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Brand Sachin on top of the world
Pradipta Mukherjee / Kolkata March 01, 2010, 23:49 IST
Experts say Tendulkar can leave the field tomorrow without any brand equity dilution.He was already India’s biggest icon and proudest possession after scoring an incredible 47 Test and 46 one-day tons. But after he played that unbelievable 200-run innings of brutal finesse on Wednesday, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, 37, has ensured that he could leave the field tomorrow without any dilution in his brand equity.
Brand experts say Tendulkar will continue to get paid millions of dollars to appear in television commercials and on billboards selling everything from luxury cars to credit cards, soft drinks to shoes even after he retires. Reason: Sachin is a brand that transcends time, according to Ogilvy and Mather India Chairman Piyush Pandey.
That’s a far cry from the days (just a few months back) when the growing feeling was that Brand Sachin was no longer value for money. After recurring injuries kept him off the field and a blip in form, a growing number of companies including Fiat, TVS, Airtel and Pepsico ended their long relationship with the cricketer. Experts were quick to point out that half the country’s population is below 30 years and Tendulkar, clearly, was overage. More so, when younger men like M S Dhoni have turned in more consistent performances. One of his former teammates, Sanjay Manjrekar, even referred to Tendulkar as “the elephant in the dressing room.”
The impact was obvious. According to Tam Media analysis, Tendulkar currently endorses around 15 brands. But his nearest competitor, M S Dhoni, endorses more than double that number.
That will surely change now. With his consistent performances over the last six months, everyone expects the Little Master’s brand fortunes to soar. Even in his tough days, Tendulkar earned Rs 5-6 crore a year per brand, but experts now say his brand value will no longer be dictated by his scores. Talent management firms, which peg his earnings now at Rs 50 crore a year, expect Tendulkar to re-scale the commercial value of cricket as a sport and multiply the value of the celebrity endorser.
India Inc agrees. Andreas Gellner, managing director, Adidas India says, “Tendulkar is a generation-defining athlete and we are associated with him for a decade now. He personifies our brand values perfectly and is an inspirational figure for every Indian.”
Gellner says Adidas believes in partnering with leading athletes who bring the passion behind ‘Impossible is Nothing’ to life through excellence in sports. The company has also launched ‘Adidas-ST’ cricket hardware range which is inspired and co-created with Tendulkar.
Star-struck India is among the heaviest users of celebrity endorsements. In 2001, 25 per cent of all TV advertisements carried a known face. By 2008, this had grown to 62 per cent and continues to grow. In 2009, the top five brand ambassadors — MS Dhoni, Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sachin Tendulkar and Priyanka Chopra — endorsed 68 brands with Dhoni leading the pack, according to Tam Media.
V L Rajesh, head of marketing - foods, ITC, says, “Tendulkar has been endorsing Sunfeast biscuits since 2007. He is extremely popular with kids and adults alike, reasons why we chose him as our brand ambassador. Also, associating with a national icon helps in our brand equity.”
R C Venkateish, managing director of ESPN India, says, “Tendulkar was a brand ambassador for us between 2002 and 2006, when we had a brand-ambassador-driven marketing outlook. Now our content is our brand ambassador.” “We signed on Tendulkar because he is an iconic personality and the best association a sports channel could have,” adds Venkateish.
However, many say even Tendulkar requires the right brands that go well with his current image. Anand Halve, co-founder of Chlorophyll, a brand building and strategy planning organization, says Tendulkar as a brand ambassador is best associated with ‘maintenance or fitness with longevity’. Companies, which want to harp on sustained performance over the years, is a perfect brand fit for Tendulkar. His brand recall is strong even though he has lost out on several endorsements due to advancing age.
Halve may be spot on. But everyone agrees with one fact: If brand managers are looking for the maximum bang from the celebrity buck, Tendulkar is still way above others. He delivers quicker recall in a cluttered scenario. The recent performances will only cement that positioning of Brand Tendulkar.
“You’ve got to create heroes and you've got to pay them,” said the late Mark Mascarenhas of WorldTel way back in 1995 after WorldTel made Tendulkar India’s first multimillionaire sportsperson. The hero has just ensured that companies keep on paying him for many summers ahead.
http://www.business-standard.com/ind...-world/387133/
'If he can't win as many matches as he can for India, he's wasting his time'
Tendulkar should consider quitting - Ian Chappell
Cricinfo staff
March 30, 2007
Time to retire for Sachin Tendulkar? Ian Chappell thinks so ? Getty Images
Ian Chappell, the former Australian captain, has come down hard on Sachin Tendulkar, saying the time had come for him to consider quitting the game. Chappell said that the Tendulkar decision would be crucial as India try and rebuild after their shocking first round exit from the ongoing World Cup.
Tendulkar managed only 64 runs in India's three first-round matches of the World Cup, and couldn't make much of an impact against Bangladesh (7) and Sri Lanka (0), the two games India lost.
"Before anybody else makes a decision on what will happen to Tendulkar the player himself has to have a good long look in the mirror and decide what he's trying to achieve in the game," Chappell, 63, wrote in Mid-Day, a Mumbai-based tabloid. "At the moment he looks like a player trying to eke out a career; build on a glittering array of statistics. If he really is playing for that reason and not to help win as many matches as he can for India then he is wasting his time and should retire immediately."
Chappell went on to compare Tendulkar with Brian Lara, the West Indian captain, and pointed out how the latter hadn't changed his style of play over a 17-year career. "This is a credit to his technique and mental strength, as the aging process generally makes a player more progressively conservative," Chappell wrote of Lara. "Tendulkar hasn't worn as well; his last three or four years have been a shadow of his former self.
