News articles, newspaper clippings, etc of Sachin's 200

[Holysmoke]

News articles, newspaper clippings, tributes, reactions etc of Sachin's 200 --let us collect all these here and make it a memorable thread.

[Jersey #10]

'Glad I'm not bowling to him' - Warne "I think if you ask Saeed Anwar, he would say he's happy that Tendulkar broke his record. The reason for his success is that he has a great respect for the game." Aamer Sohail, Saeed Anwar's good friend and opening partner, pays a fitting tribute to the new record-holder "He should aim for more. Maybe a Test innings of 450 or an ODI knock of 250. And then he himself wants to win next year's World Cup. There is a little boy in Tendulkar who wants to keep playing. That spirit keeps him going. It's absolutely incredible how he keeps going." Keeping with the Mumbai ways, Sunil Gavaskar is not yet sated "Come on Sachin my friend get your 200. World record to please! You deserve it… Nervous for my good friend Sachin everything crossed for you mate… Glad I'm not bowling to him today ha ha ha." Tendulkar's old pal Shane Warne tweets his excitement as he nears the double-century "It shows his mental and physical toughness. He's a player who does not throw away his wicket once he's set. He always places a huge price on his wicket." Dilip Vengsarkar salutes the attributes that such a knock needs "Sachin - the greatest ever player ever - without any doubt… I salute Sachin... World's greatest sportsman. We can see him only rise. (He is an) inspiration to us all. He is the best." IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi waxes beyond eloquent, on his twitter page "What an innings it was. He had come close to achieving it twice. I always felt that Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya are capable of doing that." Kumar Sangakkara has not forgotten Tendulkar's recent dazzling form "He is my favourite player. I had said that one day he would go on to break all batting records and now you see him scoring runs and runs." Javed Miandad kinda saw it coming "Whatever record is seen to be impossible to achieve, he makes it possible. That's all I can say. It seems as he's getting older, he is becoming more and more mature. No wonder Sir Donald Bradman saw himself in the way Sachin bats." King of parsimony Bapu Nadkarni is not parsimonious with his praise http://www.cricinfo.com/indvrsa2010/content/current/story/449882.html

[DomainK]

Sachin and Warne's friendship will become legendary. The best batsman of all time and the best spinner of all time.

[Block hole]

Otherwise there would be a another Nightmare .:((

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News articles, newspaper clippings, etc of Sachin's 200

[Holysmoke]

Cricket Star Breaks an 'Impossible' Record By Bobby Ghosh Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1967828,00.html#ixzz0gkGT0W3K You may have been concentrating on the ice dancing in Vancouver. Or you're one of those people who can't tell a silly mid-off from a backward square-leg. So it's possible you missed the breaking of one of sport's long-standing barriers: India's Sachin Tendulkar scored a double-hundred against South Africa in a one-day match on Feb. 24, 2010. For the 1.5 billion people who follow cricket — making it, by some reckoning, the world's second most popular sport after soccer — it was a moment to match Roger Bannister's 4-min. mile in 1954. To understand why the mark was long thought impossible, consider the odds against it happening. In a one-day game, each side gets to bat 50 six-ball overs — that's 300 balls or, in American baseball terms, "pitches." It's rare that a single batsman gets more than 150 pitches, so the batsman would need a hit rate higher than 100% to get to 200 runs. Tendulkar got his 200 runs in 147 pitches, a hitting rate of 136.5. Very few players have scored at a faster rate, and none had the combination of patience and skill to score fast and stay on the pitch long enough to get to 200. Only one other time in the past 10 years has a batsman gotten to 190. In a career spanning 21 years, Tendulkar himself had just three scores in excess of 150 before today's feat. The closest he had scored was 186, against New Zealand in 1999. (See a sped-up U.S. version of the sport: call it Cricket 2.0.) Wednesday's achievement was the more remarkable because it came against South Africa, which has a powerful bowling lineup and superb fielders. Scoring big against the minnows of the sport — Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, for instance — is one thing; taking 200 from the South Africans is many leagues harder. It was entirely appropriate that the record should fall to Tendulkar, 36, the greatest run scorer of all time, as he roars into the autumn of a storied career. Cricketers very rarely play into their 40s, and most are long past their record-breaking age at 35. But the Little Master, as his fans know him, is as bright at twilight as he was at noon: he's ratcheted up a string of recent big scores in both the five-day "Test" and one-day versions of the sport, giving a new generation of bowlers the privilege of a Tendulkar thrashing. He has not indicated when he plans to sign off, and on current form it's a certainty he will break many more batting records; this year alone, he could become the first man to get 50 Test hundreds (he's on 47), and 50 one-day hundreds (he has 46). He's already scored more runs in both forms than anybody else. Tendulkar's one of those rare success stories that were entirely predictable from the get-go. He was a child prodigy, breaking records as a schoolboy cricketer in Mumbai back in the late 1980s; greatness was plainly his destiny. So there are literally millions of cricket fans (not all of them Indians) who can honestly respond to every new Tendulkar record by saying, "I told you so." It's in the nature of sport that records don't last forever. Hundreds of middle-distance runners can now do the mile in less than 4 min. It won't be long before other batsmen reach and exceed the 200-run mark; there are at least a half-dozen in the modern game who have both the power and stamina to pull it off any day of the week. But history will never forget the Bannisters and Tendulkars for proving that the only barriers are in our minds. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1967828,00.html#ixzz0gWwWNlio

