he told something like GC didn't allow freedom for players...like SRT wasn't happy being pushed down the order, etc...don't remember the exact statements.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
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he told something like GC didn't allow freedom for players...like SRT wasn't happy being pushed down the order, etc...don't remember the exact statements.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
i cud find one link connected to this. this was there in rediff.com after the world cup i think. remember reading about it there. i think this statement by Sachin was the last straw for GC. Till then, SRT was quiet. i remember the resignation came after 1 week or so after this interview.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
In a rare outburst, Sachin Tendulkar has also broken his silence to express his hurt and anguish to Chappell's quotes that a mafia of senior players were undermining Indian cricket.
In an interview given to The Times of India, Tendulkar said, "I have given my heart and my soul for 17 years. No coach had mentioned even in passing that my attitude was not correct. Cricket has been my life for all these years and will always be."
"Again, it's not that we are defending ourselves. We do realise that we played badly and, as a team, we take full responsibility for that.
But what hurt us most is that the coach has questioned our attitude."
These comments come in response to reports that senior members of the team ganged up against coach Greg Chappell and undermined captain Rahul Dravid's authority.
The article goes on to quote Sachin as saying "Tell me, the world has gone on talking about all this but has anybody spared a thought for us? Did they try to find out what we have been going through? I am shattered beyond words and I feel helpless."
The senior players are in fact hoping to express that disappointment and give their own side of the story on April 5. That is when they hope to meet BCCI president Sharad Pawar.
The Indian board will be meeting on April 6-7 to review India's disastrous World Cup campaign.
The working committee meeting will be attended by BCCI office bearers and seven former captains including Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Ravi Shastri.
http://www.eduqna.com/Quotations/743-quotations-4.html
Thanks Jinju. I remember this now. Anyway, this cannot be deemed as against Greg, right? Reading Greg's interview, he makes it sound like Sachin told something harsh about him :?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/co...ry/288710.html
"It hurts when the coach questions our attitude"
adhu thaan point-e! as i told, till then, there was not 1 word from SRT. ivangellaam pesamaattaanga, aanaal pesinaa correct-a pesuvaanga...like Kumble's "there was only 1 team that played in the spirit of the game" dialaak! as a fan, i was also thinking until SRT says something on this issue, these r just rumors, and once he mentioned the 'coach' word, that was it for GC.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
remember reading another article that SRT was unhappy that Uthappa was batting above some of the seniors including him, which he felt was not the right combo for the team and he told GC so. i think this was misinterpreted as 'attitude not correct' 'seniors mafia' etc by GC.
Yes, even in this interview, Greg says Sachin was not comfortable playing at no.4, because of his reputation :shock:
Chappell brothers use interviews, books to rewrite histoery and paint themselves as mother teresa reincarnates. Their modus operandi is "anyway sachin will not speak about it now so let's say something placating to him but paints us in mother teresa light". Hence the lesson learnt and nesttu time i'll give him comfort talk. adhAvadhu ivaru uthamarAm. Sachinku attitude sari illainAlum adhai anusarichu pOi still indiavai jeyikka vekkara pakkuvam vandhuruchAm.
Chappell Bros = Cheap-fel(lows).
he conveniently interpreted it so, one feels whereas SRT's version is that he told so because he felt it to be the right combo. but why raking this past issue at this important time thaan doubt-a irukku..whoz behind this?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
Ivanukkellam Bothamthaan layakku!!
Clever ploy by veLLaikkaaran to distract the team just before WC :lol2:
Sachin Tendulkar talks about Kumble, Dravid, Ganguly & Laxman
NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar says Anil Kumble is the greatest bowler he has played with, finds Rahul Dravid’s technique and concentration excellent and VVS Laxman the most wristy, while Sourav Ganguly is one who figured out his game well.
Tendulkar, who has closely seen all the four who formed the Fab Five of the Indian team not long ago, elaborated on the the style and substance of the four players.
“From the manner in which Rahul and Sourav had batted in their debut Test match, it was quite evident that they were there to stay.” Tendulkar said in a book titled ‘SACH,’ by Gautam Bhattacharya.
