Maams its fav 50's. edhai edhayo mudichu poduringa?.
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Maams its fav 50's. edhai edhayo mudichu poduringa?.
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Originally Posted by 19thmay
An interesting topic in sachin community so i copy pasted it here
where were all these Sachin fans four years back?
where were all these Sachin Tendulkar fans four years back when he was fighting all the critics?
Four years back when Sachin was low on form, down with tennis yelbow injury and suffered a lot both physically and mentall after that. At that time no one was supporting Sach.. everyone wanted Sachin to retire.
Ponting was in a great form, Dhoni and Yuvi were playing very well at that time. No one wanted Paaji to be in Indian team. All saw sachin as a burdain to Indian team. And when Tendlya was getting out at 90s everyone used to blame Sachin for his lack of control or watever it is.
Now everyone started celebrating, started supporting him saying he shud bat for at least till next wc.
Till 200 of Sachin no one likes to compare Sachin with Don as they think Sachin is too small to compare with Don. Now all those ppl are saying sachin is greatest batsman ever played.
People who wanted Sachin to retire
http://www.cricinfo.com/engvind/cont...ry/303542.html - by kapil paaji. :)
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/268732.html - majarekar wanted his answer.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/62228/Sports/Manjrekar+stands+by+'elephant+in+the+room'+jibe+di rected+at+Sachin.html - MAjarekar (elephant in the room)
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/287897.html - Ian Chappel (he should quit commenting)
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/287897.html - Ian again (for ur information, he has got no time to look in the mirror)
http://www.cricinfo.com/rsavind/cont...ry/275387.html - sambit bal - editor Cricinfo
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/244199.html - chappel (still got role, esp as a mentor??.. lol)
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/295954.html - Siddardh Mongia (COmparing strike rates in test matches, after making a 100??)
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/287596.html
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/309706.html
Days when he had to fight for him
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/248246.html
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/309832.html
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/288710.html
http://www.cricinfo.com/wc2007/conte...ry/282420.html
But some ppl still believed in him
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/235762.html - Hanif Mohammad (don't write off)
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/223163.html - Ranatunga
http://www.cricinfo.com/dlfcup/conte...ry/259422.html - Chanderpaul
http://www.cricinfo.com/pakvind/cont...ry/235791.html - Dravid
http://www.cricinfo.com/unitechcup/c...y/256325.html- rhodes
http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs?c...57226487542310
Maams, fav 50 - yet to come-a irrundha?
Irukkatum maams so what.
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Idhu varaikkum adichadhula edhunnu sollunga!Quote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
Yedho pannunga... :?
Gounds: unna evan(dA) ippadi ellam yosika solraan :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
My nominations:
1. 82 off 49 balls against NZ in 1994.
# ODI no. 897 | 1993/94 season
# Played at Eden Park, Auckland
The first ODI match where he started as the opener. I have ery vivid memories of getting up at 3 or 3.30 in the morning to see this game. Never knew at that time that i would grow up to be such a fanatic of his.
Player of the match SR Tendulkar (India)
2. Ind vs aus wc 96
Another great knock gone in vain. Fantastic blasts against Mcgrath in one over. Gets out at 90 off a wide ball of Mark Waugh who is the eventual MOM. Finishes with 90 off 84 balls with 14 fours and one six.
3. The Godfather of all heart breaks. You know it, I know it and everybody knows it. Falters for one sec and kaluwitharana does a great job. Sri lanka the worthy winners.
4. Silver Jubilee Independence Cup at dhaka 67 off 44 balls in a 34 over match with 11 fours. This is not a tonty 20 game. The rivals are pakistan and dhaka
5. First final at dhaka 1998 The very next match he makes a 95 off just 78 balls in a first final. He scores 6 fours and 5 sixers.
6. 62 off 38 balls against Australia in 2001 Mcgrath gets punctured.
7. 99 off 91 balls with 14 fours and a six. India batted first and the score was 2-179 off 25.4 overs when tendulkar got out. But india made only 321 after the great start and we lost the match.
8. A 99 against England at bristol where he was wrongly judged out
Enna adi 15 fours and one six :bow:
9. Nerd's favorite - 94 against England in Oval chasing 316. 16 fours and one six :bow:. He was on a roll in that series :bow:
10. 91 against australia in cb series 2nd final. It was worth a 100 but its okay. http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/291372.html
AF - :thumbsup: Sachin's current form is a slap in the face for all those who didnt believe in Sachin.. But we got to admit that legends like Kapil Dev may have had special affection towards Sachin and thus asked to retire before getting the life of Kapil's 432Quote:
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Maams why we are doing this now is there are many 50's which deserves special mention. When hubbers bring in some unknown knocks they may get some attention. Onna renda he has 90+ fifties. Ellam oru discussion thaane.
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:exactly: .. Not all the 50s are remembered by us.. even when this poll started, I am reluctant to put in my nominations.. there are nail biting 50s when he came in at No. 4 or the long 50s where he nearly hit the 100s.
I have to do some homework before nominating and even polling .. I think its a great move by AF to recognize thalaivar's 50s !
