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About Tendulkar

This is what we hear from most of SACHIN'S CRITICS

1.Selfish

2.Scoring Against weaker Oppostions

3.Failing in pressure situation

Little Info about this

1.Selfish

            Well Records are meant to be broken and if Sachin is breaking them critics[haters more rightly] can't digest them.. 
One of the incidents people mention is regarding his 194 knock against pakistan..some said it was slow knock..agreed it was a slow knock by Sachin's stature,but if it is compared wid one of the knock wid Dravid...this will not look as bad it seems.. 
Tendulkar- 194 runs in multan with a strike rate of around 54 
Dravid- 217 runs in oval with a strike rate of around 46 
 
I m just taking one example to tell that Dravid's natural game is to hold the one end and let the others to dominate..in multan Sachin changed his gears and holded one end and he let sehwag to dominate..played Rahul's role in that innings. Now this is called team game.. but people call it slow batting and selfish... Sachin always said Team's win is more important than personal landmark..He proved this statement in that very test by taking Moin Khan's wicket off the last ball of the 3rd day..That Ball was beauty!!Wasn' t he happy at that moment??? Since Sachin is the most senior player of the team so he can't throw his wicket just to prove critics that he is still a master blaster...[he is still scoring at brisk rate in onedays]..People forget his fast scroing Centuries against world class bowling 
 
169 [201 balls] against South Africa in 1997 at Capetown 
92 [120 balls] against West Indies in 1997 at Bridgetown 
155 [191 balls] against Australia in 1998 at Chennai 
79 [ 85 balls] against Australia in 1998 at Kolkata 
100 in 123 balls against NewZealand in 1999 at Wellington[he scored 113 runs in that inning] 
155 [183 balls] against South Africa in 2001 in Bloemfontein 
 
There are many other breath taking innings in tests from 10dulkar.

But everyone please note this down..Sachin is the Only Batsman in Test Cricket who scored 3 Centuries wid a SIX 
179 - 6 off Walsh[I remember it was a hook shot] against WestIndies in 1994 at Nagpur 
124 - 6
off Min Patel[off spinner,straight down the ground] against England in 1996 at Birmingham 
113 - 6
off Wiseman[off spinner,straight down the ground] against Newzealnad in 1999 at Wellington

Critics says he plays for his records and centuries..Now just look to this.. 
 
One Day 
Centuries- 40 [out of 40 centuries India Won 28 times and lost 11 times,1 century in a rain affected match
11 centuries gone in Vain.. 
Half Centuries- 73 
 
now here is that intresting part 
 
out of these 73 half centuries Sachin got 28 scores of 80 and above 
in these 28 scores if we take out the innings in which he was not out [coz of over completed or target chased ] 
he was 5 times not out in such innings 
so now lets talk about remaining 23 innings 
Can u believe he has 10 scores of 90's??? If these 90's were converted in 100's the stats looks likes this 
Centuries-50 ODI centuries... and look he holds another record for those who have so much fuss about playing for records.. 
getting out highest numbers of times in 90's in ODI's ..just coz he wanted to score for the team and not for the his personal records he got out 10times in 90's  
 
Test 
Centuries- 35 [12 in which India won,15 in dead tests,8 in lost tests] lone warrior in tests which India lost 
Half Centuries- 41 
 
Intresting Part 
12 scores of 80+ 
6 scores of 90's convert them in 100s..he will pass 40 centuries in Test Cricket..sad for critics he played for team and thats why couldn't converted these 90's into 100's

2.Scoring Against weaker Oppostions

This can happen in India only.. 
People remembers 152 against Namibia and forgets 98 against Pakistan in WorldCup 
People remembers 248 against Bangladesh and forgets his 7 centuries against World Champions Australia [4 in their own den].. 
Only one century against Bangladesh and share the honour of scoring test century against each test playing nation wid Dravid,Ponting and Garry Kristen...No one talk about other 3 batsman scored centuries against Bangladesh.. then why the fuss for Sachin?? 
 
