Sachin (God) rewrites history. Makes a double century in ODI

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The God of Indian Cricket has broken the record for most runs scored in an inng. in ODI...

Tendlya


200*





After 40 years of one-day international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar rewrote history by breaking the 200-run barrier on a day when batting records and the South African bowlers took a beating, in Gwalior. When he turned Wayne Parnell to square leg for two in the 46th over, Tendulkar eclipsed Saeed Anwar and Charles Coventry's record for the highest individual score of 194, but his muted reaction on reaching that milestone confirmed that he had his sights set on a bigger accomplishment.

It was that kind of day - the way Tendulkar started gave the impression that he was in the zone. Virender Sehwag perished early, but Dinesh Karthik settled into the support role perfectly. Karthik brought up his personal best, and helped Tendulkar add 194 for the second wicket, before Yusuf Pathan and MS Dhoni played destructive cameos to torment the visitors. Dhoni brought up his 50 off 28 balls with a violent hoick over long off in the penultimate over, with Tendulkar still one run away from the 200, but the special moment came in the final over of the innings from Charl Langeveldt.




Saeed anwar ka kalank mit gaya. And i was waiting for this day from years and years. Now i can die peacefully.

[sejal]

@@ Ganesh.. Kalank ... ... .. itna kya bura kiya hai Saeed Anwar ne ..
But I would agree with u.. i too was waiting for this day for years.. and was really happy that Sachin broke the record and also made the history with his 200. No one else deserved more than him...
Also waiting for years now for Lara's record (400*) to break.. ( i m sure this is definately not kalank ... i think Viru is the only batsman currently playing.. who can break this record.. i hope this day come soon too..

[Mahi_is_the_best]

I want to congratulate our Sachin Tendulkar for writing a history yet again. Keep it up, you make us Indians feel so proud, I am soooooooooooooooooo happy...gud luck in breaking many more records and setting records

[ganesh177]

@@ Ganesh.. Kalank ... ... .. itna kya bura kiya hai Saeed Anwar ne ..
But I would agree with u.. i too was waiting for this day for years.. and was really happy that Sachin broke the record and also made the history with his 200. No one else deserved more than him...
Also waiting for years now for Lara's record (400*) to break.. ( i m sure this is definately not kalank ... i think Viru is the only batsman currently playing.. who can break this record.. i hope this day come soon too..

You see, its a double fun for that reason that a pakistani record is broken.

I agree with you , that its sehwag who is more probable for 400.

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World congratulates Sachin


As Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in the history of the game to score 200 runs in an ODI innings during the second one-dayer against South Africa in Gwalior, praises pour in from all corners from the world for the Master Blaster.

"Yes yes yes !!!!!! Well done Sachin my friend ... congrats and well done !!!!! awesome .Glad I'm not bowling to him today," Australian spin legend Shane Warne tweeted.

"My heartiest congratulations to Sachin the worlds greatest sportsman. We can see him only rise. He is the best," IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi posted on Twitter account.

"Sachin Tendulkar has yet again re-written the record books of cricket, by climbing yet another Mt Everest of the game," President Pratibha Patil said in a message.

She said in setting a new benchmark for the highest score by a batsman in One-Day Internationals as well as in notching up a double century, "the master batsman has set stiff targets" for future generation of cricketers to break.

"It's a magnificent achievement. Sachin has led by example and that all Indians are proud of his achievement," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.

"We all are proud of Sachin, who played a marvellous inning today against South Africa. Further, we are confident that he will continue to make world records. His innings will be remembered for all time to come," Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit said.

"For any cricketer he is the perfect role model. The great thing about him is that he has been outstanding in both Tests and ODIs. As a Pakistani player, I know how much value we have always put on his wicket," right-handed batsman Shoaib Malik said.

"Records are there to be broken but it makes you happy when someone like Tendulkar does it. I think he thoroughly deserves this record and many more in days to come," Javed Miandad said

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Sachin wins NDTV's Sports Icon of the Year Award

On the day Master blaster become the first batsman in ODI history to make 200 runs, Sachin Tendulkar was also declared Sports Icon of the Year at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards.

http://www.ndtv.com/news/videos/video_p ... id=1204378

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New Delhi: Just a day after #awesomeindianthings became the top trended tag on Twitter, Sachin Tendulkar re-wrote the record books not only on the field but on the social networking site. As many as three tags pertaining to Sachin?s double ton - #Sachin Tendulkar, #Sachinisgod (Sachin is god) and #Sachin. ? are trending in the top ten list, making him the only Indian to achieve this status.

Evoking love for the game and patriotism, Twitter is flooding with tweets about the Master Blaster?s brilliance in today?s innings.

Here are some of the user tweets expressing their love to the Master Blaster.

"Sachin can make 300"

"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting, it will go unnoticed, coz even god is watching him play"

"Sachin is greater than anything, thank god we are in Sachin's era!"

"200 not out a Hall of fame award in itself. Cheer for sachin tendulkar and his greatness"

"Privileged to live in this world when the GOD has incarnated."

Even the Bollywood Twitteratti comes out in strength to show their love for the master.

The Rang De Basanti star Kunal Kapoor says: "I finally know what god really looks like!! He is about 5"5, Maharashtrian and plays cricket!! Tendulkar bapa moraya"

Abhishek Bachchan: "You make us proud SACHIN!" and "SACHIN. Master, idol, LEGEND!!! Congratulations!!! What an innings."

Karan Johar: "His name is TENDULKAR and he is a LEGEND!!!"

