50
100s- 0
Wkts- 1
Best bowling(innings)- 1/34
Catches- 0
2001:
Matches- 3
Runs- 304
Highest Score- 126
Batting avg- 50.66
100s- 1
Wkts- 3
Best bowling(innings)- 3/31
Catches- 1
2003:
Matches- 3
Runs- 82
Highest Score- 44
Batting avg- 16.40
100s- 0
Wkts- 3
Best bowling(innings)- 2/36
Catches- 2
2004:
Matches- 3
Runs- 371
Highest Score- 241*
Batting avg- 92.75
100s- 1
Wkts- 0
Best bowling(innings)- nil
Catches- 2
2007:
Matches- 1
Runs- 77
Highest Score- 62
Batting avg- 38.50
100s- 0
Wkts- 0
Best bowling(innings)- nil
Catches- 2
2008:
Matches- 7
Runs- 812
Highest Score- 154*
Batting avg- 67.66
100s- 3
Wkts- 0
Best bowling(innings)- nil
Catches- 5
Stats No:7
1st class stats of sachin
Matches: 254
Innings: 400
Runs: 21,036
Top score: 248*
Batting avg: 58.59
100s/50s: 66/97
Wkts: 67
Best bowling(innings): 3/10
Bowling avg: 61.43
Economy: 3.41
Catches: 167
Stats No:7
Sachin's Performances in World cups:
Benson & Hedges World Cup (1991/92)
Matches: 8
Not outs: 1
Runs: 283
Top score: 84
Batting avg: 47.16
Strike rate: 84.73
100s: 0
50s: 3
Ducks: 0
Boundaries (4s/6s) : 24/1
Wills World Cup (1995/96)
Matches: 7
Not outs: 1
Runs: 523
Top score: 137
Batting avg: 87.16
Strike rate: 85.87
100s: 2
50s: 3
Ducks: 0
Boundaries (4s/6s) : 57/7
ICC World Cup (1999)
Matches: 7
Not outs: 1
Runs: 253
Top score: 140*
Batting avg: 42.16
Strike rate: 90.03
100s: 1
50s: 0
Ducks: 1
Boundaries (4s/6s) : 30/3
ICC World Cup (2003)
Matches: 11
Not outs: 0
Runs: 673
Top score: 152
Batting avg: 61.18
Strike rate: 89.25
100s: 1
50s: 6
Ducks: 0
Boundaries (4s/6s) : 75/4
ICC World Cup (2007)
Matches: 3
Not outs: 1
Runs: 64
Top score: 57*
Batting avg: 32.00
Strike rate: 110.34
100s: 0
50s: 1
Ducks: 1
Boundaries (4s/6s) : 3/4
Stats No:8
sachin ranks 2nd in highest no.of runs scored in a series in ODIs.
it s 2003 ICC world cup!
the top 10 r as follows,
read it as player,no.of matches,total no.of runs,name of the series!
1)Greg Chappell - 14 - 686 - Benson & Hedges World Series Cup(1980/81)
2)Sachin Tendulkar - 11 - 673 - ICC World Cup(2003)
3)Mathew Hayden - 11 - 659 - ICC World Cup(2007)
4)Vivian Richards - 13 - 651 - Benson & Hedges World Series Cup(1984/85)
5)Allan Border - 13 - 590 - Benson & Hedges World Series Cup(1984/85)
6)David Gower - 10 - 563 - Benson & Hedges World Series Cup(1982/83)
7)Mahela Jayawardene - 11 - 548 - ICC World Cup(2007)
8)Mark Waugh - 9 - 542 - Carlton Series(2000/01)
9)Ricky Ponting - 11 - 539 - ICC World Cup(2007)
10)Vivian Richards - 14 - 536 - Benson & Hedges World Series Cup(1981/82)
Stats No:9
Most no.of runs in a calendar year!
