Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Tendulkar

India

1989-

ROLE

Right Hand Bat, Leg Break Googly

BORN

Tuesday, 24th April 1973. Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

TEST DEBUT

Wednesday, 15th November 1989 1st Test v. Pakistan at National Stadium, Karachi (Aged: 16)

TEST CAREER

Matches: 156

Runs: 12429 Ave: 54.27

Wkts: 42 Ave: 53.02

Catches: 100

Last Test: 2008 2nd Test v. England at Mohali

Terrific World Cup After 1983

Indian candid aggregation allotment home with Twenty20 World Cup afterwards 1983. India won the twenty20 bout with a attenuated five-run win over adjoining battling Pakistan in Johannesburg, South Africa. Overjoyed admirers danced and showered rose petals on India’s acceptable candid players on its acknowledgment home Wednesday afterwards arresting the aperture Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa. Indian candid admirers accept abashed their authority up abaft the civic aggregation afterwards it bounced aback from a blameworthy avenue from the attenuated -overs Candid World Cup in the West Indies beforehand this year.

Braving abundant rains, hundreds of admirers remained at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport to see players captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni captivation in the air the argent bays and his aggregation mates alternating achievement signs. The candid aggregation danced on an open-top bus to boom beats as they were taken on a 30-kilometre anniversary celebration through Mumbai, India’s banking and action capital, to a amphitheater breadth they were admiring in a commemoration by the Indian candid board.

Cricket admirers channelled up Mumbai’s arch anchorage to angle the candid team, while abounding ran abutting to the bus. Motorists beeped their horns and coiled at the candid team. Students from schools in the business commune breadth were acceptable to appear celebrations at the stadium. People alone out of offices in Mumbai’s budgetary district, others climbed copse and climbed aloft architecture terraces to butt a quick attending of the cricketers.

“We will try and win added matches and we will accord our 100 per cent,” said Dhoni to cheers. “We took anniversary bout as it came and performed as a aggregation that was why we succeeded.” The aggregation got banknote rewards of about US$2 actor from admiral of the Lath of Control for Candid in India. Cricket-mad India has been amusement the World Twenty20 anniversary back Monday, with the skies about the country acquaint by fireworks. India antecedent won the 50-over Candid World Cup during 1983. A army adulatory India’s achievement over Pakistan on Monday night starts out firecrackers alfresco anniversary architecture and every anatomy beneath celebration.

Aussies Tendulkarised

Sachin Tendulkar must love the SCG.

In 1991/92 he scored his first Test century against Australia in Shane Warne's unremarkable debut and 16 years later his first one-day century in Australia followed another flawless Test ton on the famous old ground in January.

Indian players have rated the SCG as their number one Australian venue this summer.

Last week, despite a Tendulkar failure, they defied tradition in achieving the highest losing total in an SCG chase.

This week Tendulkar triumphed, securing personal satisfaction in a thrilling exhibition of versatile, innovative and deadly shot making.

Australia needed his wicket before Hogg's spell to stay in the game. Tendulkar took to Hogg like a glutton to a banquet, aided by Rohit Sharma's skilful straightforward driving and judgement.

India has regularly squared up to Australia for two months and its defiance has unsettled its hosts.

Ponting has been most affected and when the captain is missing out, the team performance dips accordingly.

A combination of IPL distraction, challenging opponents and the peripheral nonsense of monkey business has made Australia vulnerable.

India has refreshed its team with young and talented players, while Australia has relied on batsmen with exceptional records, who - by their own high standards (Hayden apart) - have been underachieving.

The pace bowling has been outstanding, until Tendulkar played his most telling one-day innings.

His skill and the unexpected bonus for run chasers of a dewy outfield and skidding ball, neutered the attack, which became ragged under the sustained pressure of Tendulkar's calculated batting.

March is historically out of season for international cricket in Australia and at the SCG it has lost three out of three matches at this time of the year - trounced in the most recent March match by England in the 1992 World Cup and by New Zealand way back on March 17, 1983.

Australia has the talent to recover and level the series in Brisbane, but India has momentum. I think Adelaide fans should start queuing for tickets for Friday's decider.

On Sachin and the wise Indian cricket fan

Everyone in our country has an opinion about Sachin, no matter however little cricket he might have played. The opinion is mostly mindless. Our country is famous for its deep love and knowledge of the game, which however is far from the truth. Love, here, is only passion and knowledge is knowledge alright, but merely statistical. True knowledge and love for a game or any art, arise out of keen involvement in it; one has to dig deep. A dabbler is no student of the game. Real knowledge is the privilege of a keen learner. Rest all is merely superficial. Here, cricket is no different from Maths. Practice and concentration reveals the mysteries in both.