[ViruRulez]

Sachin Tendulkar fires record 200 against South Africa Sachin Tendulkar created history with the first double century in one-day internationals as India thrashed South Africa by 153 runs in Gwalior. The 36-year-old hit 25 fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 200 off 147 balls. It passed the previous best of 194, set by Pakistan's Saeed Anwar in 1997 and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry last year. Mahendra Dhoni hit four sixes in 68 from 35 balls in a mammoth 401-3, and South Africa were 248 all out as India took an unassailable 2-0 series lead. Tendulkar, whose previous best one-day knock was the 186 not out he scored against New Zealand in 1999, is already the leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket. But to have reached such a landmark, with a single in the final over, only serves to underline his class and add to the legacy that already surrounds arguably the finest batsman to have played the game. His innings, the 46th one-day century of his career, was typified by wristy strokes, trademark boundary shots and, above all, stamina as he batted through the entire innings. He passed the previous best score in ODIs off 140 deliveries before taking his time over the final six runs, completing his double century with a single off Charl Langeveldt four balls from the end of the innings. Despite clearly suffering with cramp towards the end, Tendulkar was not to be denied and the packed Gwalior crowd were in raptures as he brought up the record. HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL ODI SCORES 200* Sachin Tendulkar, India v South Africa 2010 194* Charles Coventry, Zimbabwe v Bangladesh 2009 194 Saeed Anwar, Pakistan v India 1997 189* Viv Richards, W Indies v England 1984 189 Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka v India 2000 Around him, Dinesh Karthik and Dhoni provided able support. Karthik, who came to the crease in just the fourth over after Virender Sehwag sent a high catch down to Dale Steyn at third man off Wayne Parnell, struck four fours and three sixes on his way to an 85-ball knock of 79. He departed when he mistimed a pull shot to Herschelle Gibbs at mid-wicket but Yusuf Pathan upped the pace with 36 off 23 balls, including two huge sixes. However, not even he could match Dhoni's remarkable strokeplay, the India captain providing a staggering display of power hitting with four sixes and seven fours that allowed Tendulkar to calmly build his record-breaking innings at the other end. When Mark Boucher departed in the 23rd over South Africa were 134-7, and though AB de Villiers struck 13 fours and two sixes in an unbeaten 114, his fifth one-day hundred, the tourists were never in the hunt. They must now try to avoid a whitewash in the final match of the series in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Several leading former players who were fortunate to witness the innings saluted India's favourite son Tendulkar. Former India captain Bishen Singh Bedi said: "It was a great moment for us and another class act from Tendulkar. Sachin has been a great warrior for us and this innings was a delight to watch." The former Pakistan captain Aamer Sohail, who was Anwar's opening partner, said: "It was a brilliant innings and if you speak to Saeed Anwar, he would be so glad Tendulkar was the one to break his record. "We all know how talented and how passionate he is about the game, but it's incredible that at the age of 36 he is still going on, he plays the full 50 overs, runs hard and at no point during this knock did he look like he was going to throw his wicket away. "But the biggest reason he gets all these records is because he respects the game tremendously." Another former Pakistan captain and top-order batsman Rameez Raja also paid rich tribute to Tendulkar. "He's been a great ambassador for India and world cricket," Rameez said. "He is a great role model because for someone who has played international cricket for 20-odd years there isn't a single scandal against him. "It shows the character of the man and he still has the passion and enthusiasm of a 10-year-old." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/8534309.stm