Chappell took into consideration the slew of injuries that Tendulkar had suffered during his career, a factor that had forced him to miss a number of matches in this decade. "Tendulkar hasn't been as lucky as Lara," Chappell wrote, "the Indian batsman has suffered a lot of injuries in this period where his play has deteriorated and there is nothing that melts your mental approach quicker than physical handicaps. Lara has been relatively free from injury and he certainly doesn't have the weight of numbers riding on his shoulders that Tendulkar does. However, the population of the Caribbean might be small but they are extremely demanding.
"Despite all the fuss and the odd controversy that has surrounded Lara's career he has remained himself; this is my game and that is how I play. For whatever reason Tendulkar hasn't been able to maintain his extremely high standards for the last few years and unless he can find a way to recapture this mental approach he's not doing his team or himself any favours.
"If Tendulkar had found an honest mirror three years ago and asked the question; 'Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the best batsman of all?' It would've answered; 'Brian Charles Lara.' If he asked that same mirror right now; 'Mirror, mirror on the wall should I retire?' The answer would be; 'Yes.'
http://www.cricinfo.com/india/conten...ry/287897.html
Chappel kku ippo Cheppalaala adicha maadhiri irukkum :lol:
One of the best articles I have ever read on Sachin
Cricket's own Vicar
At its simplest level, sport is about possibilities. We fans dream up spectrums of possibilities. We align ourselves based on these spectrums, pledge our allegiances and set ourselves up for emotional and sometimes even physical reactions based on how things actually turn out. Most times our dreamt up possibilities are restricted by our citizenship - in itself a simple piece of paper, if you think about it.
It is perhaps then all for the good that there still exist a few in the realm of sport who make you forget about these restrictions and think only about the sporting possibilities. It takes no special skill to surmise that I am talking about Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and the possibilities that only he brings to the sport that he adores and so beautifies and typifies - cricket.
I lay the blame squarely on Sachin Tendulkar - for making it so hard to write yet another article on his prowess and achievements and landmarks, which show no signs of fading away. Superlatives pale. Praise falls flat and comparisons do not seem to fit, if only because we are finding it harder to find appropriate standards of comparison as time goes on. Cricket's prolific writing community has driven itself against the wall praising his two decades in the game. It has worked itself into a fury trying to explain to the layman about his passion for the game; his unsurpassed mastery of the art of batting. It has tired of continuously extolling his virtues on and off the field as a champion and a true sportsman. So much so that when you want to write about Tendulkar or his exploits it pays to take some time to think deeply to try and not repeat either yourself or the numerous others who have tried their hand at the same exercise over the years.
I have a confession to make. Nothing seemed to suggest itself as exemplary enough. As momentous and unique enough to grace yet another occasion, yet another peerless achievement by the maestro. For a while I was stymied when trying to write about his latest achievement - that of scoring a double century in an ODI contest. Yet another time when he carried his bat through and batted for his team's entire quota of 50 overs.
I have heard it said that emotions tend to illuminate even the darkest paths where the light of reason fizzles out and leaves you alone. This is a case in point. If following sport is in essence a vicarious pursuit into which you throw not yourself but your faiths on individual players and/or teams, then nobody qualifies to be a Vicar quite as much as Tendulkar.
The magnitude of emotions, enjoyment and realization he has been able to convey and amplify to millions and maybe even billions of people over the years across borders of nationhood, religion, economic means, caste, creed and colour ensures that it is so. It is not difficult to describe the drives, the cuts, the pulls and the cutest of nudges that he essayed today on his way to the first double-century in one-day internationals. But it would merely be superfluous.
His supporters may very well be in the right if they argue that this was always on the cards. A splendorous 175 four months ago had already tantalised his fans. Informed and tempted them about this possibility. And when a summit beckons, Sachin cannot be far behind. He finds a way to the top. And so it was today. 200 not out off just 147 deliveries against the third-ranked side in the world.
A successful man cannot have people simply singing praises about him. Ask his detractors. They would point out that the Roop Singh Stadium at Gwalior had short square boundaries, lightning fast outfields and an absolute marble-top of a wicket. And they would be absolutely right. But here is something they might consider. Give a top-class artist a canvas. Give him a room and give him a vista. See what he comes up with. For the art produced thereof we credit the artist himself; not the canvas for its whiteness and blankness. Not the room for the comfort it offered. Not even the vista for its having conveniently presented itself. They are all incidental. Art is transcendental. So too is Tendulkar's batting.
Much has been made of his drive for runs. Of the man's sheer hunger for putting bat to ball and staying on there at the crease much to the bowlers' bemusement. Forget the fact that he is largely peerless and matchless. He also appears tireless with the bat in hand when you observe his speed and skill when sprinting up and down the wicket putting pressure on the fielders at 36 years of age. Countless have been the questions posed to him about his desire to play the game and of the day when he wants to hang up his boots.
Perhaps they have been posed in an attempt to find out just how long the game will be graced by his presence. The game's own need of his genius does not however go far when trying to explain his superhuman dedication to the craft of batting and of the sheer determination that has powered him to make several sacrifices in order to be there for his team.
In typical Sherlock Holmes fashion, if we eliminate the possibilities one by one it only leaves one last item. That Sachin Tendulkar needs the game just like we mortals need our oxygen, our daily fix of sports and the fount of vicarious joy it promises. That his bat is not an extension of his body as has been often said. Perhaps quite the opposite - that he is an extension of his bat. That his body arranges itself conveniently so that the bat may strike the ball at the most opportune time with optimum speed.
