Happy New Year Wishes

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New year is the time to forget every bad memory of the past year and start your life afresh. So, get up and hug a friend with whom you had a fight lately, get up and hug you parents and promise them you will not hurt them anymore, give a self hug and promise to yourself that come what may you would remain truthful to yourself, hug a poor kid and tell her that she is not alone, Help the needy and abolish the greedy from your life. 




So, just forget all your grudges and send these wonderful new year wishes to your loved ones. Cheers to 2012!!


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Sachin Tendulkar Moves to No.4 In ICC Test Rankings

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Iconic Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar rose a couple of rungs to be joint fourth but fellow veteran Rahul Dravid dropped out of the top 10 in the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Friday.Tendulkar, who scored a half century in the opening MCG Test defeat against Australia, shared the fourth spot with South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis, while Dravid slipped to 11th after dropping a couple of spots in the latest list, the ICC said in a release here.


Among the bowlers, pace spearhead Zaheer Khan was the only Indian in the top-10 at an unchanged sixth position.Among the Australians, fast bowler Peter Siddle, who took three for 63 and three for 42 in Australia`s 122-run victory, jumped five places to seventh, where he is joined by Sri Lankan Rangana Herath.


Herath claimed match figures of nine for 128 which turned out to be the cornerstone of Sri Lanka`s 208-run victory over South Africa yesterday.Australia fast bowlers Ben Hilfenhaus and James Pattinson have also moved in the right direction. Hilfenhaus, who took five for 75 and two for 39, has gained seven spots in the rankings and now sits just outside the top 20 in 22nd position.




Man of the match Pattinson has been rewarded for match figures of six for 108 with a jump of five places which puts him in 31st spot. There is something to cheer for young India fast bowler Umesh Yadav and South Africa`s debutant Marchant de Lange.


Yadav has moved up five places to 42nd spot after figures of three for 106 and four for 70 while de Lange has entered the list in the 51st position after figures of seven for 81 and one for 45.The bowling list is still headed by South Africa`s Dale Steyn. In the batsmen`s top-50 list, Hashim Amla (up by three to seventh), Thilan Samaraweera (up by three to 13th), Mike Hussey (up by one to 16th), Virender Sehwag (up by one to 18th) and Ricky Ponting (up by seven to 24th) are among those who have headed up.


Australia opener Ed Cowan has entered the list at the 61st position after making an impressive debut in Melbourne.The batting list is headed by Kumar Sangakkara who became the eighth Sri Lanka batsman to score a zero and century in the same Test.


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Sachin's Photo Collections at Melbourne Test

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Sachin Tendulkar Greater Than Bradman: Gold Coast Academic

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India's batting great Sachin Tendulkar and not Australian legend Don Bradman is the greatest Test batsman who ever lived, a Gold Coast academic says.


Griffith University researcher Nicholas Rohde said he can prove with statistics that Tendulkar is the greatest. Rohde, however, admitted that if he could go back in time, he would prefer to watch Bradman every time.


Rohde said that by applying economic principles to batting performance, he has been able to rank players back through time.




"People are welcome to disagree and there would be other statistical ways of looking at it which would give you different results," The Daily Telegraph quoted Rohde as saying.


Rohde said his obsession with cricket led him to the idea of coming up with a ranking system, even if it did mean trying to marry sport with economics.


"I don't see it as entirely trivial, but it isn't an indisputable result either; it's somewhere in the middle. My feeling is that devotion to Don Bradman probably robbed India of a national icon a little bit. And if you wanted my personal opinion on who was the better of the two, Bradman or Tendulkar, I would say that it was perhaps too close to call," he said.


As a part of his calculation, Rohde took the total number of runs a batsman has scored in his entire career, and subtracted the number of runs that an average player of the same era would have scored if they'd played the same number of innings. He constantly updates the figures and calculates new ranking tables.


"Bradman has been number one until recently, but Tendulkar for the time being is just a little tiny bit ahead. No ranking system is definitive and people are always free to disagree, although I do feel it's a fairly sensible and intuitive way to rank the players," he said
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Sachin Tendulkar Boosted My Confidence: Umesh Yadav

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 India's young bowling sensation Umesh Yadav felt nervous bowling at the likes of Ricky Ponting in his first Test against Australia but said Sachin Tendulkar's advice hugely boosted his confidence as he scalped three crucial wickets on the opening day on Monday. 


Yadav was seen to get a lot of encouragement from Tendulkar at mid-off or mid-on and the young fast bowler said the Indian legend told him to bowl fuller length deliveries to get wickets. 




