Sir Sachin Tendulkar - The Greatest Cricketer Ever

[ajithfederer]

Vicky can we add leg glance as the 10th option. Could you please do that?

[Vivasaayi]

Vicky can we add leg glance as the 10th option. Could you please do that?

Leg glance - I have never seen him miss it if he was bowled on pads - rightly placed on leg side to score runs - 100% shot.The way he rotates his wrist to place it fine deserves a .atleast a thousand runs from that shot definitely.

[ajithfederer]

10) Leg Glance.

There was an other inovative shot played by our master against Saqlain Mushtaq(mostly) during the 136 against Pak in Chennai. It was a very innovative shot where he kind of slap sweeps the ball to the extreme close leg slip region. Anybody remember the shot?

PR or SS Add this poll whenever possible.

Poll on Favourite shots!!

1. The Pull (first 10-12 years)
2. The straight (On) Drive
3. Flick
4. Cover drive
5. Late cut
6. Paddle sweep
7. Six over the slips' head (Upper cut? )
8.square cut
9) Hook shot.

[Vivasaayi]

af,

leg glance towards leg slip?

[ajithfederer]

Adhe, adhe

af,

leg glance involes galncing it to anywhere on and around the square region on leg side

sachin is capable of doing it very fine even at the leg slip region

af,

leg glance towards leg slip?

[Vivasaayi]

stand up cover drive was another trademark shot.

its a leg glance or a stand up cover drive usually that gets him off the mark

[ajithfederer]

A Story a Day - All about Sachin

No.4

I dont know how many of u guys know that Sachin was actually spotted by Dilip Venksarkar first!
It was 1989...venksarkar captain..indian team practising in mumbai. Venksarkar calls a small boy in nets and asks Kapil and Prabhakar to go all out to him.
First Ball Kapil from a slow run up delivers ....(may be underestimated the small boy) ...Sachin plays a lofted shot..Kapil is insulted.....Now next ball kapil comes with a little more runup..sachin plays a lofted shot once again...Kapil is not happy!
he comes with his full run-up and bowls...sachin hits a supereb straight drive....
Same treatment was for prabhakar and chetan sharma......Venksarkar standing in one corner smiling !!!! He knew that this was future indian cricket!!

As was reported by Debashish Dutta...a well known sports journalist from kolkata!

http://www.orkut.com/Main#CommMsgs.a...71083262438136

[Sourav]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/I...ow/3723139.cms

[Sourav]

The supreme modern batsman

By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

Published: November 15 2008 02:00 | Last updated: November 15 2008 02:00

There are more flamboyant batsmen. Batsmen with marginally higher batting averages. Batsmen who are more destructive or harder to dislodge. Yet Sachin Tendulkar stands alone as the supreme modern batsman.

Tendulkar is widely considered the heir to Don Bradman, the best ever batsman. The flame was handed down by Bradman himself who, observing the Indian in 1996, was struck by an uncanny similarity of styles. "His compactness, technique, stroke production, it all seemed to gel," Bradman said.

Another Australian legend, the leg-spinner Shane Warne, confirmed Tendulkar's coronation when he judged the "Little Master" to be the best batsman he had bowled against. The next best, Brian Lara, came a distant second in Warne's view.

Tendulkar has less flair than Lara, whom he last month overhauled as the leading run scorer in Test history, but a stronger all-round game. Short and squat, he has extraordinary balance and is nimble on his feet - Warne joked that he suffered nightmares of Tendulkar skipping down the pitch towards him to clatter the ball back over the bowler's head.

The Indian has scored runs against all forms of bowling on all types of pitches. He can bat aggressively or defensively as the situation demands; his range of strokeplay is unequalled.

He has scored more Test centuries (40) and more one-day international centuries (42) than anyone else.

He plays shots with surgical precision, not so much demolishing a bowling attack as dismantling it with deft flicks and powerful strikes. The calculated violence that gained him the nickname "Master Blaster" has faded as age and injuries take their toll.

Tendulkar is highly methodical - in 2003 he entered a Test match against Australia after a run of innings in which he had repeatedly been dismissed playing an off-side shot. He resolved to eradicate the shot from his repertoire and proceeded to score 241 not out, mostly on the legside, against one of the best bowling attacks ever assembled.

The sole criticism levelled against him as a cricketer is his supposed failure to play match-winning innings. Former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev complained last year: "Sachin has big records to his name but until he wins matches for India . . . people will raise fingers at him."

It is a contentious viewpoint, bitterly contested by Tendulkar's hundreds of millions of fans. It also overlooks the extent to which he has transformed the identity of cricket in India, bringing professionalism and focus to a game still bearing the fusty stamp of amateurism. He channels a nation's resurgent ambitions into a remorseless appetite for runs.

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/651a531e-b...0779fd18c.html

[ajithfederer]

http://cricketnext.in.com/news/sachi.../35694-13.html

Sachin set to return; Rohit, Raina on edge

V Veera Kumar | Cricketnext.com

Posted on Nov 18, 2008 at 12:24 | Updated Nov 18, 2008 at 13:27

Bangalore: With batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar all set to come back for the remaining four One-Dayers against England, the Indian selectors are likely to face a ‘problem of plenty’ especially with border-line players Yousuf Pathan and Suresh Raina doing quite well in the first two matches so far.

Former Indian stumper and chief selector Kiran More said the problem of plenty was bound to arise to accommodate a player of Sachin's caliber and it will be a tricky situation for chief selector Krishnamachari Srikkanth and company when they sit down at Kanpur on November 20 to pick the side for the remaining four matches in the seven-match One-Day series.

"A player of Sachin's caliber has to be accommodated, what come may. But I feel sorry for players like Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina or even Yousuf Pathan because one of them has to make way for the highest scorer in One-Day cricket (Tendulkar) to come in to the playing eleven. It will be a tricky situation for the selectors indeed," More told Cricketnext.com on Tuesday.

"Though this situation (problem of plenty) is a welcome sign for the team, the borderline players are the ones to be hit hard under the circumstances.

"Yousuf’s blistering unbeaten half century at Indore has only made matters worse for the selectors as the only way now to accommodate Sachin is by dropping Rohit Sharma, who has been a live wire on the field but has not done much with the bat so far while Raina played an important knock at Rajkot," More added.

"if Ishant, who is said to be nursing an injury, is also fit for the last four ties than things get really complicated even though Rudra Prathap Singh will be the first choice discard and Munaf Patel’s place will always be shaky in a One-Day match as the Indians tend to prefer just two seamers hoping that the spinners, including the part-timers, do the job for the team," More pointed out.

Another former Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Chandrakant Pandit agreed with More even though he felt that the Indians can take the risk of dropping a bowler at this stage of the series.

"Personally I feel Zaheer (Khan) and Ishant Sharma (if fit) should be our pace aces as the spinners will have a bigger role to play in this series at least. With Viru (Virender Sehwag) and Yuvi (Yuvraj Singh) picking up bag full of wickets, the selectors may consider playing just three specialist bowlers (Zaheer, Ishant and Harbhajan Singh)," Pandit said.

"Sachin is one player who can walk into any team in the world and it is unfortunate that one of the talented youngsters like Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina or Yousuf Pathan will have to be sacrificed if the team think-tank decides to play four bowlers.

"Anyway it is a welcome sign for the skipper and the team management as they will have quality players waiting in the wings. It is always better to have more than nothing at all," he added.

"This situation will also make the opposition wary and keep them guessing most of the time as they will be well aware that the replacement (for a senior player) will be as good and that they just cannot afford to relax one bit.

"However, the selectors’ job gets that much more complicated as they will be the ones to face the public wrath if something goes wrong or the preferred player fails miserably," Pandit observed.