Tendulkar is a class act.. no batsman at present age comes even closer to his ability and talent..his record shows his destruction power of any bowling line in the world.... but I think hisapproach of becoming something like Rahul Dravid is not correct.. Tendulkar is not a great improvisr at the end of matches like Miandad. Tendulkar abilty to play at the start of matches with his effortless timing and placing is his strength.. he can demoralize any bowling attack.. he should not worry about carrying th eburden of his team as it dont even effect the result if he plays like thta.. he should stick to his natural game of stroke playing from start..
I think if Sachin is trying to change his current role to a sheet anchor, he will not suceed. It is not his natural game. He is a great stroke player and thats what he should do. In full flow he can destroy any bowling attack. Teh Sachin at display during the current series was a dull and boring one which played no effective role either. His 100 off 80 balls is much better than 70 off 120 deliveries.
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Talking about Sachin, he is changing his game . He no longer plays the way he used to play before.He has been there for 15 yrs and now he wants to take up the responsibilty of senior batsman of team who wants to be there till it is over and wants likes of Sehwag & Yuvraj to do the blasting.It is sign of maturity.. this is how it goes...remember how Javed used to play in 90s.. Trying to hangaround and build inning around him. One cannot play like flashy,young kid through out his career. It is part of normal growing up in this game.
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So are you saying he was less responsible all these years? He opens the innings and as a opener he is supposed to exploit the first 15 overs unlike Javed who was always a middle order batsman. If this is the way he is going to play then whats wrong with Rahul Dravid opening the inning ?
Personally I have no problem him playing with the "responsibility of a senior batsman" and I hope Glichrist, Hayden and Ponting play with the "responsibility of a senior batsman" against us all the time.
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I think if Sachin is trying to change his current role to a sheet anchor, he will not suceed. It is not his natural game. He is a great stroke player and thats what he should do. In full flow he can destroy any bowling attack. Teh Sachin at display during the current series was a dull and boring one which played no effective role either. His 100 off 80 balls is much better than 70 off 120 deliveries.
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Hit the nail on the head.
budda ho gaya hai 10dukar
A strike rate of over 70 is still not considered slow. I personally think Tendulkar is not slowing down, he is just not taking as many chances anymore. Just wait for the bad ball and dispatch it to the boundry. The only thing is that Tendulkar did not roatate the strike too well in this tournament.
As for others failing, Sehwag is fast becoming India's Afridi. I remember they use to call him clone of Sachin but I think its a disgrace to Sachin that Shewag is called his clone. A lot of people use to argue that the difference between Afridi and Sewag is that the later is a proper batsman with good technique and just plays fast. WRONG. Sehwag is far from proper. Atleast in this tournament he was no where near proper. Nevermind he flashes anything with the width outside off stump blindly the guy doesnt even bother moving his feet while doing that. The problem with him is that when things are not going well instead of just taking a single and get away from the strike for a while he tries to force the issue by playing even more stupid shots.
Dravid was a big surprise. He has always stood up for India when they needed him. He has had a fantastic run with the bat for the past couple of years so maybe he was a wee bit rusty.
Ganguly is one of the finest ODI batmsen of modern time and his record proves it but one cant pick just this tournment. Ganguly have been off color for some time now. He has played one off innings here and there that showed glimpses of his terrific past but he hasnt done anything outstanding on a regular basis in the recent past. Laxman had an outstanding tour of Australia but eversince then or even if you see before that Laxman was not the one India depended on to get them through. Same is the case with Kaif.
India has a strong batting lineup but the main pillers of it are Sachin, Dravid and Ganguly. One of them (Ganguly) has been off color for a while and another one (Dravid) didnt perform in this tournament. Tendulakr had a decent tournament but no one else was there to stick around with him. This makes the Holland cup more interesting now. Let's see if Indian batsman can get their act togather but then.
Ganguly on Sachin Tendulkar’s cautious approach in recent times, and whether the team had asked him to bat that way
Sometimes we ask him to bat through the innings, as we had done against Sri Lanka in the final of the Asia Cup. We’ll have to sit and work out our gameplans after looking at the conditions in Amsterdam. We don’t know whether it is going to be dry or whether the ball is going to seam around. [Virender] Sehwag is doing the job of playing shots at will at the other end. You cannot have two batsmen doing that. That’s probably one of the reasons Sachin looks to bat through.
So he had his orders. He is not any batsman. I do not agree with the Indian think tank. Such batting depth with 7 batsmen in the team they still do not want Sachin Tendulkar to play his game. Its not like Shahid Afridi trying to play his natural game…