Sir Sachin Tendulkar 4

Lot of records are awaiting sachin..
Lot of records are awaiting sachin.. if he has a good series against aussies

1) He can get two tons and cross the 50 ton mark
2) Become the highest scorer for the year surpassing trott
3) Can become the first player to reach 1000 runs for this year
4) Can overtake Lara's runs against aussies in test
5) Can reach the 3000 runs mark against aussies if he has an exceptional series
6) If he gets the twin centuries he will equal the record of sir jack hobbs for the maximum number of centuries against aussies.
7) he can cross the 14k mark and be the first to do so.
8) In the ODI series if he plays all the three matches he will become the most capped player.. and with Jaya permanently out of the SL Team.. this record will stay with sachin forever
9) If he scores a century against aus in the ODIs, he will become the only player to score 10 centuries against opposition in ODIs.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8h0Tv8Z0A

Sachin being honored with Air Force Rank. Longer video.

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Lot of records are awaiting sachin..
Lot of records are awaiting sachin.. if he has a good series against aussies

1) He can get two tons and cross the 50 ton mark
2) Become the highest scorer for the year surpassing trott
3) Can become the first player to reach 1000 runs for this year
4) Can overtake Lara's runs against aussies in test
5) Can reach the 3000 runs mark against aussies if he has an exceptional series
6) If he gets the twin centuries he will equal the record of sir jack hobbs for the maximum number of centuries against aussies.
7) he can cross the 14k mark and be the first to do so.
8) In the ODI series if he plays all the three matches he will become the most capped player.. and with Jaya permanently out of the SL Team.. this record will stay with sachin forever
9) If he scores a century against aus in the ODIs, he will become the only player to score 10 centuries against opposition in ODIs.

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I'm sure the poster would have missed another one or two records. Thalaivar ninna record, nadandha record 8-)

A genius and a gentleman

John Wright

If around 1990, I'd been asked how long this 16-year-old Indian touring New Zealand would survive in international cricket, I wouldn't have come close. No matter how good the kid looked, you didn't think in terms of a 20 years.

When Sachin came to New Zealand in 1990 we had heard about this bright, young batsman. When we saw him, his talent and approach were obvious. He looked younger than he was, but he walked to the wicket like he meant it, meant the business. There was, even then, nothing excess in his game. When you can see someone's game and it will tell you about what they can do. A brilliant bat tells you he can reel off the flashy strokes but he doesn't tell you immediately if he is going to be an opponent, a real competitor.

Longevity in cricket is a hard thing to predict and it's an even harder thing to achieve. You need be physically resilient and have a love for the game. It sounds simple but it is very hard work and it is what Sachin has done.

By 1990, I'd played a lot of cricket and he was just starting out. Sachin had a quiet first Test in Christchurch but in Napier, gave us a long good look at himself and in terms of his skill, he was the real deal. Every time some young talent came through you wanted to see what they were all about. To see maybe what the future looked like. With Sachin, there were two things that caught your eye.

He had great balance and had the time to play his shots. You saw one shot of brilliance, that for normal batsmen would not be their first shot of selection. His late cut comes to mind, and it was like something rang in your head like being woken by your alarm and you knew you were watching someone special. He played these lovely shots and but there were no frills in his cricket.

I remember the innings of 88 he played in Napier, not because I took a catch but about one I dropped. A sitter from Azharuddin, that my grandmother would have caught while knitting. Azza was then given not out to one I thought he'd gloved to leg gully and I was angry with myself. In the middle of all this the16-year-old was knocking us around, and I went up to umpire Steve Woodward and told him that he'd given Azza an extra round. To which, Woodward said, "John, yours was easier than mine!"

Sachin wouldn't remember all that, I don't think. The only thing about thatmatch he would remember is falling 12 short of being the youngest Test centurion. He was shy then and we didn't get a chance to exchange much other than handshakes. But in 1998-99 when he toured New Zealand, he had become something of a star and I was struck by his humility when he signed an autograph for my young son Harry.

He carried himself with a lot of grace and dignity. Just how much I realised only later when coaching with India. We went to an Adidas store in Chennai and a huge crowd of what looked a thousand people gathered outside in no time at all because Sachin was there. We had to actually escape from a back entrance.

Apart from things like that-which happened often, and they threw me off but he always managed to stay calm-coaching Sachin was about watching closely and asking questions.

