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WW2 started in 1939.
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Sachin Tendulkar Launches Cricdude.com
Sachin launched the website, Ramesh Chandra Talluri welcomed the gathering at a glittering function at Hotel Southern Sun in Cape Town, South Africa. V. Chamundeswara Nath, ACA Secretary, Test cricketers VVS Lakshman, Adam Gilchrist along with other cricketers attended the function. Games have begun. It's time to step up to the wicket and take on the competition. Cricdude's fantasy cricket is here. Drive to the fences… Drive the game
(PRWEB) April 27, 2009 -- The world of cricket is all set to welcome its new star - Cricdude.com - a complete and comprehensive web 2.0 active cricket social media and entertainment portal. Set up with the aim of covering every cricket ball bowled and batted anywhere on planet earth, it endeavours to connect cricket fans across the world into one big happy community.
Sachin Launching Cricdude.com
You see, all existing cricket portals, with due respects to everyone, are passive in content and are a mere mirror image of each other. On the other hand, Cricdude.com has been conceived and created as a dynamically active cricket website that would be fast, friendly and fun and that would change the fans' cricket watching experience. The site strives to be the official community of cricket fans across the world and aims to connect each other.
Here, savour the line-up Cricdude has in store. Remember, it's just the beginning with an equally exciting bench-strength waiting to be unleashed: Cricket news, LIVE cricket scores, Scores and statistics, Expert analysis and blogs, Fantasy cricket, Cricket news and video aggregators, Official fan clubs and lots more!
Investing in best-in-class equipment, back-end processes and a world class set up Cricdude.com hopes to enhance the excitement value to cricket fans. With special emphasis on the fun quotient, yet moored in the technicalities of the game, Cricdude.com will deliver a scintillating sports experience to everyone who enters the precincts of the portal. The portal itself will be benchmarked with the best and reflect all elements that are as world-class as a world class brand would be. "We wanted to create a site that did not just present the scorecard and match analysis but also replicate the excitement of the game itself through its myriad features.
Enough said, we urge you to log onto Cricdude.com, and enjoy the game as you never did before. Excitement guaranteed. Entertainment assured! "Games have begun. It's time to step up to the wicket and take on the competition. Cricdude's fantasy cricket is here. Drive to the fences… Drive the game" says Ramesh Chandra Talluri, CEO & CoFounder.
The icing on the cake is the fact that the whole business venture and brand-building has the complete blessing of none other than the Indian Bradman, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar! Sachin launched the website, Ramesh Chandra Talluri welcomed the gathering at a glittering function at Hotel Southern Sun in Cape Town, South Africa. V. Chamundeswara Nath, ACA Secretary, Test cricketers VVS Lakshman, Adam Gilchrist along with other cricketers attended the function.
Cricdude wishes Sachin Tendulkar a Happy Birthday and very many happy returns of the day.
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Sachin Tendulkar Recommends Gautam Gambhir for Arjuna Award
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Sachin Tendulkar Recommends Gautam Gambhir for Arjuna Award
Apr 28, 2009: India's master batsman Sachin Tendulkar wrote a letter to the Sports Minister M S Gill recommending dashing batsman Gautam Gambhir's name for Arjuna Award.
As per a rule implemented this year by the sports ministry, only a player, who has won the Rajiv Gandhi ‘Khel Ratna', can recommend a name for the Arjuna Award.
BCCI had requested Sachin, a winner of Khel Ratna', to write a letter suggesting the Delhi batsman's name from South Africa, where he is playing in the Indian Premier League.
Sachin acceded to BCCI's request and wrote a letter to the sports ministry.
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The Little master and Sanath Jayasurya played a sublime innings that flamed the Kolkatta Knight Riders.
They just cannot stop talking about Sachin
It is not very often that Kevin Pietersen will find mention in the same breath as the Indian master batsman Sachin Tendulkar. Over the last year, Pietersen has been in the news for a number of reasons, including for the switch-hit shot that he employed against New Zealand last year. It required the custodians of the game, MCC to step forward and legalise the shot.
Now, almost a year on, there is another shot that is being spoken about in the same breath and it has been less than 24 hours since that shot was first played. It was the cute scoop played by Sachin Tendulkar as he tried to maximize the scoring opportunities in the slog overs. Tendulkar employed the shot against part-time off-spin Chris Gayle and wowed everyone with his innovation.
Ask Gayle about the shot and he smiles at the mention of the shot. "He is one of the top players ever. It was a treat to watch him play the shot," confesses Gayle. It was a tough shot but Sachin has tried to innovate similar things in the past as well. I don't want to compare it with the switch-hit, because both were different shots." Within the Mumbai Indians team too, Tendulkar's God-like status has reached a new level after the knock against Kolkata Knight Riders and especially the shot.
The players are discussing the shot and everyone has a different explanation of how the shot was played. "The bat went like this and ball went over," Bangladesh skipper and Mumbai Indians' reserve player Mohammed Ashraful said as he demonstrated it to a small group. Ashraful was with wicket-keeper Pinal Shah and few of the reserve players. Ashraful considers Tendulkar his idol, so watching him play a shot like that left him awestruck. "I have never seen something like this before. It was simply unbelievable," says Ashraful.
Sri Lanka's Dilhara Fernando, also a Mumbai Indians reserve, remembers Tendulkar practising the shot a couple of days before the game against the Knight Riders. "I saw him practicing that shot and remembered it when I saw the game," said Fernando.