 
Test 
Australia - 7 Centuries [4 in Australia], 2 of them at the age of 18 in 1992 
Bangladesh- 1 Century [Unfortunately his highest score in Test Cricket] 
England- 6 Centuries [4 in England], 
NewZealand- 3 Centuries [1 in NewZealand] 
Pakistan- 2 Centuries [1 in Pakistan] 
SouthAfrica- 3 Centuries [all three in South Africa] 
Srilanka- 7 Centuries [4 in Srilanka] 
WestIndies- 3 Centuries [ 1 in WestIndies] 
Zimbabwe- 3 Centuries [ none in Zimbabwe] 
 
90+ 
96 against Srilanka at Banglore in 1994 
92 against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1997 
97 against South Africa at Mumbai in 2000 
90 against England at Banglore in 2001 
92 against England at Nottingham in 2002 
94 against Pakistan at Mohali in 2005 
 
 
Intresting Part 
He scored runs in all parts of world..There are three types of wickets u generally found in Cricket..Fast and bouncy Pitches like in Australia,South- Africa,NewZealan d,WestIndies, Spin tracks in India,Srilanka, Pakistan, and seeming tracks like in England. Today people talk about Ricky Ponting...now check this out

Sachin's and Ponting's average at their own home soil is above 55 so nothing to discuss this here,but the real part starts now 
Sachin's average in Australia 54.15 , 4 centuries 
Ponting's average in India,12.28 , no centuries 
 
Sachin's average in England 71.60 , 4 centuries 
Ponting's average in England 42.63 , 3 centuries 
 
I am taking records for these countries only bcoz.. rightnow,best fast bowlers are from Australia,best spinners are from India,Best Seamers from england[as there is no choice bcoz only england have such pitches] 
Anyone can take easily tell who played gud cricket against best attack on all kind of pitches... 
 
 
One Day 
Australia - 7 Centuries + 1 score of 90's 
Bangladesh- 0 Century 
England- 1 Centuries + 1 score of 90's 
Kenya- 4 Centuries 
Namibia- 1 Century 
NewZealand 4 Centuries 
Pakistan- 5 Centuries + 4 scores of 90's 
SouthAfrica- 3 Centuries + 1 score of 90's 
Srilanka- 7 Centuries + 3 score of 90's 
WestIndies- 3 Centuries 
Zimbabwe- 5 Centuries 
 
90+ 
90 against Australia in 1996 at Mumbai 
91 against England in 1997 at Sharjah 
95 against Pakistan in 1998 at Dhaka 
93 against Pakistan in 2000 at Hobart 
93 against SouthAfrica in 2000 at Nagpur 
93 against Srilanka in 2000 at Dhaka 
98 against Pakistan in 2003 at Centurion 
97 against Srilanka in 2003 at Johannesburg 
93 against Srilanka in 2005 at Nagpur 
95 against Pakistan in 2006 at Lahore 
 
 
Intresting Part 
Only 5 Centuries against minnows like Kenya ,Namibia[non test playing nation]...and Kenya was the semi-finalist of the world cup'03  10 scores of above 90 against only test playing nations...now can anyone tell me how is he selfish?? 34 times he scored more than 80 and couldn't reached 100..If he played for his records..he could easily scored 100's all of those scores above 80's ...

3.Failing in pressure situation 19/07/2006 08:51 
ODI 
 
Won Chasing Target

      M         R      H        AVG     100s  50s  
Sachin- 101  4397   134    58.62   13      23 
Dravid- 72    2124   109*  49.39     2      19 
Ponting- 77   2670  124*  53.40   4      17 
 
In Quater Finals 
Sachin-   3   210   141   70.00   1    0 
Dravid-   2    57     48    28.50   0    0 
Ponting- 3   118    46    39.33   0    0 
 
In Semi Finals 
Sachin-   7    232    83    33.14   0   2 
Dravid-   4      28     58   42.66   0   1 
Ponting- 5       71     37  14.20   0   0 
 
In Finals 
Sachin -  36  1487  134   47.96  4   9 
Dravid-    23  690   103* 34.50  1   3 
Ponting-  33 1217  140* 45.07  2   6 
 
All Finals 
Sachin-  47  1954  141   46.52  5  11 
Dravid-  30  943    103* 37.72  1   5 
Ponting- 41 1406  140* 40.17  2   6 
 
In Series Won 
Sachin- 127  5548 186*  51.37  19  26 
Dravid-  76    2645 153    42.66   2   22 
Ponting- 177 7245 145    47.98 18   45 
  
 
In Test 
100's in Tests India Won - 12 
100's in Tests India Lost - 8 
100's in Test Drawn - 15 
 
Holds the record of maxium number of 100's for loosing team...That means a lone warrior..Thats why once Indian Cricket Team was called as ONE MAN ARMY!!!!  
 