He has the best balance of any player I have ever seen. I got enjoyment out of watching him play a forward defensive shot of complete poise and control. He makes batting, which can be quite tough to master and improve, look simple. On times when I thought maybe his head wasn't quite as still as it could be, Iwould ask him howhe felt about his batting.

If he said he felt great, you just left your observation alone for a while. If however he said, 'oh I don't feel that good', then you'd ask, do you think you were really balanced out there, how's the head you think? He was in many ways his own coach, and he had his brother who knew his game inside out.

For the rest of it, he was just a young man with an enormous love of his game and gave it complete respect both in preparation and in practice. He worked at it, not like one of the contemporary greats of the game which is who he was, but like a student. I knew he was upset in Multan after that declaration and it was understandable but he got over it almost that very night.

He was never late for the bus, for practice, for meetings. On one day he knew he was going to be, so he came up to me and said there was something that had to be attended. I just thought that's why he was who he was. I wish a lot of lesser players could learn from his thoughtfulness and the respect he showed, not just for me as the coach but for his cricket, what we were all trying to to, what we were all trying to be part of.

He was a very tough but fair competitor and he had great humanity. In 2003, we were in New Zealand on what was a horrible tour for the team. For me, it was worse because I had taken the team I coached back to my home country and we weren't playing likewe could. It was an awful time to be honest. By the time we came to Queenstown, I was feeling particularly beat-up.

Sachin was living in the room next to mine, and one evening he came over with a bottle of wine and tried to make me feel better. We just talked about how the tour had gone and how the team knew that it would have been a very bitter pill to swallow. Well, my face certainly showed that evening and at the time I appreciated his thoughtfulness.

Sachin and I have always had some interesting conversations about batting and I remember one in Sydney 2003-04 along with his wife Anjali. Sachin had not got a big score on the tour by his standards and Sydney was to be the last test. Eventually he made a plan that he would not play the backfoot drive squarish through the off-side until he really got in. He then got 241 not out without a cover drive. Some pundits called it scratchy, and grumbled that he was not the same Tendulkar and I thought that was rubbish.

That innings was not about showing off his repertoire for a couple of hours to keep the crowd happy, that was just another piece of Tendulkar genius, of being able to control the mental side of his game and the big runs. I lost count of the number of times commentators and the like used to say he's on the wane, he's not same player he was. To them Iwanted to say, "just look in the scorebook". Today I want to ask them, he's been a long time waning, hasn't he?

Given his huge popularity, Sachin could have taken on the superstar life but he just loved the game and he was determined to succeed. This determination really doesn't get talked about by writers and commentators. Sometimes he could go into himself, which may look like aloofness at a distance, but I always thought it was something that came from who he was. Or maybe something it was someone he needed to be because of his life. This genuine genius of a performer at the crease was actually just a normal man who strangely enough couldn't walk down the street outside his home.

One of the people in cricket Sachin reminds me of most is Shane Warne. They come from two different parts of the world, one of them's a batsman, the other a bowler, one man smokes and the other doesn't and let's not even gointo the difference in the kind of headlines they generate. What brings them together, though, and actually makes them friends is complete understanding and control over their craft. Theirs is a highly developed and matured skill, which you don't find everywhere and which comes once in a few generations and in time to come whenever the game is talked about they will be forever remembered.

After Sachin got a big score a few years ago, and it may have been a 200 against Zimbabwe, I did bring up the figure of a 100 hundreds. It wasn't about sowing a seed, I just thought back then, that he could do it if he wanted to. He's close now and I'm keeping count. Getting to that milestone would put Sachin alongside Bradman who really rated him.

A hundred hundreds would be a number like Bradman's famous average, a record that only a history-maker could set. Normally you would have thought there was Bradman and the rest. Now I think, Sachin comes somewhere in between Bradman and the rest. History may put them very close, maybe on the same shelf.

The heart goes on

Steve Waugh

I have often been asked whether I knew Sachin Tendulkar was destined for his remarkable run in world cricket-a run that is punctuated with records, some coming in the 22nd year of his international cricket-when I first saw him play. It is always hard to spot exceptional talent in a youngster, but when I first saw Sachin, I knew I was watching a special player.

He was batting at the WACA, Perth, on a pitch that in those days was a fast bowler's paradise. Australians found it tough going at Perth and here was an Indian teenager, on his first tour to Australia, batting with great composure and exceptional ease to score one of his finest centuries. The signs of a special talent were clear for the world to see and I knew Sachin would make a mark on cricket.

