Monday, May 10, 2010

Yuvraj Singh Sachin Dravid

Yuvraj Singh Sachin Dravid by delicatebuzz.

Sachin Tendulkar Unveils his Madame Tussauds Wax Statue

Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar with his Son  Arjun

38th Test century

Melbourne, Jan 4: Sachin Tendulkar slammed his 38th Test hundred taking Indian total past 400 runs against Australia.
India were 466 for 7 in their first innings in reply to Australia's 463 on the third day of the second Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).

Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar also completed 2000 Test runs against Australia. This is Tendulkar’s eighth century against Australia. Last time when Tendulkar played at the SCG, he scored an unbeaten 241.

Harbhajan is not out on 62.

Yuvraj Singh (12) was out leg before to Brett Lee. Sourav Ganguly, resumed his overnight innings at 21 and scored a quick fifty in just
68 balls.

Ganguly fell to Brad Hogg on 67. Ganguly and Tendulkar scored 108 runs for the fourth wicket.

Last Test between India and Australia at the SCG ended in a draw after India made 705-7.

Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 301 runs across two innings. (ANI)

sachin and dravid

The five ageing leaves of Indian cricket: Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Laxman and Kumble. Five leaves in autumn, braving the winds of change that are blowing. Look! Two of them are falling. Oh how graciously they fall. In this journey, so short, from the branch to the ground, how they wear a final beauty. And despite the terror of mixing with the earth, want that this last fall has all the grace of a flight! five-leaves

Kumble’s 18-year-old journey came to an end at the Feroze Shah Kotla and Ganguly is bidding adieu at Nagpur as he follows suit, floating down gently, savouring every memory of a long life on a branch of Indian cricket. They have weathered storms of all kinds and have emerged scathed, tired, tested but ultimately, I’d like to believe, satisfied. It will take long to fill the gaps they have left and the branches look that much emptier and poorer by their absence.

In a few years, the remaining three will also be blown away and the branch will be bare. Today they are fighting hard, clinging on, and disproving their critics but some day they too will be done. Did you say then why fight at all? That it’s useless, futile? I know. But then, they don’t fight in the hope of success! No, no! It’s much more beautiful when it’s useless, when it’s futile like in the final scenes of “The Last Samurai”. Oh what a beauty there is in fighting a lost battle. There’s an inexplicable romance to sword-wielding, horse-riding samurais charging in an open field at a mechanised artillery regiment of the Imperial army.

It’s the same with the five veterans. They fought and they continue to do so because like the Japanese Samurai, they don’t know any other way.

I could put down the statistics of this fabulous quintet and extol their achievements. But what’s the use of numbers, and at this stage, does it even matter? Do we need numbers to know their worth? The only numbers that everybody mentions now are 38, 36, 35, 35 and 34. Numbers are like the milestones on their journeys. Mere indicators. It is the journey and the sights they have left us to behold that are worth looking at again and again. Journeys that we’ll never be tired of retracing and sights that have been imprinted in our minds to be projected over and over again – a desert-storm at Sharjah, a defiance at Lords, a flourish at the Eden Gardens, a determination at Antigua, a virtuoso display at Adelaide…

Three leaves in autumn. And a wind… sachin-ganguly-dravid

Retirement is a tough call to make and there is no such thing as the right time to retire. It is a personal and an emotional decision. Should Federer retire if he wins another Grand Slam and breaks Sampras’ record for most GS titles? He would have discovered his form all right but after the recent slump shouldn’t he understand that his days are numbered? But what if he has several more titles still left? Did Henin make the right choice? Shouldn’t Warne make a comeback? Except the men and women concerned, nobody can know, sometimes not even them. The fickle media definitely not.

Soon they will all leave. Dravid will go, followed by Laxman. And some fall day, Sachin too will take his bow and ageing, sepia-toned, will begin his journey. But somehow I can’t imagine his journey being a short graceful one from the branch to the earth below. I’d rather dream of him being a leaf carried away on some wind, twisting and twirling and flying in a graceful manner like a ballerina that leaps into the air seemingly defying gravity.

He would arguably be the last leaf. And unlike O.Henry’s short story, this would be one Last Leaf that will be hard to imitate, replicate, duplicate. No masterpiece, no chef-d’oeuvre can come close to this original. The final journey of this Leaf would leave in its wake many a dead fan of Indian cricket.

Does the picture require a caption?
Does the picture require a caption?

And the day that happens, the Indian cricket team would be a pale spectre of its formal self. Much like the Australian team is today without Waugh, Mc. Grath, Warne and Gilchrist.

The passing of these leaves, would herald a winter in Indian cricket. A winter that would disprove the implied answer to Shelley’s line in Ode to a West Wind “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Oh yes, this one Spring will be far, far behind…

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Most gentle man of the gentlemen’s game

If there is one subject in cricket on which you have profuse details to explore and write about, then it has to be Sachin Tendulkar. Despite that, I find him to be one of the most difficult subjects to write about. Some might find this an amateur statement on my part but pieces on him are in oodles, touching almost every facet of his life, cricketing or otherwise.

While thinking on those lines, I came across a piece on the famous cricinfo website written by Sam Pilger, a freelance sports writer and author of two books on the Ashes. It was his good fortune to have bumped into Sachin during his European family vacation while the Indian team’s unsuccessful defence of its World T20 title.

Sachin was in London for the launch of his Opus, an honor bestowed only upon Diego Maradona before Sachin. He walked on the streets unnoticed, hopped over to make a phone call from a roadside phone both, had unmolested visits to cinema and restaurants, watched the Wimbledon final, went to Iceland and much more. In short, a solitude he only dreams of in India.

In Pilger’s masterly written article titled ‘Chilling with Sachin’, Tendulkar talks about Twenty20, retirement, being in disguise, and the man who reminds him of himself. I guess that is lure enough to read the whole piece. So click here to read it. Enjoy!

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Sachin Tendulkar Statistics

Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest ever One Day International player, one of the greatest Test Cricket player and Sachin Tendulkar stats proves this. In so many years of Sachin Tendulkar career, he has seen lots of ups and downs, achieved a lot in his career; Sachin statistics has never dropped and is right up there, among the best.

Sachin Tendulkar career started against arch rivals Pakistan , in the year 1989 at Faisalabad , Pakistan . He was just a 16 year kid, shivering due to cold waves of January, was facing fearsome trio of Wasim Akram, Imaran Khan and Waqar Younis. The 16 year old kid got out cheaply in the first innings and wasn’t comfortable even in the second; but what happened in 20 years after that match is history and world knows about it.

Since then, Sachin Tendulkar career has come a long way, Sachin Tendulkar stats have virtually become untouchable. Sachin statistics has gone to such a height where it will be a Herculean task for any and every batsman to achieve the same.

Just have a look at Sachin Tendulkar stats below and you will have an idea of the illustrious Sachin Tendulkar career. A brief Sachin statistics are mentioned below:

Sachin statistics:
Test debut
Pakistan v India at Karachi , Nov 15-20, 1989

Last Test
New Zealand v India at Wellington , Apr 3-7, 2009

ODI debut
Pakistan v India at Gujranwala , Dec 18, 1989

Last ODI
Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), Sep 14, 2009

Only T20I
South Africa v India at Johannesburg , Dec 1, 2006

First-class debut
1988/89

Last First-class
New Zealand v India at Wellington , Apr 3-7, 2009

List A debut
1989/90

Last List A
Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), Sep 14, 2009

Twenty20 debut
South Africa v India at Johannesburg , Dec 1, 2006

Last Twenty20
Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians at Centurion, May 21, 2010