"Even against West Indies, at mid off or mid-on, he just boosts my confidence. He does not tell me anything particular, just asks me to bowl in my areas. He told me that in India you could get away by bowling back of length stuff. Here in Australia, it's important to bowl a fuller length," Yadav told reporters at the press conference after first day's play. 


Yadav said he was happy to have taken the most wickets for the visitors but was disappointed that he gave away far too many runs. 


"I took wickets but also gave away far too many runs. So I'm happy and I'm not happy as well," said Yadav who took three wickets for 96 runs for his day's effort. 


Yadav was pulled often by Australian batsmen, especially in the post lunch session when both Ponting and opener Ed Cowan had a go at him, and he said he bowled short balls to contain the batsmen. 


"It's not that I wanted to bowl short or the team has planned so. The two fielders in the deep, at fine leg and square leg, were intended to keep the scoring down more than to catch the batsmen off a pull shot," he said. 




One of Yadav's victims was Ponting whom he claimed caught in the slips off an outswinger and he admitted he was a bit nervous initially bowling at the Australian legend. 


"I would not say any one wicket in particular was special. All wickets were special. I am touring Australia for the first time so whatever success comes my way would make me happy. In whatever way I could contribute for the team, I am happy I could do it," Yadav said. 


"It was exciting to bowl to Ponting. He has been such a big player. I wouldn't say I was very nervous but yes there was a little bit of nervousness," he said. 


Yadav said that overall India had a good day in office though Australia put together important 63-runs for the seventh wicket at the fag end of play on Monday. 




"Partnerships happen. We did try to break it but they kept going. Yes, we have conceded a few runs but otherwise the day was good for us," said Yadav.
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Little Master Sachin Tendulkar a Work Of Timeless Art

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GREAT players have a habit of setting records. Only very, very special ones actually invent them. Nobody dreamed of one hundred first-class centuries becoming a landmark until W. G. Grace made it conceivable. Likewise the milestone of one hundred international centuries- that is, until Sachin Tendulkar.


As Tendulkar set to scaling that summit, it seemed to shrink a little in proportion. That's another quality of the very, very special.


They recalibrate the world by their capabilities. Tendulkar is known colloquially as "The Little Master", but he is also a master of littling, of scaling achievements down so that they grow thinkable, permissible and achievable.


Combining five-day and one-day hundreds contains inevitably an inexactitude: it is like adding apples to oranges to obtain a count of fruit. But the century remains batting's most incorruptible unit of currency, with a lasting historic and cultural utility, and a century of centuries at the game's elite level has an undilutable whole-ness, like a round-the-world journey or a perfect smile: complete in itself, theoretically repeatable but essentially unimprovable.




You must factor in the distance travelled since the first, at Old Trafford in August 1990, when he looked so slight and tiny that a puff of wind might have blown him away even though England's attack could not.


You must contemplate how the world has changed since. When first Tendulkar toured this country 20 years ago, there were only seven Test nations (South Africa was excluded at that time), only two umpires per Test, and only home viewers saw replays.


Australia hosting India in a Test series, too, was considered an act of antipodean philanthropy, rather than an opportunity to line the vaults of Jolimont with gold bars as it is now.


So much has changed, and so little, because Tendulkar's game, for all its variations and iterations as years have passed, has remained instantly recognisable in its adherence to cricket's first principles and his unaltering sureness of touch.


You could stop a Tendulkar career showreel at any time and it would look like the acme of batting. Above all, contemplate the scale and intensity of the hopes that have accumulated around Tendulkar in the course of his career, greater than those heaped on any other cricketer in history.


Balzac once said he hankered for a fame that would permit him "to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing". Tendulkar breaking wind in society today would hit India like a monsoon.


It is one thing to become famous; quite another to stay famous, in a world more conducive to the perishable quality of celebrity. It is one thing to succeed; it is another to continually stave off failure and maintain a baseline excellence.


Here, then, is an epic of expertise and endurance, like the Mahabharata and Ramayana rolled into one. Tendulkar has become an exceedingly wealthy man between times, but in a sense because he has had to be - because that is the way aspirational, materialistic societies reward their heroes.


He has continued to understand value in a world obsessed with price, taking nothing not insistently offered, and in the totality of his career he will come out comfortably as a giver who is certain that cricket will be perennially in his debt. What comes after him will not be of the same character. In so altering the financial stakes of his game, in fact, Tendulkar has inadvertently insured it.


