Sachin Tendulkar

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I was fortunate to have watched him play in a day/night match in the Titan series against Australia in Bangalore, India some 15 years ago. Seeing him and Rahul Dravid at the crease was magical
 
deptfordmarmoset

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Annoying but every time I managed to catch him on telly he failed. It seems weird considering how many runs - was it 16,000 first class or international runs he made? - but I've never seen him make a century. Mind you, every time I watched my home town football team they lost. They should pay me to stay away.

Can't wait till those all night TMS vigils. It's not long now.
 
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Marmion said:
I know. C'mon England!
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We have a fair chance but we can't expect the Aussies to be as weak as the last couple of times. The English batsmen seem to be in very good shape but they've been warming up on good tracks against A-team bowlers. And I'm always nervous when the bowlers have to use the Kookaburra ball. It's looking close. Sleepless night-time on the way.
 
Pale Rider

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As a batsman, Tendulkar didn't inflict too much damage on us.

I've never forgiven the likes of Holding, Garner, and the other West Indian quicks for knocking over our batsmen so quickly and so often.

One supports one's national team through thick and thin, but it was hard work when England were getting wiped up all the time.
 
Pale Rider

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[QUOTE 2773203, member: 1314"]That 80s West Indies side is my fave. India just seem to lack that killer instinct to really dominate over a few years in the way they did.[/quote]

Looking at a few stats, they started coming into their own in the mid/late 70s.

For years the West Indies put out a team with four world class fast bowlers and half-a-dozen world class players elsewhere - Greenidge, Haynes, Viv Richards Kallicharan, Clive Lloyd, to name a few.

I'd put money on that lot giving any side from any era a game.
 
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I've been watching the two-Test series between India and West Indies on TV here (between a bit of sunbathing, stalking beach walking, having a beer or more etc. etc.). West Indies are utter crap at Test cricket now, IMO, BTW.

He is unbelievably popular here, but his popularity comes from him, not being the incredible machine that he is, but his humility, modesty and unassuming
good grace. A rare combination amongst the world's 'super' sports stars.

There have been lots of interesting facts mentioned on the box: one I liked was that the umpire, Richard Kettleborough, was at Yorkshire when Tendulkar was playing there, and used to bowl to him in the nets. Who would have thought 20 years later....!
 
vernon

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I read something in the Telegraph this weekend that places Sachin Tendulkar quite a way down, 29th on the list of greatest batsmen. On all scales quantitive and qualitative, apart from scoring scoring the most runs in a career, he doesn't make the top ten. I'm not rubbishing him it just seems that there's a load of hype out there.

Anyway back to something more interesting: sorting my plucked nasal hair collection into black, grey and ginger.
 
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vernon said:
I read something in the Telegraph this weekend that places Sachin Tendulkar quite a way down, 29th on the list of greatest batsmen. On all scales quantitive and qualitative, apart from scoring scoring the most runs in a career, he doesn't make the top ten. I'm not rubbishing him it just seems that there's a load of hype out there.

Anyway back to something more interesting: sorting my plucked nasal hair collection into black, grey and ginger.
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the only thing he hasnt done is score a triple hundred, shame that someone of that quality never did, apart from that his records are fantastic, averaging over 50 for 200 test matches1
 
david k

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deptfordmarmoset said:
Annoying but every time I managed to catch him on telly he failed. It seems weird considering how many runs - was it 16,000 first class or international runs he made? - but I've never seen him make a century. Mind you, every time I watched my home town football team they lost. They should pay me to stay away.

Can't wait till those all night TMS vigils. It's not long now.
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