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Super :thumbsup:
Nehra shirt-ku keezha edhukku Bat irruku? Avanuku bat eppadi pudikanum-nu kooda theriyaadhu :lol2:
Sachin Tendulkar: The Michael Jordan Of India
By Jason Overdorf
NEW DELH, India -- At 7:30 on a sunny Saturday morning, most of the city is still fast asleep. Rush hour won't begin until 10. But three separate cricket matches are already underway at New Delhi's Africa Avenue sports field.
There's a chill in the air as one portly bowler runs up, windmills his throwing arm and fires the ball at the wicket. Then, thwack!, shouts erupt as the batsman swats the delivery high into the sky toward the car park. It's a "six," cricket's version of the home run.
"Now we play twice in a week," said 26-year-old Sunil Kumar, who was keeping wickets. "In younger days, we used to play every single day. We come early in the morning, at 6 or 7, so we can play at least four matches before people have to go to work."
A quick glance at the players tells you everything you need to know about the reason they're here. By turns spindly, pot-bellied, pigeon-toed and bow-legged, these are no fitness freaks. They're not up on the sports field at the crack of dawn out of some misplaced obsession with the peak of their biceps or the cut of their abs.
They're here because, like millions upon millions of Indians, they're mad about the one maddening sport at which this dismally unathletic country excels. And, again like millions upon millions more, they all worship the same hero: a 5-foot, 5-inch tall, curly-haired, 37-year-old cricketer with a reedy, teenager's voice who just might be the Greatest Of All Time -- and the best athlete you've never heard of. His name is Sachin Tendulkar. But here in India, he's simply Sachin.
"The only name that we think of when we think of cricket is Sachin," said Kumar. "Every single record of batting is Sachin. Whatever -- centuries, half centuries, sixers, fours, boundaries, runs, test matches, one days -- he is the one."
As Kumar's passion and these early morning games suggest, India's love for cricket verges on the pathological. Walk through any neighborhood at any time of the day, and there's bound to be a match on in an alley (or "gulley," as it's called here). Drive from Delhi to Agra or Lucknow, and with every sign of civilization you'll find a tea stall and a cricket match. Everything from the schoolyard to the cemetery doubles as a "pitch," or field, and everybody from the lowliest cowherds to the poshest scions of snooty South Delhi seems to carry a bat and ball.
Maybe it's popular because its gentlemanly style recalls the British benchmarks for native upward mobility -- in its classic five-day form, after all, the game is still played in starched white uniforms. Maybe it is that it doesn't require huge muscles or tremendous stamina. Or maybe it is simply that Indians are good at it. But everyone agrees to one thing. Cricket is the one religion that unites Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and Jain.
And Sachin?
"They call him 'god of cricket,' and I think he is god of cricket," said Vijay Lokpally, cricket correspondent for the Hindu newspaper.
Last month, Sachin staked perhaps his strongest claim yet to the title of the greatest batsman of all time with a brilliant performance against South Africa. Parrying and slashing the ball all over the field, he became the first player in the 39-year history of that form of the game to score 200 runs in a one day international, or ODI. But even though it was the cricketing equivalent to Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in the NBA, it was not the statistical milestone -- which joins Sachin's long and growing list -- so much as the bold and seemingly effortless grace of the "knock" that converted nay-sayers. That's because unlike baseball, which it resembles in other ways, cricket does not reward power and bat speed so much as cleverness and control.
"In the history of cricket, four individuals have had a definitive impact on the game; the Englishman W. G. Grace, the Australian Don Bradman, the West Indian Garfield Sobers and the Indian Sachin Tendulkar," said historian Ram Guha, the author of "A Corner of a Foreign Field." "He is certainly one of the four greatest cricketers ever."
Wedge-shaped and flat on one side, the cricket bat is more like a paddle or broadsword than a club. And the gold standard of batting is the ability to wield its blade to slice and steer the ball at will to the spots in the field where there are no defenders -- employing a daring and creative variety of swings, cuts, chops and blocks that commentators evocatively describe as "swashbuckling." Sachin was arguably the first Indian player to embrace this free-flowing and aggressive style of play -- emerging at a time when India was a puny, Third World-upstart vying for respect.
"India suffered from a combination of self-loathing and a feeling that it was not getting its due recognition," said Santosh Desai, CEO of FutureBrands.
Sachin changed that. India's Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali rolled into one, Sachin's rise prefigured and paralleled that of the country. When he first walked onto the pitch against Pakistan in hostile Karachi in 1989, Sachin was a pint-sized 16-year-old with a squeaky voice and a wild 'fro. More Harry Potter than LeBron James, he was David facing Goliath, and a nation of mothers held their breath when Waqar Younis rushed toward him to fire a 100-kilometer fastball at his skull. Watching him beaned repeatedly and then unceremoniously bowled out for a mere 15 runs, many softhearted souls cried out that the boy batsman had been brought along too fast.
"The general impression was that he was being pushed too early," said Lokpally.
But on the last day of the match, again against Younis, a legend was born. Decked by a fastball to the face, Sachin picked himself up, dusted himself off, and went on to post 57 runs with blood streaming from his nose. "That convinced everybody that this boy was different," said Lokpally.
