Some unknown records of sachin
Well, there are one hundered posts about the records and achievements of sachin tendulkar. I will try to enlist, those records which are less known to everyone.
1) It is a well known fact that sachin has scored the most number of runs in a single calender year in 1998, and that is 1894 runs. But in that year he created new records.
a) He became to player to hit maximum number of sixes in a single year. and that is 40. It is not jayasurya, afridi, ganguly or hayden. the record holder for maximum sixes hit in a calender year belongs to sachin.
b) He is the master of boundaries, so it comes without saying that he hit the maximum number of 4s as well. the total number of 4s hit by him that year was 188 and still it is the highest, nobody can even come close to it.
c) This is a special record, amongst the top 35 players with the highest run aggregate in a year the only person to finish the year with 100+ strike rate is sachin. he scored his 1894 runs at a strikerate of 102.15
d)he holds the maximum number of centuries against one particular country in odis. The record is 8 centuries against aussies. Welll who is his nearest competitor? himself. The second on the list is 7 centuries against srilanka, which is again held by sachin
he holds the record for scoring maximum number of centuries against different oppositions.
Against australia he has 8 - which is the highest by any batsman
Against srilanka he has 7 - again highest by any batsman
Against pakisthan he has 5 - again the highest by any batsman (there are also 5 more 90s against them)
Against zimbabwe - 5
Agaist kenya - 4
He is the only batsman in the world to score 4 or more consecutive 50s on maximum number of occasions
he has done it thrice
5 fifty plus scores in a row
62 1 India v New Zealand Delhi 3 Nov 1994 ODI # 944
66 1 India v West Indies Kolkata 5 Nov 1994 ODI # 947
54 1 India v West Indies Visakhapatnam 7 Nov 1994 ODI # 949
88 2 India v West Indies Cuttack 9 Nov 1994 ODI # 950
105 1 India v West Indies Jaipur 11 Nov 1994 ODI # 951
4 fiftly plus scores in a row (during 96 world cup)
127* 2 India v Kenya Cuttack 18 Feb 1996 ODI # 1052
70 2 India v West Indies Gwalior 21 Feb 1996 ODI # 1056
90 2 India v Australia Mumbai 27 Feb 1996 ODI # 1065
137 1 India v Sri Lanka Delhi 2 Mar 1996 ODI # 1070
4 fifty plus scores in a row (during 2003 world cup)
81 1 India v Zimbabwe Harare 19 Feb 2003 ODI # 1957
152 1 India v Namibia Pietermaritzburg 23 Feb 2003 ODI # 1964
50 1 India v England Durban 26 Feb 2003 ODI # 1969
98 2 India v Pakistan Centurion 1 Mar 2003 ODI # 1975
Sachin’s Chennai ton a scriptwriter’s dream: Flint
London: England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has compared master blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s match winning century at Chennai to a scriptwriter’s dream.
Tendulkar played one of his finest innings to take his side to a remarkable six-wicket victory, The Independent reported.
In an exclusive interview, Flintoff told Angus Fraser: "It is impossible not to admire him (Tendulkar) when you are out in the middle. He is a class player and a great role model for the game."
"His innings was a scriptwriter's dream. The lad from Mumbai, with everything that has happened there, scores a hundred to win and then dedicates it to everyone in the country. Thinking about it, it was probably inevitable it happened," Flintoff said.
The English all rounder said that playing against Tendulkar brings the best out of you in a lot of ways.
"The worrying thing for us is that he was getting better towards the end of that innings. You could see in the way he was playing he was back to his best."
"I enjoy bowling at him, as I did at the likes of Brian Lara. I think they bring the best out of you. Your margins for error are small, you have to bowl well to restrict them, never mind get them out," Flintoff added.
Tendulkar is a hero of Flintoff and it is the prospect of playing in the same team as the Little Master that makes the Lancastrian want to play for the Mumbai Indians, should an IPL contract come his way, the paper said.
sachin is egoless,gracious god:: british media
Sachin Tendulkar is god to billion Indians but he is a "gracious god" who lifts his people out of the pit of despair in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks, a leading British newspaper said, paying tribute to the champion batsman who has "not a scrap of ego".
Tendulkar offered balm to a country which was devastated by terror attacks in its finacial capital yet he remained a modest god, according to a write-up in 'Daily Telegraph'
"He (Tendulkar) is an unlikely-looking god. He stands there in the middle dwarfed by the gigantic Andrew Flintoff and the strapping Yuvraj Singh, a boy-like figure with a cherubic face whose Michelin man-style pads come half way up his thigh," Simon Hughes wrote.
"The poor Indian lifts his hands to Sachin Tendulkar in supplication; Give us respite, a sense of liberation; lift us up from the dark pit of our lives to well-lit places of the imagination with your skill-wrought perfection. He has not a scrap of ego. He is a gracious god. We will never see his like again".
The writer said that Tendulkar never shirked his enormous responsibility and spent considerable time preparing for a game.
"Tendulkar never shirks this enormous responsibility. He spends almost every waking hour seeking that perfection, practising, planning, preparing. He rings his brother, the man who knows his game best, every day, talking bowlers and bat angles and shot selection. He looks at the pitch and contemplates how he will make runs on it. He is thankful of his talent and dutifully delivers it to his public, the majority of whom have nothing," Hughes wrote.
A self-effacing man who keeps his emotions private, Tendulkar's inner urge to express the hurt caused to him by the audacious terror attack at the city he was born and brought up led him to dedicate his century in Chennai to the people of Mumbai and India, but he admits it was not his nature to play the role of a statesman too often.
"Sometimes I do it, but it is not my way," Tendulkar was quoted as saying by the newspaper
Tendulkar lives in Bandra, in the north of Mumbai, Bollywoodville. But he often goes south to Colaba with family and friends, to eat in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel or the Oberoi.
"The Mumbai attacks were close to home and affected him deeply. The England players remarked on his extra patience and intensity at the crease. This time he was doubly determined to lift his people out of their pit," the article said.
Tendulkar wields a heavy bat unusual for his small frame, but he says he would not be the same batsman without his willow.
"I like a bow in it. I can't bat with anything else. I would not feel right at the crease," the master batsman said.
courtesy:
http://cricket.ndtv.com/cricket/ndtvcricket/enginind08/news_story.aspx?ID=SPOEN20080077102&Keyword=news