Today,twodecades later, there is still plenty of fuel left in Tendulkar and it is fascinating to see his hunger for success and the discipline to remain fit and focused at this level. From the point of view of a contemporary, I find it amazing that he has remained the key wicket that the opposition prizes for more than two decades. It's one thing to be around for that but quite another thing to remain the linchpin of the team right through that period.

It was in the early 1990s that the Indian fans really started to warm to Sachin's talent and persona. The decade saw Sachin develop from a promising youngster into one who values his talent and is willing to work hard to make the most of it. It's not always that exceptional talent translates into a great career, but Sachin had the temperament and the discipline to exploit that ability.

Right through the 1990s and even thereafter, Sachin has always kept some of his most brilliant knocks for Australia, and very often it was really a pressure cooker situation because you had an unstoppable cricketer as well as thousands of screaming fans to deal with. It was a cauldron, and you could see that Sachin would feed off the fans and the cheering and expectations would actually get him going.

As a captain you knew you had to get him out early and if you did not manage that, you were in for a hard time. There were a few plans we had for him, the one that comes in occasionally trapped him in front of the wicket and we often found him impatient if he were kept away from the strike for long. These tactics worked at times, but very often they did not. I remember seeing him scoring at century that is known as the 'sandstorm knock' in Sharjah.

Australia won the game, but if in the change room after the match, you would have thought we were the losing side. I voiced my concern about Sachin's form and Allan Border consoled us saying that it would be impossible for him to bat that well in the finals and that Sachin in fact was due for a failure. Sachin famously scored another century, this time on his 25th birthday to seal the trophy for India. At that point common opinion was that Sachin could not get much better than this.

It's hard to say what motivates a player, and when a career spans two decades, the targets must have shifted often and the desire to raise the bar must manifest itself in various ways. Who would have predicted that Sachin would breach the 200 mark in ODIs in his 22nd year? Today he has gone past my 169 Tests and I think he looks good to cross 200 as far as Tests go as well. Perhaps the 200-Test mark is the motivation that is taking Sachin through the training sessions, the travel and the hard yards that might make a player feel jaded after two demanding decades.

Today, we are looking at at least two more years of Sachin Tendulkar. However, it was not always this way. He had a bit of a dip a few years ago, but he emerged from that 12-month slump with greater determination to prove that there some fire in the belly. In fact, my last Test was a significant one for Sachin as well. It was the Sydney Test from when we saw a new, cautious, more accumulative batsman take over from his earlier, free-flowing avatar. He had been struggling through that series, and this when the rest of the Indians were actually scoring a lot of runs.

Sachin reassessed his game and cut off his off-drive which forced the bowlers to bowl to him while he was content to play the waiting game. It seemed that he had decided that this was the role he wanted to play and this phase continued for many seasons. Again at the SCG in 2008 he played delightfully in the Test that ended in controversy. Few who saw him play would forget his effortless strokeplay, and the manner in which he put the bowlers away in the first innings.

Today, Sachin plays smart cricket, but he also seems to be enjoying himself. The body does give him reminders of the wear and tear it has been through, but he has gained in experience and knows his game well enough to adapt himself. He also seems content to preserve himself and does take a break every now and then. Significantly, he has opted out of the Twenty20 format even though he looks very good when he turns out for Mumbai.

There is a lot to remember Sachin by whenever he decides to call it a day. There are records that will stand the test of time and there will be some that are bound to be broken. For instance, who is to bet that Virender Sehwag will not score a triple century in onedayers! The game is shifting and reshaping itself all the time, and scores are going to get increasingly stratospheric.

However, the one record that he might have for himself is the one for Test appearances. I remember thinking 168 Tests would be a hard number to get past, but it has happened in six years. However, with the number of formats that have now come into the equation, it will be hard for a player to sustain himself for the number of years it takes to play 200 Tests.

I am assuming that that is the motivation that will keep the little master hungry for a couple of years more. For all you know it's the 100 centuries in Tests and one-dayers that is keeping Sachin hungry. His centuries are coming at a regular rate once again after a dip in 2005-2006. He is pulling away from the competition, and at 48 and still counting, he might have the record for himself for quite some time.