1)Sachin Tendulkar (1998) - 1894 - 34 matches
2)Sourav Ganguly (1999) - 1767 - 41 "
3)Rahul Dravid (1999) - 1761 - 43 "
4)Sachin Tendulkar (1996) - 1611 - 32 "
5)Mathew Hayden (2007) - 1601 - 32 "
6)Saeed Anwar (1996) - 1595 - 36 "
7)Sourav Ganguly (2000) - 1579 - 32 "
8)Mark Waugh (1999) - 1468 - 36 "
9)Gary Kirsten (2000) - 1467 - 36 "
10)Gary Kirsten (1996) - 1442 - 29 "
Stats No:10
fastest 2 reach 1000 runs in an ODI
1)Vivian Richards (21 innings)
2)Kevin Pietersen (21 ")
3)Gordon Greenidge (23 ")
4)Glenn Turner (24 ")
5)Yasir Hameed (25 ")
6)Andrew Jones (25 ")
7)Navjot Sidhu (25 ")
8)Michael Artherton (25 ")
9)Greg Chappell (26 ")
10)Zaheer Abbas (26 ")
fastest 2 reach 2000 runs in ODIs
1)Zaheer Abbas (45 innings)
2)Kevin Pietersen (45 ")
3)Vivain Richards (48 ")
4)Gordon Greenidge (49 ")
5)Gary Kirsten (50 ")
6)David Boon (52 ")
7)Andrew Jones (52 ")
8)Navjot Sidhu (52 ")
9)Sourav Ganguly (52 ")
10)Marcus Trescothick (52 ")
10:02 (22 minutes ago)
fastest 2 reach 3000 runs in ODIs
1)Vivain Richards (69 ")
2)Gordon Greenidge (72 ")
3)Gary Kirsten (72 ")
4)Graham Gooch (76 ")
5)Kevin Pietersen (78 ")
6)Navjot Sidhu (79 ")
7)Brian Lara (79 ")
8)Boeta Dippenaar (79 ")
9)Michael Bevan (80 ")
10)Chris Gayle (80 ")
fastest 2 reach 4000 runs in ODIs
1)Vivain Richards (88 innings)
2)Gordon Greenidge (96 ")
3)Brian Lara (100 ")
4)Dean Jones (49 ")
5)Sourav Ganguly (102 ")
6)David Boon (105 ")
7)Geoff Marsh (106 ")
8)Graeme Smith (107 ")
9)Graham Gooch (108 ")
10)Navjot Sidhu (109 ")
10:09 (15 minutes ago)
fastest 2 reach 5000 runs in ODIs
1)Vivain Richards (114 innings)
2)Brian Lara (118 ")
3)Gordon Greenidge (121 ")
4)Sourav Ganguly (126 ")
5)Dean Jones (128 ")
6)Graeme Smith (131 ")
7)Mathew Hayden (133 ")
8)Michael Bevan (135 ")
9)Gary Kirsten (137 ")
10)Jacques Kallis (137 ")
fastest 2 reach 6000 runs in ODIs
1)Vivain Richards (141 innings)
2)Sourav Ganguly (147 ")
3)Mathew Hayden (154 ")
4)Brian Lara (155 ")
5)Dean Jones (157 ")
6)Gary Kirsten (160 ")
7)Desmond Haynes(162 ")
8)Saeed Anwar (162 ")
9)Ricky Ponting (166 ")
10)Mark Waugh (167 ")
fastest 2 reach 7000 runs in ODIs
1)Sourav Ganguly (174 innings)
2)Brian Lara (183 ")
3)Desmond Haynes (187 ")
4)Jacques Kallis (188 ")
5)Sachin Tendulkar (189 ")
6)Ricky Ponting (192 ")
7)Saeed Anwar(194 ")
8)Mark Waugh (198 ")
9)Mohammad Yousuf (199 ")
10)Javed Miandad (204 ")
fastest 2 reach 8000 runs in ODIs
1)Sourav Ganguly (200 innings)
2)Sachin Tendulkar (210 ")
3)Brian Lara (211 ")
4)Saeed Anwar (218 ")
5)Desmond Haynes (219 ")
6)Ricky Ponting (220 ")
7)Mark Waugh(223 ")
8)Jacques Kallis (223 ")
9)Mohammad Yousuf (227 ")
10)Rahul Dravid (228 ")
fastest 2 reach 9000 runs in ODIs
1)Sourav Ganguly (228 innings)
2)Sachin Tendulkar (235 ")
3)Brian Lara (239 ")
4)Ricky Ponting (242 ")
5)Jacques Kallis (242 ")
6)Mohammad Yousuf (245 ")
7)Rahul Dravid(259 ")
8)Adam Gilchrist (261 ")
9)Inzamam ul Haq (273 ")
10)Aravinda de Silva (288 ")
fastest 2 reach 10000 runs in ODIs
1)Sachin Tendulkar (259 innings)
2)Sourav Ganguly (263 ")
3)Ricky Ponting (266 ")
4)Brian Lara (278 ")
5)Rahul Dravid(287 ")
