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1st Test: England v India at Lord's - Jul 21-25, 2011

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2nd Test: England v India at Nottingham - Jul 29-Aug 2, 2011

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3rd Test: England v India at Birmingham - Aug 10-14, 2011

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4th Test: England v India at The Oval - Aug 18-22, 2011

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Only T20I: England v India at Manchester - Aug 31, 2011

1st ODI: England v India at Chester-le-Street - Sep 3, 2011

2nd ODI: England v India at Southampton - Sep 6, 2011

3rd ODI: England v India at The Oval - Sep 9, 2011

4th ODI: England v India at Lord's - Sep 11, 2011

5th ODI: England v India at Cardiff - Sep 16, 2011

Great chance to make a century in Lords and win a series there. I think this series will be a good test for India. For Fans of India tour of England 2007 this channel is a gem. It has highlights of almost all 7 odi's and 3 test matches from that tour.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CricIndia2

look at the master when he was a primary student of the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMG1P...layer_embedded

back then nobody would have expected this boy to become a big man who can carry an entire country on his shoulders.

Keep going Sachin :thumbsup:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Puliyan_Biryani

People bring up Lara's 153 against Aussies as an eggzample of single-fingered batsmanship. I was watching the match live and Lara was dropped by Healy when they needed 6 to win. If Healy had taken the catch, then that innings would've joined Sachin's 1998 Chennai innings (which was much higher in quality and devoid of any chances). A case of what might have been.

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For me it's otherwise because of the hypertension gripped all over me. Opinion differs. :)

ICC news
Tendulkar claims top spot in ICC Test ratings

ESPNcricinfo staff

October 14, 2010

Sachin Tendulkar has surged to the top spot in the ICC Test rankings for batsmen, for the first time since 2002. Tendulkar's heroics in the Test series against Australia earned him 82 rating points, taking him to 891, 17 clear of Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara in the second spot. Virender Sehwag, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Mahela Jayawardene completed the top five.

List of dates when Sachin Tendulkar claimed top spot

* November 18, 1994 (34 and 85 v West Indies in Mumbai)
* March 6, 1998 (4 and 155 v Australia in Chennai)
* October 15, 1998 (By default, above Steve Waugh)
* December 26, 1998 (47 and 113 v New Zealand in Wellington)
* January 28, 1998 (0 and 136 v Pakistan in Chennai)
* May 18, 2000 (By default, above Brian Lara)
* February 21, 2002 (176 v Zimbabwe in Nagpur)
* August 22, 2002 (193 v England in Leeds)
* October 13, 2010 (212 and 53* v Australia in Bangalore)

This is the tenth time Tendulkar has become the top-ranked Test batsman in the world, and the first since the new ratings system came into place. He held the position for the first time in 1994, ahead of consistent runs at the top in the late 90s and early 2000s. His ascension comes close on the heels of his winning the ICC Cricketer of the Year award.

Tendulkar has enjoyed a windfall 2010, topping the run charts with 1270 runs, inclusive of four centuries and two double-hundreds. With India set to play three Tests against New Zealand at home and three Tests in South Africa in the immediate future, Tendulkar has the opportunity to better his career-best rating of 898 and become the 26th batsman to cross the 900-point mark.

Rahul Dravid held on to the 22nd position after a patchy series where he managed only one half-century in four innings. VVS Laxman retained the eighth spot despite missing the Bangalore Test, while M Vijay's maiden century helped him jump 29 places to 57th.

Ricky Ponting's inability to convert starts into centuries may have hampered his side, but his three 70s in four innings helped him climb three spots to the 16th position. Michael Clarke struggled for runs through the series, resulting in him dropping out of the top ten, while Simon Katich also slipped two spots to 14th. Shane Watson, who scored 271 runs in the two Tests, moved up to 24th, while Marcus North's fifth Test hundred lifted him to 46th.

In the bowler ratings, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Ben Hilfenhaus have all gained one place each. Zaheer, who picked 12 wickets in the series and impressed with his reverse swing, surged to 744 rating points, tied fourth with England's James Anderson. Johnson moved up to the seventh spot, one clear of Harbhajan who in turn pushed Doug Bollinger to ninth. Dale Steyn, Graeme Swann and Mohammad Asif continue to hold the top three spots in the bowling table.



http://www.cricinfo.com/ci-icc/conte...ry/481778.html

1st time Sachin claimed the top spot on my birth date and month :bluejump: :redjump:
Legends tend to do anything on the same day :mrgreen:

Traicos trumps Tendulkar

October 15, 2010

Posted by Andy Zaltzman 11 hours, 17 minutes ago

Traicos trumps Tendulkar

Pretender: with a mere 8032 Test runs, Garry Sobers is well short of having proved himself a true great © Getty Images
All cricket fans cherish moments when they first see a player, and think to themselves: “This lad is something extraordinary.” They cherish them even more when they turn out to be correct. Few would boast that when they saw Paras Mhambrey bowl for the first time, they just knew deep down that he would go on to take 400 Test wickets; or that they happened to catch a glimpse of Blair Hartland’s debut Test innings whilst on holiday in New Zealand in 1992, and instantly wrote a series of postcards home telling their parents that Wally Hammond himself had been reborn as a Kiwi opener.

