Re: Tendulkar should consider quitting
lara is not bigger than sachin :P
Offcourse in terms of $$ in Bank right?
He just came out saying that he has got 5 Years of test cricket left in him....
Re: Tendulkar should consider quitting
Only an Australian can say something about the hanu maan of India. none of the indians have guts to say anything about him. may be bedhi may say something later. its time to quit cricket Sachin
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Lara is an asset to the WI team. Sachin is a liability. The team can either summon the guts to make the call or waste a spot in the line up. Simple as that.
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‘I Won’t Ask Sachin To Retire’ - Vivian Richards
Legendary West Indian cricketer Sir Vivian Richards is disappointed by the failure of his favourite player Sachin Tendulkar in the World Cup but stopped short of asking him to hang his boots.
“It’s not up to me to ask him to retire. He’s been one of my favourites and I’m more disappointed than anyone else at his failure to do well in this World Cup,” said Sir Viv who, by Tendulkar’s own admission, has been his childhood hero.
Tendulkar, arguably the greatest player-ever in one-day cricket, scored 7, 54 and 0 from his three innings in the World Cup, where the Indian team lost to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to be thrown out of the competition in the preliminary stage itself.
In the wake of India’s disastrous show, the voice has grown shriller back home with Tendulkar’s effigies being burnt; his photos being garlanded with footwear and calls being made for him to retire.
But Sir Viv said instead of blaming any individual, it’s the entire squad which must take the blame for the debacle.
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20070328&fname=Richards&sid=1
India can win the Cup only in India - Boycott!
What is one to do with this Indian team? For starters, **stop giving them so much money. I mean that in all seriousness. **There is no point in building up young boys with just a few matches under their belts—only to knock them down. They are not superstars, and shouldn't be encouraged to view themselves as such. They are ordinary lads who can play a decent game of cricket. So stop throwing money at them is my message to corporates, and if you really have money to burn, use some of it to reduce India's crippling poverty. Hang on though—that won't look good on TV, so it isn't much of an option is it?
The time has come to acknowledge that the current Indian team is perhaps not the best in the world, and the only chance they will have of winning the World Cup is when it is played in India. They just have not mastered the art of travelling well, and young talent is at a premium. When Sachin Tendulkar scores two noughts, there is no one to fill the gap. Robin Uthappa has some way to go before he can be viewed as a viable opening option, in my opinion, and the lack of a genuine all-rounder is hurting India badly.
That is the reason why they must repeatedly play the extra batsman and four bowlers, instead of an all-rounder who gives them a fifth bowling option. In this World Cup, it did not help their chances either that they were pitted against the strongest of the minnows. It was always going to be a banana skin for them, and they duly slipped at Trinidad, whose turning track actually gave Bangladesh—with its spin options—the best chance of beating a big team.
However, the World Cup is not better off for the two minnows in the Super Eights. If anything, it is worse off because the quality of cricket will necessarily suffer. Ireland and Bangladesh are not going to win enough games to make it past this stage, and a vast amount of people in India and Pakistan will have lost interest in the proceedings because of India and Pakistan's exit. This in turn will mean falling TV viewership and a huge loss in sponsorship money considering India is the game's financial powerhouse. So how does cricket gain from this scenario? I would rather get me a suntan on the beach than watch the Leprechauns play Australia, and so would every sensible cricket fan.
Going into the Super Eights, the team to watch for me is Sri Lanka. They are looking supremely dangerous at the moment, and are by far the most balanced team in the competition. They have right-arm and left-arm seamers, and left-arm off-spin in the form of the inexhaustible Sanath Jayasuriya. In Chaminda Vaas and Muthiah Muralitharan, they have two bowlers who are not merely good but world-class.
Vaas in particular is a bloody underrated bloke who delights me every time he comes on to bowl. He is smart, vastly experienced, and can bowl against anyone on any surface and yet produce telling results. He has never been what one would call fast, and yet, because he bowls with his head, can be really dangerous. So with Murali and Vaas working in tandem, you can be sure that at least 20 of the 50 overs will be good for a few valuable wickets, or at the very least, will not yield too many runs.