6)Inzamam ul Haq (299 ")
7)Sanath Jayasuriya (328 ")
fastest 2 reach 11000 runs in ODIs
1)Sachin Tendulkar (276 innings)
2)Ricky Ponting (286 ")
3)Sourav Ganguly (288 ")
4)Inzamam ul Haq (324 ")
5)Sanath Jayasuriya (354 ")
Feddy,Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Last year four of our players (Sourav, Sachin, and two others) corssed 1000 runs.
I guess sachin had scored somewhere around 1400+.... Check this out :) Correct me if i'm wrong :)
Vineeth
This is the top Ten list of players who scored the most Number of runs in ODI's in a single calendar year. Guess this should be complete. Anyways I haven't cross verified any of the information here as I am just transferring the info.
Quote:
Originally Posted by viraajan
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content...ds/282854.html
Vineeth, You are right. Tendulkar occupies the 11th position in this elite list for calendar year 2007 with 1425 runs after Matt hayden (1601 runs).
:clap:
Must needed General Knowledge stat no 11:
From 12000 to 16000 ODI Runs it s all the master's way!
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/83548.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus...0812011662.htm
Sachin gives tips to Mumbai players
Mumbai (PTI): The Mumbai Ranji Trophy team members, gearing up for a crucial Elite Division Group A tie against Hyderabad commencing on Tuesday at the Bandra-Kurla complex ground of the Mumbai Cricket Association, had an unexpected visitor in Sachin Tendulkar at their practice session on Monday.
The champion batsman had come to the ground for his training stint at the state-of-the-art gymnasium in the complex and took the opportunity to interact with the Mumbai players.
"I did not expect him to be here. Obviously, his presence is an inspiration to our players. He will have something to say to us later on (after the session)," said team captain Wasim Jaffer.
Jaffer said in case the two-Test series against England is called off due to the prevailing circumstances, he would try and request both Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan to play Mumbai's last home fixture scheduled at the same venue.
"If the Test series is not taking place I would speak to both Sachin and Zaheer to play the game against Punjab (later this month). In fact, it will be good for Indian cricket if all the players are available to play in Ranji Trophy. It will make it more interesting," he said.
http://cricket.ndtv.com/cricket/ndtv...4657&site=ndtv
Aussie sachin fan warne on Sir:
"Comparisons with Sachin Tendulkar are unfair... Take him (Tendulkar) for what he is. Take Sehwag for what he is as well," he said and added "Their opening partnership in one-day cricket was usually worth the admission fee alone."
A self pro-claimed Tendulkar fan, Warne has now documented his feelings for the Indian, saying "Cricket has been fortunate to have a wonderful player and a first-rate ambassador, and to me he plays the game in right spirit...".
Warne also did not feel that being Tendulkar, it was imperative for the batting maestro to score in every innings.