More Intresting Part!!!!!!!! 
Often said Sachin gets fail at crunch situation... Well 1st we must admit that when Sachin on the crease Win is sure...As soon Sachin gets out..the situation becomes crunchy!!! Sachin is out,now who will win match for us?? Dravid ?? or Sehwag?? or Yuvraj?? Or Ganguly?? No one sure who will win match for them... 
So bcoz of this thing Teams targets Sachin as the most precious wicket... 
Nasser Hussain introduced Negative lines for Sachin Tendulkar to stop the flow of runs when he is on wicket!!! 
Local umpires also involved some times to help their team against Sachin Tendulkar,espeicall y Australians! 
Some incidents striking in my mind...I think Sachin is the player who got out maximum numbers of times bcoz of bad or wrong decision by Umpires..I m producing those incidents only which I remember,there may be many other too

       
1. 92 - out of a NO ball from Frankline Rose against West Indies in 1997 at Bridgetown.. Remember India lost the test just by 38 runs..U can just imagine how much that bad decision effected the result of the match!!! 
 
2. 83 - Out of a NO ball again..[don' t remember the bowler] last test in WestIndies in 1997.Draw Test. 
 
3. 67- LBW off Crains..last test against NewZealand in 1999, was not out coz the ball pitched outside the legstump.Match Drawn 
 
4. 61 - caught at forward shortleg,bowler Shane Warne.against Australia at Adelaide in 1999.. the ball touched the thigh pads and Umpire Darel Harper gave him out.. India were 107 for 4 when Ganguly joined Sachin and they put on 108 runs for the 5th wicket.. 
 
5. 0 - LBW bowler Macgrath..against Australia at Adelaide in 1999,same test, nothing more to say..Everyone remember that FOOLISH decision 
 
6. 52 - LBW bowler Shane Warne,Umpire David Shepherd,against Australia at Melbourne in 1999, were chasing 356 as a target on the fourth day. 
 
7. 45 - LBW bowler Macgrath,UmpireIan Robinson,against Australia at Sydney in 2000, the ball seemed to hit him too high and was going on leg stump, In that very over,Tendulkar had pulled a short one from Macgrath for two,and hooked the next two for boundaries,and a ball later punched the fast bowler back past him for the 3rd four of the over 
 
8. 16 - caught behind off Waqar Younis,against Pakistan at Perth in 2000, it was must win situation for India to qualify in the final , scored 16 runs of 9 balls,hitted 3 fours in one over of Waqar Younis and 1 off Wasim Akram on the fastest pitch of the world,India were chasing 260 odd runs... 
 
9. 0 - LBW bowler Gillespie,Umpire Bucknor,against Australia at Brisbane in 2003 funny thing is that the bowler not applead for the LBW... MR.Bucknor gave the decision of his own 
 
10. 0 - caught behind off Lee,against Australia at Melbourne in 2003,ball touched the thigh pads and umpire given him out.

11. 54 - caught behind,Umpire Bucknor,against Pakistan at Kolkata in 2005, I think we all seen that decison, theball was not near to his pad,gloves,helmet, arm.. no where... 
 
There may be so many other incident like this...Teams like Australia taking help from the umpires to stop Tendulkar... the 1999-2000 tour of Australia proves it..


And the last thing is that Sachin played 11 years [1989-2000] in the era where his own team mates involved in match fixing.. So despite of his brilliant knocks we failed to win the match just bcoz others not contirbuting. .Yuo can win ODI's just wid ur own batting but u can't win test matches wid one innings bcoz test played for 5 days its a 4 inning game..Still Tendulkar's record in that era is Awesome.. and remember The awe of opponents was as great as that of crowds. But the finest compliment must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds - or a game - until Tendulkar was out. 
 

 

Indian tailenders steal unlikely victory

The stage was set for India's most loved cricketing son to bid adieu to his home crowd with the sort of innings that he often played to illuminate this venue for almost two decades. Instead, it was Murali Kartik, forever condemned to Indian cricket's fringes, who basked in the late-afternoon sunshine with a mesmeric spell of left-arm spin bowling, before taking part in the unlikeliest of rearguard actions to script a famous victory.

