Sachin Tendulkar did not get his 100th ton on Sunday but even his early dismissal was evidence of the integrity with which he has played the game for over two decades.
Against the West Indies on Sunday, Sachin decided to walk off despite being given not out by Australian umpire Steve Davies.
When on-field umpire Marias Erasmus gave the Australian captain not out, the decision was reviewed and overturned.
Ponting admitted he knew he had edged the ball but said he had always waited for the umpire’s decision all through his career.
“There were no doubts about the nick, I knew I hit it, but as always I wait for the umpire to give me out. That’s the way I’ve always played the game,” he said.
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Despite standing on the threshold of history, Sachin Tendulkar seemed unfazed by the media attention and the anticipation around his 50th Test century.
“I believe it is destiny. When it is destined to happen it will happen. I am not thinking too much about it. My focus is on preparation,” Tendulkar said.
Tendulkar, however, preferred to focus on the match and not personal landmarks.
“For me one thing is very important and that is to get acclimatised to local weather conditions,” he said. “Preparations have been spot on and the lengthy practice session has given us that opportunity (to get acclimatised). “We have had good net sessions under the guidance of coach Gary (Kirsten),” he said.
The Indian master blaster, Sachin Tendulkar gets another feather of praise and honor added to his cap as the great player of West Indies, Brian Lara described the Indian batting legend as the “Don Bradman of modern era”, but he refused to compare the two icons of the different eras.
Talking about Tendulkar and his excellence in batting, the Caribbean batsman who is equally famous for his record score states that what astonishes him about Sachin is his longevity and attachment to the game. Lara says, “I don’t think that there is any competition between the two legendary players. Both are great in their own skill with love for the game. Tendulkar has proved to the world his capability and longevity in the game which is definitely praiseworthy.”
“The longer time Sachin stays in the game, he is going to tumble more records. The fact that a player can perform brilliantly from the age of 16 till date at the age of 37 is something to cherish and admire than anything else” says Lara. He also says that Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar should not be compared as they played in different eras. According to him, “Sachin Tendulkar is the Don Bradman of our period.”
Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Watch the video by following the link. Four days after Haiti‘s massive earthquake, efforts are under way to bury the dead as thousands of bodies crumpled in the streets of Port-au-Prince lay exposed to the sun or draped in sheets and cardboard.
Throughout the city, people covered their noses from the stench and some resorted to face masks. CNN correspondents in Haiti reported efforts to remove the bodies, including the creation of a mass grave. It’s still unclear how many people have been killed in Tuesday’s earthquake; the prime minister suggested there could be several hundreds of thousands.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper, reporting Friday from a mass grave on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, described seeing hundreds of bodies mixed with garbage in open pits. Some bodies were bulldozed into the half-filled pits.
“These people will vanish,” Cooper said in a phone report. “No one will know what happened to them. That’s one of the many horrors.
“There’s no system in place here. Literally these people here are being collected off the streets, dumped into a dump truck, then brought out here and dumped in the pits,” he said.
The fear of disease is frequently the reason for rapidly burying bodies in mass graves. But contrary to popular belief, bodies do not cause epidemics after natural disasters, experts said. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/14/haiti.mass.fatalities.bodies/index.html
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