"He doesn't score runs every innings, of course, but he hasn't suffered long troughs of poor form at any time in his career... the papers would praise him but also blame him sometimes if his innings did not win matches, as though he was responsible for the rest of the side -- what a joke that is. :rotfl:
The spin wizard also felt that Tendulkar should not be pestered to leave the game earlier than he wanted to, owing to factors like form and age.
"All good things come to an end, and we should make sure we really appreciate Tendulkar whilst he is around and playing well. We will all miss him when he is not around anymore!"
Please check out the article for more details on Virender shewag.
http://cricketnext.in.com/news/i-cou.../36158-13.html
Mumbai: He may have made many bowlers lose their sleep by his explosive batting but Sachin Tendulkar could not close his eyes on the night the terror struck Mumbai.
"Right after the match, we got to know of the attack and since then I have been disturbed. I have been tracking the horrific images of mayhem on television. It saddened me to see my countrymen being targeted. I couldn't sleep all this time.
I am numb, the images keep playing in my head," Tendulkar told Star News.
"This was just not an attack on Mumbai; it is an attack on India," he added.
Tendulkar saluted the security persons who risked their lives to save the people of Mumbai.
"I thank the brave soldiers, the NSG commandos, marine commandos, Mumbai police, fire brigade personnel, the staff of the affected hotel and the innumerable officers and jawans who stood in the line of fire. I salute you," he said.
WORDS OF WISDOM SACHIN’S DAY OUT AT MUMBAI NETS
‘Pleasant surprise’ for Mumbai
Tendulkar Shares Knowledge With Ranji Players
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Defau...1602&AppName=1
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Stat No:12
These are the master's top 20 scores in a test innings
read it as runs & opposition which s given in brackets.
1) 248* (Bangladesh)
2) 241* (Australia)
3) 217 (New Zealand)
4) 201* (Zimbabwe)
5) 194* (Pakistan)
6) 193 (England)
7) 179 (West Indies)
8) 177 (England)
9) 177 (Australia)
10) 176 (Zimbabwe)
11) 176 (West Indies)
12) 169 (South Africa)
13) 165 (England)
14) 155* (Australia)
15) 155 (South Africa)
16) 154* (Australia)
17) 153 (Australia)
18) 148* (Australia)
19) 148 (Srilanka)
20) 143 (Srilanka)
Stat No:13
Now comes the top 20 scores in ODIs of Sachin!
1) 186* (New Zealand)
2) 152 (Namibia)
3) 146 (Zimbabwe)
4) 146 (Kenya)
5) 143 (Australia)
6) 141* (West Indies)
7) 141 (Australia)
8) 141 (Pakistan)
9) 140* (Kenya)
10) 139 (Australia)
11) 137 (Srilanka)
12) 134 (Australia)
13) 128 (Srilanka)
14) 127* (Kenya)
15) 127* (Zimbabwe)
16) 124* (Zimbabwe)
17) 123 (Pakistan)
18) 122* (West Indies)
19) 122 (South Africa)
20) 120 (Srilanka)
Stat No:14
Sachin's ODI Stats against Different ODI Teams:
Sachin's ODI stats vs Australia
Matches : 60
Not outs : 1
Runs : 2730
Top Score : 143
Batting avg : 46.27
Strike rate : 84.78
100s : 8
50s : 14
Ducks : 2
Sachin's ODI stats vs South Africa
Matches : 52
Not outs : 0
Runs : 1655
Top Score : 122
Batting avg : 31.82
