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I think I have this video already. The uppercut against Warne (which was mentioned in previous post) was played in this match. That's the last shot in this video. Sachin played two paddle sweeps in the same over. In fact, after he hit the first one, Steve Waugh put a fielder in fine leg. Still Sachin played the same shot and beat that fielder :lol: Warne was not amused and bowled a short one and Sachin hit it over the slips :lol:Quote:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZwfCkJQKRU
Ponting & team pays tribute to Sachin Tendulkar
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'Life would be flat without dreams'In an extract from his exclusive interview with Donald McRae, Indian cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar stresses that rather than considering retirement at the age of 37, he has many more goals to fulfil
Donald McRae guardian.co.uk,
Friday 29 October 2010 08.30
After more than 14,000 Test runs Sachin Tendulkar is focusing on ways to improve his game.
Photograph: Jon Buckle
Sachin Tendulkar, who made history earlier this month by becoming the first batsman to score 14,000 runs in Test cricket, has stressed that his desire to improve remains as intense as it has ever been. In a rare interview, to be published in full in Saturday's newspaper, Tendulkar says: "I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?"
Tendulkar has had the most prolific year of his Test career, which began in November 1989 when he was just 16, and he has returned to the top of the world batting rankings for the first time since 2002. In February he scored centuries in successive Tests against South Africa before, against the same opponents, becoming the first man to reach 200 in a one-day international. He was the highest run scorer in the IPL and also made a Test double-hundred against Sri Lanka, and two half-centuries, before his remarkable performances against Australia – which saw him reach the 14,000 landmark in the second Test at Bangalore while scoring 214 and an unbeaten 53 to complete India's 2-0 series victory.
Describing 2010 as his "sweetest year", Tendulkar has also won the ICC's Player of the Year and earlier this week in London he was feted with two more prizes at the inaugural Asian Awards. But he insists that, rather than considering retirement at the age of 37, he has many more goals to fulfil. According to Tendulkar: "Life would be flat without dreams. I think it's really important to dream – and then to chase those dreams. I really believe in this because it's this dreaming that makes me work so hard. I want to continue doing that because I've worked very hard the last couple of years on my batting. Gary Kirsten [the former Test opener for South Africa who now coaches India] has been instrumental in this. Together we've worked hard in the last couple of years to improve my batting. He's given me the freedom to express myself, and to pace my innings as I see fit. I can slow down occasionally. Gary has helped me do this and it's because he's more a friend than a coach."
Conceding that his form subsided a few years ago, prompting critics like Australia's Ian Chappell to call for his retirement, Tendulkar says: "There was a little dip for me, around 2005 and 2006. But I had a lot of injuries then. I had finger and elbow injuries, and then a back injury. All these upper-body injuries may have altered my back-swing a little. But, fortunately, all that is behind me now and I've been able to put in the hours of practice that I need."
In a wide-ranging interview, Tendulkar reflects on the influence of his late father, a novelist and poet, as well as his brother, Ajit, who remains his closest cricketing confidante. He relives the "big moment" when he passed the 14,000-run milestone and considers the difficulties of the life he leads as the idol of over a billion people.
India will co-host the 2011 cricket World Cup – with the final to be played on 2 April in Tendulkar's home city of Mumbai. "It's going to be massive," he says. "Everyone in India is already looking forward to hosting a mega tournament and although people haven't started talking yet about 1983 [the last time India won the World Cup] it will happen soon. But, given our recent form, people have a right to be excited and have extremely high hopes for us. There are going to be big expectations."
Tendulkar explains why he favours England over Australia in the Ashes – and identifies Eoin Morgan as potentially the key man of the series. He also reveals the surprise identity of the bowler who has troubled him most in Test cricket and reflects on the day he and Shane Warne visited Don Bradman on his 90th birthday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010...-india-cricket
Tendulkar Opus Competition Announcement
by Sachin Tendulkar on Friday, 29 October 2010 at 16:24.
Hello all,
We are holding a contest for all the fans with the grand prize being the The Official Tendulkar Opus approximately worth Rs 2,10,000(£3,000). We are also giving away 4 personally signed items every week until December 3rd 2010 when we will announce the winner of Tendulkar Opus.
How to play the contest?
Visit this page:
Competition launching tomorrow i.e October 30th 2010.
And submit your entry.
The Prizes
The Grand Prize: The Official Tendulkar Opus
One lucky winner will get the Official Tendulkar Opus which will be released next year.
