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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br9xh3Hoaso
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Watch tony greig say @ 2.00 exactly "There is Tendulkar, then there is daylight, then there is the rest"
Watch Thalaivan play a belligerent knock before Mcgrath gets the better of him.
P.S: When the score is at 99/4 Sachin hits a 50.
p.s 2: Is this 98/99 series or 2000/01 series in India?. Australia are with full strength with Gillespie, kasprowicz, fleming, warne and mcgrath.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?...emb=1&start=40
A murder @ chepauk, Atleast the shots look so :lol:
When was this played?
AF,
Both videos are same :P This is the 2001 series opener played in Mumbai. Sachin scored 50 in both the innings (top scorer too), but the other batsmen miserably failed.
Scorecard
P.S: Thalaivar's on/straight drives :notworthy: :notworthy:
http://cricket.timesofindia.indiatim...ow/3998241.cms
Only Sachin an automatic selection in team: Ganguly
18 Jan 2009, 2149 hrs IST, PTI
KOLKATA: With the exception of Sachin Tendulkar, every Indian cricketer will have to be ready to get dropped from the team, Sourav Ganguly said
Sourav Ganguly
The Cricket Association of Bengal gave a colourful farewell to Sourav Ganguly. (TOI Photo)
on Sunday.
"This holds true for everyone with the only exception being Sachin Tendulkar... getting dropped and picked is a part and parcel in everyone's life," Ganguly said at a felicitation hosted by his home association CAB.
The former India captain remembered his "difficult" days in 2005 when he had a spat with the then coach Greg Chappell and consequently dropped from the Indian team.
In an open forum titled 'Insider's View' which saw Arun Lal acting as the moderator with Sambaran Banerjee, Pranab Roy, Utpal Chatterjee, Saba Karim, Deep Dasgupta, Devang Gandhi, Rohan Gavaskar and Laxmi Ratan Shukla in the panel, Ganguly said he was very disappointed after the 2005 episode.
"I was not happy and very disappointed with the turn out of events (in 2005)," he said. He said he had even wanted to know from the then selector Pranab Roy what actually happened in the closed room of selection.
"There were players like Harbhajan (Singh) and (Virender) Sehwag who stood up and then had to face the brunt of getting dropped. I knew something wrong was happening at the selection," he said.
Ganguly declined to talk about the infamous spat with Chappell, but said players like Sehwag and Harbhajan are match winners now. "Remember those are the players who are still the match winners... It's important for a captain to generate trust among your players, who stand up in the difficult times. When you win matches everybody will go overboard, but when you are not doing well it's your players who support you."
"But I had already played 400 matches by then (2005). In fact, I had given up at one point of time. But all my family members, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and the people here supported me a lot. I knew by getting disappointed and sitting at home won't get me a place in the team. So I had to take the grind," Ganguly said.
He praised CAB chief Jagmohan Dalmiya who "has also been a huge support to me". "The CAB and the staff had provided me with all the facilities required to be successful cricketer. Lot of players retire with the Indian cricket team. But I consider myself fortunate to finish as a player with Bengal. It's been an honour to be part of the Bengal cricket team," he added.
Ganguly was referring to his last match against Goa in the Ranji Plate which helped Bengal return to the Super League this season. "It was a very crucial game for Bengal. I congratulate the entire team, the coach and the manager for doing a wonderful job this year. I know it's tough to get back to Elite Division from Plate. It's not a small achievement."
Terming the promotion to Elite Division a huge achievement for Bengal, the former left-hander said the state should now try to be the best team taking a cue from the Ranji champions Mumbai.
"Getting into Elite again after we lost about seven players to Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a big achievement. I wish them all the best in future years. It's not just going into Elite again, you have to do the best. Trying to emulate what Mumbai have achieved over the last 38 years. I am sure you have the quality to do so."
Recollecting how he got into Bengal side at the expense of his brother Snehashish in the Ranji Trophy final against Delhi in 1989-90, he said, "I didn't know about it till my father told me after I returned from my tuition. He asked me about the match and I said yes I am in the playing XV. But he said 'you are in the XI.' I was happy and in the excitement I did not inquire who was dropped."
"Only at night my mother told me that my elder brother was dropped. It didn't affect me as I was very excited but later I realised that my brother was disappointed. But then we won the Ranji Trophy and he again made a comeback... everything became normal."
Ganguly said his ailing father who is being treated at a hospital could not attend the function.
"I wish my dad was here. He has being a part of the association for very long time. I wish he was here to give me the award. My family members are attending him at the hospital. I thank my family members during my initial years and my last thank you to everyone. You have been a huge support."
http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...42095436785853
Tendulkar: Fame & Family!!!
THIS IS AN EXTRACT FROM TENDULKARS BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY Gulu Ezekiel.
Every entertainer, whether on stage, screen or field of play, has an ego. In Tendulkar's case, he has accomplished what all superstars strive for, to harness that ego in a positive manner.
