He is clearly struggling. He works very hard for his runs( with his talent he will always score good runs if he plays it very safe). Considering the way he has dominated bowlers all over world in past, this really looks pathetic. Look at the 99 he scored today. He took 143 balls and when he got out it was 45th over. In past he used to get his 100 usually before 40th over( around 35th most of the time).
I know many of you will come back and say that 2 wicket was down he stabilized the inning and still produced 99. My point is that .He was in this situation before also but has never played like this. Under the same condition Dravid played much faster than him today.
Tendu was the MAN OF THE SERIES in BD....yet the hard truth is HE TOTALLY SUCKED. He was playing Mortaza and Mohd Sharif as if they were McGraths. His manner of run scoring was painful and distresing to watch. There was absolutely no pressure on him (India were like 400 for No Loss - 2 openers having retired hurt) and there was nothing in the wicket...yet he took gazillion overs to score his century.
And the morons at the BCCI rewarded him by recalling him even for the ODIs.
Today the headline on cricinfo says - Tendulkar's 99 in vain - as if it was such a heroic innings....in fact he might have actually contributed to India's defeat by scoring so slowly.
Aside from this topic, one other thing I don't quite understand is why is Zaheer Khan's big-hitting skills so under-estimated. I have seen him hitting even reputed bowlers for some big ones....yet when there was only a couple of overs remaining in today's match, they decided to send Chawla and Powar to bat instead. We saw in the end...how much a few more runs would have been worth.
^^ from what i heard about today's game was that it was not played on the best of the wickets...and batting was not that easy either....Yeah Sachin is not same as he was and i am sure more than any one else(specially people passing judgement here and on other forums) its Himself who has realized the fact about his demise....the way i look at Sachin's inning today is, Yeah he didnt score runs in manner he used to, but atleat he managed to stay on crease for a long period of time, which should help his confidence when he bats next time....as whena player is as much out of color as he is these days, he can not expect to get every thing (all strokes, aggressions)back in one inning, slowly and slowly, inning by inning he should be back to near the standareds he was in.
This Eng tour where he will have plenty of side games should do well to get him back to form and by the end of this tour, i think will be the right time pass a judgement on tendulkar's batting, weather its finished or not
^^ from what i heard about today's game was that it was not played on the best of the wickets...and batting was not that easy either....Yeah Sachin is not same as he was and i am sure more than any one else(specially people passing judgement here and on other forums) its Himself who has realized the fact about his demise....the way i look at Sachin's inning today is, Yeah he didnt score runs in manner he used to, but atleat he managed to stay on crease for a long period of time, which should help his confidence when he bats next time....as whena player is as much out of color as he is these days, he can not expect to get every thing (all strokes, aggressions)back in one inning, slowly and slowly, inning by inning he should be back to near the standareds he was in.
This Eng tour where he will have plenty of side games should do well to get him back to form and by the end of this tour, i think will be the right time pass a judgement on tendulkar's batting, weather its finished or not
My comment is not entirely based on this inning. It has happened again and again. I know even with the way he batted today he probbaly would do better than 90% of the world's bastmen today. It is just his talent. My point was that after seeing him the way he dominated bowlers in past, it really hurts to see Sachin's having hard time scoring against likes of Shahadat hussien ( as some1 mentioned above). I wanted him to be like 'Sher mar jaata hai lekin ghaas nahi khata'... :D
Yeah by the time he is 40, he should be back to his best, no?
F&B and some1 are right. I watched his inning today and although he played some magnificiant strokes, at no point in time did he dominate the bowling. Same happened against bangladesh, the point about shahadat hossain was absolutely correct. And it has kept happening since the worldcup 2003 and specially in the last two years.
*The innings spanned 143 balls - only four times in his 386 ODIs has Tendulkar batted for longer and on each of those occasions he went onto big hundreds (the lowest of the four was 141 not out against West Indies in Kuala Lumpur). His half-century took 95 deliveries, slow even by Test standards these days, and it certainly wasn’t the attacking Tendulkar which has held attacks to ransom since the late 80s. *
His dismissal today leaves him 50 short of becoming the first player to reach 15,000 ODI runs. It’s a landmark he will undoubtedly pass, if not in Belfast then at some point against England in August, but as with some of the other records he has achieved in recent years it’s not being done in a blaze of glory. There were similar concerns raised](http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/bdeshvind/content/current/story/295954.html) about his batting during the recent Test series in Bangladesh where, despite two centuries, it left more questions than answers.
And Some1 thinks Pakistanis and BD wrongly think cricinfo is biased??
Saby, I do not think that sachin will ever be player of <2003 and thats why i said “near the standareds he was in.”
Sachin’s case is a complicated one. To me he still plays better than and Continue to play better than some other great batsman when they (gavaskar, Viv, Javed, Grenidge, Taylor, Steve and Mark and now inzi(hopefully)) retire…gavaskar one can claim that sicne he scored 96 in his last test inning and 100 in his 2nd last ODI, but personally to me he gotten to his expiration date…Sachin can still play better than all these players in their last season…but it is very visible that he is no way near the same <<2003 sachin…to me it is a clear indication of indian board having no faith on rest of the batting line up, and not having the courage to make a decision of even dropping him in one form of the game…May be nobody want to be the guy (running the show ) who drops sachin infront of indian media+people.
Why should he be dropped? Is there a better replacement or prospect waiting in tow? So, he is not the same and not dominating. He still can and does play an important role. Other players need to be more aggresive, afterall cricket is a team game. What will Pakistan not give to have an opener last till 45th over and score a 100? Plus he is a useful bowler and decen fielder. Stop expecting him to be his 2003 vintage an utilise him in the best possible way.
