Topic started by littlemaster1982 on Wed Jul 15 23:35:03 2009.

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Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra

Major teams India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire

Nickname Tendlya, Little Master

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly

Height 5 ft 5 in

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Sachin Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon as well. His batting is based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality given only to geniuses, anticipation. If he doesn't have a signature stroke - the upright, back-foot punch comes close - it is because he is equally proficient in each of the full range of orthodox shots (and plenty of improvised ones as well) and can pull them out at will.

Though he has adopted a noticeably conservative approach in the last quarter of his career, there are no apparent weaknesses in Tendulkar's game. He can score all around the wicket, off both front foot and back, and has made runs in all parts of the world in all conditions.

Some of his finest performances have come against Australia, the overwhelmingly dominant team of his era. His century as a 19-year old on a lightning fast pitch at the WACA is considered one of the best innings ever to have been played in Australia. A few years later he received the ultimate compliment from the ultimate batsman when Don Bradman confided to his wife that Tendulkar reminded him of himself.

Blessed with the keenest of cricket minds, and armed with a loathing for losing, Tendulkar set about doing what it took to become one of the best batsmen in the world. This was after he was turned away from a fast-bowling camp in Chennai by Dennis Lillee.

Tendulkar's greatness was established early: he was only 16 when he made his Test debut. He was hit on the mouth by Waqar Younis but continued to bat, in a blood-soaked shirt. His first Test hundred, a match-saving one at Old Trafford, came when he was 17, and he had 16 Test hundreds before he turned 25. In 2000 he became the first batsman to have scored 50 international hundreds, and in 2008 he passed Brian Lara as the leading Test run-scorer and the first to 12,000 runs. He currently holds the record for most hundreds in both Tests and ODIs - remarkable, considering he didn't score his first ODI hundred till his 79th match.

Tendulkar's considerable achievements seem greater still when looked at in the light of the burden of expectations he has had to bear from his adoring but somewhat unreasonable followers, who have been prone to regard anything less than a hundred as a failure. The aura may have dimmed, if only slightly, as the years on the international circuit have taken their toll on the body, but Tendulkar remains, by a distance, the most worshipped cricketer in the world.

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Your favorite test innings of Sachin 155* Vs Australia at Chennai, 1998 [ 1 ] 136 Vs Pakistan at Chennai, 1999 [ 12 ] 169 Vs South Africa at Cape Town, 1996 [ 2 ] 160 Vs New Zealand at Hamilton, 2009 [ 0 ] 155 Vs South Africa at Bloemfontein, 2001 [ 1 ] 114 Vs Australia at Perth, 1992 [ 3 ] 103* Vs England at Chennai, 2008 [ 1 ] 241* Vs Australia at Sydney, 2004 [ 2 ] 193 Vs England at Leeds, 2002 [ 0 ] 148* Vs Australia at Sydney, 1992 [ 2 ]

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• From: ajithfederer on Fri Nov 20 14:10:17 2009.

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  43rd Test Century - 88th Int'l Century - 30,000 Int'l Runs.
  
  
  
  

• From: ajithfederer on Fri Nov 20 14:21:23 2009.

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  boyfriendaa kooda nenaikalam.
  

  Plum wrote:

  AF, LM: ammaNI Dhoni pathi enna nenaikkarAnga?

  
  

• From: Thirumaran on Fri Nov 20 14:42:26 2009.

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  ajithfederer wrote:

  43rd Test Century - 88th Int'l Century - 30,000 Int'l Runs.

  
  by end of this series 13000 runs in Test
  
  

• From: vasanth2006 on Fri Nov 20 22:29:44 2009.

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  19thmay wrote:

  Interesting articles from this week sportstar Comparison between Sachin-Lara-Ponting Tendulkar the bowler Team mates Tributes Thalaivar's interview

  
  
  The webpage can not be found....
  
  

• From: ajithfederer on Sat Nov 21 0:34:51 2009.

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  Cricket
  Tendulkar Sets Record With 30,000 Runs
  Aijaz Rahi/Associated Press
  
  Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar celebrated scoring a century during the match against Sri Lanka in Ahmadabad, India, on Friday.
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  By HUW RICHARDS
  Published: November 20, 2009
  
  Sachin Tendulkar became the first man to complete 30,000 runs in international cricket with a match-saving innings for India against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad on Friday.
  
  Tendulkar, who needed 39 runs to reach the mark, went on to score 100 not out, his 43rd score of 100 or more in five-day tests and his 88th in all forms of international cricket. India, which had begun its second innings with a deficit of 334, was 412 for 4 when the match, first of a series of three, ended as a draw.
  
  Setting records has become commonplace for Tendulkar, with every innings building on an immense personal monument. He is the all-time leader for runs and centuries in both five-day tests and one-day internationals. He has reached 30,000 runs in all forms, with his closest rival, Ricky Ponting of Australia, still 6,000 behind.
  
