As the clock stuck 9 days away from the ICC Cricket World Cup, 2011, I would like to dedicate a couple of articles on some of the players who I think will create a storm in the upcoming series with some of their statistics.
SACHIN TENDULKAR :
Full name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
If ones tries to google his name, the result will show about 8,710,000 results (0.09 seconds). He was born on April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India, a place where cricket is next to a religion and he is considered as none other than a God of the game. Currently standing tall at 37 years 291 days of age with the experience of 5 world cups and 21+ years of dominating teams from all around the world with his swashbuckling style of batting par elegance. He has just about written his name on every batting records that one could think off. Let me show you some of his statistics :
Batting and fielding averages
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 177 | 290 | 32 | 14692 | 248* | 56.94 | 51 | 59 | 64 | 106 | 0 | |||
| ODIs | 444 | 433 | 41 | 17629 | 200* | 44.97 | 20456 | 86.18 | 46 | 93 | 1929 | 185 | 134 | 0 |
| T20Is | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10.00 | 12 | 83.33 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| First-class | 280 | 442 | 48 | 23585 | 248* | 59.86 | 78 | 105 | 174 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 531 | 518 | 55 | 21181 | 200* | 45.74 | 57 | 111 | 169 | 0 | ||||
| Twenty20 | 44 | 44 | 5 | 1516 | 89* | 38.87 | 1171 | 129.46 | 0 | 11 | 201 | 21 | 19 | 0 |
Bowling averages
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 177 | 135 | 4096 | 2388 | 45 | 3/10 | 3/14 | 53.06 | 3.49 | 91.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODIs | 444 | 267 | 8020 | 6817 | 154 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 44.26 | 5.10 | 52.0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| T20Is | 1 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 1/12 | 1/12 | 12.00 | 4.80 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 280 | 7461 | 4280 | 70 | 3/10 | 61.14 | 3.44 | 106.5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| List A | 531 | 10196 | 8445 | 201 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 42.01 | 4.96 | 50.7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 44 | 8 | 93 | 123 | 2 | 1/12 | 1/12 | 61.50 | 7.93 | 46.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Currently Tendulkar holds the record of being the most capped player in tests as well as one day internationals. His tally of 97 international centuries is by far the most by any player who has ever played the game. While talking about his stats, one cannot dare to mention that Tendulkar became the first man to reach the milestone to score 200* in an ODI ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7HVsU6LzL0&feature=related )
Sachin at the world cups :
| World Cup | Matches | Innings | Not Out | Runs | Average | Best | Strike Rate | 50′s | 100′s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 283 | 47.17 | 84 | 84.73 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 523 | 87.17 | 137 | 85.88 | 3 | 2 |
| 1999 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 253 | 42.17 | 140 | 90.04 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 673 | 61.18 | 152 | 89.26 | 6 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 64 | 32.00 | 57 | 110.34 | 1 | 0 |
Some quotes on the master blaster :
Andrew Symonds: wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin. ” To Sachin, the man we all want to be “
Virendra Sehwag: Both of us have come a long away and it is a great honour that Tendulkar thinks I come close to resembling him as a batsman. It is a great honour, like a dream come true. If I die tomorrow I’ll be the happiest man because I played this game because of Tendulkar, and Tendulkar himself saying that I resemble him – there is no bigger compliment than that.
Mathew Hayden: I have seen GOD , he bats at no.4 for india in Tests.
Mark Taylor: We did not lose to a team called india…we lost to a man called Sachin.
Brain Lara: Sachin is a genius , i am a mere mortal!
Paul Strang: What we [zimbabwe] need is 10 tendulkars.
Sir Don Bradman: I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two…hi compactness, technique, stroke production… it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.
BBC Sports: Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don’t know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.
Wasim Akram: “I dont know what to bowl at him. i bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. then i bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. he is the toughest batsmen i ‘ve bowled to. he shold live long and score lots of runs, but not against pakistan(smiling) “–LEGENDARY WASIM AKRAM SACHIN on 24th april 2004 on espn Sachin’s 30th B day program.(i think) on his knock in 2003 worldcup.
( courtesy : http://www.sachinandcritics.com/quotes_on_sachin.php )
First take at the world cup in 1992. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01ieCwhu88 (Sachin Tendulkar 84 vs New Zealand)
The war of the sub-continent in 1996. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WeZf9fFPMA (Sachin Tendulkar 137* vs Sri Lanka)
The heart-broken innings, 3 days after his fathers demise in 1999. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA_6utZU3MQ (Sachin Tendulkar 140* vs Kenya)
The explosion of mastery of the game by the god in 2003. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSmArxGgNss (1) / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc2vgeyay9I&feature=related (2) / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd2hsBvNMA8&feature=related (3) / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCxYaHkFL7A&feature=related ( highlights of the masters innings on the 2003 outing)
Individual honours and appreciations
- Tendulkar was the only player of his generation, and the cricketer to have played for India, to be included in Bradman’s Eleven.
- ICC Award-Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for cricketer of the year 2010
- Padma Bhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, 2008.
- ICC World ODI XI, 2004, 2007
- Rajiv Gandhi Awards – Sports, 2005
- Player of the tournament in the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup
- Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra State’s highest Civilian Award in 2001
- Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian award, 1999
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest honour given for achievement in sports, 1997–98.
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year, 1997
- Arjuna Award, by the Government of India in recognition of his outstanding achievement in Cricket, 1994.
- In October 2010 he was awarded for Outstanding Achievement in Sport and the Peoples Choice Award at The Asian Awards in London
- On January 28, 2011, he won the ‘Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year’ awar
