God must be regretting that he could not come to this earth to play cricket.. so he thought of a
plan to send sachin tendulkar to represent him .these lines might look a bit hyperbole to the critics of sachin who say that his faliure on crutial occasions has also been godly.but the fact of the matter is that he has silenced his critics time and again.
He is getting better with the age,the answer to his crictics is that a lot is expected from him and he started playing cricket when there was no support for him from the other end in terms of batsmen the rainas and the dhonis came much later.the indian team was totally dependent on him im the 90,s.
He is now the one man show in terms of records in odi,s and tests .He just goes on and on setting records that will probably last forever. It could be dangerous to make such predictions what with the proliferation of international cricket matches, but there is no such risk in sticking one' s neck out where Sachin Tendulkar is concerned. At an age when cricketers at least contemplate retirement - if they have not already called it a day - he is playing some of his finest knocks.
His hunger for success remains undiminished, his appetite for runs and centuries insatiable and he displays the keenness of a teenager just starting out on his career. Seeing him on the field these days, it is difficult to believe that come November, it will be 21 years since he made his Test debut as a curly-haired 16-year-old against Pakistan at Karachi. Tendulkar' s latest record is for once not associated with runs and centuries but with durability. The current Test against Sri Lanka at Colombo is his 169th surpassing Steve Waugh' s mark by one.
well remember Colin Cowdrey being the first cricketer to play 100 Tests way back in 1968 against Australia at Birmingham. That was quite a feat 42 years ago, but since then, of course, with the proliferation of Test cricket we have had a number of players who have crossed the 100-mark and even while we await the first person to cross the 200-mark - it could well be Tendulkar - let us salute the little big man for having lasted so long and so gloriously.
Having made a close study of some of the greatest batsmen in the game, I find that a number of them faltered in the evening of their careers. Age is one factor that every sportsman comes up against sooner or later and this is the time when the reflexes become slow, the adrenalin may not flow like the younger days and the old enthusiasm for the game may be lacking. But these age old maxims cannot be applied to Tendulkar who like good wine is getting better with age.
As he said in an interview some time ago "I am enjoying the game. My effort will be to try and keep playing the game and help win matches but the enjoyment factor is extremely important." It certainly is. When a cricketer allows staleness to creep into his play it tells on his performance. Every outing is laboured, every stroke an effort. In Tendulkar's case one can see that on the field of play he still retains a boyish enthusiasm.
Ageless is perhaps the best way to describe Tendulkar' s art and craft. The way in which he takes off for a quick single, is willing to come back for a second and is still able to hold his own in the field despite being surrounded by much younger teammates belies his age.
YASIR BEG
BANGALORE
He is getting better with the age,the answer to his crictics is that a lot is expected from him and he started playing cricket when there was no support for him from the other end in terms of batsmen the rainas and the dhonis came much later.the indian team was totally dependent on him im the 90,s.
He is now the one man show in terms of records in odi,s and tests .He just goes on and on setting records that will probably last forever. It could be dangerous to make such predictions what with the proliferation of international cricket matches, but there is no such risk in sticking one' s neck out where Sachin Tendulkar is concerned. At an age when cricketers at least contemplate retirement - if they have not already called it a day - he is playing some of his finest knocks.
His hunger for success remains undiminished, his appetite for runs and centuries insatiable and he displays the keenness of a teenager just starting out on his career. Seeing him on the field these days, it is difficult to believe that come November, it will be 21 years since he made his Test debut as a curly-haired 16-year-old against Pakistan at Karachi. Tendulkar' s latest record is for once not associated with runs and centuries but with durability. The current Test against Sri Lanka at Colombo is his 169th surpassing Steve Waugh' s mark by one.
well remember Colin Cowdrey being the first cricketer to play 100 Tests way back in 1968 against Australia at Birmingham. That was quite a feat 42 years ago, but since then, of course, with the proliferation of Test cricket we have had a number of players who have crossed the 100-mark and even while we await the first person to cross the 200-mark - it could well be Tendulkar - let us salute the little big man for having lasted so long and so gloriously.
Having made a close study of some of the greatest batsmen in the game, I find that a number of them faltered in the evening of their careers. Age is one factor that every sportsman comes up against sooner or later and this is the time when the reflexes become slow, the adrenalin may not flow like the younger days and the old enthusiasm for the game may be lacking. But these age old maxims cannot be applied to Tendulkar who like good wine is getting better with age.
As he said in an interview some time ago "I am enjoying the game. My effort will be to try and keep playing the game and help win matches but the enjoyment factor is extremely important." It certainly is. When a cricketer allows staleness to creep into his play it tells on his performance. Every outing is laboured, every stroke an effort. In Tendulkar's case one can see that on the field of play he still retains a boyish enthusiasm.
Ageless is perhaps the best way to describe Tendulkar' s art and craft. The way in which he takes off for a quick single, is willing to come back for a second and is still able to hold his own in the field despite being surrounded by much younger teammates belies his age.
YASIR BEG
BANGALORE
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