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Tendulkar says Gilchrist called to explain book
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NEW DELHI (AFP) — India's Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said Australian star Adam Gilchrist had phoned him to clarify his controversial comments about the batting great in a new book.
The World Cup-winning wicketkeeper-batsman, who retired from the game earlier this year, said in his autobiography that Tendulkar was "hard to find for a changing room handshake after we have beaten India".
Gilchrist also questioned Tendulkar's honesty throughout the acrimonious Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symonds incident during the Test series between the two cricketing powers in Australia last summer.
Australia claimed Harbhajan called him a monkey during a match but an independent tribunal later cleared the India off-spinner of the racial charge.
As tensions mounted over the book and ahead of the next Test between Australia and India, Tendulkar said the former wicketkeeper and batsman had made contact to explain the comments.
"Gilchrist called me up and clarified this issue," he told Times Now newschannel in India's western Pune.
"He said his comments have been taken out of context," he said without elaborating further.
Gilchrist's comments in the book, which is set to be released next week, sparked angry reaction from Indian cricket officials earlier Friday.
Former national selector Dilip Vengsarkar branded them a gimmick to sell more copies. "It is very unfortunate that Gilchrist has made such comments," he told CNN-IBN newschannel.
"You get a lot of money to write a book in Australia and England. But you have to write something sensational to sell your book. It is a marketing strategy to sell his book," said the former Test batsman.
The Indian cricket board said Gilchrist's comments were off the mark.
"Gilchrist should have thought twice before making such comments about Tendulkar, who is a great batsman and widely respected all over the cricketing world," the board's media committee chairman Rajiv Shukla said.
"If there is any person who will lose respect after this incident it is Gilchrist himself."
Gilchrist's autobiography, extracts of which will be printed in this weekend's press, centres on the hostilities between the two teams in Australia last summer, which saw India threaten to boycott the tour.
The book is bound to ruffle a few feathers with the teams seeking supremacy in the ongoing four-Test series which the Australians currently trail 1-0.
The series has been peppered with verbal sparring, culminating in Indian paceman Zaheer Khan being fined 80 percent of his match fee for his reaction to Matthew Hayden's dismissal in the second Test in Mohali earlier this week.
Hayden said it was intense competition between the two sides that sparked the tension. "We always have some tension," he told reporters Thursday.
"That is exactly why we want to see our athletes playing the game. That tension is mounted over five days, mounted over a window of 13 days, in so far as what we have seen in these two Test matches.
"That is why I also, as a spectator, want to see that ability to gnash teeth. I want to see that competitive edge. Two hungry dogs, if you can use the metaphor, that circle each other in a ring."
The third Test begins here on October 29 followed by the fourth and final in Nagpur from November 6-10.
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Adam Gilchrist on Sydney Test
Gilchrist's comments were taken out of context - Tendulkar
Cricinfo staff
October 24, 2008
Adam Gilchrist says excerpts from his book were quoted out of context © Getty Images
Adam Gilchrist has told Sachin Tendulkar that his comments in the media were taken out of context. Excerpts from Gilchrist's new book, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, questioned Tendulkar's sporting spirit and his role in the hearings into the alleged racist remark made by Harbhajan Singh. In True Colours, Gilchrist suggested Tendulkar had changed his statement.
"Gilchrist called me up and clarified this issue," Tendulkar told news channel Times Now. "He said his comments have been taken out of context."
To another channel, IBN-Lokmat, Tendulkar defended himself against Gilchrist's remark that he was "hard to find for a changing-room handshake after we have beaten India".
"Before, during and after the match I don't like to enter the opposition dressing-room as it is not my culture," Tendulkar said. "But I have nothing against other cultures. I have never walked off a ground without shaking the opposition players' hands."
Indian cricket officials have already criticised Gilchrist for questioning Tendulkar’s honesty. MV Sridhar, the Indian team manager on the tour, had added a twist to the saga by offering a different version to Gilchrist of what Tendulkar had said.
"During the hearing in front of Mike Procter, the match referee, during the Sydney Test, Tendulkar told him that he had heard some form of abuse,” Sridhar told Cricinfo. “But Procter didn't probe any further and left matters at that. But subsequently in front of Justice Hansen, when both parties were cross-examined by legal counsel, Tendulkar said that he had heard Harbhajan say teri maa ki but clarified that it was an abbreviated form of an abuse."