In their book The Business of Cricket (2010), Shyam Balasubramanian and Vijay Santhanam cite a table prepared by TAM Sports delineating "the Sachin Factor": that Tests and one-day internationals with Tendulkar playing outrate those in which he does not by a huge degree in 2010, by three to one. They also present a graphic they call "The Tendulkar Ecosystem", in the centre of which sits Sachin, sluicing value, financial and psychic, between Team India, fans, sponsors, media houses and state associations.


It looks, at first glance, exceedingly complex, but its essence is simple - because without one small man who enters his 40th year next April, it cannot work.


Want really to grasp Tendulkar's importance to the modern game? Try to imagine it without him.


The record on the brink of which he stands is in a sense an artefact already. Tendulkar came into his majority as the calendar was being glutted by forms of the game of a duration conducive to the compilation of hundreds.


It is virtually impossible to imagine his heirs and successors emulating him in playing on for approaching a quarter of a century, let alone facing international opponents in more than 600


games of at least a day in length.


Thanks to the ascendant of the Indian Premier League and Champions League, the next generation of cricketers are likely to play far more T20 for "clubs" and less international cricket for their countries.


The shortening of our pleasures has entailed a contraction in cricket's scope. It was always a possibility that there would never be another Tendulkar, but perhaps now there cannot be. He has constructed a career along the lines of one of Europe's great gothic cathedrals, built to last, guaranteed to serve future generations, full of splendour, grandeur, romance. And all cricket can now think of doing is surrounding that cathedral with lookalike apartments and trying to sell them at a huge mark-up.


In writing of the immediate post-Bradman era, Ray Robinson described Australian cricket as like a man bumping around a darkened room. Something similar looms today. Tendulkar is sui generis. To imagine another Tendulkar ranks in audacity with imagining him in the first place.


The effect of the end of Tendulkar's career will be particularly pronounced in cricket's richest and most populous market. Sixty-five per cent of India's population is younger than 35. They can recall no cricket without the Little Master.


When he retires, it will be for them not just the loss of a sporting hero but an intimation of mortality. That is as profound and expressive an idea as any record he may set, even the most remarkable
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Sachin Eyes 100th Ton In Melbourne Test

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Sachin Tendulkar has been stuck on 99 International centuries since March and despite coming close on a fair few occasions he has yet to score that elusive 100th ton. Now all of India hopes that he can recapture his best form when he takes to the field in Melbourne.




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Sachin, Rahul, VVS Expected To Draw Huge Crowds For First Test

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The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will have a bumper 75,000 crowd on the opening day of the Boxing Day Test to bid farewell to the famous Indian batting trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and V.V.S. Laxman, who will be playing their last series on Australian soil.


It could also be the last time the Melbourne crowd would see two Australian greats Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey playing a Test in the 100,000-seat majestic stadium.




Cricket Australia (CA) have sold more than 75,000 tickets for the first day of the four-Test series. Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) visitors passes have also been sold out for the traditional and iconic post-Christmas sporting event.


CA spokesman Peter Young said they were a little concerned about cricket fans leaving bookings to the last minute.


"Melbourne has got the biggest walk-up rate of any ground in the world. If you want to get good seats, then you should book ahead," Young said.


Young said that CA was expecting stronger-than-normal crowds for the remaining days of the Test with more than 45,000 fans expected for the second day at the MCG.


"They are running stronger than we had originally expected," Young said. "As far as Melbourne is concerned, the city seems to be in love with Test cricket."
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Tendulkar Jittery Due To Talk About His 100th ton: Brearley

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Former England skipper Mike Brearley feels that the constant talk around his 100th international century has made Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar jittery. 


"It is not easy analysing anyone sitting faraway. But he does look as if he is jittered," he said during a panel discussion at the Raj Singh Dungarpur World Cricket Summit on Monday. 


Brearley, who is also a psycho-analyst, was replying to a query on whether the hype surrounding his long awaited century of centuries has affected him. 


Brearley, who led England to a then record of 18 Test wins, also recalled India's 2006 tour to England when Tendulkar was going through a lean patch. 


"One of the things that I have admired about him is that during the Indian team's last tour to England (in 2006) he was not fully fit coming from an elbow injury. He was not in the best of form too. But he struggled and made a few 90's in the tour," he said. 


"Its a fantastic tribute to a batsman who can make cricket seem so easy as to how he is willing to struggle it out," he added. 




Brearley was also full of praise of veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid, who has gone on to score over 1,000 Test runs in the calendar year after being written off. 