All the better for our vicarious enjoyment. That he gives of himself every time through his bat so that we may once again experience the heady breathlessness that sports brings into our lives. So that over the years we all have a bit of Sachin Tendulkar in us. And that he suggests, in the true spirit of Vicar-ship, the existence of sublimation and transcendentalism in sport, also leaving us with the comfort that even after he ceases to perform his superhuman deeds on the cricket pitch he will live on in our minds - fuelling our dreams and defining our spectrums of possibilities.
yesterday Sachin, singam came in my dreams and appealed to his fans not to bash Dhoni - meyyalumae :bow:
Naama 24*7 nenachitrukkardhu kanavil varivadhu aacharyam illai :wink:
BTW, "Sachin," aduthu irukkum singam yaar?
Chappell, kammaan talk me now.:lol:
(Kaal amuthikaradhoda niruthikka ian :lol:)
:fatigue: That was a marana mokkai article from Ian Chappell. Remember it came right after India's WC exit. I respeet Ian as a commentator. As a commentator, he is analytical/insightful/engaging etc. etc. But this article had a very clear agenda from Ian.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Thoongaravangaley easy-uhh ezhupidalaam. Aana thoongarA maadhiri nadikaravangale ezhupuradhu remba kastam, I say. :evil:
One more sample of an opportunistic bashing of Sachin by the Aussie media in Jan 2007.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...18/1829185.htm
form-ukkum, class-ukkum vithyasamE theriyaadhe maadhiri, enamma nadikaraanunge.:shaking:Quote:
Originally Posted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
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:lol: :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Originally Posted by MADDY
* OPINION ASIA
* MARCH 1, 2010, 11:07 A.M. ET
Tendulkar the Terrific
The cricket superstar's 20 year career has been a beacon of stability in an era of rapid change.
By RICHARD LORD
Why is Sachin Tendulkar so popular? That might sound like a silly question. After all, this is the man who on Wednesday broke yet another of cricket's longest-standing records. In 39 years of One Day International cricket (the medium-length version, as opposed to the five-day tactical teeter-totter that is Test cricket and the bish-bash-bosh of Twenty20, cricket's fast-food format), no individual has ever scored 200 runs in an innings before.
To put it in context, that's 2,961 previous games of that type in which no one had managed the feat. And Mr. Tendulkar did it against South Africa, a side officially ranked the world's third best in One Day Internationals, behind only Australia and India themselves. It's an achievement that required not just astonishing concentration and technical mastery, but, given the number of runs tallied in the limited time available, the sort of super-speedy scoring not usually thought of as his specialty. But somehow, no one was surprised it was Mr. Tendulkar that did it. No one's ever really surprised at anything he does any more.
[LORDfhk0301] Associated Press
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar reacts after scoring his double-century during the second one day cricket match between India and South Africa, in Gwalior, India, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. Tendulkar Wednesday scored the first ever double-century in one-day international cricket.
Born on April 24, 1973, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar made his international cricket debut just 16 and a half years later. Since then he's broken most of the international game's batting records: most Test match runs (13,447), most One Day International runs (17,598, a frightening 4,170 ahead of the next contender), most Test scores of 100 runs or more (47), and the same in One Day Internationals (46).
But his latest achievement was particularly special. Try, for a moment, to think of another sportsman a couple of months short of his 37th birthday, at the very top of his particular game for more than two decades, who still has the ability and, more to the point, the hunger to take that game to heights previously unscaled not just by himself, but by anyone. Then try to digest the fact that, of his 93 international 100s, 10 have come in the past year.
The obituary-writing pens had been sharpened for years before that, climaxing in 2006 with the unthinkable, when he was booed off his home ground, Mumbai's Wankhede, after an innings against England that was notable not so much for the low score (1) as the master batsman's apparent scratchy ineptitude. It came during a mid-decade period when his play frequently seemed constrained, defensive, lacking in fluency—the polar opposite of his usual serene method. That he was able to drag himself out of the rut in his mid-30s was a surprise to many at the time; with hindsight, it looks inevitable.
So he's good. And yet, despite all that, the sheer idolatry that Mr. Tendulkar receives in his homeland still has the power to startle. His arrival at the crease fills stands; his departure empties them. His long-time teammate Rahul Dravid, for example, with 11,000-plus Test runs to his name at an average score only just lower than Mr. Tendulkar's, can walk around his homeland unmolested in a way of which his compatriot, who has to don a disguise just to go to the cinema, can only dream. And with an almost-comparable batting record, plus a bowling record that would put him among his nation's highest achievers even if he'd never picked up a bat in his life, the captain of the opposition at Gwalior, Jacques Kallis, has a claim, statistically at least, to be the greater player. But absolutely no one believes that he is.
That's because the reasons for Mr. Tendulkar's iconic status extend well beyond the boundary. There's his integrity—no off-field dalliances, match-fixing allegations or doping indiscretions for this sporting titan. Then there's his incredible humility; in an era of brash, trash-talking sportsmen-with-attitude, he's never been heard to utter a single boastful word, nor one denigrating an opponent. His celebration upon reaching the latest landmark was typical: a raised bat, a glance to the heavens, a smile of quiet satisfaction.
Mr. Tendulkar may have the trappings of sporting superstardom—the multiple homes, the bodyguards, the inevitable restaurant—but this is a man who doesn't shout about his achievements. There's always been a relentless, quiet, determined concentration to the way in which he just gets on with the business of accumulating runs.
This isn't the dogged, cussed determination of a battler who punches above his weight, nor the extravagance and wastefulness typical of many of those who possess the richest of talents. Instead Mr. Tendulkar has a unique amalgam of the two. Blessed with an ability few in the history of the game have ever been able to match, he has focused solely on translating it into the largest number of runs he can for his team, eschewing all other priorities and brooking no distractions. From a purely sporting perspective, he's cricket's Tiger Woods. Even before his recent off-course indiscretions, however, what Mr. Woods got was admiration and respect; what Mr. Tendulkar gets is love.
