Sachin by Rakesh Gopalakrishnan on Feb 27, 2010 09:12 AM | Hide replies
When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.
When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters.
The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.
Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by Junior Don on Feb 27, 2010 11:26 AM
And yet Doni and company is resting him frquently and robbing millions of viewers of their joy. Jeers to Doni.
Re: Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by Nirkos on Feb 27, 2010 11:29 AM
It is really unfortunate ... ganguly used to do the same thing ... dravid also done when we was captain ... so dhoni is just following them
Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by Ajai Jacob on Feb 27, 2010 11:28 AM
You write as if Tendulkar is on top of the world.Remember that cricket is a game played by less than 10 countries making it the least popular game in the world.5/6th of the world population don't care about cricket. And cricket was invented more than 100 years back in England.100 years is more than enough time for a game to become popular.Yet it is not popular.Hence it will never become popular.It will die out in less than 50 years as lara has recently stated.
1)Game played by fewest nations and most of the cricket playing nations already showed disinterest in cricket(west indies ,australia... 2) Game dominated by climate(moist pitch ..ball turns,,,grass on pitch,,bouncer...ha ha ha Everything is done by climate...what the xxx the player is doing there 3) People say it’s a pure team game....????? look at footbal,basketball,vollyball...all the players of both the teams play together(11-11,6-6,11-11..etc) but in case of cricket its always 11 vs 2(bats man) ha ha ha ..still its a team game...
kabhi kabhi player ko batting bhi nahin milta hain….ha ha ha
Re: Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by gaymenace on Feb 27, 2010 11:37 AM
dont post comments in a haste just to seek attention. go check the number of affiliated nations under icc
Re: Re: Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by S Shrikanth on Feb 27, 2010 02:16 PM
Affiliation does not matter. Most of the affiliated nations are just token representatives fed by ICC.
Cricket is No. 1 game in India, Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladsh only. In fact cricket is the only sport in these 3rd world countries of poor people.
Cricket is No. 2 or 3 or 4 in SA, NZ, England and Australia (Rugby, Foodball, Hockey and Aquatics are more popular)
Cricket has completely faded in West Indies. Best athletes have moved to Athletics, Basketball, Baseball, American football in US. They are very rich games from money point of view.
So, cricket is fast shrinking to Indian subcontinent as India controls over 80% of money in cricket.
Re: Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by abhishek mukherjee on Feb 27, 2010 11:39 AM
please dont visit the page ajay if u r an anti cricket person....its stunning how people like u 1st shows interest by visiting the page and then only for shake of argument, blasts such a heveanly elaboration made by rakesh....please give us a break.
Re: Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by Nisar Ansari on Feb 27, 2010 12:25 PM
Ajai, UR quite right.It is a silly colonial game in which 40 yr olds play, eat and drink during the game! It is not even popular in England.Indian govt and media encourage it to pull the wool over the millions of jobless and starving.Our National game, Hockey is in disgrace.
Re: Re: VERY GOOD ONE
by Nirkos on Feb 27, 2010 11:31 AM
IT IS NOT A FAULT OF SACHIN ... IF CRICKET IS PLAYED BY ONLY 10 COUNTRIES ... IT IS MATTER TO ICC ..HIS GREATNESS IS UNDOUBTED AND IT IS IRRELEVANT HOW MANY COUNTRIES PLAY CRICKET ...
dear sachin if u look into records books theres little place where your name isnt there. but theres one place where it hurts most. the world cup. please win it for us.
Re: records
by Mr Ekbote on Feb 27, 2010 11:30 AM
dont rely only on one person fo the world cup...if dineshwould not have played with 78 runs sachin would not have scored 200. if dhoni would not have supported, sachin would not have done 200... dear cricket is a team game.. sachin is an individual...giveevery body their due credit abhay
Re: records
by A Singh on Feb 27, 2010 11:08 AM
Ya! He holds almost all others, like: 1. Highest score in a Test Match innings 2. Highest score in two innings of a Test Match 3. Highest total in a 2, 3 or 5 Test series 4. Highest career average in Test Match Cricket, etc.
When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.
When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters.
The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.
Re: Sachin
by Ajai Jacob on Feb 27, 2010 11:13 AM
You write as if Tendulkar is on top of the world.Remember that cricket is a game played by less than 10 countries making it the least popular game in the world.5/6th of the world population don't care about cricket. And cricket was invented more than 100 years back in England.100 years is more than enough time for a game to become popular.Yet it is not popular.Hence it will never become popular.It will die out in less than 50 years as lara has recently stated.
1)Game played by fewest nations and most of the cricket playing nations already showed disinterest in cricket(west indies ,australia... 2) Game dominated by climate(moist pitch ..ball turns,,,grass on pitch,,bouncer...ha ha ha Everything is done by climate...what the xxx the player is doing there 3) People say it’s a pure team game....????? look at footbal,basketball,vollyball...all the players of both the teams play together(11-11,6-6,11-11..etc) but in case of cricket its always 11 vs 2(bats man) ha ha ha ..still its a team game...
kabhi kabhi player ko batting bhi nahin milta hain….ha ha ha
Re: Re: Sachin
by abhishek mukherjee on Feb 27, 2010 11:38 AM
please dont visit the page ajay if u r an anti cricket person....its stunning how people like u 1st shows interest by visiting the page and then only for shake of argument, blasts such a heveanly elaboration made by rakesh....please give us a break.