A fan club soon followed. Then accolades, then unprecedented riches, and, finally, as the years marched on, a cascade of statistical records.
Begun around the same time that India liberalized its economy and allowed the introduction of private television channels (in 1991), Sachin's career drove an "economic renaissance" in a sport that had never been lucrative, according to Desai. When Sachin first signed an endorsement deal worth about $5 million at today's exchange rate, he changed the scale of cricketing -- and Indian -- economics by several orders of magnitude.
Before long, he was selling everything from laundry detergent to Pepsi, and on the way to an estimated net worth of about $60 million today, he'd help make the celebrity endorsement a vital part of the marketing strategy for any brand that wanted to compete. The key to his appeal was simple. To Indians, he showed that the fearless underdog -- no matter how small -- was not only capable of standing up to the larger players from swaggering England, South Africa and Australia, but was also able to dominate them.
"What Sachin did was for the first time he gave India a sense of domination. Sunil Gavaskar played a defensive role. He proved that Indians could face up to the fastest bowlers in the world. But it was about facing up, navigating and negotiating, rather than dominating," said Desai. "In Sachin's case, he was this cherubic 16-, 18-year-old boy with a reedy voice, and that only made it more distinctive and more magical. When you had very little to back and look up to, Sachin became something that everyone could feed off."
For a long time, he was virtually India's only hero. And his career suffered as a result. Through his long innings he has amassed more than 12,000 runs in Test (or five-day) cricket and more than 30,000 runs in international cricket -- thousands more than any player in history. He holds the record for the highest number of "centuries" (100-run games) in both Test and One Day cricket, and his tally is still rising.
As of last week, he's the only man to score 200 runs in a single one-day match. And he did it all despite adverse conditions. In the '80s and '90s Sachin labored like the proverbial Casey at the Bat. India's batting lineup was compared disparagingly to a bicycle stand: When one falls, they all fall. Sachin carried the heavy burden of the hopes and dreams of a billion Indians on his shoulders. And as he grew and became one of the team's senior players, sometimes he could not help but temper his naturally aggressive and inventive style of play.
That's why last week's performance was especially exhilarating for so many Indians. Over the past five years, Sachin's team has been transformed by an infusion of brash, young players from the new, booming India. The pressure is as great as ever. But their level of confidence is unprecedented.
Today India's giant, growing consumer market provides the advertising dollars that fund the game -- giving India more muscle than England or Australia when it comes to the business of the sport. And just as India's entrepreneurs are now acquiring companies like Jaguar and Land Rover and threatening to overtake the biggest markets in the world, India's cricketers no longer play "not to lose." That means that even at 37 years old, with his best days as an athlete behind him, Sachin has been freed to play like he was meant to do since he was 17.
And India can't get enough.
ithula periya athisayam onnum illa stanley..Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Kannadaasan lines..
uyarntha idaththil irunthu vanthaal
ulagam unna mathikkum
un nilamai konjam irangi vanthaal
nizhalum kooda mithikkum :)
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உலகின் முதல் டபுள் டன் ஹீரோ சச்சின்! அவருக்கு 'பாரத ரத்னா' வழங்கியாக வேண்டும் என்கிறார் கபில்தேவ். ஆம்... சச்சின், கிரிக்கெட் ரசிகர்களின் கடவுள். இவர் படைக்காத சாதனை களே இல்லை, தனது சாதனைகளையே உடைத்து, புதிய புதிய சாதனைகளைப் படைக் கிற ஆட்டக்காரர். சச்சின் ஆடுகிற ஒவ்வொரு போட்டியிலும், அடிக்கிற ஒவ்வொரு ரன்னுக்கும் உலக கிரிக்கெட் வரலாற்றை அப்டேட் செய்ய வேண்டி இருக்கிறது!
1. சச்சின் ரமேஷ் டெண்டுல்கர் என்பதுதான் முழுப் பெயர். சச்சினின் அப்பா, பிரபல மராத்தி எழுத்தாளர். அவர், சச்சின் தேவ் பர்மன் என்னும் இசையமைப்பாளரின் தீவிர ரசிகர் என்பதால்தான் மகனுக்கு சச்சின் என்று பெயர்வைத்தார்!
2. 1988-ம் ஆண்டு மும்பை வித்யா மந்திர் பள்ளியில் படித்தபோது வினோத் காம்ப்ளியுடன் இணைந்து குவித்த 664 ரன்கள்தான் சச்சினை கிரிக்கெட் உலகுக்குக் கொண்டுவர உதவியது. மும்பை அணிக்காக ஆடிய ரஞ்சிக் கோப்பையிலும் முதல் போட்டியிலேயே சதம் அடித்து, சட்டென எல்லோர் மனதிலும் பதிந்தார் சச்சின்!
3. சச்சினை கிரிக்கெட் விளையாட ஆர்வப்படுத்தியவர் அவரது அண்ணன் அஜீத். மும்பை பாந்த்ராவில் இருந்த சச்சினின் வீட்டில் இருந்து, கிரிக்கெட் கோச்சிங் போய் வர முடியாது என்பதால், சிவாஜி நகரில் உள்ள மாமா வீட்டில் சச்சினைத் தங்கவைத்து, கூடவே இருந்தார் அண்ணன் அஜீத்!
