Sachin 93 vs SA in 5th ODI 2000 - Another rare Knock. Hitting 93(7 4's and 4 sixers) while chasing 320. He was the most economical bowler also giving 31 runs in 10 overs taking a wicket and effecting a run out. Evvalavu senjalum sila adhimedhaviga enna velayandaarunu keppanuga.
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Sachin 50 0f 88 vs Aus at Brisbane 2004
Sachin 115 vs NZ at Baroda 1994 - Sachin's 1st ODI 100 in India.
World Cup India Pakistan match: Win is the only thing
Virender Sehwag had once come up with this highly entertaining tale about his sledging with Shoaib Akhtar during an India-Pakistan match: “Shoaib was repeatedly bowling bouncers and I kept ducking. He’d walk up to me and taunt `show me your hook shot’.
After a lot of this sort of talk, I told him pointing out at Sachin, `that’s your father at the non-striker’s end. Ask him to show you the shot.’ Next over Shoaib bounced at Sachin and he hooked him for a six. I walked by Shoaib and remarked, “Beta beta hota hai, baap baap hota hai”.
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/commen...-thing_1524471
Flau, thanks for introducing us to Kartikeya Date (Maharashtrian names are the best)
http://cricketingview.blogspot.com/2...runs.html#more
First things first. Ricky Ponting, in the above charts, has played in 204 wins against top ODI teams and 89 defeats. Adam Gilchrist's record is even more impressive - 158 wins and 52 defeats. Mathew Hayden, 91 wins and only 28 defeats. Jacques Kallis has played in 165 wins and 94 defeats. By contrast, Tendulkar, Lara, Sehwag, Ganguly and Jayasurya have all played in fewer wins than defeats. And yet, Jayasurya has a better record in wins than Gilchrist, Lara has a better record than Kallis and Ponting, Ganguly and Sehwag a better one than Hayden, and Tendulkar possibly has the best record of them all. In fact, it seems as though the players who have played in weaker teams (i.e. in teams that have won less) have been more important to their teams winning, than the players who have played in strong teams like Australia and SA.
Since he started opening the batting in 1994, Tendulkar has made a century in every 6th India win against a top Test playing team, and a half century in every other Indian win. Only Lara comes close - making a century in every 8th West Indies win, and a half century in every other. Tendulkar's record in India's defeats (12 centuries, 25 fifties in 138 defeats) is nearly as good as Gilchrist's record in victories! I have added his record over the last 5 years, just to show that this hasn't changed recently. India have won more (35-30 in the last 5 years, as opposed to 125-138 over the last 17, when Tendulkar has played), but Tendulkar's contribution has remained steady. He has had one problem. Of his 12 half centuries, 8 have been 90s. These include 3 scores of 99, a 97, a 96, a 94, a 93 and a 91. Tendulkar has played three tournament finals in the last 5 years, and his scores in those have been 138, 117 not out and 91. India have won all three.
Not the record of one who doesn't make runs when it matters. The problem of the 90s suggests that Tendulkar would do well to take the great Gavaskar's advice seriously. I don't use the word great for Gavaskar in jest, he really is one of the great batsmen of all time. For Tendulkar making 110 is always better than Tendulkar making 95, superstitions notwithstanding.
Compared to the top Australians and Kallis, Tendulkar has had nowhere to hide. Gilchrist averaging 40 has been enough for Australia to win, but for India to win, Tendulkar has had to average over 60. There is no comparison between the top Australians and Tendulkar or Lara. Those two are in a different class.
Tendulkar himself is a modest man. Over the years, the most I've heard him say is "One has to keep trying". That, a fair minded individual free of psycho-pharmacological assistance should agree, is something Tendulkar does better than anybody else
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"
Digression but felt like posting it here nevertheless:
http://cricketingview.blogspot.com/2...years-ago.html
It was Day 4 of the Kolkata Test of 2001. Since that day, the two men who batted all day against one of the best bowling attacks of all time, have made fifteen and a half thousand Test runs including 36 centuries for India. Both men have gone on to play 100 Test matches for India, VVS has played 99 since that Test, while Dravid has played 108.
It was a day that changed the fortunes of India and her cricket. Can you imagine an India in which cricket went into decline in the aftermath of the match-fixing scandals of the late 2000s? Would there have been the generation of the 2000s? Would there have been the IPL without that day?
On 15 March 2001, exactly 124 years after the first ball was bowled in a Test Match, a miraculous stand by two wonderful players changed the shape of India's decade. I hear on the grapevine that those two gents will be sharing a meal tonight.
Would it not be fitting if India were to fulfill the promise of the day by winning the World Cup?
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"
tendulkar walks on 97.
18, 008 ......
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...50143127404761
some rare pics. sry if repost.
Sach is Life..
MOHALI: Sachin Tendulkar is known to prepare assiduously before any match. He never leaves anything to chance and covers all bases before getting into the thick of the battle. Now that India are just two wins away from one of his most cherished goals - the World Cup crown - the batting maestro must be preparing even harder.
On Sunday, one got a sneak peak into his plans for the semifinal against Pakistan, and possibly the final on April 2, when he brought to the ground a fresh supply of bats. Tendulkar is very fastidious about his willows and wants them to be in perfect shape so that he can heap maximum damage on the bowlers.
The gleaming new bats needed some breaking up so he, after doing a few knock-downs himself, asked the yoga trainer Manoj Kumar to give them some hits.
Thus, while Tendulkar played football with teammates, Kumar kept hitting balls with the bats for close to an hour.
Tendulkar came back to continue the routine himself before Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli also got a taste of the master's new weapons of mass destruction.
Will Tendulkar be employing one of these new bats in the semifinal against Pakistan? We will know shortly. Maybe, his 100th international century (he is just one short) will come through a brand new bat.
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