Maybe that's because, more than anything else, what Mr. Tendulkar stands for is constancy. His career has spanned an era when cricket has changed beyond recognition, from a predictable, staid, not particularly lucrative pastime, administered largely by post-colonial relics, to the flash, flush, money-spinning media circus of today, driven by the excitement and glamour of Twenty20 cricket, and in particular the megabucks, Bollywood-bling, rich-man's-plaything Indian Premier League. His dedication has never been affected by the riches and glitz of the modern game; he approaches cricket in exactly the same methodical, faultless way he always did.
The past 20 years, of course, have also been a period during which the nation that produced him—driven by his economically freewheeling hometown—has undergone equally dramatic changes. And perhaps therein lies the real secret of his popularity: Mr. Tendulkar is a beacon of stability in a sport, in a country and in a world that are changing at a pace many find unsettling. He's an unbroken link to values of hard work, humility and reliability, and for that reason a lot of people find him uniquely reassuring. When the unthinkable day comes that he finally does hang up his bat, it's not only cricket that will be poorer for the loss.
Mr. Lord is a Hong Kong-based writer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...atestheadlines
:lol: @ LM's post.
But I'm afraid this should not continue in the internet or in the media world.. illaati the word "Class" will be submerged under the word "record" :oops:
For Sachin Lovers , if you believe in God(Sachin), as Mahatma said leave the punishment to God.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Brother
I loled because i was amused to hear that sachin came in maddy's dreams. Avvalo than neenga enna mahatma rangekku poringa. :).
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Originally Posted by tamizharasan
I really mentioned Mahatma Gandhi. Even though I am not still sure about Dhon's intentions, I really do not think he deserves such a criticism in the media.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
TA, i said it just for fun.......i got the dreams of sachin hitting 200 but i just added the Dhoni part :lol2: ..........
Adinna adhu adi, enna adi - pala varusham kanavula varum andha sachin knock :bow:
I don't think dhoni gets bashed much in media. It is vjust in this forum0 and a few blogs.
He gets bashed a lot in Orkut also. Also over the last couple of years this sachin - dhoni clash is becoming familiar like maamiar - marumgal sandai. Don't ask me who is who.
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Originally Posted by Plum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-sVljdlUtg
India vs England 6th ODI Part 3
A tendulkar 94 against England in 2007 tour. High octane drives make up this affair. A very fluid innings. I think Nerd says this is one of his top 5 Innings. A worthy contender :)
Namma Ju.Vi-la oru article vandhuchu idha pathi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
ju.vi-yA? AdhellAm Dhonikku kosukkadiya vida chinnadhu :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
Yayy! If we are polling the best 50s, I am voting for this innings. 97 against Pakis in the '03 world cup will get many votes anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
The three consecutive boundaries of Anderson which set the tone, the inside out strokes, the drives etc., And remember BCCI was 2-3 down, desperately needing a win to stay in the series and were chasing 310+.. Wonderful innings and from there on, no looking back. All the way to a double century :bow:
Guys what about poll?. Fav 50's excluding WC (2003) 98 vecharalamaa??
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Sure :goodidea:
My nominations:
94 vs England, Oval
82 vs Newzealand, Auckland
95 vs Pakistan, Lahore
Will add more later :D
List of ODI 50's by sachin
Guys use this link to pull up your nominations.
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64710.html
Actually this was also a great innings. Sachin scored 62 of just 38 balls with 11 fours against Australia in 2001. I came to know about this only thorugh orkut sachin fan late sheetal madam.
Tendulkar's mileage, and the woman who beat himThe distance Sachin has run between wickets, the highest List A scores, most balls faced in ODIs, and the paw-word
Steven Lynch
March 2, 2010
Belinda Clark got a double in ODIs in 1997 © Cricinfo Ltd
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How many miles or kilometres has Sachin Tendulkar run between the wickets in his international career? asked Sundar from India
After his amazing double-century onslaught in Gwalior - and how appropriate it was that he was the first man to reach the 200 barrier in a format where he heads the run-scoring lists by such a long way - Sachin Tendulkar had scored 31,055 runs in international cricket (13,447 in Tests, 17,598 in ODIs, and 10 in Twenty20 internationals). Of those, 16,140 have come in boundaries (3675 fours and 240 sixes), so he has had to run 14,915 of his own runs in singles, twos and threes, which adds up to 328,130 yards or over 186 miles (300 kilometres). He will also have covered a similar distance for his partners while non-striker - not quite so many runs, perhaps, but a significant number nonetheless. If we allow his batting partners 75% of Tendulkar's output, that's another 12,105 runs, or 266,310 yards, or 151 miles (243km). That makes a total of around 337 miles (543km). There will also have been many byes and leg-byes, lots of runs completed before the ball crossed the boundary line - and even partial runs during run-outs, so it's impossible to calculate it any more exactly!
Was Tendulkar's score the highest in any senior limited-overs match (not just a one-day international? asked Surinder Nayyar from Ahmedabad
Sachin Tendulkar's 200 not out in Gwalior was actually the 10th double-century in senior limited-overs cricket (now usually called "List A" matches). Two of them have been scored by Alistair Brown, the electric Surrey (now Nottinghamshire) batsman who had a surprisingly short England career of just 16 ODIs. Those included the highest List A score yet recorded: an astonishing 268 - from 160 balls, with 30 fours and 12 sixes - in Surrey's C&G Trophy match against Glamorgan at The Oval in June 2002.