4. முதலில் சென்னை எம்.ஆர்.எஃப். பேஸ் ஃபவுண்டேஷனில் பௌலர் ஆவதற்குப் பயிற்சிபெற வந்தார் சச்சின். ஆனால், பயிற்சியாளரான டென்னிஸ் லில்லி, 'நீ சூப்பர் பேட்ஸ்மேன் ஆவதற்கான வாய்ப்புகள் இருக்கின்றன. போய் பேட்டிங் பயிற்சி எடு' என்று அனுப்பிவைத்தார்!
5. ரமாகாந்த் அச்ரேகரிடம் கிரிக் கெட் கோச்சிங் எடுத்தபோது, முதல் ஆளாக கிரிக்கெட் மைதானத்துக்கு வந்து கடைசி ஆளாகப் போவாராம் சச்சின். 'அச்ரேகரை எனக்கு ரொம்பப் பிடிக்கும். நாம் எப்படி விளையாடுகிறோமோ, அதில் இன்னும் சிறப்பாக விளையாட சொல்லித் தருவார். நம் ஸ்டைலை மாற்ற மாட்டார்' என்பார் சச்சின்!
6. எந்தப் பந்துவீச்சாளர்கள் தன்னை அடிக்கடி அவுட் ஆக்குகிறார்களோ, அவர்களின் பந்துகளை எதிர்கொள்வதற்காக ஸ்பெஷல் டிரெயினிங் எடுப்பார். 98-ம் ஆண்டு ஷேன் வார்னேவின் சுழற்பந்தை எதிர்கொள்ளச் சிரமப்பட்டவர், சுமார் ஒரு மாதம் சென்னையில் தங்கி சிவராமகிருஷ்ணனிடம் பயிற்சி எடுத்தார். அதன் பிறகு சச்சின் ஆடிய ருத்ரதாண்டவத்தை ஷேன் வார்னே இன்னும் மறக்கவில்லை!
7. முதன்முதலாக வேர்ல்டு டெல் நிறுவனத்துடன் 18 கோடி ரூபாய் என்கிற கான்ட்ராக்ட்டில் கையெழுத்திட்டார். இந்தியாவிலேயே இவ்வளவு பெரிய தொகைக்கு யாரும் ஒப்பந்தமானது இல்லை என்று வியந்தது விளையாட்டு உலகம். இப்போது சச்சினின் சொத்துக்கள் எவ்வளவு என்பது அவருக்கே தெரியாது. அண்ணன் அஜீத்தான் முழுவதையும் கவனித்துக்கொள்கிறார்!
8. 'கிரிக்கெட் விளையாட வந்த ஆரம்பத்தில் நண்பர்களை அதிகம் மிஸ் செய்வேன். இப்போது என் ஆரூயிர் நண்பன் என் கிரிக்கெட் பேட்தான். அவன் என்னைவிட்டுப் பிரிவதை என்னால் எப்போதும் தாங்கிக்கொள்ளவே முடியாது' என்று சொல்லி இருக்கிறார் சச்சின்!
9. கிரிக்கெட் இல்லையென்றால், மனைவி அஞ்சலி, மகன் அர்ஜுன், மகள் சாராவுடன் வெளிநாட்டுச் சுற்றுப் பயணங்கள் கிளம்பிவிடுவார். மகனை கிரிக்கெட் பிளேயராகவும், மகளை டென்னிஸ் பிளேயராகவும் உருவாக்க வேண்டும் என்பது கனவு!
10. மக்களோடு மக்களாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்பது சச்சினின் ஆசை. ஆனால், இந்தியாவில் அது முடியாத காரியம் என்பதால், சில வருடங்களுக்கு முன்பு லண்டனில் சொந்தமாக வீடு வாங்கினார். வீட்டின் அருகே உள்ள பார்க்கில் குடும்பத்தோடு உட்கார்ந்து அரட்டை அடிப்பதுதான் சச்சினுக்கு ரொம்பப் பிடிக்குமாம்!
11. எந்த நகரத்தில் கிரிக்கெட் விளையாடப்போனாலும், மேட்ச் இல்லாத நாட்களில் பேஸ்பால் கேப், கூலிங்கிளாஸ், தாடி என கெட்-அப்பை மாற்றி, நகர்வலம் செல்லப் பிடிக்கும். மும்பையில் நடந்த தீவிரவாதிகள் தாக்குதலுக்குப் பிறகு வெளியே செல்வதை நிறுத்திவிட்டார்!
12. சென்டிமென்ட்டுகளுக்கு அதிக முக்கியத்துவம் கொடுப்பார். கிரிக்கெட் என்றால் 10-ம் நம்பர் ஜெர்சி. கார் என்றால் 9999 என ராசியான நம்பர்களை யாருக்கும் விட்டுத்தர மாட்டார்!
13. லதா மங்கேஷ்கரின் தீவிர ரசிகர். லதா மங்கேஷ்கர், சச்சினை எப்போது பார்த்தாலும் அவருக்காக நாலு வரிகளாவது பாடாமல் போக மாட்டார்!