Indian cricket fan, however, is just a watcher of tamasha, no player himself. Street cricket which he has played often, again for tamasha, can not give him knowledge that a student must have – of technique and temperament. He is a lover of the sixer and slog. No wonder he prays for Dravid to get out; his defence is beyond the fan’s scope of appreciation. To him Sachin, who has a remodelled technique, for reasons the great must have, which means he plays lesser lofted strokes, is out of form and favour. Some ask him to retire.

This country’s cricket acumen is over-rated, merely superstition. Indians, first of all, aren’t great lovers of cricket. They only love the game when India plays; and that too one-day cricket. Bring on twenty-twenty, and they’ll forget the one-dayers too. Once upon a time, Indians loved their test cricket, but now due to the fast paced life and an increasing influence of the west (America, mainly), tests are a passé. Cricket, aided by the media, has now become a tamasha. It is a show and players, like jokers in a circus, actors in movies, must entertain. Subtlety, traditionally and truly cricket’s real beauty, is not understood by more than a handful. While hitters have always been crowd favourites, resilience and patience of a batsman in adversity were equally admired and more revered. Not anymore, at least in this country. It is therefore stupid to talk about the cricket knowledge of the country.

The criticism of a great like Sachin by people who know not a ball from a bat, aided by media, which is as clueless, is ridiculous. A man like Sachin retires when he knows there is no motivation left in him. He’ll not just hang on there; he is too much of a patriot to do that. True, his form is not alright now but the determination in his eyes, on the field tells a lot about his commitment. That Ponting, Yousuf and Lara have been in amazing form at the same time is not helping the case against him but Sachin was on a similar peak for more than a decade and I, only as a keen student of the game and nothing more, see no flaw in his batting technique. Low of confidence, he is just unsure of his feet movement.

With no aim to criticise, I have an observation to make. Sachin, due to the most amazing of strokes he masterfully plays, has become a candidate to the LBW lately, early in his innings. With unique nimbleness of eye and foot, he plays the ball outside the off-stump dead square to the wicket on the leg-side. This shot is the toughest to play along with the on-your-toes back-foot cover drive to a rising ball. Both shots, mastered by Sachin, require skill and tremendous practice, but the one to the leg involves a lot more risk. That, a player like Sachin misses the shot a few times, proves how difficult it is, and any of those who criticise Sachin should try playing it. It is perhaps Sachin’s quest for perfection and never-say-die spirit which causes him to play this shot even though aware of the risk and the number of times he has been dismissed LBW on missing it. If only he’d play the incoming delivery a lot straighter, in the V, as we all are coached, I am sure he’d get over his demons early on the innings. Early in his career, he always played the incoming ball to mid-on and that is also an extremely handsome shot, as he plays that shot with a high elbow and a straight bat.

I am no Sunil Gavaskar, thus my suggestion to an equally great Sachin to avoid his brilliant stroke to square-leg is an audacious one. Yet, I do so, though with all respect and humility. If he has to play the stroke at all, he must play when the ball has lost its shine, and when it has lost it, is not reversing. Even with his eye in the line of the ball, Sachin misses the shot because of the high precision involved. The reason is simple: when he plays in the V, he presents a larger region of the face of the bat to block the ball, but when he wants to play square that bat has to be angled and therefore the area that the bat presents to block the bowl is reduced a lot. When the ball skids on or the wicket is two-paced, and he misses the shot he is plumb LBW as the shot requires a slight movement forward, not a full stride.

Bowlers have discovered this chink in Sachin’s play and now feel more confident bowling to him. If only he’d play in the V, surely the bowlers would lose this edge. He may no longer hit his lofted shots, I am sure he has good reasons for that, he can still dominate and massacre the bowlers, which makes him, along with Lara and Sir Viv Richards, the greatest of all. Ponting too had that ability.

So let us back the great who has given so much joy to all of us and made Indian cricket so popular. Let us not pass foolish judgments. At least, the media should show a keener eye for the game and not just look for masala. Any news on Sachin boosts the TRP’s but the media should be more responsible and principled. Sachin is a great and deserves that respect. I just hope Sachin plays the incoming ball straighter. And yes, uses his feet right away, like he always did, against the spinners.