About Tendulkar Opus
The Official Tendulkar Opus will contain exclusive photo shoots and special features with Sachin (and many other famous cricket personalities).
Previously unpublished family pictures, rare memorabilia and action shots chosen by Tendulkar himself and complemented by his own reminiscences will ensure this Opus is the definitive work on the record-breaking batsman.
Visit www.tendulkaropus.com for more information.
Weekly Prizes
4 fans will win personally signed Sachin Tendulkar signed items during the next one month.
1 signed mini bat
1 signed ball
1 signed Polaroid poster
1 signed India cricket cap (BCCI)
Winner Announcement
We will announce 4 consolation prizes on 5th November 2010, 12th November 2010, 19th November, 26th November & the grand prize winner for the Official Tendulkar Opus on 3rd December.
All the best everyone!
Administrator
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Tendulkar being presented the Tendulkar opus book.
I didn't know how to face Cronje, says Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar, arguably the greatest batsman the game of cricket has seen after Sir Don Bradman, on Saturday revealed that it was the innocuous bowling of former South African captain Hansie Cronje which tested him the most. Tendulkar, who over the past 21 years, has hammered even the best of
bowlers on a given day, said he dreaded facing the gentle looseners of late Cronje and did not know how to tackle him.
"The bowler who tested me the most was Cronje. Honestly, I got out to him more than anyone. When we played South Africa, he always got me out more than Allan Donald or Shaun Pollock.
"It was not that I could not pick him. It was just that the ball seemed to go straight to a fielder. I was going great guns in Durban one year and played some big shots against Donald and Pollock. Hansie came on and I flicked his first ball straight to leg-slip. I never knew what to do with him," Tendulkar said in an interview to The Guardian.
When asked who was the best bowler he faced on merit, the little master named fast bowler Glen McGrath and Shane Warne among the spinners.
"I did okay against him (McGrath). But, among the spinners, Warne at his best was still something special," he said.
A world cup trophy is one of the rare things missing from Tendulkar's list of staggering achievements and he is looking forward to the 2011 edition in the sub-continent.
"It is going to be massive. Everyone in India is looking forward to a mega tournament and although people have not started talking yet about 1983 (the last time India won the World Cup) it will happen soon. But, given our recent form, people have a right to be excited and have extremely high hopes," he said.
The 37-year-old is the leading run-scorer in Test and one-day format and is nearing a 50th ton in the five-day format of the game.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/I-didn...e1-620012.aspx
Sachin Tendulkar interview: 'I favour England to win the Ashes' - LM, Please Note :).
The Indian legend believes Australia are in decline and so backs the tourists, and Eoin Morgan in particular, to shine this winter
Donald McRae The Guardian, Saturday 30 October 2010
Sachin Tendulkar has described the past year, in which he became the first batsman to reach 14,000 Test runs, as 'sweet'. Photograph: Graham Hughes/Getty Images
On a rainy afternoon in London, with wintry gloom creeping across the city, it does not take long for Sachin Tendulkar to light up a drab hotel room. Tendulkar is shy and quietly-spoken but he soon turns a routine encounter into an illuminating experience. His balance and patience at the crease are again evident as he offers insight into the attributes which make him not only the world's best batsman but, after an epic year, arguably the greatest in cricket history.
Tendulkar steps away from these sweeping generalisations and deals, instead, in the specifics of his voracious mentality at 37. Amid widespread belief that he is the only batsman who could transcend Don Bradman in any dreamy comparison of cricket across the centuries, Tendulkar makes a remarkable statement: "I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?"
He could be an earnest young cricketer aspiring to improve himself – rather than the little master who, after 21 years of Tests, has completed another monumental achievement. Less than three weeks ago, against Australia in Bangalore, he cracked a ball from Nathan Hauritz through the covers. It would have been an ordinary boundary but for the fact it meant Tendulkar became the first man to score 14,000 Test runs.
"It was a big moment," Tendulkar says, "but I was most aware of the match situation." He had arrived at the wicket with India 38 for two in answer to Australia's first innings of 478. He and Murali Vijay added 64: "And then it flashed on the big screen that I needed eight runs to reach 14,000. Every run I scored was cheered. But when I needed two I hit a boundary. I was happy but I thought, 'right, now we can get back to focusing on cricket', because everyone had become too worried about those eight runs. It had taken away my focus."
