Sir Sachin Tendulkar - The Greatest Cricketer Ever

[thamizhvaanan]

LM
http://www.action8cricket.com/cricke...mcgrath-41.htm
http://www.expressindia.com/news/ful...p?newsid=78611
http://uk.reuters.com/article/sports...32297520070427

DH, read it properly. He said "on his day" he is just ahead of sachin. How often that "his day" comes is a matter that needs kind attention :P And see the stats quoted below, 6 against 15, you know who is more susceptible.

"I feel, personally, that on his day Brian Lara was probably the guy who was the standout, just slightly ahead of Sachin." Interestingly, McGrath has dismissed Lara 15 times in Tests, just four less than his biggest 'bunny' Michael Atherton whom he claimed 19 times. He dismissed Tendulkar six times.

Another thing is that, Lara is extremely effective against spinners, yet the world's best spinner at that time Shane warne claimed that Sachin is better. Goes to show how much he shone against all types of bowling.

[thamizhvaanan]

DH, read this also:

Sachin is the best, daylight is second, and then there's the rest.

Much less subtler than "slightly ahead" above :P

Warne says: "Day in and day out Sachin is the best." The corollary is obvious: other batsmen, great ones too, have slumps; Tendulkar's form varies as little as a dying man's heartbeat.

Yet Warne is not finished. "Lara is the best to watch when he is in form." In full flow, says leg spin's Picasso, "You'd pay money to watch him. He and Adam (Gilchrist) are the most exciting."

[directhit]

TV - warne was smashed by Lara too, but its not graded high with the logic of 'playin a bowler whose deliveries come into u' are easy(ier) to play, thts why Sachin is graded high with Warne and in the case of Murali, he rates Lara better

however i dont wanna get into an argument, i disagreed to that statement by MC ambuttu dhaan :P we might end up arguing over 50 pages and still our views wont change

[crajkumar_be]

Flamboyance, paying money to watch ellam avingavinga karuthu...
"Destructive" - debatable and one would consider Lara even if one were a Sachin fan...
# of Shots, "versatile" - it has to be Sachin. I mean its out there for anyone to see

[ajithfederer]

The best Test team of 2008

The Wisden Test XI

Scyld Berry

2009

Sachin Tendulkar secured the votes of Shastri and Smith to be No. 4, while Bishop went for the promise (and all-round fielding) of A. B. de Villiers, although he would have batted at No. 6 in Bishop's team. Shastri's reasoning: "Tendulkar scored two 150s in the back yard of the best team in the world," as Australia still were in January 2008. Later, in December, Tendulkar put the finishing touch to his CV, the match-winning fourth-innings hundred against England at Chennai.

http://content.cricinfo.com/wisdenal...ry/398701.html

[ajithfederer]

http://cricket.ndtv.com/cricket/ndtv...in_shines.html

Make hay while Sachin shines!

Garima Bharti, Tuesday, April 07, 2009

This is what I counter-thought when I saw a cricket fan carrying a banner saying "Sachin! Make hay while the sun shines," and the champion batsman crafted his 42nd Test hundred in Hamilton. Maybe the fan wanted Sachin to score quickly in the rain-threatening New Zealand weather, but it had other connotations as well.

Many find it absurd when I say Sachin Tendulkar doesn't figure in my 'favourite cricketers' list. My logic is simple. The list starts after him. With all due respect to the prowess of his contemporaries and promises shown by the young talents, Sachin to cricket is what cricket is to India. Inseparable! Incredible!

In his 20-year-long career in international cricket, the Master Blaster overcame every known injury, made and broke almost every imaginable batting record, played innumerable match-winning knocks and set his own benchmark. But most importantly, he carried hopes of a cricket-crazy nation every time he walked out to bat and brought smiles to over a billion faces.

No doubt the current crop of players have responded well to the new challenges and are shouldering responsibilities with aplomb. Now nobody relies on Sachin to always play like the ultimate saviour. But at the same time everybody knows, as long as the Little Master is out there, one can always expect something special.

In the just-concluded New Zealand tour, he showed how his mere presence touched the morale of the two teams. After the back-to-back T20 losses, cricket pundits, sharpening their daggers, were waiting for one more failure to attack Dhoni's knights. While some criticised Dhoni's tactics, the superstitious ones blamed the new 'Blue Jersey' for bad luck.

Come Tendulkar, everybody takes a sigh of relief, including the captain. "The amount of contribution he can make to the side from his experience is amazing. He changes the dressing room atmosphere completely," Dhoni once said.

The last 12-14 months have been phenomenal for Team India. A few players like Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan took their game to the next level and assured that the future of the Indian cricket was in safe hands.

But Tendulkar was equally instrumental in most of those victories, be it the CB series win in Australia, Mohali Test against Australia, Chennai Test against England or the first Test against New Zealand in Hamilton.

His presence at the non-striker's end not only gives confidence to his batting partners, but also makes them conscious of playing a poor shot. Sachin's ability to change the approach and adapt to the situation not only makes him the strongest pillar of the Indian team, but also the storehouse of knowledge for the new crop of players. From on-field application to off-field demeanor, the younger lot can learn so much from him.

With recession leaving many with gloomy faces before the General Elections, one doesn't know if India is actually shining. What one can be assured of is, as long as Sachin is there, Team India will definitely shine!

[Movie Cop]

But again Tendulkar is more versatile at the crease (with his shot selection) than Lara.

disagree

DH,
Didn't mean to bring a Tendulkar vs. Lara debate here. I like Lara's batting as much as you do. But certainly Tendulkar is more versatile and adaptive at the crease. He is a batsman who can adjust his technique according to the pitch conditions and also play specific kind of strokes (both text book and improvised) based on the surface. The paddle sweep, the inside out shot over covers, the uppercut are all there for everyone to see. But that doesn't make Lara's batting any less of a spectacle to watch. Let's safely leave it there.

[ajithfederer]

Tendulkar to launch his wax figure on April 13
MUMBAI: Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar will launch his new wax figure, flown directly from Madame Tassaud's museum in London, on April
Tendulkar is the first Indian sports personality to be featured in the famous Madame Taussad's museum.
Incidentally, it is also the first time that a Madame Taussad figure will be launched overseas.
The museum decided to flew Tendulkar's wax figure 7000 kms to Mumbai just for a meeting with the cricketing legend.
The wax figure has taken only three months to create and is dressed in the master blaster-donated white cricketing jersey.
http://cricket.timesofindia.indiatim...ow/4379420.cms
Regards,
Prabhat Panda.

[littlemaster1982]

Innum oru 11 naal wait panni launch pannalam. Dhool-a irukkum

[ajithfederer]

Actually i had the impression is this "madame tassaud or whatever statue" a big deal. Enakennamo idhu sutha waste nnu thonudhu.