14. பெர்ஃப்யூம், சன் கிளாஸ், மியூஸிக் சிஸ்டம், பிராண்டட் ஷர்ட்ஸ், ஸ்போர்ட்ஸ் கார் இவைதான் சச்சின் அதிகம் விரும்பி வாங்குபவை!
15. பட்டோடிக்கு அடுத்தபடியாக மிக இளம் வயதில் இந்தியக் கிரிக்கெட் கேப்டன் ஆனார். சொந்த மண்ணில் ஆஸ்திரேலியா, தென் ஆப்பிரிக்க அணிகளுக்கு எதிரான தொடர்களில் வெற்றி தேடித் தந்தார் கேப்டன் சச்சின். இருப்பினும், வெளிநாடுகளில் இவர் தலைமையிலான அணி பல தோல்விகளைக் கண்டதால் தானாகவே கேப்டன் பொறுப்பில் இருந்து விலகினார்!
16. இதுவரை மொத்தம் ஐந்து உலகக் கோப்பை போட்டிகளில் விளையாடி இருக்கிறார் சச்சின். இதில் இந்தியாவிலும், தென் ஆப்பிரிக்காவிலும் நடைபெற்ற உலகக் கோப்பைப் போட்டிகளில் அதிக ரன்களைக் குவித்து, மேன் ஆஃப் த சீரிஸ் விருது பெற்றிருக்கிறார்!
17. 2001-2002ம் ஆண்டின்போது டென்னிஸ் எல்போ பிரச்னையால் மிகவும் அவதிப்பட்டார். ஆபரேஷன் காரணமாக விளையாட முடியாமல் இருந்தவருக்கு உறுதுணையாக இருந்தது மனைவி அஞ்சலி. 'என் மனைவி மட்டும் எனக்குத் துணையாக இல்லை என்றால், மீண்டும் கிரிக்கெட் பேட்டைத் தொட்டிருக்கவே முடியாது' என நெகிழ்வார் சச்சின்!
18. பேட்ஸ்மேன்தான் என்றாலும் மீடியம் ஸ்பீடு, லெக் ஸ்பின், ஆஃப் ஸ்பின் என பௌலிங்கிலும் கலக்குவார். விக்கெட் கீப்பிங் செய்ய வேண்டும் என்பதும் சச்சினின் நீண்ட நாள் ஆசை!
19. பத்மஸ்ரீ, பத்ம விபூஷண், ராஜீவ் காந்தி கேல் ரத்னா, அர்ஜுனா எனப் பல விருதுகளைக் குவித்திருக்கிறார் சச்சின்!
20. 'இதுவரை மேட்ச் நடப்பதற்கு முந்தைய நாள் இரவு நான் சரியாகத் தூங்கியதே இல்லை. இரவு முழுக்க அடுத்த நாள் மேட்சைப் பற்றியேதான் என மனதில் படம் ஓடிக்கொண்டு இருக்கும்' என்பார்!
21. சிறுவனாக இருந்தபோது நான்கு மணி நேரம் விளையாடினாலும் சச்சினை அவுட் ஆக்க முடியாமல் தவிப்பார்களாம். பயிற்சியாளர் அச்ரேகர் ஒரு ரூபாய் நாணயத்தை ஸ்டம்ப்பின் மேல் வைத்துவிட்டு, சச்சினை அவுட் ஆக்குபவருக்கு ஒரு ரூபாய் சொந்தம் எனச் சவால்விடுவாராம்!
22. 2005-ம் ஆண்டின்போது பத்திரிகை ஒன்று 'எண்டுல்கர்' ('END'ULKAR) எனத் தலைப்பிட்டு, சச்சினை விமர்சித்து ஒரு கட்டுரை எழுதியது. 'என்னைப்பற்றி எவ்வளவோ விமர்சனங்கள் வந்திருக்கின்றன. ஆனால், அந்த விமர்சனத்தை மட்டும் என்னால் தாங்கிக்கொள்ள முடியவில்லை. நான் மிகவும் வருத்தப்பட்டு அழுத நாள் அது மட்டும்தான்!' என்றார் சச்சின்!
23. சச்சினின் மொபைலில் இருந்து யாருக்கு எஸ்.எம்.எஸ். வந்தாலும், 'தேங்க்ஸ் அண்ட் லவ் சச்சின்' என்பதே இறுதி வரியாக இருக்கும்!
24. சச்சினுக்கு மிகவும் பிடித்தது கார் ரேஸ். ஃபார்முலா-1 ரேஸ் நடக்கும் மைதானங்களுக்கு நேரடியாக விசிட் அடிப்பார் சச்சின். நரேன் கார்த்திகேயனுடன் பேசி, வேகமான கார்களைப்பற்றி அப்டேட் செய்துகொள்வார்!