Every player has his own reasons for calling it a day. Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath wanted to sign off with an Ashes series. When I decided to retire, it seemed right to call it a day at Sydney against the Indians. I had made my debut against India in 1985 and it seemed like a cycle would be completed if I were to retire after playing against India. When I hung up my boots, I knew that the goals that would keep me hungry were no longer there.

It's clear that Sachin too has earned the right to decide his future on his terms. We are talking about a mature, fit and sensible cricketer who knows he has the desire to play on coupled with the ability to do well. I see the legend growing for at least two more years.

Sachin Tendulkar - people are falling in love with him all over again. You are about the same age. Is he an inspiration for you?
Over the last 12 months, Sachin's been playing exceptionally well. He seems to be the batsman everybody seems to be chasing. He is the key wicket - if we get him, there is a good chance to win the game.

There was a time when people used to think that Ponting would catch Sachin in terms of runs, but do you now think that he has widened that gap a bit?
He is in his 40s, I am on 39 [centuries]. I am in the best of shape. Honestly, it feels like some of my best batting is just round the corner.

I have worked really hard in the gym over the last four or five years to make sure of my fitness. One thing I have been working really hard on is to get that pull shot back on the way it was before.


Ricky Thomas Ponting on Tendulkar in his interview to cricinfo.

Well, I feel the same. Ponting's on course for a revival and that"ll give western press the ammunition to position him alongside ten and brian :(

Look at his confidence - asked about tendulkar, he is talking more about himself and how he'll revive his best batting days.

And to boot, a weak, out of form/injury recovering indian bowling attack, a toothless durby and a as-usual-come-spank-my-a*** english bowling on ricky's fav aus pitches to follow.

Pricky's all set to overtake ten sooner or later

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Well, I feel the same. Ponting's on course for a revival and that"ll give western press the ammunition to position him alongside ten and brian :(

Look at his confidence - asked about tendulkar, he is talking more about himself and how he'll revive his best batting days.

And to boot, a weak, out of form/injury recovering indian bowling attack, a toothless durby and a as-usual-come-spank-my-a*** english bowling on ricky's fav aus pitches to follow.

Pricky's all set to overtake ten sooner or later

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It is very unlikely that it will happen. He does not have much time to do that and australian cricket board will make it even tougher. But I did think it was inevitable during 2007-2008 timeframe. Now the scenario is totally different.

You are discounting the fact that ponting will have a revival in the india series and/or the ashes series. Once he gets back to his run scoring ways, acb will not question his place. He will get another 2-3 years or more easily. Apram paarunga - remember that ponting is not the type to miss out when he is in good form. He won't fall in the 90s like sachin. And he will convert 100s into big 100s or double or triple hundreds, if not beat lara's 400.
Sachin fans will get to regret the 7-8 90's in the last couple of years

Sachin will also be equally, if not better motivated than ponting to score more centuries. Right now Sachin is playing as good as he ever played. Whatever you may say, Sachin will end up scoring atleast 50 centuries in both forms of cricket, a record which is very unlikely to be eclipsed in both forms of cricket. It is not my opinion but assertion.

Australia in India 2010

Ponting should look to Tendulkar - Taylor

ESPNcricinfo staff

September 28, 2010


Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar have both experienced leaner-than-usual periods during their later years © AFP

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Ricky Ponting should seek inspiration from Sachin Tendulkar's batting renaissance, according to the former captain of Australia, Mark Taylor. Tendulkar and Ponting are the two leading run scorers in Test history and they will be key men in the upcoming two-Test series in India.

But whereas Tendulkar, 37, has shone over the past year with six Test hundreds and an average of 81.84, it hasn't been as easy for Ponting, 35, who has scored one century and averaged 40.05. Taylor, who endured a memorable lean period during his final years of Test cricket, said life would not get any easier for Ponting.

"He is not getting any better," Taylor told DNA. "He may no longer be the batsman he was in his late 20s but he is still a very good batsman. Honestly, Ponting's best is behind him but he is still capable of scoring big hundreds."

Ponting's form is not unlike that of Tendulkar during 2006 and 2007; during those years Tendulkar averaged 41.72 with two centuries in 17 Tests. Taylor said he was impressed by Tendulkar's return to form, which has also included the first double-century in one-day internationals.

"I think Sachin has had a rebirth," Taylor said. "He is really batting at his best and that can be a sort of inspiration for Ponting. It might be difficult for him to overhaul Sachin's number of centuries because the Indian master is lengthening the gap between them.