Sachin "Two-Tondulkar" faced 147 deliveries during his record-breaking innings. Was this the highest number of balls faced by a batsman in a 50-over one-day international? asked Rahul Bagree from India
In early one-day internationals innings were usually limited to a maximum of 60 overs (and often 55 in England), so it's not surprising that, overall, the six longest individual innings in ODIs come from those days: the leader is New Zealand's Glenn Turner, whose 171 not out against East Africa at Edgbaston during the first World Cup in 1975 occupied 201 balls. Another Turner innings from that World Cup - his 177-ball 114 not out against India at Old Trafford - lies second on this list. The longest individual innings in any 50-over ODI was one of 172 balls, by Canada's Ashish Bagai, who made 137 not out against Scotland in Nairobi in 2006-07. The longest in a match between two Test-playing nations was 168 balls, by David Boon, during his 102 not out for Australia against New Zealand in Hobart in 1991-92. For the full list of the longest individual ODI innings (irrespective of over limit), click here.
Sachin Tendulkar was the first man to score a double-century in a one-day international, but my sister insists that a woman achieved this feat first, more than a decade ago. Is she right? asked Keith D'Souza
Hats off to your sister, as she remembered that Australia's Belinda Clark hammered 229 not out against Denmark in Mumbai during the 1997-98 women's World Cup. It was a bit of a mismatch: after scoring 412 for 3 in their 50 overs, the Aussies bowled Denmark out for 49
http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/449574.html
March 1, 2010
Posted by Aakash Chopra at 4:00 AM in Technique
Tendulkar double ton reiterates technique
Technique is perhaps one of the most important things that distinguish a good cricketer from a great cricketer; Tendulkar's great innings told us just that © Associated Press
Only the God of cricket could have made a daunting 200 look so effortless. The game of numbers isn’t one for Sachin; he has gone well past that. That evening on the 25th February, Tendulkar didn’t just break an overwhelming record, he narrated cricket’s lost story. The double ton, perhaps, brought back, the passé ‘technique’ into the game. My admiration of Tendulkar’s masterclass didn’t just stop at the record, but the manner in which he pulled it off.
You would assume that a certain amount of slogging is almost mandatory to score a double century in fifty overs. But Sachin proved that it can be done by playing good cricket and knocking some skillful cricketing shots. The reason why Sachin doesn’t need to slog his way to big runs is his impeccable technique.
Ironically though, talking technique has almost become blasphemous in modern day cricket. No longer is it only about the number of runs you score, the strike-rate at which those runs are scored is equally important if not more, especially in the shorter formats. Perhaps, there is seemingly nothing wrong about thinking in terms of strike-rate because that makes for entertaining cricket. Innovation is not an aberration anymore but a norm.
While most cricketers playing international cricket are capable of changing gears and adapting to the new demands of the game, a whole crop of youngsters trying to break into their respective state under-16, under-19 teams are not. To a young mind, the easiest way to score quickly is to take the aerial route and play adventurous shots. The impression a youngster carries is that technique restricts you from playing all the shots and hence slows you down. Little do they realize that in reality, technique empowers you to play almost every shot in the book or perhaps more. It’s the technical dexterity and not slogging which enabled Sachin to score a double century off merely 147 balls.
I see that the role of a cricket coach more important now than ever before. He ought to help a youngster find the right balance and ensure that he doesn’t sacrifice technique for adventure. But are these coaches well equipped to ensure that a youngster doesn’t go astray? The answer is an unfortunate No. Only a few cricket academies in the country are run by qualified coaches. Others are merely organized net practice facilities which would rarely produce good cricketers. We may not be able to organize the cricket-academy sector but we can always ensure that the coaches working with the state teams at all levels are qualified coaches. After all the BCCI organizes coaching clinics on a regular basis producing Level 1, 2 and 3 coaches. These coaches in turn should be absorbed by the state associations.
I watched a Ranji Trophy probable bowling big no-balls and all that the coaches around could possible tell him was a feeble ‘stop overstepping’. No one would tell him how to do it. Poor kid kept bowling for nearly an hour with no success. I felt sorry for the boy because it wasn’t his fault. It’s the duty of the coach to rectify mistakes, but sadly, they couldn’t. If this being the state of affairs at the First class level, pity how things would be at levels below Ranji. The way forward is most certainly a sound lesson in technique, for you can break a rule only when you know it.
Technique is perhaps one of the most important things that distinguish a good cricketer from a great cricketer. And the God of the Cricket told us just that.
http://blogs.cricinfo.com/beyondtheb..._reiterate.php
Tendulkar 11 vs Ganguly 11' 20-20 cricket match on 6th March 2010 at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai.
Team Line up for Ganguly 11
Saurav Ganguly- Captain
Irfan Pathan -
Amit Mishra -
VVS Laxman -
Ashish Nehra -
Anil Kumble -
Virendra Sehwag-
Rahul Dravid-
Gautam Gambhir -
Pragyan Oja
Ishant Sharma -
Ravindra Jadeja -
Suresh Raina -
Team Line up for Sachin 11:
Sachin Tendulkar - Captain
Harbhajan Singh -
Wasim Jaffer -
Rohit Sharma
Ajit Agarkar
Vinayak Samant -
Abhishek Nair
Dhawal Kulkarni
Zaheer Khan
Avi Salvi
Murtuza Hussain
Iqubal Abdulla
Yogesh Takwale
Yusuf Pathan -
Date: 6th March 2010
Venue: Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai
Timing: 4pm
Gates open: 2pm
Cost of Ticket: Rs 250
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March 2, 2010
Posted by Andy Zaltzman 11 hours, 23 minutes ago
Why Tendulkar will hit another 57 Test centuries
The moustache has it: as his facial hair bloomed, so did Graham Gooch’s average © Getty Images
Hello Confectionery Stallers. I have been busily mining some Tendulkar statistics for you, only to find that I had been beaten to it by Cricinfo’s Caesar Of Statistics, S Rajesh, in this as-always illuminating piece on the Mumbai Marvel’s recent renaissance.
