Career Flashback of Sachin

They said he is too old for the ODIs. And he answered them in the way he knows best, going for the big hits and setting new records both for himself and the team.
Today, as the Master Blaster turns a year older, let us look back at the career of someone who has come to represent cricket to many people of this generation.


Sachin Tendulkar has come a long way from that fresh-faced boy who debuted at the age of 16 in Karachi, against the Pakistanis?
Now, he is a living legend to whom all of Indian cricket is looking up to. He impressed one and all with his attitude and approach
in 1989, though he did not manage too many runs.


But, Sachin was perfect. He had it in him. And as the years went by, his movements spoke economy, he had perfect balance,
and precision in stroke making. He now is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with
the most centuries in either form of the game.


Sachin’s tour of England in 1990 saw him score his first Test century at Old Trafford. Tendulkar further enhanced his development into
a world-class batsman during the 1991–1992 tour of Australia that included an unbeaten 148 in Sydney. The great Shane Warne too made
his debut in the match, where opposing bowler Merv Hughes told his captain Allan Border, “This little guy’s going to get more runs than you, AB.”


Merv Hughes statement became a reality. 2008 was special for Sachin. He hit his first century in Australia to propel India to six-wicket win
against the World Champions in the first of the three-match final of the Common Wealth Bank tri-series. Tendulkar,
with his 117 not out off 120 balls, surpassed his previous best in Australia and extended his world record feat of most hundreds (42) in ODIs.


Sachin Tendulkar surpassed Brian Lara’s record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket in October 2008 by amassing more than 12,000 Test runs.
He also holds the record for the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals. ‘If it comes along the way, I will cherish it.
But to me records are a number game. Winning matches for India is more important,’ says Sachin.



And win he did. His solid knock brought him the much awaited ton in New Zealand and for the team, a series win against the Kiwis.
Such was the elegance of this ‘Little Master’ that Sir Richard Hadlee said that he rated Tendulkar even higher than Don Bradman,
considering Sachin’s staggering success in both the long and short formats of the game. “Nobody has ever said like that before. I am happy and satisfied,”
an elated Tendulkar said. “This comes as a pleasant surprise and it comes from a personality whose credentials cannot be questioned. I am happy
that I played with him on my first tour to New Zealand in 1989,” he added.


Recognition came from other quarters too. Madame Tussauds came out with a wax replica of this legend.
The replica was flown into India and was unveiled by none other than Sachin himself. “It is a great honour to be there at the Tussauds.
I know I am the first sportsperson of the country to be there. I think it is an appreciation and a reflection of my contribution to Indian cricket,”
he said after unveiling the statue.


Let us go back in time and see what makes Sachin special. Sachin was asked to open against the Kiwis in Auckland
where he went on to make 82 runs off just 49 balls. But he could not complete the ton. The wait was long, a bit too long
till he did it in 2009. Tendulkar became one of India’s key openers. The batsman, the country looked up to give it a solid start.


This was the beginning of a period at the top of the batting world, culminating in the Australian tour of India in early 1998,
with Tendulkar scoring three consecutive centuries.


His stroke play was so legendary that bowlers used to cherish taking his wickets. Glen McGrath, Warne,
there was never a great bowler who Tendulkar had not sent high across the boundary ropes.


And during the 1996 World Cup Sachin was the leading run scorer. He single handedly took the team forward.
When he lost his wicket, the batting lineup crumbled like a house of cards. If there is one thing this player wants,
Sachin has been quoted as saying it is to win the World Cup for the country


In 1995, Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali (born 10 November 1967), the pediatrician daughter of Gujarati industrialist,
Anand Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997), and Arjun (born 24 September 1999).


Tendulkar’s two tenures as captain of the Indian cricket team were not very successful. When Tendulkar took over as Captain in 1996,
it was with huge hopes and expectations. However, by 1997 the team was performing poorly. Azharuddin was credited with saying
“Nahin jeetega! Chote ki naseeb main jeet nahin hai!”,[27] which translates into: “He won’t win! It’s not in the small one’s destiny”.


It was in 1999 that Sachin suffered a chronic back-pain. And it was just the beginning. He started missing matches,
after suffering injuries, especially of his elbow, leading to talks of his retirement. He himself has rubbished any such talk of his quitting the game.


Tendulkar, succeeding Azharuddin as captain for his second term, then led India on a tour of Australia, where the visitors were comprehensively beaten 3-0 by the newly-crowned world champions.
Tendulkar, however, was at his usual best and won the player of the tournament award as well as player of the match in one of the games. After another Test series defeat, this time
by a 0-2 margin at home against South Africa, Tendulkar resigned, and Sourav Ganguly took over as captain in 2000.


Tendulkar remains an integral part of the Indian team’s strategic processes.
He’s often found discussing with the captain and involved in building strategies.


Tendulkar made 673 runs in 11 matches in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, helping India reach the final.
While Australia retained the trophy that they had won in 1999, Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award.


On 10 December 2005, at Feroz Shah Kotla, he scored record-breaking 35th Test century, against the Sri Lankans.
On 6 February 2006, Tendulkar scored his 39th ODI hundred, in a match against Pakistan. He followed with a run-a-ball
42 in the second ODI against Pakistan on February 11, 2006, and then a 95 in hostile, seaming conditions on 13 February 2006
in Lahore, which set up an Indian victory.


In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2007-08, Tendulkar showed exceptional form, becoming the leading run scorer with 493 runs in four Tests,
despite consistently failing in the second innings. He is also known for his interest in fast cars and the Ferrari he was presented with,
which created a furore in how it was given a tax-free import, is now a part of history!


The normally cool Tendulkar became rather emotional when the team coach Greg Chappell hit out against his attitude.
Chappell believed that Tendulkar’s repeated failures were hurting the team’s chances. Tendulkar was slapped with a notice
by the BCCI which dampened his spirits and resulted in his dismal performance in the World Cup in 2007.


But, Sachin Tendulkar battled his way out of all the controversies. And made a comeback by becoming the Man of the Series
against the Bangladesh. And then there was no looking back.


Besides his performances in the Test and ODI scenes, he is now an Icon player in the Mumbai Indians team of IPL
and will hope to leave his mark in the Twenty20 version of cricket too.And he is presently doing that with being the leading run scorer in IPL3 at the End of League Matches. Let his form continues and get the DLF cup for Mumbai and prove his Captaincy

Sachin's Records

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


New Records................
1. Highest Run scorer in the Test Cricket
2. First Cricketer to pass 12000 run in the Test Cricket

Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar
1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI
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 38
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

Still many more records to go. These Records were upto Dec 2008 only. His 200 against South Africa and his consecutive 100's in Tests against Bangladesh and South Africa was not added

Orange Cap with Sachin

Generally T20 is the game where the hard hitters get the fame by their huge and hard hittings.Its a reduced format,so batsmen cant relax and steady his innings and then go through with bowlers because there are just 20 overs for the Team. So its difficult for the batsmen who try to make them steady and then accelerate their innings.So T20 is a game for hard hitters who want to just go on from the very first ball, so that as much score can be scored in this 20 over.

But this IPL 3 clearly shows the cricketing shots are more than enough in any Format of the game.This IPL3 is a clear evidence that perfect cricketing shots and thoughtful shots are large enough to score in 20 over than just hitting the ball hard.

The evidence for this is the most runs stats in IPL3.
Sachin stands First in the most runs scored in IPL 3 indicating it with a Orange Cap. Its a procedure in IPL for honouring the most runs scored person by making them to wear a orange cap. At the End of the match who is leading in runs will be wearing that Orange Cap.Kallis stands second in most runs in IPL 3.

Orange cap has been with Kallis in the first half of the League and in later part its with Sachin.The names of the leading run scorers clearly indicates the fact of this article. As we all know Sachin and Kallis are not Hard Hitters. They just played good cricketing shots throughout this season and scored there runs.


STATS

Player Matches Runs SR

Sachin 12 542 137.56

Kallis 13 528 120.54


Sachin has got all these runs by playing good cricketing shots, some thoughtful shots and as usual by his superb timing and excellent placement.He has hit 74 boundaries in this season with 3 sixes. This stats also indicates how well he kept his wicket precious by just hitting only three sixes. He was leading his team from the Front and guiding the youngsters and giving them chances to explore their
talent.

Sachin has clearly proved that cricketing shots are enough in this format than hitting the ball hard and straining ourself.We can see the difference between the two by the examples of Indian Players.Yousuf Pathan as we all know very talented person and he was a very hard hitter of the ball. Sachin on the other hand never tried to hit the ball hard in this season just waited for the ball and spotted the exact place where it has to land and executed some brilliant shots and some times manufactured new shots too.

We can see Yousuf not able to perform consistently and getting out by trying hard hitting all the times.But Sachin was really performing Consisitently.
Sachin was really in great touch and let we hope he performs more consisitently and make his team to win the IPL trophy for the first time.

UnForgettable Day in the History of Cricket

Feb 24, 2010, Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior would have never expected that this ground is going to be carved in the History of Cricket on this specific Day.
Audiences in the ground have never expected that they are going to see Extra-Ordinary shows created by Sachin and had their Money worth more than they spent for their Ticket.
All the People in the Crowd together will have a same thought in their mind while going away from the ground, that is They are very Luckiest Person in the world to see
Master's Master Class Batting where he stayed still the End and made a Brilliant 200 ,that has never acheived by anybody in ODI, since its Inception on 1971.Even the Master himself
took 2 Decades to get First Double Century of this Format. It was a very late acheivement by Master according to his Standards and Records, but anyway he is the First to acheive that Milestone.

He really been in great touch from the Start of the Day still the End.He stayed throughout 50 overs, thats the great acheivement for the 36 Year Old Young Man and Ran all his runs without any Runner for him.South African Bowlers had no Clue about where to bowl to him. You all might have seen in the TV, how they were frustrated with his shots.He generally has more than 2 shots for ball landing to him in same area, thats his Strength,thats why the bowlers get frustrated and have no clue of where to bowl to him.

More than Sachin the crowd was restless and even the fans watching in TV also restless when he crossed 194. Even the team players were also in their edge of their seat as he was in 199 on 49th Over. Atlast he got a chance in 50th over and drived Langeveldt Ball Past Point to get The Milestone. He took only 147 balls to acheive the 200 mark Run.At the Press Meet, He said that he wants to bat some more matches stiil 50 th over and make sure he is still fit .
This shows his dedication towards Cricket, his Hunger to score Runs and his interest towards the game.This is surely an Unbeatable Record, if it was beaten it is surely again by Sachin only. None others can do it.He deserves all the Records Under his Belt and he still there to do Plenty of Records.

Sachin has only one thing left to do. That is getting World Cup for the Team India when he is in Team.Its a great Surprise to Everybody that India has not got World Cup when it had World Class Players like Sachin, Ganguly and Dravid in a Single Team. Anyway Sachin has clearly shown his thought that to get a WorldCup for India is his main Goal. When he is in form like this its Easy for India to Get WorldCup. Let his Form continues and let he bring the WorldCup to India which was the only thing that Sachin have to achieve in his lifetime. Lets all Pray together for Sachin to acheive his wish and make India Pride.

Jai Ho India, Jai Ho Sachin

About Sachin

Hi everybody I’m going to discuss the happenings in Sachin’s life. He is often referred as ‘The Little Master’. He is now called as’ Master Blaster’. He is one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket and this is widely accepted by all the countries. Even the countries where cricket is not popular Sachin will be known to every individual. Even I too got interest in watching cricket because of him. During my childhoods I used to hear in TV news frequently that Sachin made a victorious path to Indian cricket in frequent matches. This made me to watch cricket and I was then impressed by his batting style and the way he picks the ball. His specialty is the selection of shots. He used to play perfectly and neatly and the play will be interesting and lovable. There are reports that many people in India will come to watch the cricket match only because of Sachin. There are some proofs for it. Wait for my next post where I’m going to disclose some of the proofs that will tell you that Sachin’s presence in the team is most concerned and no one is going to lose this kind of man.