  His latest triumph came in the week when he celebrated 20 years as an international cricketer. At 36, still fit, in form and evidently still hungry he has power to add further achievements.
  
  It was an appropriate conclusion to a match which, after a misleading first morning dominated by bowlers, became a stat-fest for the batsmen. Sri Lanka’s score of 760 for 7 was the highest in 76 years of test cricket in India.
  
  It also saw the demise of one of the most venerable records in the game. The mark for the highest sixth wicket stand in tests — 346 runs by the Australians Donald Bradman and Jack Fingleton against England at Melbourne — was set in 1937.
  
  It was beaten by Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene, not related, who added 351 for Sri Lanka’s sixth wicket. They erased the last test partnership record from before World War II.
  
  The old record was in every sense the product of another age. Bradman and Fingleton came in low down the order because, with the match in the balance, Australia sent in its specialist bowlers first. Batting was impossible on a wet wicket drying under the Melbourne sun. Bradman, as captain, reckoned the bowlers were as likely to survive as the specialist batsmen, with the time they took at the crease allowing the pitch to dry and become easier.
  
  It worked brilliantly. Australia lost five wickets for 97 runs before Bradman, who usually batted at number three, came in at number seven to join Fingleton, usually an opener. Their stand of 346 runs turned not only the match, but a series and possibly Bradman’s career.
  
  Australia had been two down in a five-match series. It ended by winning the series, 3-2, the only team ever to have won from two down. Bradman, in his first series as captain, had been under fire. His position was never again in serious question before his retirement, as Sir Donald, in 1948.
  
  Such conditions are now impossible, as wickets are covered during rain delays.
  
  Those in which the Jayawardenes batted could scarcely have been more benign, but they played with purpose to put Sri Lanka in a position where it could declare its innings closed with a day and a half left. This allowed it to press for its first ever victory in India, where it has played 14 tests on six previous visits.
  
  Mahela underlined his appetite for huge scores with 275, his sixth score of more than 200 in tests. The more significant innings, though, was played by Prasanna. He is generally regarded as the best wicket keeper in the world, his skills honed by the demands of keeping to the varied and often unorthodox group of bowlers fielded by Sri Lanka.
  
  Yet this is only his 28th test match in nine years. Wicket keeper remains the most specialized role in cricket, but keepers no longer win selection on that skill alone. They are required to be able to bat as well.
  
  Prasanna Jayawardene’s score of 154 not out should have secured his place. This will be a relief not only to the bowlers, but to Sri Lanka’s captain, Kumar Sangakarra. He is the alternative wicket keeper — a job that he performs highly competently. But to keep as well as captain and bat at number three would be an intolerable burden.
  
  India’s captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, keeps wicket — and scored a century in the first innings, making this only the second time in test history that both keepers have passed 100 in the same match — but bats seventh, giving him a break while his top order is batting.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/sports/cricket/21iht-CRICKET.html
  
  I'm actually surprised that nytimes writes an article on sachin !!!.
  
  

• From: ajithfederer on Sat Nov 21 0:38:53 2009.

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  Tendulkar record as India draw Test
  November 20, 2009 -- Updated 1739 GMT (0139 HKT)
  
  STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  
  * Sachin Tendulkar scores 43rd Test century as India draw first Test
  * Tendulkar goes past 30,000 international runs in his unbeaten knock
  * Gautam Gambhir hits century for third successive Test in rearguard action
  * First one-day international between England and South Africa rained off
  
  (CNN) -- Sachin Tendulkar was unbeaten on exactly 100 and passed 30,000 international runs as India batted out for a draw in the opening Test against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad on Friday.
  
  Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir, who made 114, helped India to 412 for four wickets when the match was called off on the fifth day.
  
  The home side had faced a massive 334 runs deficit on first innings and were in danger of losing a Test to the Sri Lankans for the first time on home soil.
  
  Batting maestro Tendulkar reached the new record landmark, he is the leading run-getter iin Test and one--day internationals, when he reached 35 soon after lunch, turning Chanaka Welegedara to square-leg for a routine single.
  
  He was on his way to his 43rd Test century, but the result was still in doubt when Gambhir departed.
  Fact Box
  Sachin Tendulkar scores 43rd Test century
  
  36 year-old also passes 30,000 international runs
  
  Tendulkar has 12,877 Test runs
  
  He has also scored 17,188 runs in one day and Twenty20 games
  
  But Tendulkar compiled an unbroken fifth wicket stand of 137 with VVS Laxman, who finished unbeaten on 51.
  
  It completed a high-scoring Test in which 1,598 runs were scored with just 21 wickets falling.
  
  Sri Lanka placed their hopes on Test world record holder Muttiah Muralitharan but he was wicketless in the second innings despite bowling 38 overs.
  