“Rahul’s forte was excellent technique and he loved to occupy the crease for long hours. Rahul concentrated extremely well — I mean, still concentrates very well. Sourav was somebody who figured out his game well enough. He knew which bowler to hit and which one to defend. Sourav liked scoring runs in boundaries. He was a boundary hitter.
“Laxman depended on hand-eye coordination. He was the most wristy player. And Kumble, of course, is the greatest bowler that I have ever played with. Apart from being a champion matchwinning bowler, his greatness lay in the fact that he would bowl the last delivery of the day with the same amount of fire irrespective of his performance during the day.
Tendulkar, who has been witness to the various contraptions that came into the game, feels, the computer has been the most important as it gives the opportunity to study the opposition. He, however, insists the electronic gadget cannot substitute the “skills” of a player.
“Your performance is the biggest indicator that skill can march well ahead of the laptop! The computer does play an important role in today’s cricket. You forget so many things. With the computer you can store them. For me the biggest advantage is you can study the opposition. The computer helps and provides you with that vital two to three per cent difference. As far as I am concerned it is not overrated.”
http://tendulkar.co.in/index.php/201...anguly-laxman/
Guys
Sachin's 140+ was one of his top 5 centuries! Don't you guys think so?
It is sad that we could NOT force a win after getting 6 wickets in the second innings.
I personally dont think all this hyping up of the Indian team will do us any good in the World Cup.
The bowling is still very weak with Zaheer and Harbajan being the only two solid, dependable performers.
What about the other 30 overs? Munaf, Nehra and the part time bowling of Yuvi/Sehwag/Pathan/Sachin?
I hope we can WIN but I am not counting on it.
Remember, our Chika commented that we were FAVORITES before the last world Cup and guess what happened?
I am hoping India will make it to the playoffs and play New Zealand in the Quarters.
Good luck India!
Sunny G.
1. Aahnn
2. May be
3. Ounandi
4. Vaasthavam dhan
5. Zaheer ok, Bhajji/others paakalam
6. Me too.
7. Old story
8. NZ can still play well and defeat us
9. Same here
Your's Truly.
When I sledged to rattle McGrath, the ploy worked: Sachin
IANS, Feb 5, 2011, 05.59pm IST
Read more: When I sledged to rattle McGrath, the ploy worked: Sachin - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...#ixzz1D8W8lg5g
NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar says he, too, has sledged, but only once and that as part of team strategy. The batting maestro needled Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath by telling he would go after his bowling and the ploy worked.
"I have never sledged per se merely for the sake of sledging. I did that only once as a part of team strategy. This was at the Kenya Champions Trophy. We were playing Australia." Tendulkar recollects in a book 'SACH' penned by Gautam Bhattacharya.
Tendulkar describes how he irked McGrath with a cheeky line.
"The match was played under overcast conditions. The wicket was also very damp. I had told Sourav before that I would do something to upset McGrath's rhythm. So, in the very first over, I stepped out to him. The first thing I said to him was: 'Today I will hit you out of the ground.' He got really angry and started spraying the ball around. This was exactly what we wanted. As on that surface, he may have been very dangerous. :lol:
"We did win that match ultimately and I felt very happy. My sledging did work for the team. My own experience of sledging came very early on my first tour to Australia. I remember having blocked a delivery and the ball landed near my foot. I tried picking it up when Allan Border shouted from gully. 'Don't touch the ball.' So I stopped immediately."
Read more: When I sledged to rattle McGrath, the ploy worked: Sachin - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/s...#ixzz1D8VtTy3g
Saw Ind Vs Aus....sharjah 143 notout match..highlight.after long time..Sachins best ever innings smashes every change of bowling orders..be fleming,steve warne...
awesome .....
