They come from a country where Footbal mean life. They come from a country where cricketers pay transportation charges on their own. They come from a country where they dont even have a national cricket academy. They come from a country who played 20 years of cricket being in the least grade . They come from a country whose payment is only 30% of what BCCI provides to our team. they fought. they made it once again. NO MORE MINNOWS.... BANGLA IN D BEST :)

For all those PEOPLE who want SACHIN to retire. . . When Sachin Tendulkar went to Pakistan to face one of the finest attacks ever assembled in cricket.. Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car.. Lance Armstrong had never been to Tour De France.. Diego Maradona was still the captain of world champion team Argentina Team.. Pete sampras had never won a grand slam.. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran n company, Roger federer was a name unheard of.. Lionel Messi was still in his nappies.. Ussain bolt was a unknown kid in Jamaica.. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar.. We have had Champions.. We have had legends.. But we will never have another Sachin Tendulkar :) He literally has the rights to do anything he wants, anytime he wants nd anywhere he wants in Cricket! There can never be anymore Sachin Tendulkar! So stop teaching cricket to the person who taught us what it is...!!!

Prodigy among fellow Indian:

  A man to whom most of the world fallen in love with.

  A sportsman who reached the heights that a normal civilian wouldnt even dreamt of.

  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is the person , whom i am talking about..

  As a teen ager he set benchmarks along with Vinod Kambli during the Harris Shield School Trophy tournament.

  Gets in to international level of cricketing and within 10 years, was rated by Wisden as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman.>?

 

received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honour, for 1997-1998, and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999 and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.

Sachin played his first international match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989, facing the likes of Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Abdul Qadir, and Waqar Younis. He made just 15 runs, being bowled by 

Waqar Younis, who also made his debut in that match. It was an inauspicious start, but Tendulkar followed it up with his maiden Test fifty a few days later at Faisalabad. 

His One-day International (ODI) debut on December 18 was equally disappointing, where he was dismissed without scoring a run, again by Waqar Younis. 

The series was followed by a non-descript tour of New Zealand in which he fell for 88 in a Test match, John Wright, who would later coach India, pouching the catch that prevented Tendulkar from 

becoming the youngest centurion in Test cricket. 

The long anticipated maiden Test century came in England’s tour in 1990 but the other scores were not remarkable. 

 

World watched this Guy:

Tendulkar truly came into his own in the 1991-1992 tour of Australia that included a brilliant century on the fast and bouncy track at Perth ,The WACA. 

He has been Man of the Match 11 times in Test matches and Man of the Series twice, both times in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.

His first ODI century came on September 9, 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It had taken Tendulkar 79 ODIs to score a century.

He is the only player to score a century while making his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debut.

He owns the record book with many more..

 The 100 India hundreds are not the only ones that define his career; he also has 38 first-class hundreds. 

And the schools cricket scores, and the pick-up matches he could play, and the tours he went on when he was 13 or 14 or 15.

For those who say He play for Records and not for the teamm.. please do read the rest of my blog...

First of All, cricket is a game played by 11 players and not a single player. A cricketer cannot win matches for his country nor he could become the reason to get lost.

If some one could think of playing for his own records,then you cannot imagine him to play 23 years of international cricket.

The thing is enjoying and relishing the game. That is the only reason that he couldnt resist playing the game.

Once during 2007 world cup, He was told to get down the order. 2 down. He didnt perform well during that season. He abruptly discharges his dissappointment of making him get down the order. 

It was actually the decision of Greg Chappell, the then Coach of Indian  cricket team. He after leaving the team had apologised for his foolish decision.

His Batting average is 49.04 in international cricket. 

You cannot see players with such an average on both forms of game with so much of consistency.

Usually Game finishers like Michael Bevan, Mike Hussey,Jonathon Trott and MSD has average of 50+. There is a reason behind that. 

If a batsman is able to score 30 runs and he is not out in that inning, and scores 20 and gets out in the next inning, it is considered as 50 runs in a single inning.

only whenever a batsman gets out, it is calculated as one inning in his stats.

In that case, Being an opening batsman, fetching an average of nearly 50 is going to be really great .

Hashim Amla is good now a days in scoring consistently above average.. But it is the temperament and consistency which makes him exemplery good from the others.

A record one can never imagine.. A 37 Year old cricketer acieving the feat of scoring the first double century in ODI.

There is also a talk whenever Sachin Scores a century, the country loses...

