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Yet another one from Dhanush– has signed Hindi films and now this.
Truly his stars are on the rise.
“The much hyped anthem that southern star Dhanush sang for cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was mysteriously removed from YouTube on Friday morning only to find its way back on the website a few hours later.
On Friday, a disappointed Dhanush, whose song ‘Kolaveri Di’ became an overnight success, tweeted, “Sad dat sum1 removed sachin song link.v worked so hard 4 a week wout a mins sleep … The song had 4,80,000 views within 24 hrs (sic).”
The song was offered to the southern star by an energy drink company, which the Master Blaster is a brand ambassador of.
Unlike Dhanush’s earlier song ‘Kolaveri Di, which went viral instantly, this song did not get that good a response. In fact, many of Tendulkar’s fans disliked the song and tweeted against it.
Talking about the song, dedicated to the ‘darling of masses’ Tendulkar Dhanush had told HT Cafe: “I have always respected Sachin for his dedication to the game and it is amazing to see how it’s kept him going.”
Perhaps, Dhanush’s earlier tweet did the trick as YouTube instantly got to work and uploaded the video again. The excited actor then tweeted, “The video is back on you tube guys.thanks to youtube reps who imm looked into d issue and sorted it out 🙂 GOD BLESS(sic)”.
Sunil Gavaskar made an interesting observation during fourth day’s play of the test between India and Australia about Sachin‘s Bat.
The bat which he has been using in the test has brought him 13 centuries.It looked weather-beaten and had tape around the shoulder of the blade.
As they say the man behind the camera is important in photography,so is Sachin with his bat.
The same bat has been used today(19/2/2011) against Bangla Desh in the First Match of th World Cup 2o11 by Sachin.
Gavaskar mentioned it in passing.
Incidentally India won the match by 87 Runs.
Sachin got out for an ill judged run
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The Indian megastar makes scoring runs so easy – and the reason for that is his technique.
The man’s a walking textbook – if you want to know how to play the ideal straight drive, just watch him in action.
His dead-straight bat is raised for a second or two as the ball rushes to the boundary, showing the bowler the maker’s name of the bat.
Because of his small size, Sachin has incredible balance which means he’s equally comfortable playing off his front or back foot and around his legs.
And unlike most batsman, Sachin has a low grip on the bat, which means his bottom hand controls most of his shots, especially the cut and leg glance.
Most coaches would have nightmares about this, but it doesn’t worry Sachin one little bit.
Because he has very flexible wrists, he can place and control his shots exactly how he wants them.
The huge lump of wood to whack the bowlers to all parts of the boundary also helps too.
Sachin’s bat weighs almost three-and-half pounds (1.42 kg), probably the heaviest used by a batsman in world cricket.
His low grip, along with his heavy bat, help him create incredible power for his drives, cuts and glances.
At times it’s virtually impossible to bowl at him, not the best if you’re the fielding side.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/features/newsid_3883000/3883033.stm
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 in
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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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