1. With sachin in 90s India was only 5th best team in the world. There were no significant victories for india except in India where Anil Kumble’s heroics won the matches for India 2. Until 90s commercial aspect of cricket was very low and just when sachin made his debut commercials increased and sachin benefited out of this immensely as he was made popular by the media and corporates for their benefit. 3. Thanks to the Indian team of early and mid 80s, cricket became popular in India and Sachin became the beneficiary of this. 4. The other greats of India such as Dravid, Sehwag , youvraj and laxman who produced quality knocks to the Indian side arrived late in the scene by which time popularity was already stolen by this tendu who throughout 90s got knocks that ended in losing cause but did not deter his popularity. 5. He got special treatment because he is from Mumbai. He got selected at that age because he is from Mumbai. He was never dropped from the team even when he was not performing for prolonged periods because he is from Mumbai. His career prolonged because he is from Mumbai. He got proper send off because he is from Mumbai. Got special treatment from everybody because he is from Mumba. Made popular because he is from Mumbai. Considered to be the greatest player because he is from Mumbai. 6. Steve Waugh famously quoted, Indians are happy if sachin gets a hundred and the team looses 7. Sachin struggled against quality bowlers such as Mcgrath, Ambrose. Lucky,
15. His huge no. of runs is like Dry Leaves which do not have any weight. 16. Begged his colleagues to win the world cup for him as he could not win one. Imagine a great player begging others to win a world cup for him. 17. Got special treatment from BCCI and selectors throughout his career. 18. Had wrong priorities in cricket. First his knocks even at the cost of the team to please his advertisers and average Indian cricket fans( who are huge in No.s) and then team 19. Funds his fans to support him. He pays money to his fans (close fans) to support him. 20. Sachin never possessed the abilities of a great sports person. True he was blessed with some ability .He however neither had the spirit of Maradona, nor the commanding power of Viv Richards, nor the shot making ability of Sehwag or for that matter any quality of a ture champion. 21. Sachin has been constantly seen over defending when reaching a land mark such as a hundred. Great players cannot possess these kinds of cheap attitudes as great players are decided on the basis of their attitude. Yes that’s right, great players are differentiated by their attitude 22. Constantly Succumbed under pressure. Whenever faced with a run rate of 5.5 and above, he struggled; facing quality oppositions, quality bowling attacks, he struggled. 23. Whenever, sachin is the best player in the team, the team would invariably loose except in those cases when bowlers perform out of their skin or other batmen get some match changing kn
26. It is widely argued that, 50 out of sachin’s hundreds 100s, have resulted in victories. If we analyze all those 50 matches, we can make out that Sachin was not the match winner in those matches. Real match winners were other players. For instance, Sachin got 196 against Pakistan in a test match that India won. However the match winning knock was played by Viru with his triple hundred. In the VB series that India won, bowlers performed phenomenally well to win the trophy for India and did not allow the aussy to post huge totals. 27. A similar argument is also put forward by Sachin fans that when india won matches Sachin’s averages are better. The previous point has partially answered this question. When India won those matches, real match winners were other players as sachin would have only gotten a 50 plus score ( Eg – in his last test match in Mumbai, he got 74 but match winners were others and not Sachin) . Credit should go to those players who played match winning knocks or match winning bowling performances. 28. Team games are unjust too in giving credit. For instance, in Football, strikers take all the credit and defenders do not get any credit. In cricket, batmen take more credit than the bowlers. The reality is different. Two teams that dominated the cricket world, West Indies and Australia respectively, were great teams because of their bowling. Anil Kumble who is the greatest match winner in Indian cricket takes a back seat in popularity a
Really he is the one of the selfish celebrity who deserves nothing for his selfish carreer,but unfortunatley it is the fate of the nation and again conspiracy of the corrupt corporates move made him celebrity and gained lot of monitary and Highest civil awards from nation which really doesn't deserve. jai hind.
Congrats to Sachin once again- for being conferred a well deserved honour. Keep it up Sac hine. We still expect lots and lots to come off the field............Rajendra Surana,Raipur(CG)
Re: Tendulkar beng choosen Player of the Genration
by Ranajit Rajkumar Mustaphi on Mar 17, 2014 12:59 PM
It is just like Bharat Ratna,he is always hyped with unnecessary honours.He is imply a batsban of merit.He is not a bowler and fielder of any merit.Let us close this chapter of Sachin any more.Enough is enough.
Re: Re: Tendulkar beng choosen Player of the Genration
by vadivudaiselvi on Mar 17, 2014 02:33 PM
Well said,he is the one of the most selfish sportsman in the history of indian sports.
Re: sachin is the gratest
by raj agarwal on Mar 15, 2014 05:47 PM
Sachin is a great great player but It is also a fact that he could not perform at the crunch cituation when India required him the most,In my view Dhoni is the greatest player India has ever produced,please look his record
Re: Re: sachin is the gratest
by sunilvaidyaka legalbaap on Mar 15, 2014 09:18 PM
hahahah dhoni made 1500runs in 52 test innings in wi,aus,eng,sa... this proves greatness of this flattra(KBUlly...heheheh
Re: he he he he
by rvv krishna on Mar 15, 2014 02:56 PM
i think sachin got this award, not only because of his batting but also because of his attitude and personality. if there was no fixing during his time, india could have easily won another world cup.
Cricketer of which Generation we are talking about, I think he had played for more than 3 generations and if the Think tank feels he would be back to the Indian XI to bag yet another award like this!!!!!!