I am here with a wacking proof..

all along the 100 centuries scored by sachin , India have lost 25.

which is 25% losing record and 75 % winning record whenever he scores a century. (www.cricinfo.com for details)

You people believe this a bad record to have with?

You people think all these 25 matches India Lost is because of SRT himself?

Then simultaneously u ppl accept all the rest of the matches that India HAve won is because of SRT himself? No..

Then I will say you people are getting bored with Sachin's play. But not him.

It doesnt matter that who enjoys his game; the only thing is whether He enjoys it; whether he performs well.

It happens every time.

  It is non sense when you ask him to quit whenever a senior player retires. 

Now it is Rahul Dravid. 

hey guys... dravid wasnt performing well.. quits..

wats wrong wit sachin?

Yes . He didnt score century for a year. But he has been scoring 40s and 50s.. and sometimes 80s too. Remember he has also got 95 fifties under his belt.

tell me a good reason for him to quit? what can u people complain him off?

Hey sachin, u've been scoring runs for 23 years and on and on and on... get away and give chance to youngsters?

Thats really Rubbish..

Responding to the criticism against him that he was playing only for the milestone, Tendulkar said, "There are certain people I respect and there are certain people I don't respect. 

So I don't get affected by ones I don't respect, they have there opinions, it doesn't matter much they remain where they are."

"I don't bother much about them. Let them be where they are. I have got a bigger job of playing for India, score runs and win matches for India and 

I focus on that job instead of reacting to what they are saying," he retorted once.

 

Can any one thought of the amount of pressure he has gone through every time he enters the pavilion?

Every time a billon people expects him to score a century whenever he enters to bat.

That doesnt mean that you are good only when you satisy the expectations which is very much impossible.

Imagine yourself getting into the ground with a billion people roaring "We need a century".

Dont you feel distracted? He is also a fellow Human. Inspite of all these expectations and injuries, the way he performed all through his carreer and 

the way he lived upto a billion people's expectation, it is really unbelieveable.

With the amount of Fame and money he has got with this Game, It is so easy for him to get settled in his personal life even after breaking Bradman's record.

What is the necessity for him to hurt himself and play for such a long time? It just Shows the amount of longevity of Passion he has with this crazy Game.

 

The context of Tendulkar's cricketing carrer will be remembered today, tomorrow, even at the end of his career.

Debating societies will exhaust themselves over its significance, particularly what transpired between 99 and 100.

But the memory of Tendulkar's labours over the last 12 months will not outlast the hundreds.The numbers will neither be repeated nor surpassed. 

A hundred hundreds are the stuff of sporting eternity; this is our generation's 99.94.

 

He is not merely a student of cricket but, in fact, a devotee. Tendulkar never throws his bat, ever. There is a clue there. He understands what he would be without that bat. 

If he leaves the dressing room like a snarling competitor (telling Virender Sehwag before they went out to bat together against Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup, "I'm going to get these guys") 

he returns with humility. 

Every dismissal is a reminder of his flaws, his weaknesses.

His former India coach John Wright says that after he is out, there are never wild displays of emotion. 

The aggressor and accumulator becomes a reflective batsman in the dressing room who sits down to debrief himself. 

It is why, Wright said, Tendulkar "knows where to go with his mind and his technique".

What does Sachin do now? Go for 110? 150? Or will he quit? I think he will play on. He loves the game so why should he retire? What else is he going to do? 

He is in a fantastic position. He can play for the love of the game. He doesn't need the money. It is like going back to being aged 11. 

He can be carefree and enjoy his remaining time especially now the 100 hundreds pressure is off his back.

Mastering your game, feeding the hunger for runs and keeping your passion for practice and 

all those hours working on your game away from the middle are the pillars on which their historic careers have been built.

 

"If you asked me how I would want my son to play I would answer 'like Sachin'," the great ViV Richards wrote.

"His strokeplay is pleasing on the eye. I've said before that if you had a pencil and paper, and drew the perfect picture of batsman at the crease, then you would sketch out Sachin." quoted  Sir Bradman.

"Considering the length of his career and the fact that he was able to renew his attacking desires, 

I would now rate Tendulkar slightly ahead of Brian Lara and comfortably in front of a fading Ricky Ponting." said Ian Chappell.

"This guy is not playing for my country. He plays for his century" says my fellow citizen.. 

Typical Indian Irony... :)