This reached a stunning peak with his historic one-day double-hundred in Gwalior last week – a useful innings in anyone’s book, in which he scored as many hundreds as England have managed in their last 23 one-day internationals over 15 months (and more double-hundreds than everyone on the planet had managed in the previous 51,478 one-day international innings).
So I had to excavate deeper in the seam of statistics with some special industrial stat-mining equipment, which I drilled directly through my computer screen until some numbers splurted out.
As he reached 200, Tendulkar passed the 31,054 international runs landmark. Narrowly – he’s now on 31,055, which is more than 6000 ahead of second-placed Ricky Ponting, and 31,055 more than the entire Zaltzman family combined. He also extended his lead at the top of the international centuries chart to 25 (he has 93 to Ponting’s trifling 68; next come Lara on 53 and Kallis on 50, with all Zaltzmans lagging behind morosely on 0; and no one else has even scored half as many as Tendulkar).
History suggests that the records will keep tumbling. They are now mostly his own records – Tendulkar can barely breathe without breaking some kind of world best. In fact, he literally cannot breathe without breaking a record – with 609 international appearances under his golden belt, he has, one assumes, breathed more often on an international cricket field that any other cricketer. (With the possible exception of England legend and notorious oxygen fan Herbert Sutcliffe, also known as “Hyperventilating Herbert”, who averaged around 200 breaths per minute throughout his Test career. The story goes that Sutcliffe believed that rapid breathing conveyed a sense of nervousness through the arms into the wood of the bat, making the blade tense up, and thus hit the ball further.) (The contents of the previous parenthesis are not entirely true.)
Tendulkar is now approaching his 37th birthday, meaning he will have 10 fewer candles on his cake this year than Test hundreds on his CV. As soon as Graham Gooch turned 37 in July 1990, he promptly smashed 333 against India at Lord’s, in the infant Tendulkar’s first Test in England, in which he took a catch from another universe to dismiss Allan Lamb.
Before that innings, Gooch had averaged 37 and scored just nine hundreds in 78 Tests, punctuated by periods of poor form, technical imperfections, bans, self-imposed exile, and nagging doubts over exactly how bushy his moustache should be. After reconciling himself that it should be, and remain, “very bushy”, Gooch had an extended late blooming, averaging 51 over 40 Tests, with 11 more centuries.
So, using mathematics, the deceitful she-devil, if Tendulkar achieves proportionately an identical improvement after his 37th birthday to Gooch’s, he will over the remainder of his career play 85 more Tests, and hit 57 more Test centuries whilst averaging 75. Beware, bowlers of the world, the best may be yet to come. If Graham Gooch proves to be a scientifically accurate predictor for how batsmen perform after the age of 37. And if Tendulkar is prepared to grow his whiskers.
The delight all cricket fans must feel at Tendulkar catapulting himself back to the summit of the game is enhanced by the extent and duration of his mid-career slump. I would argue that it extended way beyond even the two-year 2005-06 period Mr Rajesh details. Over half a decade − from the start of India’s disastrous two-Test humiliation in New Zealand in December 2002, to the beginning of the 2007-08 series in Australia – if you exclude two boot-filling short series against Bangladesh, Tendulkar averaged just 38.49 in 35 Tests. The cricketing immortal was rubbing statistical shoulders with the likes of Asanka Gurusinha and Craig MacMillan.
If we discount all Tests against the average-camouflagingly weak Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, Tendulkar had the 45th best Test batting average during this period (including only batsmen who played in 10 or more Tests). Here’s proof.
He scored only three centuries against the older Test nations – two of which came in successive Tests early in 2004, when he scored 241 not out and 60 not out in Sydney, then 194 not out in Multan. Either side of that short but floridly purple patch, the little master’s Bangladesh-excluding average over five whole years was an almost Ramprakashistic, sub-Azhar-Mahmoodian 29.
Tendulkar was aged between 29 and 34 during this underachieving span, an age when batsmen are generally thought to be at their peak.
(Here’s a little statistical teaser for you that my mining equipment chunked out from the cricket earth’s molten statistical core. What age is the highest-averaging age for Test batsmen? Take a guess, write it down, seal it in an envelope, hide it under your pillow, and wait for the answer to be revealed in this week’s World Cricket Podcast. If your answer is correct, you win this week’s star prize – the everlasting respect of the cricketing universe.)
Brian Lara had a similar career trough. After his stellar early years, culminating in a massive series in England in 1995, Lara averaged just 40 over six years between the ages of 26 and 32, before exploding back into greatness in Sri Lanka in 2001-02.
In this time, the Trinidad Trailblazer averaged over 50 in just two series out of 12 – a century-free rubber of steady scoring against England early in 1998, and his flabbergastingly brilliant single-handed demolition of McGrath, Gillespie, Warne and MacGill a year later. In the rest of his career he topped 50 in 15 of his 23 series.
How curious that the two greatest batsmen of their era should both have slumped significantly over a prolonged period during what should have been their best years, before resurging when they might have been expected to decline. Tendulkar’s elbow operation in May 2005 lies exactly in the middle of his five-year funk, and must be the major explanation for his temporary relapse into relative cricketing humdrummery, given the perfection of his technique and the equanimity of his temperament. Brian Lara’s slump can be attributed to the fact that he was Brian Lara.
These numerical rift valleys in otherwise Himalayan careers are perhaps bizarre anomalies, but not without precedent in the world of geniuses. Beethoven once spent five years writing nothing but advertising jingles for a horse insurance firm, French sculpture whiz Auguste Rodin locked himself away in a studio for the entire 1890s, and emerged having made a single papier-mache Mickey Mouse, and Shakespeare wrote As You Like It (my view of which may have been clouded by having it force-rammed down my throat as an A-level set text) (but only slightly clouded).
