Celebrating Sachin Tendulkar's 20 glorious years [Update: 28th year]

[DomainK]

The great Tendulkar on star cricket Star Cricket is showing a program called The Great Tendulkar hosted by Alan Wilkins. They have been showing some of his gems from both formats non stop one after another. It's been a real treat. Anyone finds a rerun of this, do make sure to record.

[Sachinism]

Thanks for telling us now :poink: If you know of a rerun of this please let me know, I'll try and get someone to cap it

[DomainK]

Sorry, I was just too occupied watching it to get up and switch on the lappy. They just said there is a special program on Sachin on Sunday. I will note the time next time it comes.

[Sachinism]

http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/News.aspx?NewsId=15370

[DomainK]

Seems I have missed a lot of television these days.

[Sachinism]

I've messaged 2 cappers on BWT, but don't know whether they'll be able to get them because of the short notice. Anyone here know any good tv cappers on BWT who would capture this?

[DomainK]

Rajiv? The capping master? Does he have access to star cricket?

[SachDan]

Now showing EPIC 241 against Aussies at SCG in 2004 !

[Sachinism]

Now showing EPIC 241 against Aussies at SCG in 2004 !

I looked through the list of videos for The Great Tendulkar, most of them were already shown in a series called Tendulkar's Tons, so I have most of them already :P

[DomainK]

I looked through the list of videos for The Great Tendulkar' date=' most of them were already shown in a series called Tendulkar's Tons, so I have most of them already :P[/quote'] Then start uploading. What are you waiting for?

[Sachinism]

Then start uploading. What are you waiting for?

I've already uploaded a few in the past. Which ones do you want? I dont have EP 2 – Eng vs. Ind, 1st Test @ Edgbaston (122) ,1996 June Ep 5 – Ind vs. Pak @ Hobart, 7th Match (93), 2000 EP 7 – Srl vs. Ind @ Bristol ,9th Match (113), 2002

[SachDan]

I looked through the list of videos for The Great Tendulkar' date=' most of them were already shown in a series called Tendulkar's Tons, so I have most of them already :P[/quote'] Yeah...they have showed all of those innings' in the past. ESS had television rights of matches played in India between 1993-97 and dunno why they aren't showing any of Sachin's great knocks during that period. Also they haven't showed anything from India's tours to WI and SAF.

[Sachinism]

OK I got a reply back from one of the cappers who said Star Cricket are extremely strict about their copyrighted material and he's not willing to take the risk by capping and uploading. So I guess it won't be capped :((

[DomainK]

Tomorrow 7AM to 1:30 PM. Don't miss.

[rahuliverpool]

I've already uploaded a few in the past. Which ones do you want? I dont have EP 2 – Eng vs. Ind, 1st Test @ Edgbaston (122) ,1996 June Ep 5 – Ind vs. Pak @ Hobart, 7th Match (93), 2000 EP 7 – Srl vs. Ind @ Bristol ,9th Match (113), 2002

Sachinsm, please upload the 241* at Sydney and the 136 at Chennai I had both of them in my hard disk which crashed recently :(( I have managed to find all the others again except these two.

[Sachinism]

http://www.bwtorrents.com/showthread.php?t=249169 :yay:

[Laaloo]

Anyone has Sachin's 155 or 177 against Warne in India in 1998

[Sachinism]

All Tendulkar the Great episodes http://www.bwtorrents.com/showthread.php?t=249176

[Holysmoke]