Sridhar was present at both hearings after the Test, first with Procter and then with Justice John Hansen. Sridhar questioned the timing of Gilchrist’s revelations and said he used the incident merely to get cheap publicity for his book. “It is absurd that he [Gilchrist] is speaking after almost a year after the incident,” he said. “It's just a cheap marketing gimmick to sell the book. Why did he try to go public now because he realised the importance of the moment like the India-Australia series which has gained Ashes-like proportions?"
He said he was surprised at how Symonds, who claimed he was racially abused by Harbhajan in Hindi, got away despite admitting that he was involved in a heated discussion with him. Symonds saw Harbhajan hitting Brett Lee on the backside so he stepped in and “had a bit of a crack at Harbhajan”, telling him exactly what he thought of his antics. Harbhajan was initially banned for three Tests but his punishment was overturned on appeal.
BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla said the board will not pursue any action against Gilchrist. “I think it is better to ignore Gilchrist’s comments,” Shukla said. “The only one to lose respect will be him, not Tendulkar.”
Niranjan Shah, the BCCI secretary at that time, felt Gilchrist only wanted to "sensationalise the incidents" to sell his book. "Everything was properly handled by the authorities with the appointment of proper men to conduct the hearing after a proper procedure was put in place. After the matter is over, to claim these things in the book is nothing but foolishness."
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:ty: AF for that link. Missed the first half of the interview :(
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Adam Gilchrist on Sydney Test
'Nowhere did I accuse Sachin of lying'
Cricinfo staff
October 25, 2008
Adam Gilchrist: "I am pleased to say that at the conclusion of our chat the same respect Sachin and I have always had for each other continues to exist" © AFP
Adam Gilchrist has insisted that he did not accuse Sachin Tendulkar of lying while presenting evidence in the racism hearing after the controversial Sydney Test. He also denied calling him a “bad sport” after observing that it was often hard to locate Tendulkar for an after-match handshake following Indian losses.
Gilchrist's comments, quoted from his soon-to-be released autobiography True Colours, caused a stir in India and both players confirmed they had spoken to each other and agreed that the remarks were taken out of context. The main issue surrounded the racism hearing of the Indian offspinner Harbhajan Singh.
Harbhajan was accused of racially abusing Andrew Symonds and was suspended for three Tests but later had his ban overturned on appeal. Tendulkar was batting with Harbhajan when the incident occurred and Gilchrist observed that the evidence Tendulkar gave during the match referee’s hearing was different from that he presented during the appeal.
“All I stated are the facts that everyone knows, that initially Sachin mentioned he wasn't sure what Harbhajan had said, then later confirmed his support when Harbhajan said he'd used a Hindi word in the heated exchange with Symonds,” Gilchrist wrote in his column for the Times of India. “Nowhere do I accuse Sachin of lying. So to have spoken directly with Sachin about these matters was a great relief for me."
However MV Sridhar, the Indian team manager for the tour who was present at both the hearings, first with Mike Procter and then with Justice John Hansen, contradicted Gilchrist's statements. Sridhar said Tendulkar had told Procter that he had heard some form of abuse but the match referee did not probe further. Later, Sridhar said, Tendulkar told Hansen he had heard Harbhajan say teri maa ki but clarified that it was an abbreviated form of an abuse.
“I am pleased to say that at the conclusion of our chat the same respect Sachin and I have always had for each other continues to exist. The headlines arose from the manner in which some journalists interpreted a couple of points I have made in an about-to-be released autobiography.”
Gilchrist said the Harbhajan hearing was too big an issue to ignore in his book. “My only real reference to it was to recall the way the events unfolded from the initial hearing, the night the match finished, through to the final judicial hearing a few weeks later.”
Gilchrist said the references to Tendulkar not shaking his hand in the changing rooms after Tests were merely to highlight the cultural differences between the two countries. He said he never intended to question Tendulkar’s sportsmanship.
“In the book, I mention that a cultural difference between our team and that of the Indians was the importance of shaking hands with the opposition after a loss," he said. "It's simply my thoughts and from my experiences it seemed that this routine wasn't as important to some oppositions as it was in Australia, where it is drilled into us from an early age.