बोलती तस्वीरें

क्रिकेट मनोरंजन

मास्टर ब्लास्टर सचिन तेंदुलकर ने मुंबई के उपनगरीय क्षेत्र बांद्रा में 39 करोड़ रुपये में एक पुराना बंगला खरीदा है।

सत्रा प्रॉपर्टीज कंपनी के प्रबंध निदेशक प्रफूल सत्रा ने बताया “सचिन ने हमसे 39 करोड़ रुपये का बंगला खरीदा है। इसके लिये साझा पत्र पर छह महीने पहले ही दस्तख़त हो चुके थे।”

यह बंगला “दोरब विला” पेरी क्रॉस मार्ग पर जॉगर्स पार्क के सामने स्थित है।

सत्रा प्रॉपर्टीज ने किशोर बजाज से यह बंगला खरीदा था और साल 2007 के बाद तेंदुलकर को बेचा। 1920 में बना यह बंगला मूल रूप से एक पारसी परिवार का था। यह एक मंजिला बंगला नौ से 10 हजार वर्गफुट क्षेत्र में फैला है।

अभी यह स्पष्ट नहीं है कि सचिन इस बंगले का क्या करेंगे।

सत्रा ने कहा “बंगले की स्थिति औसत है। अगर सचिन चाहें तो इसे यथावत रख सकते हैं या फिर इसके स्थान पर नया भवन बना सकते हैं। “

Sachin Tendulkar

Country - India
Born – April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Teams – India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire
Nickname – Tendlya, Little Master
Batting style – Right-hand bat
Bowling style – Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly
IPL Debut -

Batting and Fielding records

	M	I	NO	R	HS	Av	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
IPLT20
T20I	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	83.33	0	0	2	0	1	0
T20	5	5	0	198	69	39.60	166.38	0	2	30	5	2	0
ODIs	417	407	38	16361	186*	44.33	85.49	42	89	1785	166	122	0
List A	504	492	52	19913	186*	45.25		53	107			157	0
Tests	147	238	25	11782	248*	55.31		39	49		47	98	0
Ι-class	247	386	40	20545	248*	59.37		65	95			165	0

Bowling records

	M	I	B	R	W	Best	BoH	Av	Eco	SR	4w	5w	10w
IPLT20
T20I	1	1	15	12	1	1/12		12.00	4.80	15.0	0	0	0
T20	5	4	57	65	2	1/12		32.50	6.84	28.5	0	0	0
ODIs	417	265	8009	6795	154	5/32		44.12	5.09	52.0	4	2	0
List A	504		10185	8423	201	5/32		41.90	4.96	50.6	4	2	0
Tests	147	124	3862	2212	42	3/10		52.66	3.43	91.9	0	0	0
Ι-class	247		7221	4101	67	3/10		61.20	3.40	107.7		0	0

सचिन तीसरे टेस्ट से बाहर

चोट के कारण सचिन कानपुर में होने वाले तीसरे टेस्ट में भी नहीं खेल पाएगें। ऐसे में अगर भारतीय टीम मोटेरा हार जाती है तो कानपुर में वे भारी दबाव में उतरेगी। वही सचिन के बाहर होने की खबर का टीम पर मनोवैज्ञानिक दबाव पड़ेगा।

सूत्रों के अनुसार कानपुर की पिच हरी है ऐसे में हो सकता है कि टीम को श्रृंखला में वापसी करने में भारी मशक्कत करनी पड़े।

साउथ अफ्रीका की टीम के लिए यह काफी अच्छी खबर है । साउथ अफ्रीका के कप्तान ग्राम स्मिथ पहले ही स्वीकार कर चुके हैं कि सचिन जैसे खिलाड़ी का टीम में न होने सेहमें मनोवैज्ञानिक मनोबल मिलेगा।

CRICKET WORD

CRICKET CARTOON

EA bowl out another update…

For me, watching cricket is about equal on the ‘fun scale’ with having going to the doctors suffering from an upset stomach… its boring overall with moments of great excitement.

EA, keen not to break their image of sticking to what they know and rolling out another update of an already worked to death formula have released screenshots for Cricket 2005, which, it has to be said, looks pretty darn good

Cricket 2005 will let gamers compete as a fully licensed English team against a host of international opponents including Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In addition the all-new explosive Twenty20 tournament and all the county teams and tournaments will also be on offer.

All new detail in players’ faces and bodies, over 1000 new motion captured animations and a brand new create-a-player facility allow gamers flexibility to play as the stars of the game or create their own.