Mumbai Indians mentor Shaun Pollock smiles when asked about the shot. "Let me put it this way, I wasn't surprised that he played that shot. I have seen him trying to perfect it at the nets. I have seen a few shots like those but of different varieties," said Pollock.
Mumbai Indians reserve 'keeper Luke Ronchi takes a bat in his hand and tries to see how he can replicate the shot. "It is indeed a tough shot to play. Switch-hit is all about changing the stance and the grip but for this, you need to get the angle right," says Ronchi.
Of the others, Royal Challengers Bangalore coach Ray Jennings cannot stop praising Tendulkar's innovation. "That's why he is the master. He has done this for 20 years and he knows how to raise the bar," said Jennings. Let the last word on the shot rest with the master himself. He smiles at the very mention of the shot and puts it as simply as he can. "It was sort of... I scooped the ball because I anticipated the ball to be right up there and to just get under the ball and use the pace of the bouncer. It worked," he said. That's the bottom line - the shot worked. And is now being spoken about, with the same reverence like most other things Tendulkar does.
Sachin's innings has to be the best seen in T20
It was Freedom Day for South Africa and, sure enough, Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya joined the people of South Africa in celebrating it with them. It was Freedom Day for Mumbai Indians' opening pair as they displayed no hint of caution against Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday, well aware that it was a crucial game for their team.
The match really was all about the partnership between Jayasuriya and Sachin. The team was 110-plus without losing a wicket in 10 overs. That must be one of the best starts in the Twenty20 format so far. Even though it was a fantastic partnership, Sachin's innings deserves to be mentioned first.
It reminded me of his early years in one-day cricket, when he started opening the innings for India. It truly resembled that total youthfulness he possessed during those days. He threw caution to the wind and expressed himself the way he wanted to. There was complete freedom to play the cricket that we know Sachin can play.
I am happy with this format because I have rarely seen Sachin bat in ODIs or Tests. I always watch his innings on tape - after his innings is complete. Glad I can watch him live now.
His body language was positive and his mind was free. Every ball was picked immediately and dealt with promptly. Sachin delivered against every challenge that was thrown at him.
His was one of the best innings I have seen in this format of the game. There may have been other aggressive innings played and more runs scored in fewer balls, but this was a classic display of batting served in the T20 format. The hundred from AB de Villiers also deserves a special mention.
If you looked at his body balance, his footwork, the selection of shots, the positioning to play the shots, his wrist work, the swing of his arms, middling the ball; it was all perfect. Everything fell in place. It was all spontaneous and it was all correct. There was aggression but no signs of desperation.
Take, for example, the fifth over of the match. Until then, Ishant Sharma kept it full, not banging one in to Sachin. But when Ishant did pitch one short, Sachin's foot came right across the off-stump and he was positioned beautifully to send the ball into the stands. There was beauty, aggression and correctness in the shot. One must remember here that Ishant is in great form and Sachin is in the later stages of his career. It was a great response. This knock reminds me of the 82 he scored off 49 balls when he first opened for India in ODIs. That Kiwi attack had Danny Morrison, Gavin Larsen and Chris Pringle in their bowling line-up. It was the first time he opened the innings and I got a similar feeling that I got when I saw him bat against Knight Riders on Monday. I got the similar flavour, too.
A special mention needs to be made of the shot that Sachin played off Chris Gayle. It was an absolute magical shot. It took everyone by surprise. Douglas Marillier played a peculiar shot against India some years ago and Andy Flower had the copyright on the reverse sweep. Pietersen followed it up with the switch hit. But I can say one thing confidently, this shot cannot be replicated.
The shot was played from under the ball. His bat went almost under the ball. It was a full toss and could have been played anywhere but Sachin used his imagination brilliantly. Also the beauty of the shot was that instead of playing uppishly, it was played along the ground. That makes it more special.
One good thing was that Jayasuirya played only six balls by the end of the fifth over. Sachin had played 24. It turned out to be a different experience for Sanath. His innings effectively started from the sixth over and went on till the 15th. It was really important that he spent time in the middle. And this augurs very well for the team. Even if Jayasuriya does not fire from the first ball, even if he starts after the field spreads out, he will get runs.
Harbhajan Singh's promotion was also an excellent move. He scored 18 of the 20 runs scored with Jayasuriya at the crease. Bhajji's batting has really come through well. He should not take his batting too seriously, but continue to enjoy it and play in the same mould. He just stands and delivers. Never slogs. The swing of his arms is very fluent. I have a lot of time for his batting.
Mumbai Indians should, however, be conscious of their collapse. Only 76 runs came in the next 10 overs after a start of 11 runs per over. JP Duminy played well and understood his role of playing till the end. He deserves compliments for that. Mumbai Indians should have got 200 plus. I must admit that Mumbai Indians were lucky to have won the toss and batted in very good conditions. But they had to put a good total on the board, what with the opening combine of Brendon McCullum-Chris Gayle for KKR seeming threatening at all times.
Sachin must have been aware of the threat from them to chase down any total. After all, this is probably the only pair in the world which has a hundred each in the T20 format of the game. However both the openers failed and KKR never managed to get close to the total.
Ajit Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar's elder brother, Ajit is one of the triggers behind the little big champion and the author of The Making of a Cricketer. He is an astute student of the game and does not usually comment when Sachin Tendulkar is in action. He has made an exception during DLF IPL.