"But Ponting has this job of rebuilding the Australian side. The current Australian side is very much his. Seniors like Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Matthew Hayden have all gone. It is a much younger side.

"I think Ponting's focus has moved a little bit away from his personal milestones. In that sense, Sachin is fortunate. He does not have to worry about captaincy. That is probably the reason why he is making hundreds."

Ponting did not make the best start to his tour of India - he scored 42 and 9 in the warm-up match against the Board President's XI. He will be leading a side that was held to a 1-1 series draw against Pakistan this year and Taylor believes improved consistency is the key for Ponting's group.

"Ponting's is a young Australian side which plays very good cricket but is not consistent," he said. "I'm sure Ponting would be working on this area to reduce the number of bad sessions. They tend to lose five or six wickets in a session when they could do well by losing just two or three."

http://www.cricinfo.com/india-v-aust...ry/478898.html

India v Australia, 1st Test, Mohali
Tendulkar's recent form an inspiration - Ponting
ESPNcricinfo staff

September 30, 2010


"As far as me chasing Sachin ... I was actually expecting that he might have retired before now [smiles]. He's 37 and obviously still playing very well. There's inspiration for everyone around the world to take from what he's done over the last 12 months. Batting doesn't get any easier, but to see someone like that have the 12-month period that he's had ... it doesn't matter if you're 35 like I am, or 25 like some of the other guys in our side, it certainly gives you something to aim for."

http://www.cricinfo.com/india-v-aust...ry/479316.html

LM,

http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs?c...94107580424680

A ton of new photos in the last 20 pages(Last one month or so) in photo's thread in our community. I leave it to you to upload the photos. Take your time 8-)

Cha just miss by 2 runs. Talk about form of life. :shock:

Sachin :cry2: Mohali la idhu varaikkum enakku therinju 3 vaatti 85+ score la out :(

How many times getting out in 90s.. :cry2:

http://www.cricketonlinetv.com/day-3...t-mohali-2010/

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Life & Style » Kids

October 4, 2010

From the old pages of the Young World: Cricketing Sensation
NIRMAL SHEKAR


Sachin Tendulkar in his teens.

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August 8, 1990

Cricket world's newest sensation, Sachin Tendulkar, has a minor problem. Yes, literally a minor problem. He is not old enough to put his signature down on a contract, on an agreement between two parties. Therefore, when he is approached by the cricket administrators to sign tour contracts, his father or his brother will have to do it for him.

And then, when they hand out huge bottles of champagne in England or New Zealand for his great batting, he will have to rely on his older teammates to empty the bottles and give them back to him to be retained as souvenirs. What is more, an application from Sachin for a driver's licence is not likely to be entertained.

These are just a few of the several minor problems that India's major cricketing sensation of the day will have to face until April 24, 1991, when he turns 18.

Turning 18 — an important milestone in any young man's life. And an age when most young cricketers still dream of making it to the national under-19 team But, by the time Sachin turns 18, he will have played in at least 11 Test matches.

Really, nobody has done so much at such a young age in the history of Indian cricket. From Imran Khan to Abdul Qadir to Graham Gooch, almost every great cricketer who has watched him play, has sung praises of the most attractive young batsman in the cricket world today.

In the 10 Test matches that Sachin has played so far, the 17-year-old from Bombay has scored 577 runs at an average of 41.21. The record itself may not be phenomenal. But the promise is.

A promise that was evident right from the moment he played for India first and one that was seen in all its glory in Manchester last August when Sachin hit a spectacular unbeaten 119 to save India from defeat against England.

The debate now seems to have narrowed to just one question: Is he the next Sunil Gavaskar or the next Vivian Richards? Actually, he might turn out to be neither. Merely, Sachin Tendulkar. And that is good enough for Indian cricket.

Sachin says both Richards and Gavaskar are his role models. But, then, the charming, curly haired young man's first big idol in the world of sport was not a cricketer.

In 1981, when John McEnroe beat Bjorn Borg to win his first Wimbledon title, the eight-year-old Sachin jumped in joy. He fancied himself a tennis star. But in a city where the conditions were more favourable for cricket, Sachin soon turned his attention to the country's favourite game.

His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, a professor of Marathi literature, helped move his youngest son to his eldest son's house near the Shivaji Park grounds to see that he could practise regularly. The Tendulkars live a long way from Shivaji Park.