25. கிரிக்கெட் விளையாட வந்த புதிதில் வெஸ்ட் இண்டீஸ் வீரர் கேரி சோபர்ஸ் எழுதிய 'ட்வென்ட்டி இயர்ஸ் அட் த டாப்' என்கிற புத்தம்தான் ரொம்பப் பிடிக்கும் என்று சொன்னார் சச்சின். இப்போது 20 வருடங்களைக் கடந்து விளையாடிக்கொண்டு இருக்கிறார் மாஸ்டர் ப்ளாஸ்டர்!
Sachin should be given Bharat Ratna: Ganguly
Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly joined the chorus in demanding Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, to batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar .
"Sachin is a Bharat ratna. There is no doubt that he should be conferred the Bharat Ratna award," Ganguly told reporters after the practice session of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Eden Gardens.
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A feature played in Neo Sports after 2nd ODI.
http://www.youtube.com/ipl
did you guys check Tendulkar's photo in this link ? a rare one but a commanding one
AR: George Lewis from Mumbai says: if a batsman faces 150 balls in an ODI, he needs to have a strike rate of 133 to score a double-century. So the key is scoring quickly while keeping risks to a minimum over a long span of time. Tendulkar has done it now with his magnificent double in Gwalior. Who else in your opinion has the aggressive game, fitness and discipline to match him?
GB: I watched some of the innings because I am supporter of Sachin and I know him quite well. It was a lovely innings and what Tendulkar does is, he very rarely sets off trying to belt the cover off the ball very early on. He plays sensible cricket. If the first over to him is very good then he plays the ball on its merit. He doesn't slash at it or play a daft shot.
Everybody thinks that the batsmen who score the quickest are the big and powerful hitters of the ball. That is not true. To me it is the quality batsmen like Tendulkar who have a wide range of shots who can score quickly and make big scores. Saeed Anwar held the record before Sachin and he was a classical player. He had great touch and timing and was a beautiful player to watch. Then you had Viv Richards. Although he had power, Viv wasn't hitting fours and sixes. He was playing the ball into the gaps all the time. Recently people like Ricky Ponting have played beautifully in ODI cricket. Ricky's not a slogger, he is a small man. And what about Herschelle Gibbs in that famous match in Johannesburg when Australia lost to South Africa and Gibbs got about 180? He isn't a slogger; he is a timer, like Sehwag. He plays the ball in the gaps and has a wide range of shots and is a touch player.
It is these guys who have the wide range of shots and the concentration who get the scores. And what happens is, once you get a hundred you are seeing the ball so well, you can almost play three shots to every ball. You just look at the gaps and once the field is spread, which happens so many times in ODI cricket, there are so many gaps for a player with touch and class, like Tendulkar.
He just picked them off. The hardest part was getting going early on. That's when you have to take a bit of chance - playing a cover drive on the up, pulling the ball when it's not that short, and you can make a mistake. But once guys like Tendulkar and Sehwag get in, they will just murder you.
http://www.cricinfo.com/talk/content...ia/450720.html
Boycott!!! :clap:.
He has a point. Actually sachin onnum summa oodu katti suthi ellam onnum 200 adikala. To last 150 balls(25 0vers) you need TECHNIQUE.
Today there was a special org-wide celebration in my office to celebrate Sachin's 200. Neraya edathula poster ottirundhainga.
Adhukkaga vandha mail la indha quote irundhuchu
"I thought the way he celebrated when he reached his 200 epitomized the man's persona.
There was no running laps around the field, no aggressive gestures, nothing over-the-top.
He did what he always does, raised both his arms, closed his eyes for a moment and quietly acknowledged that it had been done. - Anil Ramakrishna Kumble"
Kumble nailed it :thumbsup:
Quote by a user in another forum,
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His reactions were so grounded. Just a usual look upto the heavens. Anyone else would have jumped up and down and somersaulted all over the place.
Anilan :thumbsup:
Even he comes under the same category of celebration.. Remember when he took the 10 wicket haul.. he just raised his arms as any bowler would do and went back to the non striker end to get the stumps. Gentlemen na appadi thaan pola iruku..
Cant imagine if Bhajji takes a 10 wicket haul and that too against australia and that if Ponting is his last wicket .. Somersault urudhi :lol:
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Orae oru time avana oda vittutu ellorum ninuttu mokkai kudutharanum. Athuku mela avan aduvaan :evil:
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Originally Posted by VinodKumar's
‘I don’t like these comparisons’
Sachin Tendulkar feels awkward about being compared with legends such as Don Bradman and Viv Richards. “I respect every individual who graced cricket before I came to play. Can you take away their contributions? You can’t. So why make these comparisons?” he says in a chat with Vijay Lokapally.
The first batsman to make a double century in the 50-overs-a-side format, Sachin Tendulkar speaks to Sportstar on his magnificent knock against South Africa in Gwalior and other aspects of the game.
The excerpts:
Question: How do you feel when people who haven’t seen Don Bradman play or only watched Viv Richards on video make comparisons and rate you above them? Isn’t it awkward for you?
Answer: I just don’t like these comparisons. Right from the beginning I have been saying please don’t make such comparisons. I respect every individual who graced cricket before I came to play. Can you take away their contributions? You can’t. So why make these comparisons? All the past greats had their own identity, they all deserve that honour. I have my own identity and I have earned it too. They (Bradman and Richards) were very special cricketers and should remain so. Why do you want to have a second for every first? Can’t we remember the first and show him respect? That is the reason why I don’t like cricketers of different eras being compared. Each knock has its value, and the one who plays that knock too has a value. We should not measure them. I don’t believe in that.