Strike rate : 71.52
100s : 3
50s : 8
Ducks : 1
Sachin's ODI stats vs Srilanka
Matches : 69
Not outs : 8
Runs : 2566
Top Score : 137
Batting avg : 45.01
Strike rate : 86.89
100s : 7
50s : 15
Ducks : 3
Sachin's ODI stats vs Pakistan
Matches : 66
Not outs : 4
Runs : 2381
Top Score : 141
Batting avg : 39.68
Strike rate : 87.85
100s : 5
50s : 14
Ducks : 5
Sachin's ODI stats vs New Zealand
Matches : 38
Not outs : 2
Runs : 1460
Top Score : 186*
Batting avg : 41.71
Strike rate : 93.89
100s : 4
50s : 7
Ducks : 4
Sachin's ODI stats vs England
Matches : 36
Not outs : 4
Runs : 1335
Top Score : 105*
Batting avg : 41.71
Strike rate : 88.06
100s : 1
50s : 10
Ducks : 0
Sachin's ODI stats vs West Indies
Matches : 38
Not outs : 9
Runs : 1571
Top Score : 141*
Batting avg : 54.17
Strike rate : 78.08
100s : 4
50s : 11
Ducks : 5
Sachin's ODI stats vs Zimbabwe
Matches : 34
Not outs : 5
Runs : 1377
Top Score : 146
Batting avg : 49.17
Strike rate : 91.55
100s : 5
50s : 5
Ducks : 0
Sachin's ODI stats vs Kenya
Matches : 10
Not outs : 3
Runs : 647
Top Score : 146
Batting avg : 107.83
Strike rate : 97.00
100s : 4
50s : 1
Ducks : 0
Sachin's ODI stats vs Bangladesh
Matches : 10
Not outs : 1
Runs : 354
Top Score : 82*
Batting avg : 44.25
Strike rate : 86.97
100s : 0
50s : 2
Ducks : 0
:redjump:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
I was correct :thumbsup: :boo:
iirc,Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Sachin was on crease from 1st ball till 300th ball :bow:
Adhuvum, full form...
Last few overs, only boundaries....
Had he got another 3 balls, he would have surpassed Anwar's record....
I'm still unhappy that Sachin is not the holder of this record :oops: :( :cry2:
Jadeja, the punk who wasted those precious final over deliveries.
http://content-www.cricinfo.com/stat...tch/64631.html
Quote:
Originally Posted by viraajan
Stats No:15
Sachin's test stats vs Australia
Matches : 29
Innings : 55
Not outs : 6
Runs : 2748
Top Score : 241*
Batting avg : 56.08
100s : 10
50s : 11
Ducks : 4
Sachin's test stats vs South Africa
Matches : 20
Innings : 36
Not outs : 2
Runs : 1202
Top Score : 169
Batting avg : 35.35
100s : 3
50s : 5
Ducks : 3
Sachin's test stats vs Srilanka
Matches : 19
Innings : 27
Not outs : 2
Runs : 1408
Top Score : 148
Batting avg : 56.32
100s : 7
50s : 3
Ducks : 0
Sachin's test stats vs Pakistan
Matches : 18
Innings : 27
Not outs : 2
Runs : 1057
Top Score : 194*
Batting avg : 42.28
100s : 2
50s : 7
Ducks : 2
Sachin's test stats vs England
Matches : 22
Innings : 35
Not outs : 3
Runs : 1994
Top Score : 193
Batting avg : 62.31
100s : 6
50s : 10
Ducks : 0
Sachin's test stats vs New Zealand
Matches : 16
Innings : 27
Not outs : 5
Runs : 1062
Top Score : 217
Batting avg : 48.27
100s : 3
50s : 5
Ducks : 1
Sachin's test stats vs West Indies
Matches : 16
Innings : 25
Not outs : 2
Runs : 1328
Top Score : 179
Batting avg : 57.73
100s : 3
50s : 7
Ducks : 3
Sachin's test stats vs Zimbabwe
Matches : 9
Innings : 14
Not outs : 2
Runs : 918
Top Score : 201*
Batting avg : 76.50
100s : 3
50s : 3
Ducks : 1
Sachin's test stats vs Bangladesh
Matches : 5
Innings : 6
Not outs : 2
Runs : 556
Top Score : 248*
Batting avg : 139.00
100s : 3
50s : 0
Ducks : 0