When he was playing school matches, there was this joke doing the rounds in Bombay. It seems the rival captains requested the scorer to start from 100 when Sachin came in to bat as it was taken for granted that he would get his century anyway. It made the bowlers' job easier.

Coached by the modest, simple Ramakant Achrekar, Sachin plundered runs by the hundreds and was playing in the Ranji Trophy when only 16, getting a century on his debut .

It was not long before he made it to the national team He stands a little over 150 cms and weighs 64 kg now. But he is still growing. Like every other middle class youngster, he loves pop music and has the superstition of always putting his left pad on first.

A very level-headed young man. Sachin is very confident too in whatever he does. He knows his strengths as well as his few limitations and he is always willing to learn. In Manchester, after saving the match for India, he came back and asked Bishen Bedi. the team manager, if he had done anything wrong.

Really, Sachin is very much the model student who is already a master of the game.

And it is this willingness to learn from his seniors that will take the young man far. It may not be wise to look too far into the future in sport but, all things considered, Sachin should be around doing his bit for India well into the next century.

If what he has achieved so far is nothing short of phenomenal, then the teen prodigy will have to watch out for the crippling symptoms that sooner or later seem to afflict young overachievers in most of the popular international sports.

In tennis, they call it burnout And the world of professional tennis has seen any number of gifted young ones — girls and boys — get tired of the game, both physically and mentally, in their early 20s after performing astounding feats in their teen years.

There may be a pitfall or two to watch out for in the road ahead, but given Sachin's temperament and background there is no reason to fear that the darling of Indian sports fans will lose his way in the years ahead.

If he has dashed in like a sprinter, then he has all the qualities of a classic stayer too.

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-sty...?homepage=true

The pic of sachin looks nice in the article

Here's the biggest test for Sachin.

India needs 161 to win the 1st test against Australia. We are down in the dumps, having lost 4 frontline batsman and one more is injured.

This leaves us with one world class player, Sachin. This is an opportunity for Sachin to silence his critics once for all by producing an innings of his life to win this test for India against one of the toughest teams in the world.

It is also a barometer of India's success in the forthcoming World Cup and Sachin's hunger to win. If he can take us to a victory here, this will be the catalyst that will take our team to the next level and instill self belief in the rest of the team. It will instill confidence and spur the team to win the World cup for Sachin. The team will get a chance to repay Sachin for all that he has done for the team.

I hope Sachin delivers tomorrow with a Century and more importantly, takes us to a victory!

Sunny G.

Against England(387/4), idhai thAn sonnAnga.

ovvoru muRaiyum, this is a chance for Sachin to shut-up critics-nu solla vENdiyadhu appuram adhai paNNinappuram adutha muRai thavarAma adhaiyE solla vEndiyadhu

appO pOna dhadavai sonnadhu enna kaNakku(If he wins the match today against England, that will be shutting his critics up-nu sonnadhu?)

Saar,

Sachin has played for more than 20 years now.

How many matches has he single handedly won for India and taken us all the way through by being not out? I can count with my fingers - maybe 5-6 occasions?

I do not mean to be harsh here - he is a legend and the top batsman in the world even today.

Here is a unique opportunity. He is playing against Australia, the toughest team in the World. This time he is on his own -there is no Sehwag or Dravid and to make matters worse, Laxman is injured.

All I am saying is - this is a very BIG opportunity that he may never get and in my honest opinion, he has never gotten such an opportunity before.

Trust me, I will not bad mouth him if he fails. I see this as a great chance for him to enhance his reputation.

Let us think positively, if Sachin wins this for us, this will be BIG!

Sunny

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Saar,

Sachin has played for more than 20 years now.

How many matches has he single handedly won for India and taken us all the way through by being not out? I can count with my fingers - maybe 5-6 occasions?

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how many matches was it done by other top batsman of the world - this single handed victory..konjam solla mudiyuma?

SunnyG,

No batsman in the world, included Sachin, can win a match singlehandedly. You need some decent contributions from atleast two other batsmen in any chase. I just don't understand how could any batsman, let alone Sachin, could chase a score singlehandedly. It's only possible if the target is less than 10.

single handed is an exaggerated term, match winning innings is the correct term imo. he had played that numerous times in all formats.

What about the first innings 98?. Ella aaniyum naanga MATTUMAE pudunga mudiyadhu. Mathavangalum pudungattum.

