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[goose]

Day 4 of the 1st Test Eng v. India at Lord's, on Monday 30th Jul 1990, a certain 17 year old took his first catch in test match cricket. It remains, by his own admission nearly twenty years later, the best catch of his life. I remember it well. Not able to watch television coverage of his preceding debut series away to Pakistan, that catch marked the very start of my love affair with the Little Master. Having watched Gooch plunder 333 runs against a hapless Indian attack, I can tell you that catch came like a bolt of lightning. It was an audacious display of nerve and skill by a kid whose name was barely known to those commentating on live tv. For Indian supporters like me, he became the great brown hope overnight. I am old enough, and lucky enough to not have to rely on historians to describe the emergence of Tendulkar. A run machine he might be, but that catch I shall never forget. I'm not going to waste my time or yours describing it. Watch the 26 second clip below. It's got only 330,00 views which I find remarkable. Maybe, you just had to be there. SH2I6DdK21c

[Shane]

Nice Title :winky:

[Mr. Wicket]

I had never heard/read about that catch before. Thank you for sharing that memory and digging up the video. As to the catch itself: HOLY ****!!!!

[DomainK]

Brilliant catch. The energy of that age is amazing.

[goose]

Here's a snippet from a write-up in the Independent describing his emergence. It's remarkable how little that catch is mentioned. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-world-cup-tendulkar--is-the--knight-1092329.html He played in the Second Test of a series against Pakistan in November 1989 and watched all but helplessly as Wasim Akram whistled it past his 16-year-old head. Tendulkar made 15, but remembers: "Akram was bowling very fast. I think he bowled four bouncers in a row. It was very difficult and I thought I wasn't going to play Test cricket again." In the next match he scored his maiden half-century and, although he then bagged a duck on his limited-over international debut, he impinged himself on English cricket consciousness the next summer. At Lord's in the First Test he held on to a breathtaking knee-high, one-handed catch running 30 yards from wide long-off to hold Allan Lamb's straight drive. At Old Trafford that August he arrived. For almost six hours he held a rampant England (England sometimes were rampant in those days) at bay to earn India a draw and at 17 years and 112 days became the second-youngest Test century-maker.

[goose]

Wow, literally just found this gem of a write-up on the same. http://www.suso.co.uk/blog/not-just-a-catch NOT JUST A CATCH Sachin Tendulkar announced himself to English cricket fans with a moment of brilliance 18 years ago. 1990, Lord’s cricket ground, home of the MCC. England vs. India. What do you think of? Eh? You what? Shut it you babbling fool. OK, so cricket isn’t for everyone, but if you’re into it then you’ll know what I’m thinking: unshaven, imposing at the crease, powerful. Yep, make no bones about it, 1990 was Graham Gooch’s year. Or was it? We don’t write much about cricket on here - in fact we never have before - but if ever there was a day to break rank and do the unexpected it’s today; not because we’re feeling all wistful and teary-eyed about the days of giant Gooch tons, but because today Sachin Tendulkar inherited Brian Lara’s record for the most test runs ever scored. And Lord’s, 1990, England vs. India, was the moment we Brits caught our first glimpse of a shy and diminutive Indian, at 17 a Little Master in the making. Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsmen in history, no question. Small in size, big in heart, he’s fenced off some of the most hostile attacks in history - think Ambrose and Walsh, Wasim and Waqar - but at Lord’s that year, it wasn’t his strokeplay that caught the eye (he made 10 and 27), but his fielding. In England’s second innings, a portly Alan Lamb, replete in bushy-tailed moustache, miscued Indian leg-spinner Hirwani while looking to lift him over the top. The ball went high and straight but was destined, it seemed, to land plum in the gap between deep long-on and deep long-off - where Tendulkar was placed. Setting off at a sprint while the other fielder jogged (giving up the ghost already), he barely slowed as, with the ball plummeting earthwards, he thrust out a hand at the last, as if not really believing that leather would stick to such smooth young hands. But it did. He caught it. Lamb was out. Of course, the catch hardly mattered in the context of that match, but it marked the conception of a career that, in the context of wider sporting history, really would matter. Such moments of virtuosity just don’t happen to lesser players; they happen to players destined for greatness, players like Tendulkar. Let’s enjoy him while he lasts.

[Params7]

Crazy catch :shok:

[goose]

And his own thoughts on that catch....a snippet from an interview in 2008. http://cricketnext.in.com/news/sachin-laxman-race-for-fielding-record/32989-13-single.html Rating the catch he took to dismiss Allan Lamb in the 1990 series off former leg-spinner Narendra Hirwani’s bowling at Lord’s as his best, Tendulkar said, he remembers each catches he has taken. "I remember each and every catch I have taken. The best has to be the one I took to dismiss Lamb at Lord’s off Hirwani’s bowling. It was a running, low catch in the deep. Even Lamb was shaking his head in disbelief while walking back to the pavilion," he explained.

[goose]

Nice Title :winky:

yeh feeling pretty chuffed with that one ! thanks.

[cowboysfan]

i remember seeing that catch in a show about sachin,thanks for posting.

[ViruRulez]

Saw that catch many times on youtube and yest it is surely Sachin's best catch till date

[yoda]

good post there goose. thanks for sharing!

[Sooda]

seen it before- well worth reminding about though. what an effort. and yep clever title indeed.

[Sachinism]

Yeh I've seen it before. A classic

[donkey]

Nice clip, young Tendulkar was totally focused on cricket. So excited to play the game and always full of energy. Not like today's youngsters, a nervous wreck, or camera conscious like most pakistani cricketers.

[Jersey #10]

I think this could be his second best catch till date. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfeIYy0eLfA]YouTube - Inzy Catch[/ame]

[CSK Fan]

yeh feeling pretty chuffed with that one ! thanks.

Sending you some $ICF just for the htread title

[ludhianvi]

Thanks for sharing! I have also seen that Test match and that catch in a way highlights that if it was in today's era, the player would have most likely dived at the end. Ground Fielding standards have surely improved.

[Ram]

Awesome thread title! :hatsoff:

[coffee_rules]

Me b Over too, by the title. Had seen the original video both live and on youtube. I thought in these days, one would dive, but the effort is pretty phenomenal for those times.