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How does Sachin Tendulkar do it? Soutik Biswas | 13:14 UK time, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 How does Sachin Tendulkar do it? How does a 36-year-old cricketer stay at the top of the game for 20 years? How does he retain this insatiable hunger for achievement after scoring more than 30,000 runs in the long (Test) and shorter (50 over) versions of the game? Cricket fans are asking these questions again after Tendulkar created history by firing the first double century in one-day internationals. It was an unbelievable innings of brutal finesse - he smacked 25 fours and three sixes and batted just 147 balls to score 200. He simply toyed with South Africa's formidable bowlers. "Take a bow master!", "You little champion!", gasped the commentators as Tendulkar walked back to the pavilion and the crowds went delirious. "If anybody is deserving of this feat, it is Tendulkar and nobody else," gushed another commentator, and then ran out of words. You are indeed lost for words trying to explain the genius, elegance and sheer power of one of the greatest cricketers ever born, but more so after his breathtaking display at Gwalior on Wednesday. I think the best tribute to Tendulkar's genius came from former cricketer and present day guru of cricket writing Peter Roebuck. "Viv Richards could terrorise an attack with pitiless brutality, Lara could dissect bowlers with surgical and magical strokes, Tendulkar can take an attack apart with towering simplicity. From the start he had an uncanny way of executing his strokes perfectly. Tendulkar was born to bat," he once wrote. Tendulkar is India's biggest icon and proudest possession - I remember the rising crescendo of noise when he walked up to receive an award in a stadium filled to the brim in Mumbai two years ago. There were other cricket and Bollywood stars being feted that evening. Nobody could match the reception that Tendulkar got. If you want to know how difficult it has been for Tendulkar to become the greatest cricketer India has ever had, listen to Roebuck again: "The runs, the majesty, the thrills, do not capture his achievement. Reflect upon his circumstances and then marvel at his feat. Here is a man obliged to put on disguises so that he can move around the streets, a fellow able to drive his cars only in the dead of night for fear of creating a commotion, a father forced to take his family to Iceland on holiday, a person whose entire adult life has been lived in the eye of a storm." It has been an incredible journey for this magician of cricket. And he is still pulling off new tricks and hitting fresh milestones. How does he do it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2010/02/how_does_sachin_tendulkar_do_it.html

[EnterTheVoid]

I will scan some press clippings from the Australian press tomorrow, watch this space

[Gunner_Mania]