IPL Chief Lalit Modi writes: "My heartiest congratulations to Sachin the worlds greatest sportsman. We can see him only rise. Inspiration to us all. He is the best, I salute Sachin"


Austrailian ace, Sachin's good friend Shane Warne tweets: "nervous for my good friend Sachin everything crossed for you mate!!!! P.S. glad I'm not bowling to him today hahaha"

Sagarika Ghose of CNN-IBN tweets: "Bharat Ratna for Sachin tendulkar!"

Twitterolics are doing all they can to show their love for the player and deservingly so! Sachin is the best Cricket has ever had, and so agrees the Twittererverse.

[jaan07]

wow ganesh, u have gone crazy...lol..but its a great news...n also bcoz, my frnd, who never ever cares for cricket, told me this news..n we were making fun of her, tht tell us the individual player's score, n not the whole teams'...lol...but Sachin, truly deserves it..n tht too against South Africa, not against Bangladesh or Zimbabwe or other weak teams...n ya it feels great to beat Pakistan...lol...

[ganesh177]

wow ganesh, u have gone crazy...lol..but its a great news...

Today is the day we grew up watching sachin create a Milestone i'll only see once in my lifetime. Cricket wont be the same without him..
My Man , My idol, my hero.. Thiss is bigger then huge... 200* ..are you kidding me.

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Surrender to Tendulkar
http://cricket.ndtv.com/blogdetail/ndtv ... ulkar.html

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Factbox on Sachin Tendulkar

India's Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score 200 runs in one-day internationals on Wednesday in the second ODI against South Africa in Gwalior, India.

The 36-year-old former India captain earlier in the day broke the world record for the highest individual score of 194 by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry on his way to 200 not out off 147 balls with 25 fours and three sixes.

Here are six facts about one of the all-time greatest batsmen and the face of Indian cricket for over two decades.

* A teenage prodigy, Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai and made his Test debut against Pakistan as a curly-haired 16-year-old, becoming the youngest Indian Test player. A year later, he hit his maiden Test hundred in England.

* Tendulkar holds a number of batting records, including the aggregate one-day runs (17,598) and centuries (46). He also holds the record for most Test hundreds (47).

* He had two unsuccessful terms as India captain, the first aged 23 in 1996 before being axed 17 months later after his batting suffered. He was reappointed in 1999, but stood down after a 3-0 Test series rout in Australia the following year.

* Tendulkar was named player of the 2003 World Cup, scoring a record 673 runs to help India reach the final, where they lost to Australia. The next year, he equalled compatriot Sunil Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test hundreds while compiling 248 not out, his highest score, in Australia.

* Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.

* Surpassed West Indies' Brian Lara as the highest Test run-scorer in 2008. Lara had scored 11,953 runs before he retired from international cricket in 2007. Tendulkar has scored 13,447 Test runs.

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Matt Hayden:
"I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India"

Peter Roebuck
"On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!"

Dennis Lillee
If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

Glenn McGrath
I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara.

Brain Lara
Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.

Sir Don Bradman
I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.

Andy Flower:
"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others."

Allan Donald:
"Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has
many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the
world"

Sunil Gavaskar
India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

Richie Benaud
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

Geoffrey Boycott
Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem.

Greg Chappell
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.

Shane Warne
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

Viv Richards on Sachin Tendulkar
I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar
Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.


Navjot Singh Sidhu:
"India me aap Prime Minister ko ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin
Tendulkar par Ungli nahi utha Sakte.."

Barry Richards
Sachin is cricket's God!

Ian Chappell
Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

Anil Kumble
"I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets!"

Andrew Symonds
"To Sachin, the man we all want to be"
What Symonds wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.

Mark Taylor:
"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin" -Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)

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Tendulkar better than Bradman: Hussain

Former England captain Nasser Hussain is convinced that Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman the game has ever seen, better than even the iconic Don Bradman.

"I have never liked comparisons between great players, but after Wednesday's incredible game it must be said -- Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman of all time," Hussain wrote in his column for 'The Daily Mail'.

Tendulkar became the first batsman to crack a double century in the four-decade-long history of One-day cricket against South Africa on Wednesday and Hussain felt that should settle the debate on who is the greatest batsman ever.

"Better than Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting, the other two great players of my era. Better than Sir Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border. And I would even say better than Sir Don Bradman himself," wrote the Chennai-born English cricketer of Indian origin.

Hussain said Tendulkar has somehow managed to retain his early enthusiasm even after two decades of international cricket which he found incredible.

"I played against Tendulkar on my first England tour, the Nehru Cup in India in 1989, and I could still see that excited boy in big pads in Gwalior," said Hussain, who once resorted to negative tactics and asked spinner Ashley Giles to bowl way outside off-stumps to curb the Indian," he said.

"That extraordinary drive and enthusiasm are what make Tendulkar so special. He has been playing international cricket for 20 years under the intense scrutiny being an Indian superstar brings, so it is remarkable he still loves holding a bat as much as ever," Hussain said.

Looking at Tendulkar's illustrious career, Hussain said guiding the Indian team to 2011 World Cup victory with his broad bat would perhaps give a sense of fulfilment.

"What else is left for Tendulkar now? Well, it is sometimes said that he has not played enough match-winning innings on the really big occasion for India.

"What better, then, than to score a hundred in the World Cup final against Australia -- or maybe even England -- on home soil this time next year," he said.

"That would be the full stop that would enable Tendulkar to ride off into the sunset with everything achieved in his career," said the Englishman.

Doffing his hat to Tendulkar and referring to maverick soccer coach Jose Maurinho's famous moniker, Hussain said, "My admiration for him is total. To steal the nickname of a certain football coach who led Inter Milan against Chelsea on Wednesday, Sachin Tendulkar truly is The Special One."

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