A genius and a gentleman - By John Wright

If around 1990, I'd been asked how long this 16-year-old Indian touring New Zealand would survive in international cricket, I wouldn't have come close. No matter how good the kid looked, you didn't think in terms of a 20 years. When Sachin came to New Zealand in 1990 we had heard about this bright, young batsman. When we saw him, his talent and approach were obvious. He looked younger than he was, but he walked to the wicket like he meant it, meant the business. There was, even then, nothing excess in his game. When you can see someone's game and it will tell you about what they can do. A brilliant bat tells you he can reel off the flashy strokes but he doesn't tell you immediately if he is going to be an opponent, a real competitor. Longevity in cricket is a hard thing to predict and it's an even harder thing to achieve. You need be physically resilient and have a love for the game. It sounds simple but it is very hard work and it is what Sachin has done. By 1990, I'd played a lot of cricket and he was just starting out. Sachin had a quiet first Test in Christchurch but in Napier, gave us a long good look at himself and in terms of his skill, he was the real deal. Every time some young talent came through you wanted to see what they were all about. To see maybe what the future looked like. With Sachin, there were two things that caught your eye. He had great balance and had the time to play his shots. You saw one shot of brilliance, that for normal batsmen would not be their first shot of selection. His late cut comes to mind, and it was like something rang in your head like being woken by your alarm and you knew you were watching someone special. He played these lovely shots and but there were no frills in his cricket. I remember the innings of 88 he played in Napier, not because I took a catch but about one I dropped. A sitter from Azharuddin, that my grandmother would have caught while knitting. Azza was then given not out to one I thought he'd gloved to leg gully and I was angry with myself. In the middle of all this the16-year-old was knocking us around, and I went up to umpire Steve Woodward and told him that he'd given Azza an extra round. To which, Woodward said, "John, yours was easier than mine!" Sachin wouldn't remember all that, I don't think. The only thing about thatmatch he would remember is falling 12 short of being the youngest Test centurion. He was shy then and we didn't get a chance to exchange much other than handshakes. But in 1998-99 when he toured New Zealand, he had become something of a star and I was struck by his humility when he signed an autograph for my young son Harry. He carried himself with a lot of grace and dignity. Just how much I realised only later when coaching with India. We went to an Adidas store in Chennai and a huge crowd of what looked a thousand people gathered outside in no time at all because Sachin was there. We had to actually escape from a back entrance. Apart from things like that-which happened often, and they threw me off but he always managed to stay calm-coaching Sachin was about watching closely and asking questions. He has the best balance of any player I have ever seen. I got enjoyment out of watching him play a forward defensive shot of complete poise and control. He makes batting, which can be quite tough to master and improve, look simple. On times when I thought maybe his head wasn't quite as still as it could be, Iwould ask him howhe felt about his batting. If he said he felt great, you just left your observation alone for a while. If however he said, 'oh I don't feel that good', then you'd ask, do you think you were really balanced out there, how's the head you think? He was in many ways his own coach, and he had his brother who knew his game inside out. For the rest of it, he was just a young man with an enormous love of his game and gave it complete respect both in preparation and in practice. He worked at it, not like one of the contemporary greats of the game which is who he was, but like a student. I knew he was upset in Multan after that declaration and it was understandable but he got over it almost that very night. He was never late for the bus, for practice, for meetings. On one day he knew he was going to be, so he came up to me and said there was something that had to be attended. I just thought that's why he was who he was. I wish a lot of lesser players could learn from his thoughtfulness and the respect he showed, not just for me as the coach but for his cricket, what we were all trying to to, what we were all trying to be part of. He was a very tough but fair competitor and he had great humanity. In 2003, we were in New Zealand on what was a horrible tour for the team. For me, it was worse because I had taken the team I coached back to my home country and we weren't playing likewe could. It was an awful time to be honest. By the time we came to Queenstown, I was feeling particularly beat-up. Sachin was living in the room next to mine, and one evening he came over with a bottle of wine and tried to make me feel better. We just talked about how the tour had gone and how the team knew that it would have been a very bitter pill to swallow. Well, my face certainly showed that evening and at the time I appreciated his thoughtfulness. Sachin and I have always had some interesting conversations about batting and I remember one in Sydney 2003-04 along with his wife Anjali. Sachin had not got a big score on the tour by his standards and Sydney was to be the last test. Eventually he made a plan that he would not play the backfoot drive squarish through the off-side until he really got in. He then got 241 not out without a cover drive. Some pundits called it scratchy, and grumbled that he was not the same Tendulkar and I thought that was rubbish. That innings was not about showing off his repertoire for a couple of hours to keep the crowd happy, that was just another piece of Tendulkar genius, of being able to control the mental side of his game and the big runs. I lost count of the number of times commentators and the like used to say he's on the wane, he's not same player he was. To them Iwanted to say, "just look in the scorebook". Today I want to ask them, he's been a long time waning, hasn't he? Given his huge popularity, Sachin could have taken on the superstar life but he just loved the game and he was determined to succeed. This determination really doesn't get talked about by writers and commentators. Sometimes he could go into himself, which may look like aloofness at a distance, but I always thought it was something that came from who he was. Or maybe something it was someone he needed to be because of his life. This genuine genius of a performer at the crease was actually just a normal man who strangely enough couldn't walk down the street outside his home. One of the people in cricket Sachin reminds me of most is Shane Warne. They come from two different parts of the world, one of them's a batsman, the other a bowler, one man smokes and the other doesn't and let's not even gointo the difference in the kind of headlines they generate. What brings them together, though, and actually makes them friends is complete understanding and control over their craft. Theirs is a highly developed and matured skill, which you don't find everywhere and which comes once in a few generations and in time to come whenever the game is talked about they will be forever remembered. After Sachin got a big score a few years ago, and it may have been a 200 against Zimbabwe, I did bring up the figure of a 100 hundreds. It wasn't about sowing a seed, I just thought back then, that he could do it if he wanted to. He's close now and I'm keeping count. Getting to that milestone would put Sachin alongside Bradman who really rated him. A hundred hundreds would be a number like Bradman's famous average, a record that only a history-maker could set. Normally you would have thought there was Bradman and the rest. Now I think, Sachin comes somewhere in between Bradman and the rest. History may put them very close, maybe on the same shelf.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/111354/a-genius-and-a-gentleman.html?page=0

[ZodiaC]

Moar :canabis: I like it :icflove: