Introducing Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Introducing Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar..

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24 in the year 1973 made his debut in Test cricket on November 15 1989 against Pakistan at National stadium Karachi where he just made a humble beginning scoring 15 runs in 24 balls with the help of 2 fours coming four down in a drawn encounter under the captaincy of Krishnamchari Srikkanth.

It was on December 18 the same year i.e. 1989 that Sachin got to play in his first one day international game that was the second game of the Pakistan tour. Sachin came in to bat at number 5 faced two balls for a duck in the rain curtailed 16 over game which Pakistan won by 7 runs.

It was on first December 2006 that he played his first Twenty20 International game against South Africa when he scored 10 runs off 12 deliveries in the game which India won by 6 wickets.

Such humble beginnings despite the fact that he was a great potential and was likened to be the next Tendulkar by those who had seen him playing his cricket for Mumbai just a year back.

Did his sedate beginnings reveal anything of what was to follow in the next 20 years. Probably not much. Here are some facts of the little master blasters 20 cricketing years. He celebrates his 20th cricketing birthday on November 15 a few days from now Sachin Tendulkar has exhibited some great cricketing genius.

1. Test Cricket – 159 matches – 12773 Runs - 42 Hundreds and 53 Fifties and 248 not out as his highest test score with an average of 54.58 make him the biggest Test player of the world. He has 44 Test wickets against his name wit 3 for 10 as the best bowling efforts. He has held 102 catches and has hit 51 sixes in his Test career

2. One Day Cricket - 435 matches – 17168 Runs – 45 Hundreds and 91 Fifties and 186 not out as his highest one day score with an average of 44.59 make him the ideal one day player. He has taken 154 One day wickets with 5 for 32 as his best bowling efforts. He has held 132 catches and has hit 181 sixes in his one da career.

3. Twenty20 International - Has represented India in only one Twenty20 game the first that India played and won with 10 runs against his name and took 1 wicket for 12 runs and took a catch in that game.

These statistics do not reveal much of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar despite being very-very impressive and probably one of the best in the two formats of the game. He was likened to be the Asian Bradman of cricket..

It was only yesterday that we discovered that Sachin Tendulkar in spite of his 36 years and 196 days and such a huge cricketing career behind him still has a great appetite for scoring majestic runs for his country.

In the hindsight I shall inform the readers that Sachin was named thus by his grandfather after Legendary Music Director Sachin Dev Burman.. whom I had just covered on 31st October here on brother’s blog and also posted it to http://abhayafriends.blogspot.com.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulakar – Tendaliya- Tendua, Master Blaster & Tendy is actually mesmerizing the whole country with his music composed on the cricket field as he weaves magic with his bat..

Abhaya Sharma
Mumbai, India November 6 2009

Post Script: I have been far too critical of his playing for so long.. I take each and every word spoken against the genius.. such players are not born every day such players are not born in every country.. such players are hard to find who play cricket for 20 years with the same zeal and determination.. Hats off to you Tendaliya..I would love to see that you continue to play cricket as long as you wish.. It is indeed a treat to watch you bat when you are on a song.. I personally had been rating Kapil Dev as the best Indian cricketer ever.. but today I can say that you are the best cricketer in the world.. Cricketing Pundits would not take exceptions to my statement about you..

This article would also be available at my cricketing blog tha was initiated for IPL2
http://abhayaipl2.blogspot.com/

( Of course with a picture of Sachin that has just been downloaded from cricket.org)

The result does not matter..Hyderabad

The game tha just concluded a few hours from now at Rajiv Gandhi Interntaional stadium Uppal, Hyderabad was an absolute thriller..
Australia - 350 for 4
India - 347 all out.

The Australians fielded so well and despite some early chances to Sehwag thay were as sharp on the field as sharp could be..

Yet the day would cleatly belong to the grand old man of Indian cricket.. who is all but 36 years of age but is already playing in his 20th year.. friends please join me to congratulate Sachin Tendulkar.. for his 175 chanceless innings..

In the end one can just say that this game would be remembered as the third game India played and the third game India lost at this venue..and it is ironical that Deccan Chargers who have it as their home ground have played as many as 9 games on this venue and lost all the nine.. some strange coincidence that science and statistics can not explain..

In the light of a mere 3 run defeat I choose not to find any fault with anyone in the Indian camp.. I would only say that MSD only half heard me when he played Munaf but not also Mishra.. it is all right.. it is a game after all and not the battle field..

Love and better lick next time..

Sehwag.. You definitely do get out as and when I watch your innings.. In the next game I shall not watch the game when you are on the crease..

Sachin Tendulkar - Congratulations on completion of 17000 runs in one day cricket and scoring 45th century and registering your second highest score in the format.

Praveen Kumar.. If you had enough experience of International cricket you would have dived full length while completing the second run.. it is all right.. You are doing well and living upto my expectations..

Raina.. The way things were going between you and Sachin there was no need to show such agression at that point of time.. Such a valuable partnership ended a couple of overs earlier.. it is all right.. jo beet gai so baat gai..

Munaf Patel - I know there was nothing in wicket for you.. no problems.. I do not think MSD could give you another game.. not in this series for sure..

Watson, Marsh and Ponting made sure that India is set the toughest target of the series.. they would have never thought that India could come so close to winning this one.. They have to be careful with these bunch of Indians in the next two games as well..

In the hindsight.. after loosing the first game at adodara by 4 runs India had won the next two games.. after loosing by three runs we expect that India wins the next two deciding games as well..

Love and regards
Abhaya Sharma
For scorecard click the link given below:
http://www.cricinfo.com/indvaus2009/engine/current/match/416240.html

The Team India at Hyderabad ..

MSD include Mishra and Munaf..

If I were Mahendra Singh Dhoni I would make scope for inclusion of Amit Mishra and even Munaf Patel. What would be more difficult would be to find out who would be the two players whose place these two take up. Given the kind of overconfidence that has been shown in Ishant Sharma and Harbhajan Singh it would be a monumental decision to find place for two bowlers.

India had done well in the series yet the winning combination minus Gambhir did the trick for Australia for leveling the series at Mohali. The seven match series is now reduced to a new 3 game series if we exclude the four games that leave the two sides leveled at 2-2.

I would rather be little strong in inclusion of Munaf Patel for Ishant Sharma. One can not take his place for granted. Some people may argue that even Johnson went for far too many runs in the last game could he be replaced. The situation for Australia is different they are laden with far too many injuries. It is highly commendable that injury depleted Australians have managed to level the series at Mohali. Ishant Sharma has to be rested, no, dropping is not the right word. And one of Jadeja or Raina has to be rotated for making scope and space for Mishra to be reined in. Gambhir anyway walsk in for Virat Kohli.

My team for Hyderbad might look something like this –

Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvraj, Sachin, Dhoni, Raina, Harbhajan, Praveen Kumar, Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra & Munaf Patel.

Yes I also wonder if I could rest Jadeja from my scheme of things.. yet that is what I propose for I know that Mishra would be a far too improved bowler and Raina too can bowl if the need arises. Rainas fielding capabilities and his far too better batting skills made my decision making somewhat simpler.

I know Mahendra Singh does not give any heed to whatever I have to say about team composition yet I must add here hurriedly that whichever team wins at Hyderbad is going to be winning the series. I may be too premature in saying so yet it is an important game in no uncertain terms.

May we then have for the firs time an Indian XI that has been listed by one Abhaya Sharma. I know Dhoni would disagree.. I would rate his decision superior to my line of thinking.. after all he has led the country admirably.. he has far too greater knowledge of the game and conditions that the team has to face. He alone can be the best judge of the situation. I did have something up against him when he did not show confidence in Kumar and with four games already been played his contribution has been exemplary except in the first game where he went for 77 runs. He assured of his place with a scintillating 40 runs in that game to scare the Australians along with Harbhajan Singh. He should play all the seven games if does not suffer injury. Harbhajan too despite his poor show in his own craft is doing well with the bat so I can not touch him or rather I should not touch him. I however have great sympathy for excluded Jadeja.. his bowling efforts does not warrant for me to drop him yet I know that he is primarily taken as a batsman and that is the reason that I have chosen Raina over him in the final XI. I must add without any hesitation that Jadeja the bowler is quite a find of the series.

Australians have always been adding up to the list of their injury woes.. even if Moises is not as dangerous yet the inability to include him as a regular bowler today would not be in the interest of the Australians. They are far too depleted side and if India does not register a series win against them now it would not be as simpler in the years to come.

Abhaya Sharma
Novmber 5 2009 9:10 AM IST

Match report Nagpur ODI Hindi

आदरणीय भाईसाहब
सादर प्रणाम

आपके रोचक लेख को पढ कर मन सदा ही प्रसन्न हो जाता है एकाध फोटो जोड़ने से उत्साह और भी बढ जाता है ।

मिले सुर मेरा तुम्हारा
तो सुर बने हमारा ..

यह पंक्तियां सदा ही हमारे एक होने के संकेत देती है, सुरेन्द्रनाथ जी अवश्य ही धन्यवाद के पात्र है - अगर किसी को इस मधुर रचना की नैट पर कोई लिंक ज्ञात है तो यहा लिख भेजें ।

कल नागपुर में भारत की जीत से कुछ एक बातें उभर कर समने आती हैं -

1. आस्ट्रेलिया जैसी सशक्त टीम भी चोटिल खिलाड़ियों की परेशानी से बाधित हो सकती है ।
2. महेन्द्र सिंह धोनी उर्ह माही उर्फ़ धोनी भैया उर्फ़ कप्तान साहब .. (यह आखिरी मेरा अपना जोड़ा हुआ है ) ने एक बार फिर सिद्ध कर दिया है कि वे वस्तव में मात्र भाग्यशाली कप्तान ही नही एक प्रभावशाली कप्तान भी है ।
3. भारत ने सात विकेट पर 354 रन बनाकर, 350 रन से अधिक का लक्ष्य आस्ट्रेलिया जैसी टीम के विरुद्ध पहली बार यह अजूबा कर दिखाया है ।
4. प्रवीण कुमार को तेज गेंदबाज न कहें तो न कहें पर आस्ट्रेलिया के बल्लेबाजों को जिस तरह उन्होने बांधें रखा अपने आप में काबिले तारीफ है । धोनी भैया कम से कम अब तो मान जाओ कि वह एक अच्छा क्रिकेटर है ।
5. हरभजन सिंह की गेंदबाजी उस दौर से गुजर चुकी है जब वे बल्लेबाजों को छकाने में कामयाब हो सकें ।
6. अच्छी से अच्छी टीम के 350 से उपर का लक्ष्य देखकर हाथ पांव फूल जाते है ।
7. अगर टीम को अच्छी शुरुआत मिले तो भारत आसानी से 350 रन से अधिक बनाने में सक्षम है, अगर मै गलत नही हूं तो हमारी टीम इस मामले में आस्ट्रेलिया से भी आगे है ।

चलिये आज का पत्र यहीं समप्त करता हूं, सहवाग, गंभीर, धोनी, रैना, प्रवीण कुमार तथा रविंद्र जडेजा सब के सब ही मैन आफ दी मैच थे । टीम को एकजुट देखकर अत्यंत प्रसन्नता हुई ।

मेरा भी योगदान रहा, मैने कल भारतीय पारी 10.1ओवर के बाद इसलिये देखना छोड़ दी कि खिलाड़ियों को मेरी नज़र न लग जाये ।

आपका अपना अनुज
अभय शर्मा
29 अक्टूबर 2009

Match Report, Nagpur ODI - October 28 2009

Respected Brother
Sadar Charan Sparsh

India has crossed the 350 or more runs on the board for the twelfth time (most by any team) and only team to score that batting first against Australia..

This is the third time in this calendar year that team India has crossed the mark.. they earlier scored 363 and 392 against Srilanka and New Zealand in February

India has done it thrice against each of the Sri Lanka and Newzealand

India has a highest total of 413 for 5 against Bernuda in the 2007 world cup.. it was a different matter that they were eliminated at the group stage in that tournament

India does not have a score of 350 plus only against South Africa of the top eight world teams

Out of the 12 occasions only thrice did team score 350 plus runs against minnows i.e. on nine occasions they achieved the feat against top cricket playing countries

India has achieved this feat five times under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's leadership

Congratulations team India.. I would not mind considering lifting a ban on myself to not to watch ODI cricket.. but don't ask me to watch Test cricket as well.. ungli thama raha hoon kalaai hi mat thaam lena or else I would be forced to sing..

dheere dheere kalai lage thaamane
inko ungli thamana gazab ho gaya ...

Love you all
Abhaya Sharma

Dhoni to Surprise Ponting

Respected Brother
Sadar Charan Sparsh
Now that you are beating most of us in sending post after post… eh in some competition with Angel or likes of her.. anyway.. this is not a complaint, it never can be a complain..
The more I think.. the more I realsie that it is not easy to come up with creative bust on the blog.. the more I read.. the more I find that people are here for more than just fun.. some try to propagate their own languages too.. that is noting wrong.. it might be of some help for those qho really wish to learn German.. I hope I have thanked the contributor without breaching my self-imposed restriction of naming individulas.. yet my German experience has to wait.. I may prefer to first get my hands on to Bangla.. oh no, not for the living but for some of the immortals that Bengal produced.. How fortunate I would consider myself if I could someday read Gitanjali in Bangla or even Sharat Literature in the language it originally emanated from. wishes.. Well, Genie can you make me a Bangala Aladin.. I shall feel indebted to you even if do not pay or offer any alms..lol
Good to see that some Sanjib Guha on DNA expressed my own sentiments regarding the ODI tourney in progress or should we say that has barely begun.. I have had a change of heart.. I shall not mind ODI if it could replace the Test cricket.. if they say test cricket is the real test of nerves.. ODI is just proving out to be reflecting that same feeling.. the bowlers and batters both have to apply themselves to tasks at hand.. what I know now is that Dhoni may after all be reading me and needing some help.. oh no, not my help as a bowler but as a strategist.. surprise.. that is the word I would like to whisper into his ears.. even if the Ponting too reads this he would just know that some surprises are coming.. what surprises.. I can not elaborate.. he has to do that himself in consultation with his senior players like Sehwag and Yuvraj.. no. no if he does wants to incorporate as naive as a Virat or Ravindra into his think tank there is absolutely no harm.. The think tank could be deciding on what composition they paly.. on what batting order they evolve.. more importantly plan for each players fielding abilities and expectations from him.. there is no stopping to work out on such issues as who bowls when and who bats where besides who chooses to be i or out of the circle during power plays.. these Dhoni bhaiya are some of the questions tha should concern team India..
Go ahead and play your best cricket.. I am not miffed at the loss at Vadodara.. now, if Bombay has to be categorically Mumbai why Baroda can’t be also only Vadodara.. it is all right.. What new name have they suggested for Nagpur.. Oh they haven’t done it as yet.. I am sorry.. snaketown would be the literal translation.. santara nagar could specify some of its innate attributes.. what else.. does it really matter.. if Nagpur were to be aprt of an IPL team they could also come up with Nagpur Netters.. oh it does not mean well.. do names have always supposed to reveal some significance.. I did not know.. hardly live upto the name that has been given to me.. many Sukhrams provide lots of dukh and some of the nainsukhs hardly able to see.. aankh ke andhe naam nainsukh.. where am I going.. stop..
Love and hopefully India does well tomorrow.. as i would not be watching the first half for sure.. I am from a working class Yaar.. I say this as many of the games which I see India does quite badly.. in the opener Harbhajan and Praveen could do well only after I went to sleep.. if they want me to sleep to win.. I shall do that for Nagpur game too.. I sorely need some good sleep too..
Crieckt fanatic
Abhaya Sharma
PS Dhoni bhaiya don’t lead the team that I said after the loss of the first game.. Ponting has probabbly seen that surprise him with some bold changes from that.. Good luck at Nagpur..

त्रिकोणीय श्रंखला में विजय

Congratulations Brother!
For team India won an important game ahead of some more tough tournaments coming up later..
It was nearly a total India participation - lookNorth - Harbhajan, Yuvraj & RainaEast - Mahendra Singh DhoniWest - Sachin TendulakrSouth - Rahul Dravid
As many as six players gave away some of the stellar performance in the win.. and for the first time I saw that Dhoni did listen to my plan maybe you told him it was your wish (moderator of the blog) that he wshould experiment with theslow bowlers.. I had sensed the way Malinga had been taken for runs that the wicket was a batsman’s paradise only slow bowlers could do something to contain or buy wickets.. Raina was a good contributor.. even in the Compaq cup winning my question to MSD.. what does Pravee Kumar do more to find a place in the playing XI..Congratulations to Padmshree Harbhajan Singh for coming up trumps at the crucial times.. if the wickets which he took were not taken India could have lost despite having 320 plus on the board.. he was ably supported by Yuvraj and Raina in the spin bowling department..
Yet the special salutation goes to the master blaster the Black (Oriental) Bradman - the one and only one Sachin Tendulakr.. I would not deny that he has proved me wrong.. I had been advocating that he has played enough of cricket he should take some rest.. not any more.. he could give good competition to Viru and Gauti of the Delhi for the openers slot.. it is very heartening to see him perform like a champion even at this age.. the physical makeup does get a faster wear and tear in sports with age than in Cinema.. that he has no chance of a retake to improve his shot.. he is a great performer by any standards.. best of luck for champions trophy and the champions league..
हिंदी दिवस होने के नाते मै भारतीय टीम को विजय के इस अवसर पर अपनी बधाई हिदी में भी देना चाहूंगा, आज जिस प्रकार के खेल का प्रदर्शन सभी खिलाड़ियों ने किया वह अत्यंत ही सराहनीय था, आप सब प्रशंसा के पात्र है आशा है आने वाले दिनों में भी आप सब एकजुट होकर खेलेंगे तथा कुछ रोमांचक मैच हमें देखने को मिल सकेंगें । यहां यह बताना यथोचित होगा कि खेल में एक की जीत तथा दूसरे की हार तो लगभग सुनिश्चित होती है तथापि सही खेल भावना के साथ किया गया प्रदर्शन हार-जीत के फैसले से बढ़कर है । आज टीम ने कुल मिलाकर अच्छा प्रदर्शन किया अगर संयोगवश हार भी जाते तो अभय शर्मा का दिल दुखी नही होता जैसा कि विश्व कप 2007 में या हाल ही में टी20 चैम्पियन्शिप में कभी हुआ था । धोनी भैया तुमसे मुझे कोई बैर थोड़े ही है, पर हां, सहवाग तथा प्रवीण कुमार प्रतिभाशाली खिलाड़ी है अकारण उन्हे अवसर नही देना कुछ ठीक नही लगता, वैसे अब मै कह सकता हूं कि तुम्हारी रणनीति कारगर है , टीम का चयन अपने हिसाब से ही करो, मै क्या जानूं कि किस में कितना है दम । सभी लड़कों को एक बार फिर हमारी तरफ़ से अनेकों बधाई ।अभय शर्मा