"Rahul strikes to me as a first class man and a cricketer. He is very courageous and is willing to battle it out. His character must be very strong and he looks very determined," he added. 


Brearley felt the use of technology in cricket has made players too narrow-minded and they were not keen to learn about the game overall. 


Brearley has favoured a lenient approach towards Pakistani pace bowler Mohammad Aamer, convicted for his role in the spot-fixing scandal. 


"I don't think the whole truth has been told yet, or can be told. The 18-year old Mohammad Aamer, who was subject to pressure and was, I believe, uninterested in any illegal financial gain, should have been, and I think should now be, treated much more leniently," he said. 


Aamer, who was convicted, along with teammates Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, had been sentenced to six months jail term for his role in the spot-fixing scandal. 


Brearley, who is the chairman of the MCC World Cricket Committee, also felt that many cricketers were pressurised to get into match-fixing by others and deserved a second chance, especially if they were willing to admit their guilt. 


"We need to recognise that the pressure put on the young player by criminal bookies or their agents, or by their corrupt team-mates, can be appalling. 


As a result, some of those involved might need to be treated with compassion, especially if they admit their guilt and are willing to be enlisted in the battle against corruption. 


Deterrent and retributive justice, tempered with mercy and discrimination is vital in sentencing and punishing," he said. 




"Like all secret organisations that recruit the naive for illegal activities, the criminals linked to gambling draw people in by involving them first in activities that seem of a minor importance like pitch report, players fitness etc. once in, threats against the player or his family may make it extremely difficult to get out. In the strenuous search for exemplary punishment, there has to be a room for giving a misguided young player a second chance." 


However, Brearley also added that "whistle-blowing should become an absolute duty for everyone in the game" if corruption has to be weeded out from the game. 


The Englishman felt that cheating in the game had led the public to view the game cynically. 


"Due to match-fixing the public becomes disillusioned. They feel, how can they trust any players. Poor cricket happens from time to time without anyone trying to do so but the mistrust is difficult to go," he said. 


Giving an example, Brearley recalled the comeback of left-arm pacer RP Singh, who was holidaying, in the Indian team for the fourth Test at the Oval earlier this year. 


"India had not done well and were down 0-3. RP Singh had last played in January. In the first over he bowled five balls went down the leg side. To this a distinguished commentator said 'Anyone betting on five balls on the leg-side on Tuesday might have made some money'. It was an explicit comment.
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Black Sheep Chappell to Share Tendulkar Insights With Aussies

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Former India coach Greg Chappell will share his knowledge of the Indian team with the out-of-sorts Australian squad ahead of the first Boxing Day Test next week, reports said on Saturday.
New Aussie coach Mickey Arthur has asked Chappell to share his knowledge of Tendulkar and his teammates.


The former Australia captain has been called in to help the struggling home side prepare for the key winter series.


New coach Mickey Arthur asked Chappell to share his knowledge of India's batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and his teammates, the Daily Telegraph reported.





Tendulkar has been a perennial thorn in the side of Australia's bowlers, averaging 60.6 with 11 centuries in 31 Tests against them and is eyeing his 100th first-class hundred during the Australian tour.


Yet Chappell, who coached India for a three-year spell ending in 2007, reveals in his autobiography 'Fierce Focus' that Tendulkar goes through phases where he was "surprisingly fragile."


The book says Chappell tried to restore Tendulkar's lost confidence after the Little Master became "frustrated with his form and wracked with self-doubt."
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Who is the Lady? You All Know Her...

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                         Look at this lady.. Closely..





She is one of the richest Indians, and has millions of fans all over the world!

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Sachin Tendulkar in college fancy dress competition. Am sure u will go back to take a look..

(C'mon look again.. Carefully)
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Sachin Tendulkar Retires On 92 Match Against Chairman's XI in Australia

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Sachin Tendulkar started what is likely to be his last tour of Australia with a typically classy 92 in India's drawn match against a Cricket Australia Chairman's XI in Canberra.


The two-day match ended on Friday afternoon when rain intervened with the tourists 6-320 after 83.1 overs in reply to the home side's 6-398 on a very flat Manuka Oval pitch.


With the exception of opener Gautam Gambhir, who looked a little edgy in his knock of 35, India's available first-string batsmen looked in ominous touch ahead of the four-Test series against Australia.




Tendulkar was the star and, after going to lunch 13 not out, the 38-year-old unleashed in the second session in facing just 132 balls and smashing 15 boundaries.


