“The
GOD of Cricket” Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Sachin
Tendulkar
Nick
Name: Little Master, Master Blaster.
CRICKET: Cricket is a game, which is played
with a bat and ball. There will be two teams of 11 members each. Both the teams
have a turn for batting and fielding. While one team is fielding and bowling
the other team bats. From the batting team there will be two players in the
field with the bat and the opposition team all the 11 members will be in the
field among which one player will bowl to the batsman from the opposition.
And SACHIN
RAMESH TENTULKAR born on 24-April-1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra (INDIA) is known
as the” LEGEND OF THE CRICKET” and also known as the “GOD OF CRICKET”. There is
a famous quote among the cricket lovers and it is told, “If Cricket is our
religion then SACHIN is our GOD”. From the above statement it explains how
powerful this name in cricket is.
He first started to represent the Indian National Team at the Age of 16.
Since then he did not have to look back in his career. Between the years 1992
to 2002 there was a time in Indian Cricket team if Sachin Tendulkar is out the
team will never win.
Tendulkar’s during his performance between the years 1994-1999 is told
to be the peak in his career that was in his early twenties. His first ODI
century was scored on 9-september 1994 against the Australian team and the
venue was at Sri Lanka (Colombo) that was his 79’Th international cricket ODI.
He then continued to the leading runs scorer every year since then. In the 1996
world cup he was also the leading runs scorer. He scores 2 centuries in the
world cup. Although the Indian team could not make it after the Semi Finals his
performance in that world cup semi finals was remarkable.
Tendulkar’s career at the Sharjah cricket stadium is unforgettable by
any cricket lovers of that time. It was in 1998 in Sharjah cricket stadium he
started become one of the leading batsman in the world. That was the he
destroyed the world’s best spin bowler Shane Warn of Australia.
There was only one tenure in cricket where he was not quite successful
and that was being a captain. As a captain tendulkar did not succeed in the
cricket. He first became the captain of the team in the year 1996. There was a
huge expectation from the cricket fans of him as a captain. But due to the poor performance in the
Australian tour they beat the Indians by 3-0. Thus the team management decided
him as a failure as a captain. And after that he just remained as the integral
part of the Indian team’s strategic process.
In the 2003 world cup he scored 673 runs in 11 matches and he was chosen
to be the best player of the tournament and after that he remained as the best
player of the year in the ICC ranking for 4 consecutive years.
During his peak time of his career there was a back injury that had made
him step back from his well-known sixers. Every time tendulkar bats his sixer's
was the best part of his games. But after the back injury his doctor advised
him not to play the shots of those types hence the end of the sixer era of
tendulkar started. But still that did not stop him from creating records in the
cricket. There is no records as a bat’s man in not in the name of Sachin
tendulkar. And also it is told that there is nothing else as a batsman that is
left for him to achieve. It was his greatest dream to win a world cup before he
retires from the game and finally that moment to came on his way. And by that victory
of the world cup 2011 he has become a player of a life time and it is told that
there is no one else will be born in cricket to do things that sachin tendulkar
has done. He is simply become the untouchable in the cricket. Every best bowler
at his time would fear to bowl to him. He used to destroy every best bowler.
The best bowler after he bowls to Sachin he is no more the best bowler. There
are several bowlers who lost their careers just because Sachin tampered them to
the worst by his bat. And some of the bowlers are Shane Warn (AUSTRALIA), Shoib
Akther (Pakistan), Paul Strang (Zimbabwe), Henry Olanga (Zimbabwe),
Muralidharan (Srilanka), Wasim Akram (Pakistan), Waqar Younis (Pakistan) many
more.
Sachin is the first cricketer in the history of the cricket to score a
200 runs in the International cricket history.
After sachin there were a couple of them who broke that record. But it
seems like that so many great players like Vivian Richards, Brain Lara, Steve
Wauge, Clive Loide, Saeed Anwar, Saeed Afridi, Sanat Jayasurya and so on so
many great players would have wished to reach that mark. But none could reach
that mark. It is like that great record was meant for sachin Tendulkar. And not
only that there are more such records which sachin tendulkar has made in his
life span of the cricket career and althose records that he created was like
just meant only for him. And some of his unbeatable records that he has made in
the cricket history are as follows.
Retirement
Following
poor performance in the 2012 series against England, Tendulkar announced his
retirement from One Day
Internationals
on 23 December 2012, while noting that he will be available for Test cricket.
In response to the news, former India captain Sourav Ganguly noted that Tendulkar could have played the up-coming
series against Pakistan, while Anil Kumble said it would be "tough to see an Indian (ODI)
team list without Tendulkar's name in it", and Javagal Srinath mentioned
that Tendulkar "changed the way ODIs were played right from the time he
opened in New Zealand in 1994".
After
playing his lone Twenty20
International
in 2006 against South Africa, he stated that he would not play T20
Internationals
any more. He announced his retirement from IPL after his team Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super
Kings by 23
runs at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on 26 May to win the Pepsi Indian
Premier League 2013. He retired from Twenty20 cricket and limited-overs cricket, after
playing the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 in September–October 2013 in India for Mumbai
Indians.
On
10 October 2013 Tendulkar announced that he would retire from all cricket after
the two-Test series against West Indies in November. Later the BCCI confirmed
that the two matches will be played at Kolkata and Mumbai, making the farewell
happen at his home ground on Tendulkar's request. He scored 74 runs in his last
Test innings against West Indies, thus failing short by 79 runs to complete
16,000 runs in Test cricket. The Cricket
Association of Bengal and the Mumbai Cricket Association organized events to mark his
retirement from the sport. Various national and international figures from
cricket, politics, Bollywood and other fields spoke about him in a daylong
Salaam Sachin Conclave organised by India Today.
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