Remarks on Sachin by great Cricketers, Sachin is GOD: Justified by cricketers: Sachin explained : Indoubtedly

"Destined to be a great" -Barry Richards.

"He is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him" - Viv Richards.

"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours" - Michael Kasprowicz.

"It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him" -Allan Border.

"There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn't lose to Team India. We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar" -Steve Waugh.

"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard" - Dennis Lillee.

"I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay" -Greg Chappell.

"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time" - Wasim Akram.

"The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it
is too much pressure on him" -Mark Waugh.

"Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person I've admired
over a 15-year of period, it's definitely Sachin." - Brain Lara

"I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the
wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I
don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin
Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player" -Shane Warne.

"I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I
asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel
that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she
looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between
the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed
to gel" -Sir Donald Bradman.

"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me
with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl
me another one?'" - Adam Hollioke

Sachin is cricket's God? Barry Richards.

You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good
ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat
looks so heavy but he just waves it arounad like it's a toothpick? -Brett Lee

You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's
going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway? -Micheal Kasprowicz

Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ? nothing
is a problem? -Geoffrey Boycott.

His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out
to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one
man. The people see him as a God... ? Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar.

I (Embarrassed laugh) am a normal person who plays cricket. I am nothing
more than that? Sachin Tendulkar, on being told of above quote.

"The fact of the matter is that India still need Sachin in a big way. All
this talk of the youngsters taking over is very foolish. The reason why
Tendulkar is so important for the team is because of his ability to
inspire others and make them perform under pressure" - Some day on "Times of India".

Cricket is the religion and sachin is the God
Team India without Sachin is like Temple without God.

And, this is the best!!! (A True fan of Sachin carried this Banner in a match..)
"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because
even the Lord will be gone to watch his batting!!!."

Yes, Sachin is not only the Cricket's God, the Cricketers' God... No one can be atheist here!!!

Sachin's a better batsman than me : Injamam

Former Pakistan Skipper Inzamam To Open A Batting Academy In LahorePanchkula: From that epic World Cup semi-final in New Zealand to a game against Chennai Superstars in the Indian Cricket League, even Inzamam-ul-Haq himself has forgotten how many matches he has won almost single-handedly for his team. Yet, when one talks of the best finishers in the game, it's the likes of Michael Bevan, Michael Hussey and Yuvraj Singh who are being discussed.
Inzamam doesn't mind at all. "They are better finishers than me," he said with a smile. But when pestered for more, he shared a secret: "I actually never look at the scoreboard. I just go on playing as I know to play, and if we win, it's God's grace," the simpleton in Inzy came out as he settled down at the hotel lobby to have a long chat with the reporters.
But he just got a little irritated when somebody told he had won more one-day matches for Pakistan than Sachin Tendulkar had done for India. "Let's clear this thing once and for all, Sachin is a far better batsman than me. And if somebody has played cricket, he will know that a No. 4 or 5 is always in a better position to finish matches than an opener."
And Inzy doesn't mince words when he says: "Yeh jo Australia se aap series jitke aye na, it's all because of Sachin. Had he not been there, it would never have been possible for India."
No wonder, the Multan magician is not in favour of the obsession about blooding in youngsters in the team in the place of performing seniors. "The value of experience is priceless. And if a player is performing till 42, he should be in the team," Inzy said.
Doesn't he think that too many older players affect the fielding standards of a team? "I know the importance of fielding, and I also know that barring a couple, how good the young Indian and Pakistani fielders are," the former skipper quipped.
The obvious query was then why he left the game, when there was nobody to replace him in the Pakistan team. "After the World Cup, I lost the hunger for playing cricket. Moreover, it was extremely difficult for me to come out of the trauma of Bob's (Woolmer) death," he went back to those nightmarish days after the 2007 World Cup.
Woolmer's death haunts Inzy even to this day. "Bob and me built the team brick by brick. We had so much expectation about the World Cup and then such a thing happened. And in those terrible days, nobody stood beside us," there was lump in the throat of the big man.
How does it feel when he sees the current state of Pakistan cricket?
"It feels sad. It's a better team than what I got in 2003, which didn't have more than one player (Mohammed Yousuf), who had played more than 30 Tests. This team needs somebody as a skipper who is an automatic choice both in Tests and ODIs," Inzy said, adding: "Malik is unable to get the respect from the boys which Yousuf or Younis (Khan) would have got."
He also feels that the PCB is handling the Shoaib Akhtar episode very poorly. "Shoaib is still a matchwinner. They should be judicious in the way they handle a volatile cricketer like Akhtar," he added. Inzy could have carried on for some more time, but there were other commitments to be fulfilled. As he was getting up, somebody threw in a query: "Do you ever think you were an underachiever?" The smile comes back. "I am happy with the 20,000 international runs that I got and don't repent the 3,000 that I didn't," he said, before informing that he will open a batting academy in Lahore in a couple of years.

Little Master : Standing Tall : Tall

The winter of 89. Most of India sat transfixed before their TV sets as an exhibition match unfolded between India and Pakistan. It was hard to even imagine an exhibition match between the two nations those days that was conducted sans an excessive dose of jingoistic fervor. In any case, in all that, as India was hurtling towards yet another inevitable defeat, a young kid with an unruly mop of hair strode to the pitch to take guard. To most people, millions of viewers included, he seemed like a boy who had carelessly meandered into a man's world, would be promptly castigated for doing so and shown his place. The legendary leg spinner who was bowling even vocalized these thoughts to the young man, perhaps acting as spokesperson for the larger masses. The young man said nothing. His expression was determined and his eyes were steeled. And it took just one memorable over to announce to the world that they were witnessing someone special.

We sat and we cheered and we were awestruck. How a young kid who was not even out of school could have the temerity to take on and maul one of the world's greatest bowlers in his own back yard. He made us believe that we as Indians could take on the world, we could dictate our own terms and we could actually be the world's best. For a nation that had shaken from its economic slumber and was entering a new era of opening its doors to the world here was the perfect poster boy. Young, fearless, talented, world class but with a value system that was so endearingly rooted and Indian that he gave the burgeoning middle class of our nation hope that any dream was possible.

Nearly two decades since the young man is now the veteran of the Indian team and perhaps of world cricket itself. But the steely determination that has been the hallmark of his career remains unaltered. Time and again fingers have pointed his way, tongues have wagged, and even jeers have emanated from his own home crowds. But as always the little champion has handled then with utter poise and dignity. And as always he has let his bat do the talking.

Today when he scored his 38th hundred at the SCG, it was a mark of the man's stature how even the Australian crowds rose to cheer him. One Aussie fan before the match had said. 'The ideal result would be an Australian win and a Tendulkar hundred.'

Think of Maradonna in his Barcelona days being cheered after a match by the partisan Real Madrid fans. A treatment that was repeated in favour of Ronaldinhio two years ago after a sublime display from the Brazilian in a derby match. Michael Jordan being applauded wherever he played, the Brazilian national football side which in most countries draws more interest than the home team. Across the world we all appreciate craftsmen. People who are supreme artists, whose appeal and impact go beyond the nations that they belong to. Sachin Tendulkar is clearly in that bracket.

His first tour of Australia had him scoring a century at Perth, perhaps the fastest and bounciest track in world cricket. The Australians tried sledging him early on and then incredibly realised that it was having a reverse effect. That learning went through their system very quickly as subsequent Australian sides have never sledged him

The first time he opened the innings in one day matches in 1994 against New Zealand, he showed how it was possible to score at an express rate while still playing cricketing shots. That innings, as a friend once remarked, was like watching a highlights package, as every ball whatever line or length or source was simply being decimated.

He bowled a memorable over in the semi final of the Hero Cup when South Africa had only four runs to make. What was striking was that he had the courage to flight the ball even in that situation. He bamboozled the leaden footed South African batsmen and India won the game.

Of course there are the two famous matches in Sharjah in 98 where he almost on his own won the trophy for India or the test series in India later where he mastered Warne. The 2003 world cup in South Africa saw him top the run charts but most memorable was the manner in which he dominated a brilliant Pakistani attack to make a rather stiff target look simple.

The list goes on, as do the records but they really don't capture the impact of the man on the game, his team and on the collective Indian psyche.

Even today when Sachin misses a hundred or gets out, a lot of people stop watching. We all feel a collective pinch when he gets out in the nineties, a bad habit acquired of late. An interesting anecdote along these lines is how Mohammad Kaif's parents left their home and went out after Sachin's wicket fell in the NatWest final, a match subsequently won because of the brilliance and temperament of their son.

No one is irreplaceable. But can one imagine how watching cricket will be after he retires? Sure the show goes on but it does leave a horrible feeling in the pit of the stomach. Legends come about once a while and even sans the media hype around the man there is no taking away from the fact that he is one. The ritual of Sachin actually donning his helmet is a metaphor for carrying the hopes of a billion people. Maybe that's why he never removed his helmet during the storm in Sharjah; perhaps he was aware of what he was carrying.

Let the man be and let him go when he desires. I don't think he will linger longer than that moment when he knows he is not at his best, let no one else make that judgment for him. For someone who has given us countless moments of joy, hope and salvation over the last twenty years we owe him that much.

70 of the Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar | No Wonder

Just have look at the records held by Sachin Tendulkar. No wonder why British Prime Minister is suggesting him for the honor of Sir .......

1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
17. Most number of 100's in test's 39.
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
49. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
55. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side
56. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket

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By popular vote, the greatest batsman in the world today, Sachin Tendulkar has the cricketing world at his feet. The adulation he commands world over is unsurpassed, perhaps since the days of Don Bradman, to whom of course he has been compared, by no less than the great man himself. While he may not end with a Test career average of 99.94, there is little doubt that based on his vigorous style of batsmanship and his insatiable appetite for runs and big scores, he is the most complete batsman since Vivian Richards. In many ways though he has surpassed even that outstanding West Indian batsman.
When Tendulkar is on song, there is no more majestic sight in the cricketing world. The spectators at the stadium are on their feet cheering while all over the world, TV audiences are glued to the screen. He has scored heavily on all kinds of wickets the world over, in conditions which lesser mortals have not been able to master and against bowlers whom other batsmen have found it difficult to score off. Immensely gifted and blessed with an impeccable technique, Tendulkar's batting is a dream, combining timing, elegance and power. Mentally very strong, Tendulkar is best when confronted by a challenge - as he showed when mowing down Shane Warne in India in 1998. Captain during two short stints,
Tendulkar has made it clear that he would prefer to concentrate on his batting and indeed, he seems to be getting better with every passing year. Scoring two double centuries in successive seasons and being the first to cross the 10,000 run barrier in ODIs is clear proof of this. The best thing from the fans' point of view - if not the bowler's - is that the entertainment, courtesy Tendulkar, is still at the intermission stage. Long may
`The King' continue to regale his willing subjects!

While his batting ranks him among the best in the world, he is also a part-time bowler and has played a crucial role as a leg spinner or a medium pace bowler who tends to break partnerships. He has more than a hundred wickets in ODIs and 35 in tests, though his bowling averages are above 40. He continues to perform well under the massive weight of expectation of hundreds of millions of cricket followers, in India and around the world, and most recently was named Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.Incidentally, Sachin is the first batsman to be declared run out by third umpire in 1992 in South Africa.
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