That same restraint shaped his low-key acknowledgment of the milestone. As bedlam broke out, Tendulkar finally looked skywards and thought of his late father and his Test debut in November 1989 against a Pakistan attack led by Imran Khan and Wasim Akram. He pauses when asked if he felt more emotional than he had done in 2008, when becoming the highest run-scorer in Test cricket. "Yes. Obviously, going past Brian Lara was something special. But I'm even happier now and hopefully it continues."
That steadiness of ambition was obvious in Bangalore as Tendulkar compiled an unforgettable double hundred. He followed his 214 with an unbeaten 53 in the second innings to complete India's 2-0 victory. Tendulkar scored 403 runs in the two-match series, at an average of 134.5. Now, stressing his desire to become more "consistent" and "competitive", should that be possible, Tendulkar sounds briefly poetic. "Life would be flat without dreams. It's really important to dream – and then to chase those dreams. I really believe it's this dreaming that makes me work so hard. I want to continue doing that because I've worked very hard the last couple of years on my batting. Gary Kirsten [the former South Africa batsman who now coaches India] has been instrumental in this. He's given me the freedom to express myself, and to pace my innings as I see fit. Gary is more a friend than a coach."
He laughs when it is pointed out that Kirsten's empathy is different to India's former abrasive coach, Greg Chappell, whose brother, Ian, suggested a few years ago that Tendulkar was ready only for retirement. "There was a little dip for me, around 2005 and 2006. I had a lot of injuries – finger and elbow injuries and then a back injury. All these upper-body injuries may have altered my back-swing a little. But that is behind me now and I've been able to put in the hours of practice I need."
Lara might have been a more sublime batsman, and Viv Richards more majestic, but Tendulkar surpasses them both. It now seems appropriate to celebrate him alongside Bradman. In February he scored successive Test centuries against South Africa before, against the same opponents, becoming the first man to reach 200 in a one-day international. He then hit a double-hundred against Sri Lanka, and two half-centuries, before his performance against Australia confirmed his return to the top of the world batting ratings for the first time since 2002. Tendulkar won the ICC's Player of the Year, and earlier this week he was feted at London's inaugural Asian Awards. In front of a mix of celebrities defined by a surreal trio of Didier Drogba, Christian Louboutin and Nick Clegg, Tendulkar received awards for Outstanding Sporting Achievement and as the Lebara People's Choice.
"It's been the sweetest year. If you look at the one-day double-hundred, being the highest run-getter in the IPL and the series against Sri Lanka and Australia, it's been very good. We now play New Zealand [the first Test starts on Thursday] and I'm looking forward to the series in South Africa in December."
He argues that beating South Africa, away, is India's toughest assignment; as a clash between the two top teams in the world should produce better cricket than the eagerly-anticipated Ashes. England, after all, are ranked fourth while Australia are a lowly fifth. Are Australia in serious decline? "Yes. To not have [Matthew] Hayden, [Justin] Langer, [Adam] Gilchrist, [Glenn] McGrath, [Shane] Warne – it's a big loss. They still have some world-class players but their batting revolves around Ponting. When you want to create a vacuum in their batting you need to get Ponting."
Tendulkar expects a more balanced England to edge the Ashes. "I think England have a better chance. I favour them slightly. I would say [Eoin] Morgan could be the key performer in the Ashes. Morgan and [Graeme] Swann." Suggesting that Kevin Pietersen's poor form lies in his head, Tendulkar pinpoints Morgan as England's best batsman. "He's a very solid player who can control the pace of his innings. He can become a really good Test batsman even though he has only played a few Tests so far. After Morgan you've got the experience of [Andrew] Strauss, [Paul] Collingwood and Pietersen. They're a really well-balanced side and this is a great opportunity for England."
Australia, especially at home, remain cussed opponents. Surely they inspired Tendulkar to his greatest feats? "No, I think it's just a coincidence that many of my milestones happened against them." Yet Merv Hughes typified Australia's blunt admiration when he said to Allan Border, after Tendulkar had spoilt Shane Warne's debut in 1992: "This little prick's going to end up with more runs than you, AB."
Tendulkar attributes his poise to his father, Ramesh, a poet and novelist rather than a cricket fan: "I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating."
His brother, Ajit, now influences him most. "If there is any problem in my batting I always speak to him. Ajit is absolutely the person I trust most when it comes to batting. Our understanding at home was always that we focus on the next game – let everyone else talk about the last game. I scored a triple hundred when I was 14 in the semi-final of a tournament. But there was a school match at the same time and my team only played with 10 fielders because I was batting in this other game. I still batted for my school and scored 178 not out. I then went to the final of the tournament and hit 346 not out. I have this same mentality now."