Many will have thought it during Cheteshwar Pujara’s mesmeric, match-sealing fourth-innings 72 on debut in Bangalore, for his timing, his decisiveness and precision of shot, and his ethereal stillness at the crease. Time will tell. Time is often a bit of miserable sod in these matters. When Phil Hughes added to his debut 75 with two stunning centuries in his second Test, against Steyn, Morkel, Ntini and Kallis (and Paul Harris), who would have thought that he would be dropped just three Tests later? Not me, and probably not Phil Hughes. And almost certainly not the then bits-and-pieces allrounder Shane Watson, who replaced him and has since reached 50 in 12 of his 26 innings, the highest ratio of fifties-per-innings of any baggy green opener with 10 or more half-centuries.

Debuts, the deceitful little minxes that they are, have made many false promises. Particularly with legspinners. Narendra Hirwani took 16 for 136, Warne took 1 for 150. Kumble returned an inauspicious 3 for 170. Ian Salisbury twirled his web around Pakistan to take 5 for 122. Where did his 600 other Test wickets go? And maybe England should have stuck with Chris Schofield a little longer. Warne’s debut gave perhaps the falsest and cruellest promise of all to England fans – that Australia had unearthed yet another cannon-fodder legspinner to be marmaladed by England’s batsmen. That little reverie took one ball to shatter. It was sweet while it lasted.

I remember when I first realised that Sachin Tendulkar could turn out to be the truly special player that he had been rumoured to be by the world’s cricketing press. It was when he reached 10,000 Test runs. It was clear at that point – in his 122nd Test, with an average of 57 − that the young man was destined for greatness. (Others had suspected it before then, but I like to reserve judgement on players until I am absolutely 100% sure about them, and the 10,000-Test-run barrier seems as fair a benchmark as any. Bradman, Sobers, Richards and Ken Rutherford I remain to be convinced about. The logic is simple: you can easily score fewer than 10,000 Test runs without being a particularly good batsman. But only good players reach 10,000. I therefore acknowledge that Tendulkar is a useful bat. Very useful, in fact – 95 international centuries constitutes a solid effort.)

Bangalore was one of the great highlights of his statistics-boggling career, a display of complete technical and tactical mastery that first transformed the game and then completed it, played with a vigour that suggests he may have several more good years left in him. Once he has ticked off 50 Test centuries and 15,000 runs, perhaps Wilfred Rhodes’ 31-year Test span will be the next major record in his sights.

Tendulkar’s continuing resurgence has been the highlight of a compelling microseries that again highlighted the desirability of macroseries. India finished looking like the world’s top side, playing three days of majestic cricket to seal the series, and Australia ended as a team with more question marks than a transcript of an unusually urgent police interrogation of a hard-of-hearing and inquisitive suspect.

Ponting’s captaincy on Wednesday attracted widespread criticism. To my layman’s eyes it seemed intended to distract the Indian batsmen through sheer bafflement. As they tried to figure out Ponting’s extremely well-concealed masterplan, they could easily have becoming distracted and perturbed, and smashed their own stumps down in confusion. Not really trying to take wickets when he needed to really try to take wickets was an obtuse approach. I have heard rumours that every night Ponting goes back to his hotel room, makes little papier-maché dolls of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, says to them: “Right, Glenn, you bowl from the bathroom end, and Shane, you take the bed end. I’m going for a snooze, and when I wake up I expect you to have bowled the opposition out. Night night.” Admittedly those rumours are ones that I have made up and said to myself, but still, no smoke without fire. There has to be some truth in them.


Back to Tendulkar, officially the world’s best batsman again for the first time in eight years. Tendulkar’s Test career is about to celebrate its 21st birthday, and is now the 11th longest of all time, and the fourth-longest not to have been interrupted by a world war. The three players ahead of him on that little list are Syd Gregory (58 Tests from 1890 to 1912; his longevity can be ascribed to an undroppably assertive moustache), Brian Close (England’s youngest and oldest post-War Test player, his 22 Tests splattered over almost 27 years, dropped six times in his first seven matches spanning three different decades, and proud owner of the most sporadic career in Test history), and dual-nation legend John Traicos, more of whom below.