YouTube - Sachin Tendulkar 160 vs. NZ 42nd Test Century.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if3Oykn9cnU
SACHIN 109 VS AUSTRALIA 4TH TEST BG TROPHY 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGef2XwH1s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Sachin Tendulkar arrives at the Chinnaswamy Stadium for practice, Bangalore, February 9, 2011
http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/128000/128036.jpg
Sachin, the greatest sporting role model, says coach Kirsten
Bangalore, Feb 10, DHNS:
The encomiums kept flowing from the dais, but seated in the first row, the little man watched on almost stone-faced.
A gentle nod of the head and a slight occasional smile were the only reactions Sachin Tendulkar allowed himself as his former and current captains, as well as his current coach, paid heartfelt compliments to the little big man of Indian cricket.
Gary Kirsten hasn’t had too many opportunities to eulogise Tendulkar the cricketer and the man on a public platform which included Tendulkar himself. “To me, Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest sporting role model I have ever seen,” the South African, who revealed that he had begun to get ‘sick and tired’ of the sight of Tendulkar’s straight bat while fielding at mid-off and mid-on, told the gathering. “I have seen the humility with which he accepts such adulation from so many people, it is truly extraordinary.”
The gathering, of course, had assembled for the launch of a second book on the master in two days, ‘SACH’ by sports journalist Gautam Bhattacharya. A distinguished set of gentlemen, among them Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, spoke at length on Tendulkar. That they all chose to focus more on the human side of the 37-year-old than his cricketing exploits showed just how dear he is to their hearts.
“I don’t think anyone has touched more people than Sachin has,” remarked Kumble. “He has touched a billion Indians, and he has touched Indians and cricket fans around the world. A true champion.”
Dhoni said he had been pleasantly surprised at having been asked to write the foreword. “I have written very little about Sachin’s cricket and more about what I have learnt from him in five years as an international cricketer, as well as the kind of human being, father, husband and role model he has been,” the Indian skipper added.
The evening began with a moving tribute from an unwell and absent Manna Dey, and ended with Dravid and Kumble wishing the Indian team and Tendulkar the very best for the World Cup. It was an evening of nostalgia and emotion, the book launch -- Kumble did the honours for the English edition, and Dravid and Dhoni for the Hindi one -- providing just the right platform.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/...ole-model.html
IMO only two things left for Great Sachin. One is world cup and another one is completing 50 centuries in one day. Hopefully both happens in this world cup itself.
Kirsten: I wanted to impress Sachin
Gary Kirsten has revealed how he tried to impress Sachin Tendulkar before taking up the role of India’s coach.
Kirsten, one of the most popular coaches India have had, is on the last leg of his tenure as he will be stepping down after the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.
“I still remember in Adelaide (during India’s 2007-08 tour of Australia), Sachin came up to me and said ‘Can you throw a few balls at me?’
“I said to myself, I need to impress him. I threw from 16-17 yards and he missed a few balls. Next moment, he came to me and said, “Gary do you mind going a few yards back?” Kirsten recollected during the release of journalist Gautam Bhattacharya’s book ‘Sach’ on Thursday.
“After that, lovely cover drives flowed from Sachin’s bat. It was a good learning experience for me. I am fortunate to have had many net sessions with him and played alongside him.”
“It has been a humble privilege to have worked with him and the rest of the Indian team,” he continued.
Kirsten feels that it’s Sachin’s modesty that makes him the champion he is.
“Whenever Sachin comes out to bat, he does so with absolute humility. He is undoubtedly the greatest sporting role model.”
Tendulkar himself was present during the release of his biography, along with teammates Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan and Rahul Dravid. Former captain Anil Kumble was at the venue as well.
“I have never really got tired of watching Sachin bat. He has inspired so many generation of kids,” Dravid said.
Kumble echoed the sentiments of his erstwhile teammate.
“He has touched the lives of more people than anyone in the world. It’s been a privilege to have witnessed Sachin’s achievements.
The leg-spinner ended by giving his best to the Indian team for the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup.