Tendulkar first played for India at 16. In the intervening 21 years he has become an idol in a country of over a billion people. There has been little peace for an essentially private man and a rare crack emerges in Tendulkar's grateful persona when he mentions the need to sometimes drive around Mumbai on his own at five in the morning: "I do that sometimes because I need the privacy. I drive around at 30 mph and I listen to music or the sound of the engine. I don't think about cricket. I am just myself."
India will co-host the 2011 World Cup – with the final to be played on 2 April in Mumbai. The pressure on Tendulkar will be immense. "It's going to be massive. Everyone in India is looking forward to a mega tournament and although people haven't started talking yet about 1983 [the last time India won the World Cup] it will happen soon. But, given our recent form, people have a right to be excited and have extremely high hopes."
Already, as his eyes glitter with anticipation, Tendulkar is moving forward. But he is most engaging when looking back. "As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked [Bjorn] Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work."
Asked to name the bowler who tested him most, Tendulkar smiles at a bizarre selection: "Hansie Cronje. Honestly. I got out to Hansie more than anyone. When we played South Africa he always got me out more than Allan Donald or Shaun Pollock. It wasn't that I couldn't pick him – it's just that the ball seemed to go straight to a fielder. I was going great guns in Durban one year and played some big shots against Donald and Pollock. Hansie came on and I flicked his first ball straight to leg-slip. I never knew what to do with him."
Tendulkar shrugs in amusement before naming McGrath as the best fast bowler he faced. Warne has admitted to nightmares about bowling to Tendulkar – a feeling that was never reciprocated. "I did OK against him. But, among the spinners, Warne at his best was still something special."
Finally, to lighten his Bradman-esque aura, Tendulkar tells a lovely story about him and Warne visiting the old master. He neglects to mention he was the only modern player Bradman included in his best-ever XI and chooses, instead, to highlight the warmth of their meeting. "We went to see him on his 90th birthday. It was very special. We were talking about averages and I said, 'Sir Don, if you were playing today, what would you have averaged?' And he said, '70 – probably.' I asked, 'Why 70 and not your actual average of 99?' Bradman said, 'Come on, an average of 70 is not bad for a 90-year-old man.'"
Tendulkar rocks back in his chair and laughs. In this humorous moment, as one cricketing giant thinks of another, it's easy to admire the same qualities in Tendulkar. "This is what I tell my son. Whether you're an 11-year-old boy or Don Bradman we should never forget it's just a game we can all enjoy."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010...chin-tendulkar
1. Some morbid thoughts - if SRT has a poor/average series in SA, how those Ricky supporters and/or Guardian writers and Aussie writers will come crawling out of the woodowork to relegate Sachin to 3rd, 4th or 5th behind Bradman and Ponting and/or Richards and/or Lara, especially since Ponting will have a succesful or highly succesful or mega-succesful, at any rate not a poor Ashes Series, as a batsman.
2. Bradman's 70 average joke is a stale rehash of bradman's own joke made in 1978. Obviously, looks like the old man spent his last 25 years repeating the same joke.
3. I don't believe it is a open-and-shut case that Bradman scores 70+ average if he plays now or played in 80s or 90s. Too much is taken for granted on this by western media and they behave like fanboy threads in forumhub when someone points out the complete suspension of disbelief when someone states this obvious fact. Infact, our chaps are far more rational. The old man meant it as a joke, you stupid western journalists, and Sachin was being plain polite to repeat the joke. Just don't make it sound like universal fact, western journalist pricks :evil:
3. Suppose someone asks Richards how much he would have averaged in 1930s or 40s and he says 150 because with just 10 grounds and two opponents, how easy it would have been - what would this same media say. Blasphemy. If Bradman was not joking, or if the western media stupids parrot it as an illustration of his greatness, as the great russian writer would say, it is equally blasphemy and " I spit me of western journalists"
Sachin's bat fetches Rs. 42 lakh at glittering sports auction
Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar’s willow fetched the highest bid of Rs. 42 lakh at a glittering sports auction here that saw personal items donated by 25 top sportspersons from the country and overseas go under the hammer.
The champion batsman had scored an unbeaten 163 against New Zealand at Christchurch last year, his fourth highest one day score, with this bat.