The Mumbai Methuselah has missed just 14 of India’s 185 Tests in the almost 21 years since he first plonked his 16-year-old feet onto the Test arena, giving him a 92.4% attendance-at-work rate. This currently puts him fourth on the list of highest-percentage-of-possible-Tests-played of the 16 players with Test careers lasting longer than 20 years.

If he stays fit, continues to set his alarm clock, remembers to turn up, and is not lured away by the promise of a stint as lead cricket bat player in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s forthcoming season of cricket-themed adaptations of the works of Mozart, then he could pinch the bronze medal from Sir Garfield Sobers (93% of Tests from 1954 to 1974). That is as far as he can hope to go. Two men remain unattainably in front: one-and-a-half South Africans and half a Zimbabwean. Dave Nourse did not miss a single Test of the 45 South Africa played from 1902 to 1924, and Traicos was never dropped in his 23-year Test career, from 1970 to 1993.


Traicos, who stands alone alongside Richard Hadlee in the Official ICC Catalogue Of Bowlers Who Have Dismissed Both Sachin Tendulkar and Keith Stackpole In Test Cricket, also remained undefeated until the final few months of his career. These facts in isolation might hint at one of the all-time great cricketing careers. Sadly for Traicos, his 23 years as an international cricketer were adorned by just seven Tests, sandwiching a 22-year sabbatical as a humble civilian – three games for South Africa before their ban in 1970, and four for Zimbabwe after their admission in 1992.

Recently unearthed relics from an archaeological dig at Kingsmead in Durban, where Traicos made his debut for South Africa, suggest that this Egypt-born son of Greek parents personally built a special altar with his cricket bag and sacrificed 100 head of oxen to almighty Zeus in return for (a) never being dropped, (b) having at least a 23-year-long Test career, and (c) not losing for the first 22 of those 23 years.

Zeus, always a deity with a wry sense of humour, granted Traicos’ wish with a flamboyant crack of his trademark thunderbolt, and the Egyptigrecozimbabweacsouthafrican tweaker skipped away in delight, visualising the forthcoming decades of batsman-shattering devastation that his tidy offbreaks would soon wreak. Zeus, meanwhile, giggled quietly to himself and muttered under his breath: “Sucker – you can have your 23 years undropped. And you can also have your seven Tests, your 18 wickets, and your bowling average of 42. Got you, Traicos, got you. Thanks for the barbecue. Yum, yum, yum.”

The King of Olympus then high-fived himself, and chirped: “I’ve still got it. Over 2000 years out of the media spotlight, and the Big Z has still got it.” It’s all in Wisden, if you read it backwards.

Some more on long careers in another blog later in the week. Unless the CIA suppress it. They fear needless cricket stats.

Lara has been deleted from the list of players the author is not 100% convinced about. Thanks to Anadi Bhatia for bringing the error to notice

Sachin owns the Bangalore test

With a 200+ in the first innings and an unbeaten 50 in the second, Sachin owns the Bangalore test against Australia!

I am very happy for Sachin - most thrilled that he scored the winning runs.

Congratulations again. Looking forward to century #50 against New Zealand.

Sunny G.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/busin...ocks-study-275

Stock markets sway to Sachin's knocks: study
New research shows that when India's cricket team loses one-day internationals, the stock market takes a beating, but if master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is on the losing side, the damage to the bourses is even worse.

Research by economists Russell Smyth and Vinod Mishra of Monash University, in Australia, suggests the performance of the Indian cricket team in one-day matches can significantly impact the fortunes of the Indian stock market, an official release said.

"While a win by the Indian cricket team has no statistically significant upward impact on stock market returns, a loss generates a significant downward movement in the stock market," Smyth, the Head of Monash University's Department of Economics, said.

"India's main index, the CNX Nifty, shows that the Nifty index was generally flat the day after a win, but the day following a loss, the index dropped by an average of 0.231 per cent. The drop following a loss was more than seven times greater than the movement following a win," Smyth said.

Furthermore, when Sachin Tendulker, India's most popular cricketer, is on the losing side, the loss on the stock market is almost 20 per cent more.

"In the 100 matches in which Tendulkar played and India lost, the average return the day after the match was 0.328 per cent, an 18 per cent higher drop compared to the average drop after losing a match (which Tendulkar did not play)," Smyth said.

"A sporting event is a non-economic phenomenon and, as such, one might expect that stock prices will not be affected. However, behavioural finance suggests that large sporting events affect the sentiment of viewers-cum-investors, resulting in upwards or downwards 'mood swings' in the market, which are reflected in stock prices," Smyth said.

According to Smyth and Mishra, emotions can impact normally objective decision-making, the university release said. "A feeling of sadness might make investors withdraw from the world and the stock market, thus resulting in reduced trading for a while, whereas anger might make them behave in an impulsive manner, which might involve selling of a lot of the stocks," Smyth said.