“The World Cup is one tournament that requires team effort. I wish Sachin, MS (Dhoni) and the rest of the boys all the best in their endeavour to win the Cup,” Kumble said.
http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/icc-...mpress-Sachin/
Book-ai bayangarama promote pandraanga :roll: Onnu vaangida vendiyadhudhan 8-)
Yerkanave vaangina Sachin book-e innum padikkala :oops2:
Sachin Tendulkar 155 vs Aus 1st Test Channai , 1998 - Part 1 - 3.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqcF54ubEec&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZRcTU42Zs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNHaNDqTl4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Playing for Sachin won't get India the Cup: Waugh
New Delhi: Former Australia captain Steve Waugh does not believe in the refrain that the Indian cricket team should win the World Cup for Sachin Tendulkar, saying that a side cannot go on to lift the coveted trophy playing for just one person.
"I think that is not the right approach. You can't win the World Cup playing for just one person. You play for the team, for the country. The game is bigger than any individual," Waugh said here today.
Sachin is the greatest role model: Kirsten
Tendulkar, playing in his sixth and probably the last World Cup, holds almost every conceivable record in an illustrious career spanning over two decades, but the only thing missing from his impressive portfolio is the coveted trophy.
Waugh said that India are definitely one of the favourites and if the team does win, it will cap off a great career for Tendulkar.
The country has its hopes pinned on the champion batsman, and Waugh believed that Tendulkar's role will be crucial in tricky situations.
"Tendulkar may not be the star of the tournament but he is going to play key roles in crucial moments," he said.
Sachin Tendulkar 138(133) India v Sri Lanka at Colombo Compaq Cup Final 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXsIiPBNVjU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Sachin Tendulkar 100 vs Australia 2003 TVS Cup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egdTMUrh7pk
Bought Gautam Bhattacharya's "SACH". M.S.Dhoni has written the forward, yet to read that but he says that "If Cricket is Ram, Sachin is Hanuman, greatest disciple"
Ohh, the book is released? Will buy it this week :)
Yes LM, I saw a seperate chapter dedicated to Mr.Chappel :twisted:
Probably as a dhrishti :mrgreen:
No No about Chappel's cunningness...
For those who would like to buy online: http://www.flipkart.com/sach-gautam-...ook-8125945652
Cover design is so so :|
Oh!! I'll reserve my comments till I read it, but I just hope there are no controversial things in the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
Laxman, Steyn, Tendulkar win ESPNcricinfo awards
The India-South Africa rivalry was the key contest of the year, one that the ESPNcricinfo Awards reflect
ESPNcricinfo staff
February 14, 2011
Steyn v Laxman: the contest of the year © AFP
VVS Laxman and Dale Steyn have won the top awards in the fourth annual ESPNcricinfo Awards, announced in Bangalore today. The other winners were Sachin Tendulkar, Umar Gul, Michael Hussey and Tim Southee.
Laxman won the Test batting award for his 96 on a seaming pitch in Durban, while Steyn took the bowling prize for his 7 for 51 against India in Nagpur on a flat batting track. That both players overcame unfavourable conditions and led their teams to historic wins was important in their beating some impressive competition. That the two Test winners emerged from India's series home and away against South Africa is a validation of the growing importance of the rivalry between the two teams, the top-ranked sides in Tests.
The one-day batting award also went to a performance from an India-South Africa game: Sachin Tendulkar's remarkable unbeaten double-hundred in Gwalior, the first in the 40-odd years of the existence of the format. A performance that Kepler Wessels, one of the members of ESPNcricinfo's awards jury described as "the perfect one-day innings", it brought Tendulkar his second consecutive win in the category. He won last year for his monumental 175 in a lost cause against Australia. Tendulkar's innings was run close by Abdul Razzaq's hyper-violent 109, which took his side to a win against South Africa after they were nine down and needed 30 runs to win.
Also winning his second award in two years was Umar Gul, last year's Twenty20 bowling winner, who took the ODI prize for 2010 for his 6 for 42, which undid England's modest chase of 242 at The Oval.
In Twenty20, Tim Southee's five-wicket burst in nine balls, which included a hat-trick - New Zealand's first in the format - at tiny Eden Park was the jury's overwhelming favourite for the bowling award. Michael Hussey's "freak" of a 60 in the World Twenty20 semi-final, which one of the judges, Ramiz Raja, called "the greatest Twenty20 knock of all time", beat Brendon McCullum's century, only the second in Twenty20 internationals, to the batting prize. Hussey's was a death-defying innings in which he scored 22 off the last four balls to drag Australia from a point of no hope against Pakistan into the tournament final.