The small but vocal crowd of around 2000 were disappointed when Tendulkar and VVS Laxman (57 not out) both retired at tea after combining for a 133-run stand
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Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag Major Challenges For Australia

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The Australian bowling attack is improving, but success against an in-form Indian outfit featuring Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar will not come as easily as it has against a disappointing New Zealand.
 With Sehwag joining Tendulkar as the only players to score double centuries in the 50-over format of the game, Australia will face a challenge when the series against India gets underway from December 26 in Melbourne.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the No.3-ranked Test nation could leapfrog South Africa to No.2 with a series win in Australia.

Sehwag's blistering knock of 219 that contained 25 fours and seven sixes, is an indication that the Indians are capable of relegating Australia to another series defeat on home soil.
 Sehwag's knock helped India surpass their previous highest one-day total of 414/7 against Sri Lanka in Rajkot in 2009.

It was his 15th three-figure knock in one-day cricket and the first since making 175 against Bangladesh in the opening match of the World Cup in Dhaka in February.

Sehwag, captaining India in the absence of the rested MS Dhoni, had managed just 46 runs in the previous three matches.

Sehwag also has two triple Test centuries to his credit, one of only four batsmen to achieve the feat.

Other players with two 300s each are Australian legend Don Bradman and the West Indies duo Brian Lara and Chris Gayle.
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Virender sehwag's Interview After His Massive 219 Runs Against WI

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Virender Sehwag 219 Full Highlights Video

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Another great innings of Virender Sehwag against West Indies in today's match at Indore. Highest run scorer Virender sehwag caught out at 47th over at 219 runs which makes history after Sachin Tendulkar's 200runs not-out.



Two different things we saw at the beginning of this game First India choose to bat and Gambhir with Sehwag in the opening stand.
Huge score cross 400 as a target for West Indies very tough to chase. Each batsman from Indian side played their well knock. What a day for Virender Sehwag today a new record holder. A very determined person and very sensibly innings by him.
419 runs indias highest achieve ever in Cricket history.
Sehwag's effortless double-century creates history for the highest individual score in ODIs and also most important 2 Indians 2 double-centuries and both in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
In the mid of the innings i was expecting a decent play but sehwag's hurtbreaking strocks makes me to think 450 cross but 418 is a good total at the end.
Another good partnership by Gambhir-Sehwag of 176runs but little disappointing dismissel of Gambhir, he was run-out at 67 runs. I just hold my self on the batting power-play, wow what a great moment highest run scorer in the history of world ODI Cricket.

Sehwag says : " I just told my self that I needed to bat through the Batting Powerplay, and I would get the double hundred. When Sammy dropped my chance, I knew God was with me. I am tired, yes, I am an old man now." How people will want to age like him if he is old "

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The 10 Highest One-Day International Innings:

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Virender Sehwag (India) - 219 v West Indies (Indore 2011 )

Sachin Tendulkar (India) - 200* v South Africa (Gwalior 2010)

Charles Coventry (Zimbabwe) - 194* v Bangladesh (Bulawayo 2009)

Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) - 194 v India (Chennai 1997)
Viv Richards (West Indies) - 189* v England (Manchester 1984)

Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) - 189 v India (Sharjah 2000)

Gary Kirsten (South Africa) - 188* v UAE (Rawalpindi 1996)

Sachin Tendulkar (India) - 186* v New Zealand (Hyderabad 1999)

Shane Watson (Australia) - 185* v Bangladesh (Dhaka 2011)

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India) - 183* v Sri Lanka (Jaipur 2005)
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Virender Sehwag 219 Full highlights Against West indies..

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Virender Sehwag 219 highlights Against West indies - Video

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Virender Sehwag 219 vs West Indies Highlights Video: Virender Sehwag annihilated the West Indian attack at the Holkar stadium in Indore on his way to only the second ever ODI's double hundred and also broke the 200* record set by Sachin Tendulkar.





Sehwag now has the record for the highest score in ODI's, it was also the highest score scored against West Indies and Sehwag became the first player to have scored a tripple hundred in tests and a double hundred in ODI's.


Sehwag smashed 25 fours and 7 huge sixes on his way to the World Record Highest ODI score of 219. Sehwag's 149 ball knock was at the strike rate of 147.
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Tour to Australia, A Feat for Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Tendulkar will embark on his fifth Test tour of Australia today, something that not many would have imagined four years ago. Remember the rousing ovation he got at the Adelaide Oval in 2008, the crowd presuming it was his last Test on Australian soil. 