Tied at second spot was the rifle used by India’s only individual Olympic gold medallist, shooter Abhinav Bindra, when creating history at the Beijing Games two years ago and the bat of Rahul Dravid, with which he had scored a century in each innings in the Kolkata Test of 2005 against Pakistan.
Both were successfully bid for Rs. 20 lakh.
The bat signed by all team members of the 1983 World Cup winning team and donated by former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar’s willow went under the hammer for Rs. 17.5 lakh.
Anil Kumble’s jersey which he wore when he equalled Jim Laker’s ten-wicket in a Test innings record against Pakistan in New Delhi in 1999, and his Test cap that he wore between 2004 and 2006 went for Rs. 11.5 lakh.
Among the other items auctioned off were Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer’s shoes, a bat donated by 1983 World Cup winning skipper Kapil Dev with the autographs of all the team members and sports gear donated by Indian top racquet sports exponents -- Shuttler Saina Nehwal and tennis player Sania Mirza.
Doners Dravid, Kumble, tennis ace Leander Paes, national football captain Bhaichung Bhutia, 1974 hockey World Cup winning skipper Ajit Pal Singh, former hockey captain Viren Rasquinha and Bindra were present at the auction last night.
Leander’s 12th Grand Slam winning racquet at Wimbledon this year in mixed doubles was the second piece to be auctioned and received a bid of Rs 7 lakhs.
Also gracing the function were world champion wrestler and Delhi Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sushil Kumar and hockey great Dhanraj Pillay.
The auction was held by Non Government Organisation ‘The Foundation’ founded by actor and ex-rugby international player Rahul Bose in association with Raheja Universal and the proceeds were donated to Bose’s NGO.
The donors and items that went under the hammer were:
Pankaj Advani: Medal -- World Billiards Champion, 2007; Cue-International debut, 2002
Viswanathan Anand: Medal -- World Chess (Match) Champion, 2008.
Mahesh Bhupathi: Racquet -- Mixed Doubles Champion, Australian Open, 2009.
Bhaichung Bhutia: Jersey -- Signed by Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Baichung Bhutia and others worn at the International Charity Match for Haiti earthquake, 2010.
Abhinav Bindra: Rifle -- World Champion, 2006; World record, Olympic Record.
Rahul Dravid: Bat -- Century in each Test innings, v Pakistan: Kolkata, 2005.
Anil Kumble: Test Jersey -- 10 wickets in an innings, v Pakistan: New Delhi, 1999; Test cap -- 2004 to 2006.
Sania Mirza: Racquet -- Wimbledon, 2010.
Saina Nehwal: Racquet -- Singapore Open Super Series, Indonesian Open Super Series, Indian Open Grand Prix, all 2010; Gold Medal -- Indian Open, 2010.
Sachin Tendulkar: Bat -- 163 v New Zealand: Christchurch, 2009 -- Fourth highest one day score.
Virender Sehwag: Batting gloves -- 125 v New Zealand, 2009-Fastest one day hundred by an Indian.
Kapil Dev: Bat -- Signed by 1983 world cup winning squad.
Sunil Gavaskar: Bat -- Signed by 1983 world cup winning squad.
Leander Paes: Racquet -- Mixed Doubles Champion, Wimbledon 2010.
Viren Rasquinha: Hockey stick -- Bronze medal, Asian Games, Busan, 2002; India blazer, Asian Games, Busan, 2002.
Geet Sethi: World Professional Billiards trophy, 1992; Cue-World Billiards Championship, 2007, World Snooker Championship, 2008.
Prakash Padukone: Silver Medal -- Japan Open, 1981.
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi: Debut India blazer v England, 1961; Retiring India blazer v West Indies, 1975
Ajitpal Singh: Hockey stick -- (Exchanged with) Pakistan captain, Islahuddin, World Cup Final, 1975.
Vijay Amritraj: Tennis racquet, Tennis balls.
Roger Federer (courtesy Globosport): Tennis shoes -- Winner, Cincinnati Open 2010.
Diego Forlan: (Courtesy Mahuaa TV): Football, 2010.
Ricky Ponting (Courtesy Dhiraj Malhotra): Gold Medal, World Cup, 2007.
Maria Sharapova (Courtesy Akshay Kulkarni): Racquet, 2010
Shane Warne: (Courtesy Rahul Bose): Retiring Cricket Victoria shirt, 2008.
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http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/article859160.ece
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