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Saar,

Sachin has played for more than 20 years now.

How many matches has he single handedly won for India and taken us all the way through by being not out? I can count with my fingers - maybe 5-6 occasions?

I do not mean to be harsh here - he is a legend and the top batsman in the world even today.

Here is a unique opportunity. He is playing against Australia, the toughest team in the World. This time he is on his own -there is no Sehwag or Dravid and to make matters worse, Laxman is injured.

All I am saying is - this is a very BIG opportunity that he may never get and in my honest opinion, he has never gotten such an opportunity before.

Trust me, I will not bad mouth him if he fails. I see this as a great chance for him to enhance his reputation.

Let us think positively, if Sachin wins this for us, this will be BIG!

Sunny

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‘I take lot of inspiration from Sachin’

Sachin Tendulkar not only inspires budding cricketers around the world but he is also a source of inspiration for South Africa’s world record-holder swimmer Roland Schoeman.

“I am very fond of cricket and Sachin is my favourite. In fact I take a lot of inspiration from him. Sachin, Lara (Brian) and (Michael) Phelps are kind of players who have the capability to inspire athletes of any discipline. They can unite the nation as well,” Schoeman told PTI-Bhasha.

Schoeman is the current world record-holder in the short-course 50 metres freestyle, with a time of 20.30 seconds.

He has won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in the 4x100 m freestyle, a silver medal in the 100m freestyle event and a bronze in the 50m freestyle.

After that, he faced some lows in his career but is confident of making a mark in the 2012 London Olympics.

“In this case also I will give the example of Sachin. He is playing for the last two decades and still has the same passion. Every athlete has highs and lows in his or her career and I am no exception. My target is London Olympics 2012 and I am not going to retire before that,” he said.

On his first visit to India, Schoeman had two secret desires but he has to come back to fulfil them.

“I wanted to visit Taj Mahal and the other desire is to meet Sachin, who is playing in India right now. But I have to rush to Beijing to participate in the second leg of the FINA World Cup. I am going the day my competition ends. But I will come back to this beautiful country again for sure,” he said.

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-...icle812766.ece

SunnG, if I prove that Sachin is the BEST Match winner in India since his debut in both ODI and Tests, what wud be ur proposition?
Also, show me one player who had scored all the runs by himself while chasing?

Let Sachin fail tomorrow and india lose. I really want it to happen.

Tomor sachin n dhoni finish match means good

Guys

Please do not mis-interpret my writing. I never asked for Sachin to score all 161 runs single handedly. Obviously, there has to be support at the other end.

I would like to see Sachin remaining not out till the end, irrespective of the result.

Better still, I'd like Sachin to score the winning runs, possibly a century and make India win. By taking India to a win, he would have obviously done it single handedly (there is a possibility of Dhoni scoring a whirlwind 50+). Even if Dhoni or someone else scored a quickfire 50+, if Sachin remains unbeaten, he obviously will be the architect of this victory.

I would like Sachin to be remembered for this feat in Mohali similar to Dravid being remembered for our Adelaide victory in 2004(dont remember the year correctly) when he scored a 233 and followed it with an unbeaten 70 odd to take India to victory.

This is my definition of a match winning performance. I agree and accept that Sachin has done it many times, including the one against England at Chennai and to an extent against Sri Lanka in the previous test.

Again, I am not flaming or criticizing Sachin. He will forever be the Best Indian batsman to have played the game.

This is an opportunity to make him immortal, a step closer to the Don!

GR Vishy's stats do not show him to be a great batsman. However, he has played many match winning knocks. I think he was not out when we chased 400+ against West Indies.

Sunny G.

Except Lara, who has done this sunnyg? And I don't mind lara and sachin being put on the same pedestal

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Except Lara, who has done this sunnyg? And I don't mind lara and sachin being put on the same pedestal

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For me Lara is the closest to kadavuL!

Sachin has failed again !

Yes, yes. He should learn from Ponting who played a match winning knock in Aussies second innings in this very match!

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Yes, yes. He should learn from Ponting who played a match winning knock in Aussies second innings in this very match!

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Ponting performs as a captain :lol: Hey. Why you are comparing here ?

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Sachin has failed again !

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haha.... Try something different. engalukku kovam varala :poke:

Last 3 years enga poirundhel nakkee?. Engalukku punching bag illama romba bore aa irundadhu,

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Sachin has failed again !

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