Renowned writer Mike Coward even penned a sentimental piece on his potential farewell. "It is only right that Sachin Tendulkar should play his last Test match in Australia at Adelaide Oval for he has a very special affinity with this city of churches and Chappells and festivals. 


"For this was Don Bradman's hometown for 66 years and in 1998 India's little master came here especially to pay homage to the game's greatest batsman on his 90th birthday. "He will be 35 on April 24 (2008) and India is not scheduled to return here for Test matches before 2011-12," he wrote prior to the Adelaide Test. And yet Tendulkar returns to his beloved country for a fifth time, the first Indian to do so. 
Romance begins...


Ever since his first tour Down Under as an 18-year-old, Tendulkar has left Australians smitten with his strokeplay. The love affair began when he became the youngest to score a Test century in Australia on his first tour -- an unbeaten 148 at Sydney. After his exquisite Perth ton later on that tour, Merv Hughes cracked open a beer, turned to his captain, Allan Border and said: "This little prick's going to get more runs than you, AB." Border had 9,532 Test runs at the time -- the second highest in the history of the game after Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar. Hughes was on the button.


"I was there to witness those hundreds at Sydney and Perth in 1991-92. I was amazed how he adapted to those conditions so quickly, considering his age. The Perth hundred is still the best I've ever seen. There was prolonged bounce after the third day - a lot of cracks on the wicket. You could literally put a finger inside the crack. When the seam landed on the crack, the ball went wherever it pleased.


It was difficult to anticipate anything. This teenager walked in and showed everyone how to bat," said Dilip Vengsarkar, who previously held the Indian record for four Australia tours (1977-78, 1980-81, 1985-86 and 1991-1992). Vengsarkar was also part of the Indian team that won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket in Australia.


"He's done well everywhere in the world. But there's something about Australia. He likes the ball coming on to the bat. He enjoys those conditions like anything," he added.


'The Best' in Oz


Indeed, he does. In 16 Tests there, he has 1,522 runs at 58.53. Even Sir Vivian Richards (47.56), Brian Lara (41.97) and David Gower (44.48), who played a lot more Tests in Australia, didn't match Tendulkar's feats. In fact, Wally Hammond, Herbert Sutcliffe and VVS Laxman are the only visiting batsmen besides Tendulkar to average in excess of 50 in Australia (minimum qualification: 1,000 Test runs).


In his autobiography 'Standing My Ground', Matthew Hayden wrote that Australians were so much in love with Tendulkar that a special version of his 1998 blade was manufactured at a Brisbane factory. Irrefutably, Tendulkar is an icon in Australia.


In 2003-04, Tendulkar went through the leanest patch of his career. But the double century at SCG that summer was his way to reaffirm his love for Australia, a knock that many felt redeemed his career. "Tendulkar was having a quiet series, with just one 50. Before the Sydney Test, we talked about his batting, which didn't happen very often as he knew his own game inside out.


In Sydney, he decided he was going to keep it very tight; he wouldn't play through cover or square off the front foot because that was where he'd been getting out. Having formulated a plan, he went out and executed it, making 241 not out, his highest Test score (at the time), of which only 53 came on the off side. The word gets done to death, but this was an awesome display of technique and discipline. A month later his wife Anjali (Tendulkar's wife), who'd listen in our conversation, got in touch to say thanks for the chat in Sydney," former India coach John Wright wrote in 'Indian Summers'.


The Tendulkar-Australian love affair reached its pinnacle on the last tour. The boy was too young in 1992 and in 2008 doubts lingered that the man may be too old; it didn't matter to the man and like the boy he also reached Perth having made runs in Sydney -- this time a 154 not out. Tendulkar made an audacious 71 before falling to an unlucky lbw decision. He finished with 493 runs at 70.42; his best ever return from any series.


Help from a friend


Tendulkar had sought help from former India fast bowler Subroto Banerjee on that tour. "He was always a good friend, even before he started playing international cricket. I was playing club cricket in Australia at the time.
He called me and said, 'why don't you join us at the nets and help me out'.


I obliged immediately. I ended up travelling with the team for the entire Test series. The original plan was just to visit him in the nets once. "I did not regret travelling with the team as he played some of his best knocks on that tour.  If he calls me again, I will be glad to help him out," Banerjee told MiD DAY.