Besides Ramiz and Wessels, the jury included former internationals Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, Geoff Boycott, Sanjay Manjrekar and Martin Crowe, and ESPNcricinfo's senior editors. The jurors picked their top three performances in each category out of shortlists compiled by the site's editorial staff. Each performance ranked No. 1 got five points, while Nos. 2 and 3 got three points and one respectively.
Tendulkar's and Gul's performances were ranked No. 1 by 10 jury members, Steyn's by eight and Laxman's 96 by five. The voting for Laxman was marked by dissent over what his best performance of the year was: three of his innings featured in the Test batting shortlist, the most by any player in a single category in the history of the awards. His 73 against Australia in Mohali, where he batted through back spasms to lead India to a one-wicket win, was picked by three jurors as their No. 2 and by one as the No. 1. Alastair Cook's Ashes double-century got four No. 1 votes.
Laxman's innings divided ESPNcricinfo's readers, too, who were invited to vote for their favourite performances of the year: his Mohali innings got just 871 more votes than his Durban one. The readers concurred with the jurors in all other categories except Twenty20 batting, where Suresh Raina's World Twenty20 century got nearly 40% of the total votes polled.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards20...ry/500425.html
Southee and Tendulkar readers' favourites
ESPNcricinfo's readers differed with the jury in two categories: Test and Twenty20 batting
ESPNcricinfo staff
February 14, 2011
ESPNcricinfo's readers picked VVS Laxman's 73 against Australia in Mohali as the best Test batting performance of 2010, differing with the jury's pick, Laxman's 96 in Durban. The readers also preferred Suresh Raina's century against South Africa in the World Twenty20 to Michael Hussey's unbeaten 60 in the semi-final of the same tournament.
The rest of the picks matched the jury's: Dale Steyn got 27% of the votes for his seven-for in Nagpur. The bulk of the other Test bowling votes were split between Harbhajan Singh (5 for 59 v South Africa in Kolkata) and Mohammad Amir (5 for 52 v England at The Oval).
Sachin Tendulkar received more than half the votes polled for his one-day double century, the first in the format - a performance that was voted the top ODI innings of the year by 10 members of the jury as well. Coincidentally Tendulkar polled the same percentage of readers' votes last year for the same category last year, when he won for his 175 against Australia.
The one-day bowling award, which went to Umar Gul for his 6 for 42 against England, got about a third of the readers' votes for the category.
The largest margin of victory, though, was 61% of the votes polled, by Tim Southee, for his five-for, which included New Zealand's first Twenty20 hat-trick.
Readers' top three in each category
Test Batting Test Bowling ODI Batting ODI Bowling Twenty20 Batting Twenty20 Bowling
VVS Laxman (24%) (Mohali) Dale Steyn (27%) (Nagpur) Sachin Tendulkar (56%) Umar Gul (36%) Suresh Raina (39%) (World Twenty20) Tim Southee (61%)
VVS Laxman (21%) (Durban) Harbhajan Singh (18%) Abdul Razzaq (19%) Ryan Harris (16%) (Perth) Michael Hussey (21%) Shaun Tait (24%) (Dubai)
Azhar Ali(14%) Mohammad Amir (13%) Shahid Afridi (7%) Ashish Nehra (15%) Brendon McCullum (17%) Graeme Cremer (6%)
http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards20...ry/500678.html
© ESPN EMEA Ltd.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards20...ry/500678.html
Sachin Tendulkar 141(135) - India v Pakistan Samsung Cup 2nd ODI at Rawalpindi 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBhgeJ2KSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5xK3VjQ68&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
sachin 35 vs aus @ Bengaluru, 2001
Tendulkar plays very well in the above knock before he gets run out at 35.
Sachin's 72 vs Aus @NAgpur,2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLRUKBCpskk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL