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Sachin Tendulkar Dancing Rare Photos Essay
Sachin Tendulkar as a Toddler. Batsman in The Making. 
Sachin with his close childhood Friend Vinod kambli 
Sachin with Vivian Richards, The Original Blaster, 
Sachin with his ‘Sir’, Sunil Gavskar 
Sachin and .’dada’ Ganguly as Youngsters 
Dancing with Ms.Ambani 
Sachin Plays Tennis. 
Gavaskar Teaching Sachin. 
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Indian Cricket Team,What is there to Rotate?
Image via Wikipedia There have been funny sound bites in the electronic media and reams of print material in the print Media on the Rotating Policy ,purported to be followed by the Indian Captain MS.Dhoni,in the wake of defeats in the ODI series(till 26 February) ,T20(one match) and a draw in Test Match series.
Senior Players must be rested(by age or their seniority in the Team-none is clear).
Of the Big Three,Sehwag,Sachin and Gambhir( I am surprised that Gambir has suddenly become a Senior (till a couple of months back he was fighting for a place in the team to such an extent even Shikar Dhawan was considered!)
Sachin must not be asked to rest( another euphemism for dropping).
No Sachin is over the hill,he must gracefully retire but BCCI must not tell him, Sachin must decide by himself-Gem from Ganguly.
If one is fit enough to be dropped he must not be told and he will decide!
Ravi Shastri,after whom the infamous ‘Chappathi shot ‘ is named says Sachin must call it a day as he is not performing-people forget they eulogized him till about a couple of moths ago when he scored heavily in 2011 and retracts the next Day Sachin is not to disturbed.
Then a clamour for inducting youngsters like Rohit Sharma– I do not know how long will they be calling him that,Ravindra Jadeja,Virat Kohli,Manoj Tiwari,, Umesh Yadav, R Vinay Kumar, Rahul Sharma, R Ashwin.
Of the lot all of them have been tried except Manoj Tiwary and Rahul Sharma.
Rahul Sharma is injured.
Of the lot, Virat Kohli, who in my opinion is no longer a ‘fringe player’,Vinay Kumar, and Umesh Yadav have performed well.
Irfan Pathan and Praveen Kumar have performed .
Ashwin has along way to go with his carom ball-people had stated that he is the replacement for Harbhajan Singh, a veteran!
Ravindra Jadeja has been good in patches.
Sachin is through a bad patch,Sehwag is Sehwag,as Dhont once put it he is worth a gamble who can win you a match single-handedly).
Zaheer Khan has not shown anything at all excepting the fact that the commentators have been saying what a great bowler he is and what a Senior Bowler who herds the bowlers.
Raina has been inconsistent and needs to be dropped.
Gambir has performed exceptionally well.
MSD has single handedly won two matches.
So, Dhoni has tried best all his combinations barring Manoj Tiwary.Probably, he will in the next match.
You can have only 11 men at a time.
We have tried all the much touted ‘bench strength’ excepting those mentioned above, others are fit only to warm the bench.
Rohit Sharma is going to be another Agit Agarkar, who is a good potential after n number of matches!Why not recall Ajit Agarkar!?
Who else we have?Ajinkya Rahane,Munaf Patel,Sreesanth , M.Vijay,Badrinath and Shikar Dhawan.
Munaf Parel at best is inconsistent and when he is fielding you have to remind him the ball passing by him is actually meant for him and he is supposed to stop it.
Rahane needs some more time to show consistency and temperament for the Big stage.
Murali Vijay may be tried, but at what spot? May be we could try him in place of Sehwag for some time and see how he develops.
Badrinath may be given a chance in place of Suresh Raina.
Sree Santh is better left for dramatics and he creates more problems on areas other than Cricket and you do not a donor at the death overs.
In effect these are the changes one may contemplate and one is not sure whether they can fit the bill completely.
This is the State of the Bench Strength.
Well, you might want to rotate, but what do you rotate?
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MS Dhoni reminds me of Hansie: Allan Donald.
Hope the comparison ends here!
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South Africa would be reasonably happy with their performance in the third game at Ahmedabad, but the series loss would be an obvious bitter pill to swallow for the team and the management.The one area that both sides will need to work on, however, is their bowling department. Of course, the pitches in the ODIs were suited to the willow-wielders. However, shorn of penetration right throughout both, the Test and the ODI series — barring a spell or two — the two teams have a task on their hand for the future to begin serious work on the skill factor.
MS Dhoni’s calm demeanour has been the one striking features
right throughout the tour and his captaincy reminds me a lot of Hansie Cronje.On a very rare occasion or two have I found Dhoni with a frown on his face, and I quite like what I see. From the distance, it also looks like he has been doing most things right and goes about his business in a no-nonsense manner, apart from the fact that he commands the respect of all his players.
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Sehwag ‘cricketer of the decade’
Sehwag has defined batting as an Art and Science;art in his grace despite being brutal,science with out appearing to be deliberate.More important he enjoys hitting the ball not bothering about his scores as he has stated’ball is there to be hit’.
Comparison with Tendulkar is not correct.Both belong to different classes as Richards and Gavaskar.
NEW DELHI: Even as fans in the city gear up to watch Virender Sehwag in action on home ground on Sunday, international accolades keep pouring inDay in Pics: December 26
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for the modern-day great. Days after noted columnist Peter Roebuck featured him in his star XI of the year, calling him “a great batsman” , “impudent but rarely imprudent” and “among the most devastating openers the game has ever known”, Britain’s Daily Telegraph, known for its sports coverage, has anointed him the ‘cricketer of the decade’.Former England player Derek Pringle, while justifying the decision, has written: “Dashing openers have always been with us… but nobody has managed to do it with the audacity and frequency of Sehwag. Two triple and four double hundreds in a 72-Test career is a weighty achievement for one who bats as if needing to catch the last plane out of Kabul.”
Pringle goes on to add: “To many, the choice will appear controversial. Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan, Jacques Kallis, Sachin Tendulkar, have all excelled over the past 10 years. They all announced their brilliance in the 90s, so were discounted.”
Describing Sehwag’s breathtaking shot-making, Pringle says: “There is a high-risk element to his shot-making… and yet there is an appetite for runs at odds with the thrill-seeker in him that chases boundaries. When he first appeared, bowlers consoled themselves that while humiliation was likely, it would be brief. They cannot bank on that now as age and experience have sharpened his judgment to the point that a hundred no longer sates him.
“Like many of the great ball strikers, he scarcely moves his feet when he bats, relying on the kind of hand-eye coordination that raptors would be proud of. For bowlers… Sehwag is the bogeyman who brings nightmares.”
Comparing him to another Indian great, Tendulkar, Pringle concludes that “Sehwag has been, by far, the more enriching. He should be better known than he is, even in India, but for the monopoly of Tendulkar”.
Pringle makes it clear in his article that he has not gone purely by statistics to find his player of the decade. “Statisticians and the government policy-makers trust figures, wise men, facts, but I’m going to apply another measure: that of redefining the role they play, something Virender Sehwag has done for opening the batting in Test matches,” he writes.
Another interesting bit is the former England medium-pacer’s description of Sehwag’s personality and how he makes the bowlers fear him. “Not much taller than Tendulkar’s 5ft 5in, Sehwag, now 31, is nondescript, a short, balding roly-poly man, who could be running a Delhi shoe shop. It is only when he swings his bat and the ball rockets past cover to the boundary that his aura is transformed into a Viv Richards-like menace and bowlers begin to tremble.”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/top-stories/Sehwag-cricketer-of-the-decade/articleshow/5382800.cms
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