When batting, Jayasuriya is a champion who is one of modern cricket's true match-winners. And then there is the refined elegance of Kumar Sangakkara, who is also excellent behind the wickets. No wonder the team looks so confident these days. Their captain is a lovely chap who smiles a lot and speaks very softly, and possesses the ruthlessness of a hawk. I really enjoy watching the Mahela Jayawardene-Tom Moody combination at work—they complement each other so perfectly. Both are smart, astute men who believe in doing their homework and planning far ahead, and have built the foundations of a team that I think can win this tournament.
Re: Tendulkar should consider quitting
I clearly see him playing next world cup since it will be at home. Indians are not brave enough to dispose off Tendulkar. He won't go untill he himself decides so.
Re: Tendulkar should consider quitting
I clearly see him playing next world cup since it will be at home. Indians are not brave enough to dispose off Tendulkar. He won't go untill he himself decides so.
if that happens that would be the saddest point in indian cricket
I dont see that happening because Tendulkar has since fallen from the high regard with which Indian awam used to look at him
from God he is become a mere mortal..I can see people baying for his blood if he continues for another two years
Re: Aftermath of Indian team's exit from World Cup
Let’s just share all of the information, news and articles regarding Indian exit from World Cup here and if any other guppy wants to merge his/ her thread, let me know. :)
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Indian fans miss out after expensive exit
What’s worse than travelling 7000 miles to watch a match for which your team has failed to qualify? Answer: Travelling 7000 miles to watch the grass grow for five hours on a sodden outfield, in a match for which your team has failed to qualify.
That was the fate that befell several hundred Indian spectators at Antigua today. They had booked in anticipation of watching their team take on Australia in a pivotal Super Eights showdown. Instead it was the groundstaff versus the elements in the biggest mismatch of the tournament to date.
“We’ve flown 36 hours to get here, and the delay is not acceptable,” Sudhil, one of a party of 50-odd ex-pats living and working in Dubai, said. "We’re Indian supporters and we’re absolutely disappointed. We are cheering the Australians because we have no other choice.”
Having coughed up roughly US$8000 for their 11-day package tour, he and his floral-shirted contemporaries were to be found up in the rafters of the Northern Stand, in some of the most plumb and priciest seats available. “We were always going to come because we’d paid up long in advance,” Sudhil said, “but the news coming back from India is that there have been a lot of cancellations.”
As the delay dragged on, several of the spectators in the box seats could be found looking longingly towards the paddling pool at midwicket. “We’d rather be in the party stand than sit here and wait,” Faisal, an Indian who at least had an alternative allegiance to fall back on thanks to his Bangladeshi wife, said. “We even came here early because we were thinking the game would start on time. But at least this isn’t happening in India - if this ground had 50,000 or 75,000 fans, it would be chaos in here!”
Instead the chaos was confined, unsurprisingly, to the party stand and its paddling pool, which had been over-run by Aussies, beach-balls and inflatable kangaroos. “They’re nice facilities, but they’re clearly under-prepared, judging by the amount of wet cement we got on our feet the other day,” Davo from Canberra, one of a posse of five Boony Armyites with moustaches to match, said. “I don’t know how they can build a brand-new stadium and not get the drainage right.”
Even so, the stadium itself met with the approval of most who had entered it. “It’s unreal, I’ve never been to a better place,” Dan Read from New South Wales said. “It’s even got a pool. Beauty. You can’t beat that. It must be frustrating for the people in these stands, but this is the party stand, and there’s definitely a party going on here.”
It was a party at a price, however, with a US$50 cover charge on top of the original US$90 for the ticket. “I suppose it’s alright,” James from Bendigo shrugged, “although it’s a real shame there’s no cricket. We’ve travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres to get here. I took a 35-hr flight, via Canada. I’ve been saving for three years. I sold me car. I spent all me money. We’ve come here to watch cricket and we’re just getting nothing.”
“Any other ground in the world, even Wandsdale Reserve, would have had a game on by now,” Davo said as the groundstaff continued on their forlorn mission. "It’s been sunny all day, but I guess they’ll have learned from this that you have to employ more than one ripped-up mattress to mop up an entire outfield.
“They simply haven’t planned enough. This is a great place to be a fan, but looking back on it, I cannot see any justification to hold a World Cup here again. It’s all well and good for the lucky few of us who happen to be at the stage of our lives that we can make it here, but for everyone else … Well, look at those empty grandstands.
It tells a story.”