Ego has driven some international sportspersons when they visit India to bring the media in tow as they do their good deed for the day. It is the done thing to be seen and heard, attempting to alleviate the misery of India's teeming downtrodden.
When was the last time you saw even a photo of Tendulkar at a charity function? And yet, he gives his spare time unstintingly.
Journalist Joe Hoover knows this hidden side of Tendulkar well.
Sports Editor of Deccan Herald (Bangalore), Hoover has organised numerous charity auctions and functions where Tendulkar is the star attraction.
Man of the Series against England last year
"He is so approachable and he never says no," Hoover told me.
"He doesn't need the publicity because unlike some other sportspersons, he sees no need to use these acts to improve his image."
Hoover recalled an incident in Pakistan in 1997 when he called Tendulkar in his hotel room and asked him if he could give some signed bats for a charity auction.
"Within minutes he was on the phone, informing his bat manufacturers in Meerut to send over a dozen to New Delhi for this purpose."
Down to earth
Vijay Lokapally, the cricket correspondent for The Hindu and The Sportstar, has undoubtedly interviewed him more often than any other journalist.
"Sachin once said to me "kiti lihishil?" ("how much will you write?"), Lokapally told me.
"I first met him at a Wills Trophy match at Kanpur. This was before his 1989 Test debut. The next occasion was in New Delhi just before the Pakistan tour, his first.
"He and Vivek Razdan, the other debutant were very excited. And do you know, he has that same excitement about playing cricket after all these years?" according to Lokapally.
Tendulkar is an icon for fans young an old
"I have always been impressed by the dignified way he carries himself both on and off the field. Despite all his fame and wealth, he is very down to earth. That has not changed a bit in all the years I have known him."
Friends, family, food (particularly sea food - he enjoys a spot of cooking too), cricket and music. These are Tendulkar's passions in life.
Lokapally says you can guess which hotel room is his by the music blaring out of it.
"Dire Straits used to be his favourite group. But these days he is into old Hindi music. He seeks these out and gets them specially recorded."
This incidentally is another trait he shares with Sir Don Bradman who would lock himself up in his hotel room and play his gramophone records after the day's play.
Price of fame
"Sachin Tendulkar is an important person of our country. He is our country's wealth and we will protect him," said Mumbai's Commissioner of Police, MN Singh.
This followed reports that Tendulkar and Ganguly (India's captain) were kidnap targets for militant groups.
Dire Straits used to be Tendulkar's favourite band
Such is the price of fame. Another heavy price is the loss of privacy.
"Ask me anything you want about cricket, but keep my family out of this," he has told journalists repeatedly.
Wife Anjali, daughter Sara and son Arjun are the centre of his existence. Just as his parents and siblings were when he was growing up.
"My family life is altogether a different issue. I have always kept it a very private affair and I don't want that to be public. Everybody is watching whatever I do on the field.
"Even today they (his family) look after me and ensure that my feet are on the ground," he said when questioned as to how he copes with all the hopes and adulation of the fans. (The Week, November 29, 1998).......
Family influence
.....Sachin has spent all his life in Bandra, first with his parents and brothers and sisters at Sahitya Sahawas in Bandra (East) and since the middle of 2001, at the swank La Mer apartments in Bandra (West).
They may share virtually the same address. But Bandra (East) and Bandra (West) are worlds apart.
"West looks down its nose at East," says one long-time resident of the more up-market side of town.
Tendulkar with wife Anjali
For the first few years of their marriage Sachin and Anjali stayed in a separate flat in the same building where he grew up.
Le Mer was recommended to him by Prahlad Kakkar who has been directing his many of his commercials for a decade now. The Tendulkars bought a duplex apartment there in mid-2001.
"The apartment has more glittering stars than the milky way," one Mumbai sports journalist told me.
In that sense, Sachin has made the transformation from his solid middle-class youth to the world of Mumbai's glitterati.
The influence of Anjali and her parents, Anand (an international bridge player) and Annabelle Mehta (who is English and a leading philanthropist) have played a large part in this transition.
After they first met and then started dating, it was Mrs. Mehta who would disguise Sachin in wig and beard and smuggle the couple out to the family holiday homes in Lonavala and Goa, according to a family friend.
The Mehta's are one of Mumbai's wealthiest families, a fixture on the city's high-society circuit.
That's all a far cry from Sachin's roots. But he still keeps in touch with his old school-friends and often drops by to enjoy his mother's seafood dishes which he relishes. ("Favourite Food: Anything cooked by mother" according to a 'Life Lines' article in 1997).
Anjali was a practicing paediatrician till the birth of Arjun in 2000. Now she looks after the two kids who are the apple of their father's eye.
It is the daughter who has inherited her father's curly hair. As for Arjun, his father has already gifted him a plastic bat and ball.
"It may be a batsman's game. But I would want him to become a good all-rounder", says the proud father with characteristic determination.
source:
'Sachin - The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman'
Extract taken from chapter 35 - Man and Myth.
Oh am sorry :lol: :oops:
It was the ranji trohy video where sachin plays the likes of aashish nehra, balaji and leg spinner mishra.
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