Tendulkar the history man It is the hunger that is perhaps most remarkable about Sachin Tendulkar. Yesterday was his 442nd one-day international – in a career spread over four decades – and his best yet as he became the first player to score an international double century in the history of the limited-overs game. Tendulkar reached the mark from the third ball of the final over of India's innings in the second one-day international against South Africa in Gwalior. The match was won by India, comfortably by 153 runs, but from the moment Tendulkar angled Charl Langeveldt behind point for a single everything else took on an almost irrelevant air. Yet again, it was all about Sachin. "I don't know how to react to this," said Tendulkar, a notably modest man despite being on the receiving end of a nation's all-consuming adulation for over 20 years. "I would like to dedicate this double hundred to all the people of India who stood with me for the last 20 years. I really appreciate their support. This is for all the people in India." Tendulkar turns 37 in April but shows no signs of approaching the end game. He wants to play in next year's World Cup and in the Test arena –he has played 166 of them – his form remains strong, too. He scored back-to-back centuries in the recent drawn Test series with South Africa. That took his total of Test hundreds to 47, yesterday's double was the 46th time he had reached three figures in one-days. The figures keep coming: a record 13,447 Test runs, a record 17,598 one-day runs. His strokeplay is timeless – Sir Donald Bradman famously described him as the player who most reminded the great man of himself – and his appetite tireless. "He should aim for more," said Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian captain. "Maybe a Test innings of 450 or an one-day international knock of 250. And then he wants to win next year's World Cup. There is a little boy in Tendulkar who wants to keep playing. That spirit keeps him going. It's absolutely incredible how he keeps going." He was suffering towards the end of his innings yesterday with cramp, but on he went. "The ball was coming nicely on to the bat," said the "Little Master" (of understatement). He scored his runs, exactly 200 of them, from 147 balls with 25 fours and three sixes. His second hundred occupied just 57 balls. Next best in the Indian innings of 401 for 3 was Dinesh Karthik's 79, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored a typically brisk 68 from 35 balls to complete a chastening day for South Africa in the field. In a somewhat futile reply the tourists were bowled out for 248, AB de Villiers making an unbeaten 114 that on another day would have been been worth more than a footnote. The previous highest one-day score was 194, held jointly by Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, made against India in 1997, and Charles Coventry of Zimbabwe, who reached the same mark against Bangladesh in Bulawayo last year. Tendulkar's previous highest was 186. The highest one-day score by an England player is Robin Smith's 167 against Australia in 1993. Tendulkar, meanwhile, is to have a pavilion at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior named after him, the latest recognition of one of cricket's true greats. "He's been a great ambassador for India and world cricket," said Rameez Raja, a former captain of Pakistan. "He is a great role model because for someone who has played for 20-odd years there isn't a single scandal against him. It shows the character of the man and he still has the passion and enthusiasm of a 10-year-old." The last word though belongs – as ever – to Shane Warne, watching on TV and passing his thoughts on through Twitter:"Glad I'm not bowling to him today ha ha ha." Smashin' Sachin: The record breaker * Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs – 17,598 – in one-day cricket, and has also hit the most centuries (46) and fifties (93). * In 1998, he hit 1,894 runs in a calendar year, the record for a batsman in the limited overs form of the game. * In January, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score over 13,000 Test match runs during a game against Bangladesh. He has also hit the most centuries (47) in Test matches. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/tendulkar-the-history-man-1909629.html

[SachDan]

Sachin Tendulkar proves you can be a sporting icon without turning into a monster

Surely every neutral cricket-lover - and even a few South African supporters - must have welcomed the news that Sachin Tendulkar has scored the first double-hundred in one-day internationals. With his extraordinary performances over the past two decades, not to mention his exemplary conduct off the field, Sachin Tendulkar has proved that it is possible to be a sporting icon without turning into a monster. In the light of the various indiscretions committed in recent weeks by Tiger Woods, John Terry and Ashley Cole, it would be easy to conclude that while power corrupts, sporting success corrupts absolutely. Tendulkar is the ultimate counter-example. In his own way, he can compete with any of these men for eminence. The most famous Indian since Mahatma Gandhi, he has admitted resorting to wigs and fake spectacles just to get to the cinema undisturbed. And yet, despite spending more than 20 years at the top of his sport,Tendulkar has never become tangled up with a Bollywood actress, or been accused of giving out pitch and weather information to an illegal bookmaker. A cynic might add the rider, “as far as we know”. After all, that slippery PR fixer Max Clifford has repeatedly insisted that the only reason Tiger got caught was because he was badly advised. But everything about Tendulkar’s public persona backs up his squeaky-clean image. The man is modest in victory and gracious in defeat, while his post-match comments are invariably diplomatic. It is hard to remember him being drawn into a single controversy – at least, not one that stood up to scrutiny. Compare that to Woods, who is notorious for chucking his clubs out of the bag whenever he hits a bum shot, or the foul-mouthed Premier League stars who occupy so much of our airtime. Even Roger Federer, easily the most impressive member of the “Gillette trio”, cannot resist the odd cheap shot. In Woods’s case, his apologists argue that his problems start with his upbringing. By putting him on national TV at the age of four, they suggest, his father Earl gave him no chance of developing a normal identity. Well, Tendulkar started pretty early too. Not at four, admittedly. But he was known as a child prodigy around Mumbai from the time he was 12. By 14, India’s most admired batsman Sunil Gavaskar had given him a pair of pads, and the following year he notched a hundred on his first-class debut. No pressure, then! We could barter statistics for days, but suffice it to say that Tendulkar started scoring international runs at 16, and is still doing so today. The gentle dip that afflicted him in the middle of the last decade - when he was struggling with tennis elbow – has been firmly consigned to the past, judging by a sequence of four hundreds in the last six Test innings. And now we have this monumental 200 – an achievement never matched in any one of the previous 2961 one-day internationals. Let’s hear it for Sachin Tendulkar, a truly great sportsman, and – just as importantly – a thoroughly admirable man.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/india/7314049/Indias-Sachin-Tendulkar-proves-you-can-be-a-sporting-icon-without-turning-into-a-monster.html