Re: Sachin
by ynianand on Feb 27, 2010 10:32 AM
Hi Rakesh,
A very good post indeed by you!
However, I beg to disagree on one count. Once upon a time they said that there will never be another Bradman in cricket. Now they have already relegated him to the second slot.
It is a matter of time, provided the existing formats of cricket continue, that another great will be born & erase the records of the number one batsman.
Re: Re: Sachin
by Sagar Muniram on Feb 27, 2010 11:05 AM
Nobody knows what will happen in the next moment (in future) so we must agree thata person can be on top at that particular moment only, tomorrow he may not and someone else will definitely going to achieve that position.
Re: Sachin
by Abhraneel Das on Feb 27, 2010 10:25 AM
great comments!!! it's been quite a time since I saw words like these in this section..keep posting, cheers..
Re: Sachin
by narendra agarwal on Feb 27, 2010 09:30 AM
VERY WELL SAID ,RAKESH. I HAVE NO WORDS TO PEN ....EXCEPT I WISH TO SEE HIM PLAYING MORE OFTEN LIKE THIS,BEFORE HE CALLS IT OFF.MAY BE THIS BECOMES HISTORY FOR US AS AN INDIAN, AS FOR BRADMAN, FOR AUSTRALIAN
Re: Sachin
by Abhraneel Das on Feb 27, 2010 10:25 AM
great comments!!! it's been quite a time since I saw words like these in this section..keep posting, cheers..
Re: Sachin
by melwyn dsouza on Feb 27, 2010 09:27 AM
Hey Mr. Gopalakrishnan, that was quite an inspiring message. I am really awed by your depth of knowledge and it makes me respect Sachin even more. Thanks.
Re: Re: Sachin
by Abdul Shiyad on Feb 27, 2010 10:29 AM
Wonderful way of describing Sachin's achievement... your words helped us all to visualize Sachin's achievement...
Re: gud dream clean sweep without veeru impossible
by ASHISH KUMAR on Feb 27, 2010 01:47 AM
Without sachin/sehwag in Oneday & sachin/sehwag/dravid/laxman/zaheer/kumble in test, Useless politician dhobi can't win a single match.
Re: Re: gud dream clean sweep without veeru impossible
by ynianand on Feb 27, 2010 10:39 AM
Hi Hashish,
Don't forget that the loss of Nagpur test was the first in the recent series that were captained by Dhoni. He leads from front, gives a lot of encouragement to others and he himself plays very well also.
It is a matter of bad luck that his 68 in some 35 balls in the II ODi was drowned inside the sea of 200 by Sachin. By itself his record in no less than others'.
10 players FIGHTING FOR THEIR SURVIVLA, CALL THEM FIDAYEEN, give them credit,
NOT DONGIIII WHO scraped due to combination of wicket-keeping (when batting fails) and captaincy(when all fails)
Dhongi KEEPS ALL COMPETITION AWAY BY wk POLITICS!!!!!!!
NO COMPARE WITH TENDULKAR-SEHWAG who face fresh attack and FRESH WICKETS,
when condition are TOUGH, DHONGI stand around like SELFISH shytee and says he waits for GOOD BALLS, And then makes lower order carry the burden for run-rate, THEY are ejected if they DONT FIRE, DHONGI STAYS on in the team DUE TO WICKET-KEEPING AND CAPTAINCY.
this is WHY THIS BAAAASTARD FIGURES ARE GOOD.
Re: What about individual performances > keep dhoongi out..
THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR DHONGI IF NOT FOR THE WICKET-KEEPING!!!
Dhongi is opportunist, only shoves his face IN BATTING ORDER when conditions are good,
this is how he learned to practice Batting and stay in the team by using wicket-keeping as shield so his batting SKILL ARE NEVER QUESTIONED and he can take advantage of others mistakes.
WHAT A BAAD LUCK FOR GOOD BATSMEN around DHONGI when they have to face SUCH PAANVATI OR DIIIIRT.
Re: motakela - they have robbed names as well i.e fake named bab
by ASHISH KUMAR on Feb 27, 2010 01:44 AM
Darwin Ur observation about dhobi is 100% correct. Most selfish & political player India ever produced.
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by sunil dhyani on Feb 27, 2010 10:36 AM
very well said. what an observation. remove dhoni and u go and bat for india. hahaaha... there were times when sachin, saurav, sehwag, dravid, laxmin were there but india failed to win the world cup. u was the politician then........
Re: motakela - they have robbed names as well i.e fake named bab
by Junior Don on Feb 27, 2010 11:19 AM
Hi Darwin, you are spot on. Doni is a moron who is jealous of Sachin and resting him frequently to maintain his ODI rankings.
Re: motakela - they have robbed names as well i.e fake named bab
by ynianand on Feb 27, 2010 10:42 AM
Hi Darwin,
Don't forget that the loss of Nagpur test was the first in the recent series that were captained by Dhoni. He leads from front, gives a lot of encouragement to others and he himself plays very well also.
It is a matter of bad luck that his 68 in some 35 balls in the II ODi was drowned inside the sea of 200 by Sachin. By itself his record in no less than others'.
Re: motakela - they have robbed names as well i.e fake named bab
by amit gupta on Feb 27, 2010 09:36 AM
before saying abt dhoni...kindly go thru is consistent batting avg
