The best batsmen in the world Sachin Tendulkar might be in overseas land, but each of them in the ground wished him to score a century and absolute unity was witnessed despite all the colors were present in Super Sport Park in Centurion. All we heard at the ground is “Sachin, Sachin”, which might have even reached the heaven. It is indeed the game cricket’s victory.
Sachin Tendulkar has rated Hansie Cronje as the bowler who has tested him the most keeping aside Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock, Alan Donald and Muttiah Muralitharan. Tendulkar literally admitted that he did not know what to do while faced him in many occasions. He further revealed that there was nothing to do with the bowling technique and he was just could not pick him by often hitting straight to the fielders.
Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian who has been named in the ESPN’s all time world XI. Along with him four Australian, three West Indians, two Englishmen and one Pakistani have also been named in the prestigious team.
“When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to “open” the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.”
Sachin Tendulkar who performed exceedingly well in both test and ODI has re-affirmed that he would be participating in T20 world cup for India happening this year. Though he is captaining Mumbai Indians and showing peak form in IPL 3 tournament ruled out of changing his earlier stance of not playing in T20 matches.
Sachin Tendulkar, unarguably the best batsman of modern cricket, has been rated as most trusted cricketer by the Reader Digest magazine in their list of 100 trusted people in all the fields. Sachin Tendulkar occupied 8th position while his captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni figured in 42nd position in the trusted list. IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has featured in 93rd position. Cricket administrator and politician Sharad Pawar ranked in 97th position. Other sports dignitaries rated in the list are shooter Ahinav Bindra on 25th, Mahesh Bhupathi on 49th, Leander Paes on 57th and Sania Mirza placed on 81st.
Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar became the first ever cricketer in the world to score a double hundred in one-day international. He scored 200 not out against South Africa in the second ODI in Gwalior. His masterful innings also fetched India the one-day series win against South Africans.
Meanwhile, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, the only current batman, who is closing in to Sachin’s century, has scored a valiant 209 against Pakistan on Hobart. This was his 39th century and breathing down Sachin’s neck.
The only cricketer who is best positioned in the cricket world now to score 100 centuries is none other than batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar. Master blaster has completed twenty years in the international career representing India. He is just short of 39 runs to score 30,000 runs in international cricket.
There is a famous saying “A job half finished is a job unfinished”. Passing on the bug to others is the crime. Sachin Tendulkar has played one of the best innings of ODI by scoring a valiant 175 while chasing mammoth 351 yet India lost the match by 3 runs to Australia. And this is not the first time it has happened. Well, the lesson was not learnt. It is sad that Indian cricket travelled back to the mode of depending too much on Sachin for victory.