Six appeal


The below players have made six Test trips to Australia


Johnny Briggs (England)
1884-85, 1886-87, 1887-88, 1891-92, 1894-95, 1897-98
Total: 21 Tests


Colin Cowdrey (England)
1954-55, 1958-59, 1962-63, 1965-66, 1970-71, 1974-75
Total: 27 Tests


Bob Willis (England)
1970-71, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1982-83
Total: 24 Tests


Daniel Vettori (NZ)
1997-98, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2011-12
Total: 12 Tests
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The Official Sachin Tendulkar Opus - Trailer

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I Hope Sachin Gets His 100th Ton Soon- Symonds

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Gilchrist had said India can beat the former world number one side as it is undergoing a transitional phase.


India are slated to play four Tests, beginning December 26 in Melbourne, followed by two T20s and a tri-series tournament also involving Sri Lanka.


Symonds felt that Sachin Tendulkar, who is on the threshold of scoring a record 100th international century, can achieve the feat in Australia.
"Sachin is an enormous person. There is lot of pressure on him for the 100th ton. I hope he gets the century at the earliest so that the burden that he faces is reduced and he can carry on with the game.


"He has the ability to do it soon. There are chances that he might score the century during the India-Australia series. It would be a great thing for him to score it in Australia," he added.
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Tendulkar to miss last two ODIs against WI

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New Delhi, Dec 5: Selectors have decided to rest master blaster for the last two one dayers against West Indies at Indore and Chennai and also stated that Sachin Tendulkar will leave early for Australia Tour.
Sachin Tendulkar had earlier expressed his desire to play the last two ODIs against West Indies but due to the recent development, Sachin fans' wait continues as they have to wait for the Australian tour to commence to see their favorite star in action.

Meanwhile, Kris-Srikkanth led selection committee will be announcing Praveen Kumar's replacement for Australia tour on Monday.
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Tendulkar might play last two ODIs of West Indies series

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His 100th international century eagerly awaited across the nation, veteran Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar is likely to play the last two one-dayers against the West Indies. 


Tendulkar, who failed to reach the milestone despite coming close at least twice during the Test series, might be selected for the last two matches of the ongoing ODI series when national selectors meet on Monday. 
India leads the five-match rubber 2-0 with the third ODI scheduled on Monday. 


Tendulkar had been rested from the squad for the first three matches but sources say the 38-year-old wants to play the remaining two matches of the series scheduled on December 8 and 11 in Indore and Chennai respectively. 


The Kris Srikkanth-led selection panel will meet on Monday to pick the squad for the remainder of the series besides injured pacer Praveen Kumar's replacement for the upcoming four Tests against Australia. 


Tendulkar's last international century came on March 12 during a World Cup group league match against South Africa at Nagpur. 


It has been more than eight months that the entire nation has been waiting with bated breath for the elusive century. 


The last missed opportunity came in the third Test against Caribbeans when Tendulkar was dismissed six runs short of the milestone.
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Sportsperson of the Year 2011: Sachin Tendulkar

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Is there any surprise here? Sachin might well be the sportsperson of the decade, if not the last two decades and indeed, for a better part of this millennium for India. As compatriot and starry-eyed fellow player Virat Kohli put it, for the better part of 20 years, Sachin has carried the burden of a nation's expectation on his shoulders alone.




For having inspired a nation to put aside its religious, linguistic and other like divides aside every time he picks up the willow and takes centrestage on the cricket ground, Sachin Tendulkar, teen prodigy turned the player who defines the 'gentleman' part of the gentleman's game, is this year's sportsperson of the year, his elusive 100th ton aside.
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Legends of Cricket - Sachin Tendulkar

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Biggest Six by Sachin Tendulkar

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One of the biggest six by Sachin, you might have seen that in the Yankee Stadium.


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Sachin Tendulkar best shot Worldcup 2011

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One of the greatest shot played by Sachin in the world cup 2011 against Sri Lanka.







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Sachin 1st ODI Century

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Sachin Tendulkar scored his 1st  One Day International century against Australia in September 9,1994 at R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. India won by
 30 runs.

SR Tendulkar 100 (175 mins, 119 balls, 8x4, 2x6)


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Sachin Tendulkar's journey to 18,000 runs

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Milestone: 1000 runs on March 7, 1992


Age: 18


Match: India vs Zimbabwe at Hamilton, New Zealand 


At his 36th one-day match, 18-year-old Sachin scored his first thousand runs. Sachin scored 81 runs off 77 balls. India went on to win the match by 55 runs. 


In Image: Nov 1992: Portrait of Sunil Gavaskar (left) and Sachin Tendulkar of India in Durban during India's tour of South Africa. 
Milestone: 2000 runs on April 13, 1994

Age: 20

Match: India vs UAE at Sharjah, UAE

Playing his 73rd one-day match Sachin completed his 2000 runs. He scored 63 runs off 77 balls and helped India win the match by 71 runs. 