Even the neutrals weren’t having the best of times. Katy Cooke, the secretary of England’s Barmy Army and a ubiquitous presence on overseas tours, was lying on the grass on the opposite flank of the ground. She had chartered a 3am flight from the Barmies’ base in Barbados to get her group of supporters out for this game, and they were going to have to fly back that evening regardless of any play. To make matters worse, she was also co-ordinating the trip for India’s version, the Bharat Army.
“This is so frustrating,” she said. “The Indians aren’t really interested anymore, the English were never really that interested anyway - they’ll just watch anyone. But now we have to sit here all day, with no pass-outs, no permission to bring anything into the ground, no transport to get us away again, and nothing to go and do. I suppose it’s a nice stadium, but it’s not West Indian. We could be anywhere.”
The Bharat Army’s package, which costs roughly £4000 (approx US$8000), involves four day-trips to Antigua and a cruise between Barbados and St Lucia, which takes in the remaining Super Eight games as well as the semi-final and final. “They are all pretty miserable,” Cooke said. “It was too late to cancel their holiday and they don’t really want to watch cricket any more. They just want to go home.”
The mood back in Barbados, the cricketing capital of the Caribbean, was scarcely any more jovial if the Barmy Army’s experience was to be believed. “The locals are gutted by what’s happening,” Cooke said. "They can’t afford to go to the matches and even if they could, they can’t just go in for an hour and go back to work, because no-one’s allowed pass-outs.
“They can’t take in any food. They can’t take any musical instruments,” she said, a state of affairs which is about to be tested when the Barmy Army trumpeter, Bill Cooper, arrives in the Caribbean next week. “The whole party atmosphere, the whole point of cricket in the West Indies has been taken away and completely sanitised. But hey, at least the sun is shining and I’m lying on the grass. It could be worse I suppose.”
i feel sorry for these fans
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Re: Reactions to Indian team's exit from World Cup
wow, Chapell was thinking the same thing I was about kicking Tendu out. I don't think it'll happen though:p
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they needed a scapegoat and who better than sachin..he was not the only person responsible for giving a good performance...everyone has forgotten the rest of the players.
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Here is another view about attitude of viewers in India from political columnist Vir Sanghavi.
He is spot on when he says "
“Yes, the cricket team may have failed India. But, by being so petty, narrow-minded and needlessly bitter, all of us have failed India far more”
Cricket and the Blue Billion
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**Ian Chappell knows nothing about Indian cricket - Kumble
**New Delhi, April 2 (PTI): Ian Chappell’s retirement advisory to Sachin Tendulkar has drawn sharp criticism from veteran spinner and teammate Anil Kumble who says the Australian has nothing to do with Indian cricket and his comments should be ignored as a “personal opinion”.
“Ian Chappell has got nothing to do with Indian cricket. Of course everybody is entitled to his opinion but Ian Chappell is not going to win matches for India, Sachin Tendulkar has been doing that for us and we should be supporting him,” Kumble said.
“Chappell is a former cricketer and has the right to make statements about the game but he does not know Indian cricket,” he said in an interview to ‘Headlines Today’.
The veteran leg-spinner, who bid adieu to his ODI career last week after India’s disastrous World Cup campaign, felt the former Australian captain’s comments should have been ignored at best as a personal opinion.
“I think we tend give too much importance to players from outside. Like when we say that we don’t have a (Shane) Warne, (Muttiah) Muralitharan or (Wasim) Akram in the team, we forget that these guys are not the ones who will win us matches. We need to support our players for that,” he added.
Kumble also rubbished suggestions that Tendulkar’s age had made him more of a liability for the team in term of fitness.
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I thought Sachin’s match winning disabilities are proven via STATS already..
Re: Reactions to Indian team’s exit from World Cup
Here comes what they call “Shah sai barh (some1, f&b and other Indians bros please read: badh) ker shah k wafadar” 
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It seems like all of the Indian players and board members have gone AWOL after the exit from World Cup. Has anyone taken the responsiblity or apologized for the failure?
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Only Dravid
http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/25/stories/2007032506200100.htm
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…and you know what, he will be only one crucified. It’s how we do it in South of Asia 
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Tendulkar is a LEGEND and we should not disrespect his immense services to Indian Cricket (which of course he did for free).
The Govt should allocate land and money for construction of a TEMPLE dedicated to his highness. He should be retained in the Indian team until he scores 50,000 runs and 100 centuries in test matches.