Why should he be dropped? Is there a better replacement or prospect waiting in tow? So, he is not the same and not dominating. He still can and does play an important role. Other players need to be more aggresive, afterall cricket is a team game. What will Pakistan not give to have an opener last till 45th over and score a 100? Plus he is a useful bowler and decen fielder. Stop expecting him to be his 2003 vintage an utilise him in the best possible way.
Spoken like a true Tendu fan.
>>Is there a replacement waiting in tow ?
May be not quite...but I would like to find out for sure by replacing Tendu, instead of maintaining status quo.
>>Stop expecting him to be his 2003 vintage an utilise him in the best possible way.
Does the country owe a debt to Tendulkar that we should learn to deal with whatever he is able to provide to us. If he is not 2003 vintage - is that the country's problem. As I have said before, the interest of the team(and hence the nation) must remain above the need to not hurt the ego of an individual - no matter how great he/she is.
The guy is just playing for the record books and big-ticket marketing contracts before he starts his walk into the sunset - anybody can see that.
May be not quite...but I would like to find out for sure by replacing Tendu, instead of maintaining status quo.
>>Stop expecting him to be his 2003 vintage an utilise him in the best possible way.
Does the country owe a debt to Tendulkar that we should learn to deal with whatever he is able to provide to us. If he is not 2003 vintage - is that the country's problem. As I have said before, the interest of the team(and hence the nation) must remain above the need to not hurt the ego of an individual - no matter how great he/she is.
The guy is just playing for the record books and big-ticket marketing contracts before he starts his walk into the sunset - anybody can see that.
I have enjoyed Tendulkar's batting sometime even at the expense of Pakistan team. I say this because I see the same logic is being used by people calling for Inzimam's ouster. A player should play when he is the best options available. Both Tendulkar and Inzimam are the better than any other replacement or prospect in sight. It is not that the fringe players are not getting their chances. It is in the interest of the team to utilise the best resources available in the best possbile way. This means utilizing the experience and skills of great players within their limits. This does not mean playing them in every game. Replacement can be groomed by selective rotation of senior players with new prospects.
i used to feel sad in 2005
i used to feel angry in 2006
i know laugh at the circus
Some1 , F&B - you guys are slow
You know I seriously feel that following the Indian team (as passionately as I do) is a sheer waste of time. I am extremely frustrated by how something which is so intensely scrutunized by the public and media can still be so grossly mismanaged.
(1) On the one hand they want to make Indian team like Australia- and then they impose a 73 YEAR OLD Manager/Coach on the team just because he is a consensus candidate in a politically divided set up.
(2) Everytime I see Pawar on any cricket related pictures or on TV - it makes me cringe. The guy knows absolutely NOTHING about Cricket. And now it is being reported that LALLU YADAV may be interested in contesting the next BCCI elections.
(3) I know nobody is ever satisfied with team selection. But some team selections of late has me tearing my hair.
The whole of BCCI should be put in Jail for making a mockery of public emotions about the game while sitting on a pile of cash.
You know I seriously feel that following the Indian team (as passionately as I do) is a sheer waste of time. I am extremely frustrated by how something which is so intensely scrutunized by the public and media can still be so grossly mismanaged.
(1) On the one hand they want to make Indian team like Australia- and then they impose a 73 YEAR OLD Manager/Coach on the team just because he is a consensus candidate in a politically divided set up.
(2) Everytime I see Pawar on any cricket related pictures or on TV - it makes me cringe. The guy knows absolutely NOTHING about Cricket. And now it is being reported that LALLU YADAV may be interested in contesting the next BCCI elections.
(3) I know nobody is ever satisfied with team selection. But some team selections of late has me tearing my hair.
The whole of BCCI should be put in Jail for making a mockery of public emotions about the game while sitting on a pile of cash.
Agree that BCCI's mismanagement is on a scale that no other Board can match. Just given the sheer amount of funds they have at their disposal, how little they have to show for it is un-frickkin-believable. Easy enough to make fun of the lack of results, but at least results are partly in the hands of the players. What is completely in the BCCI's hands is the rest of the stuff, like infrastructure. The crappy state of our stadiums is inexcusable given how much money these guys are sitting on. You just have to look at what Bindra has achieved at Mohali to know the difference between what can be done and what is not being done. Depressing that this set of clowns is all we have to run cricket in India. The ego-divided-by-IQ quotient for these guys is off the charts - that must really be the criterion for selection to the BCCI.
Only point on which I am not sure I agree with you is on the importance of having someone knowledgeable about cricket running the show. There are guys that know a lot about cricket like Gavaskar, that have done more harm than good by trying to push their personal agendas. A good management type without much knowledge of cricket may actually be able to do quite a bit of good as far as setting up cricketing structure and selecting the right folks. Like KPS Gill did in hockey for a while. Much as we like to make fun of Laloo, what the guy has achieved with Indian Railways is not insignificant. I'd pick him over Pawar any day - not that that is saying much.
Does the country owe a debt to Tendulkar that we should learn to deal with whatever he is able to provide to us.
Lol.. exactly what i was thinking. Now that he's given our country so much honour and so many wins, lets give him a grace period where its totally okay for him to relax and not perform that well.
iss baar woh sirf shatak bananey ke liye batting nahin kar rehaa tha"
Thats the first time i've heard that about Tendulkar :D