The answer to the highest-averaging age question, and related fascinations, will be revealed in this week’s World Cricket Podcast, which will also address issues ranging from England’s tour of Bangladesh, Australia’s jaunt to New Zealand, and the history of the appeal. Plus the latest in the completely unmissable Annoying Things About Cricket series. And some other stuff, if I think of it. And maybe an interview.
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Awesome catch, he runs some 30 meters and pluck it off with one handQuote:
in which he took a catch from another universe to dismiss Allan Lamb
Ada pongappa... naangalum appadi thaan nenachom, ippo ellam yevan venumnaalum adikkalaamQuote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
If you exclude ten's tons against zim and Bang, we mus also exclude ricky's tons against india, west indies, nz, sa/sl games in australia, etc.
Appuram avanukku enna minjum?
Summa bang/zim-nu bajanai paNNa koodadhu :evil:
After his 200, I feel these polls are not necessary for the moment. He is in amazing form!Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
That is can we have these kind of "best knocks" poll after his retirement ya? :?
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAoecpEF7bwQuote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Tendulkar aNi konjam weak-A irukkE?
West Zone team-nu sollAdhInga. Durby irukkAn. Durbykku epdi sachin kitta ivLO nerukkam?
seri irukkattum. evLO nallavannAlum oru karumpuLLiyAvadhu irukkum, irukkaNum. Sachinku adhu Durby roobathula irukku-nu aarudhal pattukkalAM
கத்தியின் கூர்மையும் தூரிகையின் நளினமும்
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சச்சின் டெண்டுல்கரைப் பார்க்கும் போதெல்லாம் வள்ளுவரின் வாக்கு நினைவுக்கு வரும். பணியுமாம் என்றும் பெருமை என்னும் வாக்கு. இந்திய நாடாளுமன்றம் அவரது சாதனையைப் பாராட்டுகிறது. மக்களின் கரகோஷம் வானை நிறைக்கிறது. இதையெல்லாம் கேட்டுக் கூச்சத்துடன் அவர் தலை தாழ்கிறது. மாபெரும் சாதனை ஒன்றைச் செய்து முடித்த இந்த ஜாம்பவான் பரிசளிப்பின்போது ரவி சாஸ்திரி கேட்கும் கேள்விகளுக்கு வெட்கத்துடனும் அடக்கத்துடனும் பதிலளிக்கிறார்.
ஒருநாள் போட்டிகள் ஆடத் தொடங்கி 39 ஆண்டுகள் ஆகின்றன. இதுவரை 2961 போட்டிகள் நடந்திருக்கின்றன. இத்தனை போட்டிகளில் யாரும் செய்யாத ஒரு காரியத்தை சச்சின் டெண்டுல்கர் செய்திருக்கிறார். 200 ரன்களைக் குவித்திருக்கிறார். ஒருநாள் போட்டிகளிலும் டெஸ்ட் போட்டிகளிலும் அதிக பட்ச ரன்களைக் குவித்துள்ள அவர் இந்தச் சாதனையை நிகழ்த்தியிருப்பது முற்றிலும் பொருத்தமானது.
சாதாரண ஆட்டக்காரர்கள் இலக்கை எட்டுவதற்காகப் பாடுபடுவார்கள். ஏற்கனவே இருக்கும் எல்லைகளுக்குள் நின்று தன் முத்திரையைப் பதிப்பார்கள். சாதனையாளர்களோ களத்தின் எல்லைகளை விரிவுபடுத்துவார்கள். புதிய சவால்களை முன்வைப்பார்கள். புதிய அளவுகோல்களை உருவாக்குவார்கள். சச்சின் அத்தகைய ஒரு சாதனையாளர். ஏற்கனவே டெஸ்ட்களிலும் ஒருநாள் போட்டிகளிலும் அதிக ரன் அதிக சதங்கள் ஆகிய சாதனைகளை வைத்திருக்கும் இவர் இப்போது ஒரு ஆட்டத்தில் அதிக பட்ச ரன் என்னும் புதிய சாதனையைப் படைத்திருக்கிறார்.
“எல்லாச் சாதனைகளும் முறியடிக்கப்படுவதற்காகத்தான் இருக்கின்றன. ஆனால் சச்சினைப் போன்ற ஒருவர் ஒரு சாதனையை முறியடிக்கும்போது மிகுந்த மன நிறைவு ஏற்படுகிறது. இந்தச் சாதனைக்கு அவர் முற்றிலும் தகுதியானவர். மேலும் பல சாதனைகளை அவர் நிகழ்த்துவார்” என்கிறார் முன்னாள் பாகிஸ்தான் வீரர் ஜாவேத் மியாண்டாட்.
யாராலும் வெல்ல முடியாத ஆஸ்திரேலிய அணியை எதிர்த்துச் சிறப்பாக ஆடிவருபவர் சச்சின். 1997இல் ஷார்ஜாவில் மணல் புயலுக்கு நடுவில் வீசிய இவரது மட்டையின் வேகத்தைப் பார்த்து கிரிக்கெட் உலகின் பிதாமகன் என்று கருதப்படும் டான் பிராட்மேன் வியந்தார். இந்தப் பையன் ஆடுவதைப் பார்க்கும்போது என்னையே நான் பார்த்துக்கொள்வதுபோல இருக்கிறது என்றார். போன ஆண்டு ஆஸி அணிக்கெதிராக 175 ரன் எடுத்தபோது, “நான் பார்த்த மிகச் சிறந்த ஆடங்களில் ஒன்று இது” என்று எதிரணி கேப்டன் ரிக்கி பாண்டிங் புகழ்ந்தார்.