"When you are tuning in to follow how Australia performs against India in one-day internationals, before you write them off as meaningless matches, spare a thought for what the outcome might mean for Indian investors," Smyth said.

Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shotYou can only ever really play air-cricket shots that have 'belonged' to cricketers you have loved – there is no higher form of praise


Aged 38, Sachin Tendulkar tops the Test rankings and is the first batsman to score 14,000 Test runs – 'a level of greatness you feel bound to stroll around'. Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters

The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates.

Even in the same week that Tendulkar also became the first batsman to score 14,000 Test runs, while returning at the age of 38 to the top of the Test rankings, there might still have been a residual sense that there is perhaps something too corporate and earnest, too Princess Diana Memorial Book of Condolence, about the public outpourings of worship that have tended to surge across the cricketing superstructure.

Tendulkar has represented something of a personal conundrum, right from the moment he first appeared in England, gliding to an oddly frictionless first Test century as a 17-year-old at Old Trafford. Sure, I've trilled and cooed along since, taking pleasure in a flawless double ton here, a mathematical dissection of the offside field there; all the while, though, furtively studying the swooning faces for a tiny hint of doubt, or at least for a sense of sober approval, rather than full-blown Tendul-itis.

Watching Tendulkar seemed an experience of annihilating perfection, like being asked to admire an inconceivably well-engineered German supercar. This is a criticism, not of his batting style or tempo, but of its texture and temperature.

Mid-period Tendulkar had a Terminator-ish feel for me, an air of unblinking, calculus-level excellence, backed by the devouring quicksand of his unanswerable numbers. And what stats they are: Tendulkar has 46 one-day international hundreds. The current England one-day team have 16 between them.

This is a level of greatness you feel bound to stroll around, to frown at, and perhaps even reverently buy a postcard of. But still. Preferring Tendulkar to, say, the visceral, occasionally ragged genius of Brian Lara, or the Paul-Newman-riding-a-bike-around-a-haystack romance of VVS Laxman seemed to go against some basic instinct, like preferring Luke Skywalker to Han Solo, or claiming that Jesus, not the devil, always has the best tunes.

Anyway, that's all gone out of the window now. I take it all back. I confess to these guilty feelings only because something very fundamental – and your favourite Test cricketer is one of the most fundamental things there is – has changed. I think it's to do with age: his rather than mine.

Tendulkar is approaching 40 but he simply will not weaken or fray at the edges. For the dithering unbeliever that last vital sense of wild and alluring extremity has come with the sheer recklessness of his longevity, this most un-mechanical, un-robotic refusal to wither. It's the Rolling Stones principle in miniature: mildly embarrassing on stage aged 47; deeply rock'n'roll on stage aged 67.

In saying all this, it is hard not to feel now like just another supplicant, another person who believes that the Beatles are a good band, or that Coca-Cola is a refreshing drink and jeans are a comfortable type of trouser.

Tendulkar is a generous icon, however. He inspires, I have discovered, a very personal kind of reverence. For what it's worth my own revelation of Tendulkar-ness was sealed with the realisation that he has, finally, entered my range of air-cricket shots.

This is no small matter. Air-cricket is much more than just the most widely practised shadow-sport in the world. It is a hugely intimate affair.

I raised the subject of air-cricket – cricket you play in mime form, often using a bat-like object, and perhaps making a "clonk" noise as you dispatch an imaginary ball – on the Guardian's over-by-over commentary recently and was swamped with stories: the man who performed a lofted drive with his rolled degree certificate at his graduation and sent it sailing into the audience; the Russian wedding almost ruined by a display of aggressive umbrella air-batsmanship; the hospital-ward practice of playing air-cricket with a drip stand.

Air-cricket is instinctive: I have a friend who finds himself automatically playing a perfect, straight-bat air-defensive on entering any crowded room. Plus, you can only ever really play air-cricket shots that have "belonged" to cricketers you have loved. I still have a pirouetting Alec Stewart air-pull. Plus, brilliantly, I now have an air Tendulkar. It's a signature shot too, the wristy flick to leg for a strike-rotating single. Hand me an umbrella. Give me a wooden spoon. This is what you'll get. I have no higher form of praise.

There is a final point about Tendulkar. Air-cricket is, as a rule, air-Test-cricket and Tendulkar is above all a Test cricketer. It might even seem paradoxical that India's premier cricketer – the main man in a country where Twenty20 is being furiously distilled as the coming force – doesn't even play Twenty20 internationals.

He is in his small way the sentry at the gates beating back the barbarians. Along with Ricky Ponting, he is also the last great Test player of this generation. Perhaps even a case of saving the very best until the very last.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...ndia-australia

Full of typical british left handed compliments,I reject the above article not the least for slyly equating Sachin with Ricky :evil: