Sachin, Zaheer to play for Mumbai in semis
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Sachin, Zaheer to play for Mumbai in semis
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Defau...1701&AppName=1
Semifinal is happening in Chennai.Quote:
Originally Posted by sourav
BCCI-yin pERarivukku oru eduththukkAttu:
Mumbai Saurashtra SF is happening in Chennai
TN-UP semifinal is happening in Nagpur
kettadhulayum nalladhu....namma makkaL Sachin viLayAduradhai pAkkalAm.
Ayyo paavam Saurashtra..summAvE Mumbai kitta udhai vaangaNum. idhula Chepauk-la Sachin vErayA.
adi enRu kEtkAdheergaL....dharma adi enRu kEttu vaangungaL.
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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Jan 4-7 match-a :| Naan Bangalore-la iruppene :cry2:
PR :lol:
Vivek uses that line in some film :-)
Seriously, I don't think Mumbai needs Sachin for this match. But hopefully it will draw crowds in Chennai. I was quite annoyed that TN vs UP match is in Nagpur. They should have had that match in Chennai. But now I think some will come to watch this match because of Sachin.
btw Sachin SF viLayAduradhOda niruththikkaNum - finals ellAm viLayAdakkoodAdhu. :roll:
Puriudhu :lol: :)
With Pak tour being called off there is all probability that he may play the finals :huh:
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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
:rotfl: :rotfl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram
Sottu neelam endru kettu vangadheergal, REGAL sottu neelam endru kettu vaangungal :lol:Quote:
Vivek uses that line in some film
If sachin plays in Semis and not in finals, Saurashtra will feel hard done by... and that is what we want :twisted:
26.12.2008
The second test between Australia and South Africa at the MCG saw yet another stunning performance from Ricky Ponting - his 37th Test hundred and it puts the 34-year-old just four centuries behind the man he's always been chasing Sachin Tendulkar.
When Ponting comes to the end of his barnstorming career, in perhaps three years time, he will almost certainly finish with a better set of statistics than his Indian rival. And more than any other game - apart from baseball - cricket IS about statistics. You are judged by armchair fans, the media, and your peers, on your average, your strike-rate, your ratio of fifties to hundreds, the list goes on.
But even if Ponting scores a hundred in every test for the rest of his career he will forever be regarded as second best to Tendulkar. "Yes", everyone will say, "Ricky Ponting was a brilliant batsman who could devastate any bowling attack, but Sachin was the best of his generation."
That might be true but those all-important statistics disagree.
Ponting Tendulkar
Age 34 & 7 days
35 & 246 days
Tests 127 156
Centuries 37 41
Centuries per innings ratio
5.70 6.24
Average 58.98 54.27
The above figures are proof that Ponting is a more consistently brilliant performer, or put more simply, a more prolific compiler of runs, which is, after all what batting is all about.
But when you leave the world of cold hard stats and enter the realms of strengths and weaknesses that's where Sachin starts to bite back.
Every bowler knows that they have a good chance of getting 'Punter' early in his innings. That forward press, which is his strength later on is a real weakness early on.
Ponting also has those hard hands which make him vulnerable to spinners - especially the Indian variety.
And that brings me on to his great failing which is of course India. Great batsmen are supposed to be consistently great against every team in the world but Ponting's figures IN India of 12 tests, 438 runs, with one century, at an average of 20.85 is very poor.
Sachin has no such blot on his stats landscape - in fact he has excelled in Ponting's Australia with an average of 58.53 in 16 tests.
When it comes to technique the little man is close to flawless - He does have a habit of cutting the ball into his stumps but it has not blighted his career.
And I'll throw one more fact into the pot. Sachin has scored 10 centuries against an Australia that contained Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. In contrast when Ponting has needed to step up to the plate against the best bowling attacks in the world he's failed - against England in 2005 and against India just a few weeks ago.
That's why Tendulkar is a better batsman. But I don't think either will lose any sleep over their legacy in cricket. Both men are head and shoulders above their peers. (now that Brian Lara has retired!!)
http://www.espnstar.com/opinion/colu...ns/item175833/