Indian bowlers does not know line and length.They told themselves as fast bowlers and like fast bowler they give short pitch which is very slow and batsman can get ample time to see and hit.Except zaheer khan all are slow bowlers,who reuires to maintain only line and length like Madanlal,Mohinder Amarnath or Roger Binny.These guys are not Pace Bowlers,rather medium pace bowlers.Nehra could not hit the stump of mendis,though mendis has given ample scope in all the five balls,bowled by nehra. He should practice how to hit the stump.The match was won due to good effort of Sachin & Harbhajan.
The Man-of-the-Match award was Tendulkar's 59th in ODIs, and his eighth in finals. It was also his 14th Player-of-the-Series award. Tendulkar leads the all-time list in both categories - he is 11 clear of the second-placed Jayasuriya in the match awards and three ahead in the series awards.
In all, Tendulkar has scored 1833 runs in finals, which is easily the highest - Sanath Jayasuriya is next with 1613. Tendulkar also ranks very high in terms of all-time averages in finals: among those who've scored at least 500 runs in finals, only three have a higher average. One of them is India's current coach, Gary Kirsten - in 20 innings, he scored 1019 runs at an excellent average of 69.73. Tendulkar's stats are very similar to those of Viv Richards, who averaged 55.73 at a strike rate of 84.78 in 17 finals. Brian Lara, on the other hand, has struggled in finals, averaging only 28.16, more than 12 runs below his career average. His one century and two fifties all came in his first four innings; in his last 14 finals, his highest score was 35
Re: Truly a Master - Sachin
by mayank nigam on Sep 15, 2009 11:34 PM
Good to hear ...we are really proud to have a real hero in Indian team who answers his critics by his bat only....