  Gambhir was making his third century in successive Tests, but once again it was Tendulkar who stole the headlines as the 36-year-old continues to add more runs to his massive tally.
  
  The second Test of the three-Test series starts in Kanpur on Tuesday.
  
  In other cricket news, the first one-day international between South Africa and England in Johannesburg was called off due to heavy rain at the Wanderers.
  
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• From: CEDYBLUE on Sat Nov 21 5:36:08 2009.

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  The Sachin Experience
  
  
  It is impossible to outgrow Indian sport’s most celebrated Boy Wonder, writes Nirmal Shekar
  
  Some time in the future, neuroscientists will perhaps have the answer. But right now it is impossible to say why there are distinctly different kinds of emotional reactions among Indian cricket fans while watching a) Sachin Tendulkar and, b) Other players.
  
  The effect produced by a Sachin masterpiece — such as the against-all-odds 175 against Australia at Hyderabad recently — appears to be unique.
  
  This is equally true of a Sachin failure. He doesn’t just botch paddle-scoops, he plunges an entire nation of a billion-plus people into a prolonged spell of mourning. As Roger Federer said of himself, Sachin has “created a monster.”
  
  Moulding our moods
  
  It is almost as if, as a people, we believe that we are as successful or unsuccessful as Sachin is. We owe him our ecstasy; equally, he is the cause of our despair. It is quite possible that the maestro activates a reward/punishment system in the cricket fan’s brain that might be inaccessible to the lesser mortals of Indian cricket.
  
  If you believe that this is a lot of mumbo jumbo, then take time off from watching Sachin and, instead, watch people watch him on television or in the stands. It won’t take long for you to see the truth.
  
  To be sure, there is no reference here to a particular brand of atavistic frenzy that all of us are familiar with — situations where a fired-up Tendulkar was leading run-chases and Team India was flirting with greatness against Pakistan or Australia. We will take no notice of such evolutionary excess baggage. The visceral anxieties of emotionally immature sports fans are not worth our time.
  
  Nationalism and sport make for an explosive mix. It didn’t take Hitler and the Berlin Olympics (1936) to prove this; it goes back to the very beginnings of our shared group identities.
  
  ‘Peak experience’
  
  But persist and see farther when Sachin is on song and you will slowly see the difference. Study a fan’s face carefully as she goes through something similar to what Abraham Maslow described as “peak experience,” even as the master makes room for a leg glance with the exquisitely refined sense of balance befitting of a Baryshnikov; or composes a consummate cover drive that Walter Hammond might have approved of. What the face registers on those occasions is nothing quite like what it might when anyone else is in action.
  
  Awe? Admiration? Reverence? Or, is it an almost indescribable feeling that you are in the midst of something that is truly transcendental?
  
  Whatever it is, this much is certain. If you have gone through the experience, you would be able to recall it even many, many years later.
  
  There is a simple reason for this. When you watch Sachin at his best, the ego dies. This is not said in a mystical sense. It is not the oneness-with-the-universe phenomenon that spiritual seekers crave. It is a very material thing. The beautiful simplicity of his batting makes for an experience that shatters your ego in a sudden explosion of humility.
  
  “Hey, someone is actually doing this,” you whisper to yourself, suddenly aware of your own smallness even as it hits you, yet again, that the feat is way beyond ordinary mortals. Watch Sachin when he bats as he did in Hyderabad and you will know all about this feeling as you are carried to hitherto untrodden peaks of sports-watching experience.
  
  “We outgrow love like other things. And put it in the drawer,” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson.
  
  It has been impossible to outgrow Indian sport’s most celebrated Boy Wonder. When it comes to Sachin, at no point in our lives have we been able to say, “Ah, I’ve been there. I’ve done that.”
  
  New vistas
  
  He has made sure that there is always some place else to go to, there is always something new to experience vis-À-vis his batting. After two long decades marked by remarkable changes in the game, that sense of wonder — Wow, how does he do it? — has not taken leave of us.
  
  When Sachin was packing his bags to go on his maiden overseas tour — surely, he didn’t need to worry about a shaving kit — to Pakistan in 1989, the Berlin Wall was still in place; reports appearing in these pages were mostly being typed on manual typewriters; apartheid was still in force in South Africa; and Pete Sampras hadn’t yet won his first Grand Slam title.
  
  Through 20 glorious years — although some of them were not quite as glorious as others — as participants in one of the country’s most popular cultural rituals, Tendulkar-watching, we have noticed that his genius has been malleable enough for each of us to try and shape it to fit our own fantasies, our own imagination. Of course, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge pointed out, there is a difference between the two.
  
  Your Sachin is a slightly different athletic/aesthetic package from your neighbour’s…and so it goes on and on. No matter all this, we are all agreed on one thing: Sachin’s astonishing achievements have created a new national benchmark for excellence over the last 20 years.
  