Milestone: 3000 runs on April 9, 1995 

Age: 21

Match: India vs Sri Lanka at Sharjah, UAE

At his 96th one-day match, Sachin scored 112 runs off 107 balls and remained not out as India won the match by 8 wickets.
   
Milestone: 4000 runs on April 17, 1996

Age: 22

Match: India vs South Africa at Sharjah, UAE

Sachin, playing his 115th one-day match, scored 17 runs off 26 balls.  India lost the match by 5 wickets. 

In Image: Oct 1991: Sachin Tendulkar of India in action during the Sharjah Cricket Tournament held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Milestone: 5000 runs on February 12, 1997

Age: 23

Match: India vs South Africa, Durban, South Africa

Sachin's 141st ODI was abandoned due to rain but he scored 32 runs off 55 balls to achieve the feat. 


Milestone: 6000 runs on January 14, 1998

Age: 24

Match: India vs Pakistan, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sachin scored 95 runs off 104 balls in his 176th one-day match and contributed to India's 8-wicket victory. 

Age: 25
Milestone: 7000 runs on July 7, 1998 
Match: India vs Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

In his 196th ODI, Sachin scored a century and made 128 runs off 131 balls as India won the match by 6 runs. 


In Image: Members of the Indian cricket team lift the Coca Cola Trophy after beating Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the final of the three-nations tournament in Sharjah, 13 November, 1998. 

Milestone: 8000 runs on June 8, 1999

Age: 26

Match: India vs Pakistan, Manchester, England

Sachin's knock of 45 runs off 65 balls in his 217th ODI in the World Cup match contributed to India's 47-run victory. 


Milestone: 9000 runs on March 19, 2000

Age: 26

Match: India vs South Africa, Nagpur, India

Sachin completed his 9,000 ODI runs in his 242nd match. He made 93 runs off 89 balls. India lost the match by 10 runs. 


Milestone: 10000 runs on March 31, 2001
  Age: 27

Match: India vs Australia, Indore, India

Playing his 266th ODI Sachin made 139 runs off 125 balls. India won the match by 118 runs.

In Image: Sachin Tendulkar of India at the non-striker's end against Pakistan in the World Cup Super Six match at Old Trafford in Manchester, England.
Milestone: 11000 runs on January 28, 2002

Age: 28

Match: India vs England, Kanpur, India

Sachin shone in his 284th ODI for India. He scored 87 runs off 67 balls and remained not out as India won the match by 8 wickets.


Milestone: 12000 runs on March 1, 2003

Age: 29

Match: India vs Pakistan, Centurion, South Africa

In his 304th ODI in the World Cup in South Africa, the Little Master scored 98 runs off 75 balls. India won the match by 6 wickets. 


Milestone: 13000 runs on March 16, 2004

Age: 30

Match: India vs Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

In his 330th ODI, Sachin scored 141 runs off 135 balls. But, India lost the match by 12 runs. 

In Image: Pakistan celebrate after Shoaib Akhtar took the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar of India during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 Pool A match between India and Pakistan held on March 1, 2003 at the Supersport Stadium, in Centurion, South Africa. 
Milestone: 14000 runs on February 6, 2006

Age: 32

Match: India vs Pakistan, Peshawar, Pakistan

At his 359th ODI, Sachin scored 100 runs off 113 balls but India lost the match by 7 runs (D/L method) 


Milestone: 15000 runs on June 29, 2007

Age: 34

Match: India vs South Africa, Belfast, Ireland

Playing his 387th ODI, Sachin made 93 runs off 106 balls as India won the match by 6 wickets. 
                                                                  Milestone: 16000 runs on February 5, 2008

Age: 34

Match: India vs Sri Lanka, Brisbane, Australia

At his 409th ODI, which was abandoned, Sachin scored 35 runs off 52 balls.


Milestone: 17000 runs on November 5, 2009

Age: 36

Match: India vs Australia, Hyderabad, India

Playing in his 435th ODI, Sachin played a fantastic innings, scoring 141-ball 175, but India lost the match by 3 runs.


In Image: Sachin Tendulkar of India turns the ball to mid wicket with Mark Boucher of South Africa looking on during the second One Day International match between South Africa and India at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont on June 29, 2007 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.                                                             
                     


Milestone: 18000 runs, 2011

Match: India vs Australia, Ahmedabad, India


Playing in his 451th ODI, Sachin played a fantastic innings, India won the match.





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