Is your innings in Gwalior the best ever in terms of quality of attack and match situation?
Honestly, you should be the judge. It is difficult for me to say. In fact, I cherish every victory that we have achieved more than I remember my individual knocks. Of course, I would love to do this again, bat the full 50 overs.
Your reflections on this grand knock?
Being a double century it has a different impact. It is obviously different because it happened for the first time. It was quite close to the 175 (in Hyderabad). I planned as the innings progressed — I worked out the bowlers and short-listed the areas where I would play my shots off a particular bowler.
A lot of experts have been surprised by the pace you set and the amazing fitness you showed when running between the wickets even after crossing 190…
To tell you the truth, I have not analysed it so closely. I take every innings by the conditions I face. You can’t be predetermined. You want to do a lot but you can’t always do them. I was certainly happy with the fact that I was able to take ones and twos even after I had crossed 150.
Were you very happy with your fitness?
You can say that. I am happy with my fitness because I could push myself. That way it was wonderful. It was wonderful to bat because I was happy with my timing of the ball. I could do it from the first ball. My feet were moving well. Everything fell in place. It was like solving a jigsaw puzzle. You begin solving it and then everything falls into place. I was happy with my hand-eye co-ordination, my shot selection and placement of shots.
The 175 in Hyderabad — it must have been heart-breaking, but do you agree the challenge there was far greater than in Gwalior?
It was certainly heart-breaking. We got so close to winning. It was very upsetting. We were going well. A good innings becomes very good only if you win. A defeat hurts every individual and I am no different. When three or four guys come together to contribute you tend to win. We all tried but could not win in Hyderabad. In Gwalior, we batted first but the challenge in Hyderabad was different. I had fielded for 50 overs and then gone to bat. I batted until the 48th over. So virtually I was on the field for 100 overs.
Do you plan or prepare any differently from your early days?
Not really. In terms of training there is not much. In terms of style too I don’t think there is any change. The demands and requirements change with time. It also depends on the opposition you face and the playing conditions you encounter. I still prepare for the same length of time even though here I batted the full innings. My intensity of preparation has not changed at all.
You seem to have discovered your vintage form, if experts are to be believed…
I don’t think I had lost my touch. Since 2000 I have had a fair amount of injuries but the momentum was not lacking. In 2003 I had a finger injury, then tennis elbow, then shoulder, then bicep… All these injuries affected the upper body but the bat swing has not changed. Certain changes happen involuntarily but not to the extent that it would have a big impact on my game. In any case, I can’t bat as I did in the first decade of my international career, but then I have gained so much in terms of experience and I use it to my advantage.
Records in any game, especially in cricket, raise your profile. But is it not natural to chase milestones even though you have always said that you don’t play for records?
I have never played for records. If they happen, it is not my fault. Records may give some indication of your calibre, but they are not the true indication.
Would you rank your three best one-day innings?
I would pick them but put them on the same platform. The 200, the 175 and the 98 (in Centurion in the 2003 World Cup).
How do you react to being referred to as the God of cricket?
I am grateful for all the affection showered on me all these years. I feel truly humbled. I am just another player!
No no. 200 is not in the same pedal as 98 and 175.
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Virender Sehwag is ready to stake everything for a replay of Sachin Tendulkar's epochal double ton
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I will pay anything, even go to the theatre, to watch the innings 100 times. I have already reserved a CD to watch it any time I want.
'Tendulkar 11 vs Ganguly 11' 20-20 cricket match on 6th March 2010 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai.
Team Line up for Ganguly 11
Saurav Ganguly- Captain
Irfan Pathan -
Amit Mishra -
VVS Laxman -
Ashish Nehra -
Anil Kumble -
Virendra Sehwag-
Rahul Dravid-
Gautam Gambhir -
Pragyan Oja
Ishant Sharma -
Ravindra Jadeja -
Suresh Raina -
Team Line up for Sachin 11:
Sachin Tendulkar - Captain
Harbhajan Singh -
Wasim Jaffer -
Rohit Sharma
Ajit Agarkar
Vinayak Samant -
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Sachin Tendulkar's words about the value of Test cricket given new light
When Sachin Tendulkar speaks, his words carry weight - even when he was only 17. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP
As a 17-year-old, Sachin Tendulkar batted nearly four hours on the final day to save a Test match for India at Old Trafford. It was the first of his 47 centuries and remains one of the most memorable. Last November, he faced a voracious media pack at a gathering to celebrate two decades in the international arena. It was envisaged as a two-hour event, but he ended up answering questions for longer than he had batted that day in Manchester all those years ago.
Despite the same questions being asked again and again in a variety of languages, he was as composed as he had been when facing Devon Malcolm, Angus Fraser, Eddie Hemmings and Chris Lewis. The Australian Associated Press's Daniel Brettig wrote afterwards: "Through it all he never slipped up, answering each question with respect and care, and never offering anything but the straightest of bats."