  Peter Pan of world cricket
  
  In recent years, we have seen him struggle, we have seen him play and miss, we have seen him fail more often. But an ageing Sachin seems impossible to imagine, perhaps because the image would render futile our own longing for immortality. Wrinkles, grey hairs and all, he is still the golden boy we first got to know of all those years ago.
  
  Children born when he made the first of his record 42 Test centuries — a brilliant, unbeaten 119 at Old Trafford in 1990 — are now old enough to cast their votes in an election. In the event, it is time to toast the old boy again.
  
  The Sachin Experience — there is nothing quite like it in the history of Indian sport.
  
  http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/15/stories/2009111556421800.htm
  
  

• From: CEDYBLUE on Sat Nov 21 5:43:00 2009.

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  He has permeated a nation’s collective consciousness effortlessly
  
  
  
  R. Narayanan & Kunal Diwan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  An inescapable product of life in the public eye is the division of popular opinion. One cannot please everybody all the time, and only a few famous people command the universal admiration of an audience whose primary characteristic is its fickle nature.
  
  Even fewer personalities permeate into the collective consciousness of a country as effortlessly as Sachin Tendulkar has India’s. Living out more than half his years on earth under the scrutiny of an obsessive audience, Tendulkar has been a sign of hope and a shoulder of strength under the brunt of expectation.
  
  The little master’s appeal has transcended demarcations of class, caste, gender and geography.
  
  And any discussion, at least in this country, on the great man is likely to take one and one course alone — of affection, admiration, deification and deference.
  
  Here’s what cricket fans have to say:
  
  Dr. R. Ramanujam (45), Ophthalmic surgeon: Tendulkar is a rare combination of a supremely gifted player and a down-to-earth human being. The way he has carried himself is an example to others. He has survived for so long due to his passion for the game and his single-minded dedication. He’s easily the all-time superstar of Indian cricket.
  
  Favourite knock: 136 vs. Pakistan, Chennai Test, 1999.
  
  Naman Sharma (25), Operations Manager in a Multi-National Company: Tendulkar is the only reason I watch cricket. There was a time when I changed channels the moment he got out. Twenty years on he’s still going strong… it has been an unbelievable career. It is difficult to imagine an Indian cricket team without him.
  
  Favourite knock: 98 vs. Pakistan, 2003 WC.
  
  Renjith Jose (40), Businessman: Even though I prefer football to cricket, I take the time to tune in as long as Tendulkar is at the crease. Cricket is slow-paced, but watching the master blaster is something special. There is a sense of personal involvement in whatever he does, and very few sportspersons can lay claim on that kind of following. A career of such integrity and consistency under such pressure deserves double the credit.
  
  Favourite knock: 241 n.o. vs. Australia, Sydney Test, 2004.
  
  Akshay Ramaseshan (24), Management Professional: I was lucky to be part of the generation that grew up on Tendulkar’s exploits. My first memory of watching a televised match is Sharjah, 1996, where he scored a hundred against Pakistan and India posted its first total in excess of 300. What he has come to signify for India goes beyond the purview of mere sport.
  
  Favourite knock: 103 n.o. vs. England, Chennai Test, 2008.
  
  Lakshmi (33), Homemaker: I began to like cricket more after I started watching Tendulkar. He’s undaunted by any bowler and never allows anybody to get under his skin. I also admire his ability to perform under pressure. I hope he wins the 2011 World Cup for us.
  
  Favourite knock: 143 vs. Australia, Sharjah, 1998.
  
  C. Murugan (21), Parking attendant: I first watched Tendulkar when he made a century against Kenya in the 1999 World Cup. He had lost his father just a few days earlier, but came back for the sake of the country.
  
  He’s a true patriot. Tendulkar doesn’t bother even if a bowler sledges him and that’s what I like most about him.
  
  Favourite knock: 186 n.o. vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad, 1999.
  
  Sai Shashank (11), Student: I admire Tendulkar’s character. Though he’s aggressive as a batsman, he looks very friendly as a person. Despite achieving so much as a player, he’s very humble.
  
  He has played for 20 years because he likes the game a lot and dreams about it all the time.
  
  Favourite knock: 175 vs. Australia, Hyderabad, 2009.
  
  http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/15/stories/2009111556411800.htm
  
  

• From: Kalyasi on Sat Nov 21 6:41:47 2009.

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  Cedy Welcome Back!! After Such a Long time!!
  
  

• From: Kalyasi on Sat Nov 21 6:45:37 2009.

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  http://www.cricinfo.com/ausvwi09/engine/current/match/417773.html
  
  Queensland e ivingala intha porattu poratti edukaraanunga... appo ponting min 3 senjuri enna ella game WI innings defeat thaan
  
  Thalaivar shld score min 3 centuries in the next 4 innings to keep the lead going....
  
  

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