”I made the comment that Sachin and Harbhajan were sometimes not around to shake hands. Whether that is right or wrong is not my point. It was more the cultural differences I was trying to highlight, which it's fair to say, have been integral in most disputes or flare-ups between these two proud nations in the past.”
Gilchrist said he had nothing against India and that he had always enjoyed touring the country. “I also feel that people who know me, or people who read the book in its entirety, will know only too well the sincere affection I have for India as a country and the very friendly, passionate people that live here.”
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The class of Tendulkar
I was reminded of the statement, “Even if the little kid loses half his ability with the passage of time, he will still go on to be a world beater”. It was made by the late Raman Lamba in the late 1980s, even before the little kid (Sachin Tendulkar) made his debut in international cricket.
The chubby little kid then has gone a long way since making his debut at the age of 16. And on October 17 (incidentally, it is the birthday of another legend, Anil Kumble), he reached yet another milestone at Mohali. It was rather strange that people felt Sachin made them wait a shade longer before he got past the aggregate of Brian Lara.
Poor Sachin! One does not score 12,000 runs in Test cricket within a certain time frame. There has been no let-up for Tendulkar during his journey that has lasted 19 years and it is rather sad that sometimes people do not express their adulation for him in the right manner.
The little master is generally not prone to reacting to negative reports about him in the press but the hurt was evident when he mentioned that the stones hurled at him enabled him to reach several milestones in his career. Obviously, Tendulkar would not have forgotten the criticism of him and the Indian team following the debacle in the last World Cup. There was a public outcry for ousting the little master as well as the other senior cricketers from the team. It is remarkable that Tendulkar stayed away from the eye of the storm as the mood in general then was not conducive to giving any explanation whatsoever.
Tendulkar must certainly be relieved that the monkey is off his back. But even before he could savour the achievement, the press wanted him to predict the shelf life of his latest record! One wonders why the media is always so keen to be so far-sighted and analytical while there is no saying what the future has in store. By and large, the media have been good to Tendulkar over a good period of time, but unfortunately insensitivity has also sneaked in at times and that probably would hurt the great batsman more than anything else.
“When will Tendulkar rejoin the team?” was the question at a time when a bereaved Sachin had to return to India during the 1999 World Cup. Of course, the implication was that Tendulkar is the man for India, but the way it was conveyed was not very pleasant, especially at a time when the little master was going through a personal tragedy.
Enough has been written about his batting and his technique over the years but what has escaped one’s attention is his sustained dedication and the sacrifices he has made in order to achieve laurels for himself and the country. His dedication to the game borders on obsession so much that for the time being he cannot entertain the thought of life without the game he loves so dearly.
Tendulkar’s retort, “you are in the wrong press conference”, to a reporter when he was asked about his retirement indicates the passion he still has for the game. Passion is just about the only reason why he is continuing to play the game, for he has done all that is possibly there to be done on a cricket field.
Since Tendulkar is aware that there is nothing left for him to prove to anybody, he would be looking to enjoy the game for whatever duration that he represents the country. While Tendulkar would want to have a good time, the onus is on his followers to enjoy the entertainment that he will provide and not indulge in formulating his retirement plans. The little master has surpassed the record of his good friend Lara and though Ponting may be on his heels, we Indians must be proud of the great batsman and cherish his achievement.
It will be difficult not to talk about Tendulkar the person as sportsmen are not only expected to excel on the field but also to be role models. Tendulkar has been impeccable in his behaviour on and off the field. This in itself is a great achievement considering the media attention on him over the years. To be in the limelight from the age of 16 and have the world at your feet and yet not lose one’s bearings is a phenomenal achievement by itself.
While his aggregate may probably be surpassed by someone in the years to come, I seriously doubt if anyone can be as great a human being as Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
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Great Catch by Sachin. For those who haven't seen this before.
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I have been combing the net fruitlessly for the catch he took in Mumbai Test 2001 to get rid of Shane Warne. In the deep, he covered some distance, corrected for overrunning and took the catch nearly sitting down. Beautiful catch.
That and the catch of Inzamam in the 2004 tour of Pak is great too. It was near the boundary nearly stepping on the ropes. Hear Manjrekar say: "Well, if he has claimed the catch, then it should be out".