[SachDan]

An absolutely phenomenal record, truly phenomenal player: Imran Khan Sachin Tendulkar's unbeaten 200 is a testimony to his fitness and commitment even as he heads for his 37th birthday. He is looking as fit as focused and as formidable as he ever has, and his timing remains untouched by the passing years. Having played till the age of 39, I know that discipline, good, healthy living and focus can add years to one's career. What I lost in pace and stamina, I gained in control and guile. In Tendulkar's case, too, he has smartly sorted out his game. He might not have the eye he had in his late 20s, or the speed - those are the peak years of every batsman. However, Tendulkar has compensated for those areas with excellent shot selection and placement. I always maintain that Test cricket and One-day cricket are two different areas, one cannot be connected to the other. However, Tendulkar's rich vein of form in the longer version seems to have relaxed him and given him the freedom to play in an unburdened manner. Though I did not see the knock, the statistics I have got are staggering. The fact that he got the score in 147 balls itself is a huge achievement and by reaching 200 he bettered one of the best One-day knocks I have seen, by Saeed Anwar. The latter was one of the sweetest timers of the ball, and that knock in Chennai was when he was at the peak of his form. To have bettered that Tendulkar must have really turned on the magic with some scintillating shots. There may be many who will say that the wicket helped strokeplay and that there was nothing in it for the bowlers. But no matter what the wicket is like, to stand through 50 overs and score 200 is a very, very special effort - an achievement that his contemporaries, Ricky Ponting and Brian Lara, would have been proud of. If I had had to pick up a guy as the one to score the first One-day double ton, it would have been Virender Sehwag. He is young, belligerent and in unbelievable touch. However, it was his illustrious senior who pipped him at the post. Tendulkar seems to have rediscovered an exuberance and enjoyment which seems to have taken his game to a different level, and India would be hoping that he maintains this rhythm for some time. This achievement would mean a lot to Tendulkar, even though he has many records to his name because every opener must have had an eye on this record. A double century has only been a theoretical possibility in limited overs so far, so in many ways Tendulkar has achieved something unusual. True, he has many feathers on his cap, but this one is a really special one. An absolutely phenomenal record by a truly henomenal player. By Imran Khan Link

[Prudent]

[Prudent]

http://deccanheraldepaper.com//pdf/2010/02/25/20100225aA001100002.jpg

[SachDan]

This is THE BEST !!

[CSK Fan]

Edit, un-named source Sorry, I dont have a link When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will

[flamy]

From Times magazine Sorry, I dont have a link When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will

brill! :yay::yay::yay::yay:

[SachDan]

From Times magazine Sorry, I dont have a link When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will

wow ! wowwwwwwww !! :hatsoff:

[SachDan]

brill! :yay::yay::yay::yay:

flamy, care to tell me who's Goddy?? :--D

[flamy]

flamy' date=' care to tell me who's Goddy?? :--D[/quote'] wtf is this "goddy" shyt? :whack: It is God and it is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar :icflove: