Sir Sachin Tendulkar 4

[Arvind Srinivasan]

Gritty innings from SRT today. Has actually helped India to a decent position. Hopefully he carries on from this.

[ajithfederer]

Unless a miracle happens England are winning the next 2 Tests quite comfortably. There you Go p_r you can celebrate early. Some of our friends were discussing this in an other forum. The miracles are Indians taking 20 wickets, making more than 400 runs every Innings and Indian batsmen making more than 6-7 Hundreds in the next 3 Innings. Sack everyone and start from scratch. At-least then you've got a better excuse for losing.

Tendulkar can play Aus Tour if he hits another 1 or 2 hundreds in the next 3 Inns. I believe even he will retire himself after this series. Gavaskar has slammed that he could see no commitment from the team.

[littlemaster1982]

Tendulkar can play Aus Tour if he hits another 1 or 2 hundreds in the next 3 Inns. I believe even he will retire himself after this series. Gavaskar has slammed that he could see no commitment from the team.

This is what's going to happen

[SoftSword]

This is what's going to happen

i believe not.

[Arvind Srinivasan]

I feel India would need SRT in SA....He displayed his tenacity two days back and that comes only with experience. And you need that experience in SA. The fire is still burning AF....

[P_R]

What are you guys talking about. He was the top-scorer in this test.
Everyone is looking listless. The call for his head is mind-numbing. Can't imagine how unbearable it would be for him. Hope he doesn't succumb.

[Arvind Srinivasan]

The daggers will be out again if he doesn't perform in the second innings.

[19thmay]

Just one more 100 and retire peacefully. You dont need to play in front of this mindless and arrogant India, BCCI, Mumbai, MI fans! Allow us to retire from watching cricket too!

[19thmay]

Every Sachin fan wants this, including me. However, it might not happen too, given his current form and slowing reflexes. He is not playing freely as he did two years ago. He is under lot of pressure and it's showing up in every dismissal of his.

Its not only his form decide a grand farewell. The whole team is in a high dengue fever now, even if he retires after scoring few hundreds, he will get out with the selfish tag as usual. Of course we don't bother about that, but a legend will be returning home with bad present and pleasant memories. Now I am thinking that he should have retired after lifting the world cup @ Mumbai.

[Rangarajan nambi]

What are you guys talking about. He was the top-scorer in this test.
Everyone is looking listless. The call for his head is mind-numbing. Can't imagine how unbearable it would be for him. Hope he doesn't succumb.

Top scorer . It was more of struggle for survival with no conviction . Now with this knock, even if he fails again, he will pull on for another series . For such a genius and a rare phenomenon, I wish he retires gracefully and not getting booed by everyone. Pity that someone who has scored 100 centuries has to undergo this trauma !

He should ask himself whether the team needs his presence and not just play for his so called passion for the game. Ricky is 2 years younger and could have easily continued for another 2 years but Australian mindset is different . They dont look at it emotionally. Many greats like Steve Waugh, Hayden, Martin, Langer, Gilchrist were all made to retire . We should learn from them on how to deal with great cricketers.

Now Sachin , if he wishes to retire with glory, he will have to perform against a team like South Africa in SA . I dont think it is possible at this stage.