One quote from that evening was to become headline news. And as the TV channels and newspapers played up his disenchantment with the politics of regional chauvinism – "Mumbai belongs to all Indians. I am a Maharashtrian and am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first," he said when asked about the anti-immigrant stances taken by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and its big brother, the Shiv Sena – another telling line was lost in the white noise.
Tendulkar does not grace the front page of tabloids. He does not have Dennis Rodman-like body art. The chances of him endorsing Viagra in middle age are exceedingly slim, as is the likelihood of him grabbing his crotch and treating detractors to a volley of abuse after a game. Though he does not have the wild streak that sometimes lets down Wayne Rooney, there are certain similarities with the once-a-blue-always-a-blue who is most comfortable out on the field. Put a microphone in front of them and they can be shy and inhibited. On the patch of grass that they own, they become virtuosos.
Tendulkar knows the value of words, though, and when he speaks, a nation listens. So, that afternoon, when he spoke passionately about India's step-motherly treatment of the five-day game, those associated with it took notice. The Indian Cricket Board may be the Microsoft of world cricket, but its functionaries are not immune to public opinion. And in Indian cricket, few dictate that quite like Tendulkar.
"We should play more Test cricket for sure," he said that day. "It's obviously not great news that we are only playing five Tests this season. Ideally, for any team to progress, you need to play more Test cricket as that is where the real cricket is according to me. Test cricket is cricket of the highest level and at the end of each day it allows you to regroup, re-think, come up with fresh ideas and plan for the next day. Sometimes, in Twenty20 and ODIs, even before you realise, the match is over."
His comments emboldened others to have their say. Rahul Dravid, McCartney to Tendulkar's Lennon for so long, spoke of how the BCCI needed to use its clout to ensure that Test matches were the marquee events of each domestic season. "Everyone around the world needs to recognise that Test cricket needs to thrive in India," he told Cricinfo. "Everyone knows now that it is important Test cricket succeeds in India for it to succeed worldwide as well. People have to come to this realisation in some other countries and recognise that India now needs to have a set international calendar for the benefit of the world game really."
Even MS Dhoni, derided by so many after he opted to miss a Test series in Sri Lanka in 2008, expressed a desire to play more five-day cricket. And the oft-stated view that Indians had fallen out of love with men in white clothes was made to look ridiculous by the packed crowds for games against Sri Lanka in Kanpur and South Africa in Kolkata. Call it pride or jingoism or what you will, but thousands who looked at the Test rankings and liked what they saw came through the turnstiles and endured facilities that no punter in the UK or Australia has to tolerate.
And yet, Lalit Modi told the Guardian he is certain that Twenty20 cricket will become the dominant form of the game in the not-too-distant future, that Test cricket will wither and die unless games are played under lights. It's all too easy to dismiss him as a charlatan with an agenda, but the points he raises need to be addressed by administrators. England usually has no problem selling out Tests because the venues are small and games are played in summer when a holiday can be planned around a match or two. The same is true of Australia where the summer schedule appears to be etched in stone.
In India, though, as this column has previously pointed out, there are no traditional Tests. With matches seldom scheduled around festivals or holidays, even those who want to watch Tests are often unable to. Three decades ago, someone like my uncle could take a train to Madras (as Chennai was known then) from Kerala, pack lunches every morning and watch Gundappa Viswanath make a double-hundred against Keith Fletcher's Englishmen. In those days of Nehruvian socialism, such indulgences were not uncommon. With the advent of economic liberalisation and 60-hour working weeks, sparing upward of 35 hours to watch a Test simply isn't an option.
Modi speaks primarily of his fiefdom and of other parts of the subcontinent where Tests are played out in near-eerie silence. He's right when he says that people can no longer afford to take days off to humour such a habit. Maintaining tradition is one thing, but is it really worth risking extinction for it? When probes have been sent to Mars and you can voice-chat in real time with someone in Buenos Aires, is it really so difficult to produce a white or pink ball that will stay intact for 80 overs under lights? Is keeping the ball red more important than keeping Test cricket in good health?
Given that Indian business houses account for so much of the game's income, any steps taken to boost Test cricket's popularity in the subcontinent must be encouraged. If playing under lights is the only way to get back the sort of crowds you had two decades ago, then so be it. Tendulkar, who revelled in that Eden Gardens roar as he scored a century last month, certainly wouldn't complain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...-india-cricket
Ganguly XIQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
160/5 in 20 overs
Ganguly 47[30]
Rahul 37[30]
Vianayak Samanth 29[24]
Anil kumble24[16]
Sachin XI
162
Sachin 43(29)
Dhoni 96*
Dhoni MOM
Ground outfield conditions kevalama irunthichi.. :x paakave pidikkala :sigh2:
An eyewitness account of the TXI vs GXI match
Oh! The unfettered freedom of college-going days. This author could make last minute plans to bunk college(or something like that) to go watch the exhibition match live. Considering I stay about 5 Kms from the ground, and yet, was kept away by work, it is quite envy-inducing.
:cry: I didn't even read it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Sabotaging the system from within isn't exactly going as per plan.