I have seen once upon time, we had not fast bowler in our team, new ball sharing by Sunny and Eknath Solkar. Now, we have number of fast bowlers. Even I have seen tailainer could not contributed runs. Now, see the development of batting skill of our taialiner, like Harbajan,Ishan Sharma, lastly we have seen Zahir had contributed with bat and added vaulable 70 runs partnership with man of the match. So alround development is going on.
The cirtic of the cricket world around, saying Indian team is not depend on particular player, it is true. But they still expecting benefits of their vast experience cannot be ingonred.
Re: Sachin Is always great.. Now he has got a good team
by mandar on Jan 01, 2011 12:59 PM
Enough of bombarding the Cricket followers on greatness of Tendulkar. It is the greatest irony of this Nation that it celebrates the 50th century of an individual when team suffers ignominious defeat in the same match. Individual brilliance is worthless if it doesn’t help the cause of a team. Tendulkar could have collected more medals for himself in a single man game like Chess than in Cricket as he can not be a team man. It is very rare that he has altered the fate of game or fought valiantly to save India from defeat. Unlike other greats like Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag or a Miandad whose motivation is winning the match or saving it from defeat, Tendulkar’s motivation, it seems, comes from his burning desire to create records for his own glorification.
Re: Sachin Is always great.. Now he has got a good team
by mandar on Jan 01, 2011 12:58 PM
Enough of bombarding the Cricket followers on greatness of Tendulkar. It is the greatest irony of this Nation that it celebrates the 50th century of an individual when team suffers ignominious defeat in the same match. Individual brilliance is worthless if it doesn’t help the cause of a team. Tendulkar could have collected more medals for himself in a single man game like Chess than in Cricket as he can not be a team man. It is very rare that he has altered the fate of game or fought valiantly to save India from defeat. Unlike other greats like Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag or a Miandad whose motivation is winning the match or saving it from defeat, Tendulkar’s motivation, it seems, comes from his burning desire to create records for his own glorification.
Re: Sachin Is always great.. Now he has got a good team
by KK on Jan 01, 2011 11:57 AM
but only pakis will like sachin to perform and rest of indians fail so that India can loose more rather winning.If every indian player starts performing what is the need of sachin's century.A win is much more important than sachin's century.
players with at least a tons for winning causes abroad on non subcontinental pitches.
Number of star ( ) indicates no of tons causing win abroad on non subcontinental pitches.
Sachin 20 tons contributed to win (3 ) Dravid 12 tons contributed to win (2 ) Gavaskar 6 tons contributed to win (3 ) Vengsarkar 4 tons contributed to win (2 ) GR Viswanath 4 tons contributed to win (2 ) Laxman 6 tons contributed to win (1 ) 1 Zim Saurav 4 tons contributed to win (1 ) 1 Zim DN Sardesai 2 ton contributed to win (1 ) Wadekar 1 ton contributed to win (1 )
players with all tons for winning causes only on subcontinental pitches.
Azharuddin 5 tons contributed to win Sehwag 7 tons contributed to win NS Sidhu 4 tons contributed to win Kambli 3 tons contributed to win Gambhir 3 tons contributed to win all Vinoo Mankad 2 ton contributed to win All Rounder Kirmani 2 ton contributed to win Pataudi 2 ton contributed to win Pankaj Roy 2 ton contributed to win Kapil Dev 1 ton contributed to win Ravi Shastri 1 ton contributed to win Dhoni 2 ton contributed to win M Amarnath 1 ton contributed to win S Amarnath 1 ton contributed to win V Hazare 1 ton contributed to win Poly Umrigar 1 ton contributed to win Deep Dasgupta 1 ton contributed to win Nayan Mongiya 1 ton contributed to win
even for winning causes innings of 90-99 runs innings Sachin 3 Dravid 3
Sehwag 2 Laxman 2 rest greats one each there in total 25 such great efforts
A tweet by a fan says it all. "Tendulkar is God, but it is Lakshman who always answers our prayers"! Need one say more! Before hitting the rough patch, it was Dravid playing that role. And the role of Kumble as our bbest match winning bowler is, of course, unaparalleled.
Re: Re: A tweet says it all!
by Solomon on Jan 01, 2011 11:28 AM
Dear Yogesh: Charisma does not win or save matches. The saying goes, `the tough get going when the going gets tough.....'. Well Lakshman gets going when the going gets tough and that is the difference, though he does not have charisma!
Re: Re: Re: A tweet says it all!
by Raj India on Jan 01, 2011 12:27 PM
I truly agree with u...We should admire players not bcus of the runs they accumulated, but how they helped team India in crisis situations...
Re: A tweet says it all!
by mukund vaidya on Jan 01, 2011 12:07 PM
solomon, even after kumble retirement we are doing very well. in his last year kumble was not so successful. compared to 49 wickets in 10 tests that he took in 2007 he only took 28 wickets in 2008 and realizing his time was up he retired. but even after his retirement we have been winning even more. dont forget under dhoni how we have won regularly. even the couple of times he was unfit and sehwag took over we won then also. so retirement of kumble has not made much difference. in fact we are winning more test matches after his retirement.
please understand that dhoni has won 14 tests out of 23 without having kumble as a bowler for a SINGLE test!
Re: Re: A tweet says it all!
by Solomon on Jan 01, 2011 10:24 AM
Yes Sanjay, you need not pray. Prayers to save or win will go unanswered. The tweet has hit it on the nail......
Re: Re: Re: A tweet says it all!
by abhishek kulkarni on Jan 01, 2011 06:36 PM
A tweet is a tweet is a tweet buddy..and Sachin is Sachin! Forget it and admire his greatness..If Laxman is good it doesn't mean Sachin is bad!
Re: Look at that joker Sachin
by raju rupnawar on Jan 01, 2011 09:37 AM
WON CHASING TARGET PLAYER Match RUN ; HS AVG 100 50 Sachi n 116 5033 134 56.55 14 28 Dravid&nbs p; 81 2268 109* ; 46.28 2 20 Ponting &nb sp; 92 3360 124* &nbs p; 57.90 4 17
IN TOURNAMENT FINALS PLAYER Match RUN ; HS AVG 100 50 Sachi n 39 1833 138 & nbsp; 55.54 6 10 Dravid 24 729 103* 34.71 1 & nbsp; 3 Ponting 40 1344 140* 39.52 2 7