Australia's pace bowlers had bullied and toyed with India's top order, before a defiant 65-run partnership between Robin Uthappa and Harbhajan Singh gave India fleeting hope. However, it was a stunning 52-run stand for the ninth wicket between Kartik and Zaheer Khan that gave India a consolation win in a series otherwise dominated by the world champions.

The undoubted star of the day though was Kartik. Four years ago, he was India's best bowler in the TVS Cup that Australia won, but was never trusted enough to kick on to greater heights. On Wednesday, he showed just why he's India's most potent one-day spinner with a wonderful combination of teasing flight, guile and sharp turn.

Cheer Girls

I have a question to ask our politicians: don't you have better things to do than work yourselves into a froth about cheer girls? After all, you're not 18 year olds measuring your lives with coffee spoons — and if you don't know what that means ask TS Eliot! You're adults. More importantly, you've been chosen to run this country. I would have thought inflation, farmers' suicides, urban crime, the BRT crisis in Delhi, the vanishing nuclear deal and the shifting political equations in Nepal — to name just a handful of the pressing problems India faces — would have kept you fully preoccupied. But I'm wrong. You've found time for the silliest of causes, something no one else had noticed till you chanced upon it and forced it on the nation. If this was satire, I'd say well done! Alas, this is reality.

And what is it about cheer girls that has you so excited? Unfortunately, it's a mixture of prejudice, ignorance and balderdash. Some of you say they're vulgar. Perhaps, but does it occur to you that, like beauty, vulgarity lies in the eyes of the beholder? Many of us find your taste, behaviour and style vulgar but we put up with it. Is it too much to expect the same of you? That apart, do you know what vulgar means? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as something that is patronised or practiced by ordinary common people. Did you mean to be elitist or have you picked the wrong adjective?

Your second justification for banning cheer girls is they're un-Indian. Well, in a very literal sense, you're right. Until they were imported they were not known of by the vast majority of our countrymen. But that's also true of cricket. (Incidentally, I hope you don't think the game was handed down by the Vedas?) Yet the fact that cheer girls attract attention by baring their mid-riffs and dancing suggestively is something we're very used to. Every woman in a sari has as much to show and reveal. Whilst Bharatnatyam and Odissi dancers — and let's not even mention Khajuraho and Konark sculptures or some of our delightful miniatures and the Kama Sutra — are far more sensual.

Those of you who pretend to be moralists have claimed cheer girls are demeaning of women. But if you think about it you'll realize how silly that statement is. To begin with, the cheer girls are women and they're doing it willingly, even happily. Second, they're proud of the figures they're showing off. Third, the vast majority of the audience is enjoying their performance. This is not titillation. And though I don't deny there's a small perverted minority that's deriving pornographic pleasure, are the rest of us to be treated like school children because of this half per cent? Even you wouldn't say yes!

The most pertinent criticism is that cheer girls distract from the cricket. I have to admit there's probably some truth in that. Except what it overlooks is that's precisely why they're there. T20 is not a Test match, not even a one day game. To be successful, a T20 tournament requires all the extras it can acquire. So, if you're a purist it's not the cheer girls you should object to, but the game itself. Don't expect the sobriety of Lord's when you're watching the thwack and shove of Yusuf Pathan and Brendon McCullum. Unless, of course, you're a hypocrite.

Actually, I'm afraid that's what it is: hypocrisy. Bollywood indulges in crude and lascivious behaviour but you rarely, if ever, threaten to rip out those scenes. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, you court Bollywood stars and your ultimate goal is to get your kids to join them. Yet if the rest of us have a bit of innocent fun your moral hackles rise and you start cracking the whip.

Well, it's time you got off our backs. At last there's something on television the country seems to like and you have no right to ruin it. I suggest you grab a beer and enjoy the girls yourselves!

 

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Collection of famous quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu

1. That ball went so high it could have got an air hostess down with it.
 

2. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an incoming train which will run them over.

3. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

4. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."

5. Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taximeter.

6. Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

7. Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!

8. He is like Indian three-wheeler, which will suck a lot of diesel but cannot go beyond 30!

9. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!

10. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.

11. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea.

12. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.

13. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.

14. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!

15. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls and everything else falls!

16. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.

17. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.

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19. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

20. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.

21. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire, ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain T&T "Eddie ichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands."

22. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

23. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

24. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

25. The cat with gloves catches no mice.

26. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

27. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

28. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.

29. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

30. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa.

 

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