சமீப நாட்களில் அவரது ஆட்டம் புதியதொரு சிகரத்தை எட்டியிருக்கிறது. கடந்த ஒரு ஆண்டில் அவர் அவர் 10 சதங்களை அடித்துள்ளார் (டெஸ்ட் போட்டிகளில் 6, ஒரு நாள் போட்டிகளில் 4). இதில் நான்கு சதங்கள் தொடர்ந்து நான்கு டெஸ்ட்களில் அடிக்கப்பட்டவை. ஒருநாள் போட்டிகளில் கடந்த ஆண்டில் மட்டும் நியூசிலாந்துக்கு எதிராக 163, ஆஸி அணிக்கு எதிராக 175 ஆகிய பெரிய ஸ்கோர்களை அடித்திருக்கிறார்.
இப்போதெல்லாம் அவரது ஆட்டத்தில் நம்ப முடியாத அளவுக்கு சரளம் கூடியிருக்கிறது. நிர்ப்பந்தத்தின் சுமையையோ ஆடுகளத்தின் தன்மையையோ பந்து வீச்சாளர்கள் பற்றிய கவலையையோ அவரது மட்டை வீச்சில் உணர முடியவில்லை. நாள்தோறும் புதிய சிகரங்களை எட்டிவரும் சச்சினின் பயணம் எந்தத் துறையில் இருப்பவர்களுக்கும் உத்வேகமூட்டக்கூடியது.
இயல்பான அதிரடி ஆட்டம், அசாத்தியமான தொழில்நுட்ப நேர்த்தி, சந்தர்ப்பத்துக்கு ஏற்ப ஆடும் பக்குவம் ஆகியவற்றுடன் 21 ஆண்டுகளின் அனுபவமும் சேர்ந்து சச்சினை இப்போது ஒப்பற்ற கிரிக்கெட் வீரராக ஆக்கியிருக்கின்றன. எத்தனையோ காயங்கள், நடுவில் சில சறுக்கல்கள், விவரம் அறியாதவர்களின் மொண்ணையான விமர்சனங்கள், ஏறிக்கொண்டே போகும் வயது, புதிது புதிதாக வரும் பந்து வீச்சாளர்கள், இளம் ஆட்டக்காரர்களிடமிருந்து வரும் போட்டிகள் ஆகியவற்றையெல்லாம் தாக்குப் பிடித்து ஆடுவது மட்டுமல்ல. மற்றவர்களைக் காட்டிலும் சிறப்பாக ஆடிக்கொண்டிருப்பதுதான் சச்சினின் சிறப்பு.
எல்லாவற்றுக்கும் மேலாக, 21 ஆண்டுகளாகக் கோடிக்கணக்கான இந்திய ரசிகர்களின் எதிர்பார்ப்புகள் என்னும் மகத்தான சுமையைத் தாங்கி, அவர்களது எதிர்பார்ப்பைப் பூர்த்திசெய்யும் அளவுக்கு ஆடிவருவது இதுவரை யாருமே செய்யாத சாதனை. கிரிக்கெட் மீது பைத்தியமாக இருக்கும் ஒரு தேசத்துக்குத் தன் மண்ணிலிருந்து ஒரு மாபெரும் சாதனையாளன் பிறக்க வேண்டும் என்ற கனவு இருப்பது இயற்கைதான். அந்தக் கனவின் உருவமாகத் திகழ்கிறார் சச்சின். அவர் கையிலிருக்கும் மட்டை மந்திரவாதியின் மந்திரக்கோலாக மாறிக் கோடிக்கணக்கான ரசிகர்களின் கனவுகளை நனவாக்கிவருகிறது.
இன்னும் அவர் செய்ய வேண்டிய சாதனைகள் சில இருக்கின்ரன. டெஸ்ட் போட்டியில் ஒரு இன்னிங்ஸில் பிரையன் லாரா எடுத்த 400 ரன்கள் என்னும் சாதனையை அவர் கடக்க வேண்டும். அவரே வெளிப்படையாகச் சொல்வதுபோல 2011இல் உலகக் கோப்பையை இந்தியா வெல்ல அவர் பங்களிக்க வேண்டும். இவை இரண்டையும் அவர் செய்வார் என்று நாம் உறுதியாக நம்பலாம்.
அவர் 200 ரன் எடுத்து முடித்ததும், “ஒரு சர்ஜனின் கத்திபோல அவரது மட்டை செயல்பட்டது” என்றார் வர்ணனையாளர் ரவி சாஸ்திரி. ஒரு ஓவியக் கலைஞனின் தூரிகை போல என்றும் சேர்த்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டும். ஆபரேஷன் செய்யும் கத்தியின் கூர்மை, கச்சிதம், ஓவியம் தீட்டும் தூரிகையின் நளினம், நுட்பம் ஆகிய அனைத்துப் பண்புகளும் ஒரு சேர இருக்கும் அதிசயம்தான் டெண்டுல்கரின் கையில் இருக்கும் மட்டை.
மட்டை என்பது வெறும் கருவி. அதைப் பிடித்திருக்கும் கைதான் சாதிக்கிறது. கைகூட அல்ல. அந்தக் கையை இயக்கும் மனம். அதில் உறைந்திருக்கும் உறுதி. சாதிப்பதற்கான துடிப்பு. அனுபவத் தழும்பு ஏறிய அந்த மனத்தில் நேற்றுதான் விளையடத் தொடங்கிய ஒரு குழந்தையின் உற்சாகம். இந்த அசாத்தியமான கலவைதான் சச்சினின் ஆளுமை.
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