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

[Sachinism]

Tendulkar double ton reiterates technique Only the God of cricket could have made a daunting 200 look so effortless. The game of numbers isn’t one for Sachin; he has gone well past that. That evening on the 25th February, Tendulkar didn’t just break an overwhelming record, he narrated cricket’s lost story. The double ton, perhaps, brought back, the passé ‘technique’ into the game. My admiration of Tendulkar’s masterclass didn’t just stop at the record, but the manner in which he pulled it off. You would assume that a certain amount of slogging is almost mandatory to score a double century in fifty overs. But Sachin proved that it can be done by playing good cricket and knocking some skillful cricketing shots. The reason why Sachin doesn’t need to slog his way to big runs is his impeccable technique. Ironically though, talking technique has almost become blasphemous in modern day cricket. No longer is it only about the number of runs you score, the strike-rate at which those runs are scored is equally important if not more, especially in the shorter formats. Perhaps, there is seemingly nothing wrong about thinking in terms of strike-rate because that makes for entertaining cricket. Innovation is not an aberration anymore but a norm. While most cricketers playing international cricket are capable of changing gears and adapting to the new demands of the game, a whole crop of youngsters trying to break into their respective state under-16, under-19 teams are not. To a young mind, the easiest way to score quickly is to take the aerial route and play adventurous shots. The impression a youngster carries is that technique restricts you from playing all the shots and hence slows you down. Little do they realize that in reality, technique empowers you to play almost every shot in the book or perhaps more. It’s the technical dexterity and not slogging which enabled Sachin to score a double century off merely 147 balls. I see that the role of a cricket coach more important now than ever before. He ought to help a youngster find the right balance and ensure that he doesn’t sacrifice technique for adventure. But are these coaches well equipped to ensure that a youngster doesn’t go astray? The answer is an unfortunate No. Only a few cricket academies in the country are run by qualified coaches. Others are merely organized net practice facilities which would rarely produce good cricketers. We may not be able to organize the cricket-academy sector but we can always ensure that the coaches working with the state teams at all levels are qualified coaches. After all the BCCI organizes coaching clinics on a regular basis producing Level 1, 2 and 3 coaches. These coaches in turn should be absorbed by the state associations. I watched a Ranji Trophy probable bowling big no-balls and all that the coaches around could possible tell him was a feeble ‘stop overstepping’. No one would tell him how to do it. Poor kid kept bowling for nearly an hour with no success. I felt sorry for the boy because it wasn’t his fault. It’s the duty of the coach to rectify mistakes, but sadly, they couldn’t. If this being the state of affairs at the First class level, pity how things would be at levels below Ranji. The way forward is most certainly a sound lesson in technique, for you can break a rule only when you know it. Technique is perhaps one of the most important things that distinguish a good cricketer from a great cricketer. And the God of the Cricket told us just that. - Aakash Chopra http://blogs.cricinfo.com/beyondtheblues/archives/2010/03/tendulkar_double_ton_reiterate.php

[SachDan]

Brand Sachin on top of the world! Experts say Tendulkar can leave the field tomorrow without any brand equity dilution. He was already India’s biggest icon and proudest possession after scoring an incredible 47 Test and 46 one-day tons. But after he played that unbelievable 200-run innings of brutal finesse on Wednesday, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, 37, has ensured that he could leave the field tomorrow without any dilution in his brand equity. Brand experts say Tendulkar will continue to get paid millions of dollars to appear in television commercials and on billboards selling everything from luxury cars to credit cards, soft drinks to shoes even after he retires. Reason: Sachin is a brand that transcends time, according to Ogilvy and Mather India Chairman Piyush Pandey. That’s a far cry from the days (just a few months back) when the growing feeling was that Brand Sachin was no longer value for money. After recurring injuries kept him off the field and a blip in form, a growing number of companies including Fiat, TVS, Airtel and Pepsico ended their long relationship with the cricketer. Experts were quick to point out that half the country’s population is below 30 years and Tendulkar, clearly, was overage. More so, when younger men like M S Dhoni have turned in more consistent performances. One of his former teammates, Sanjay Manjrekar, even referred to Tendulkar as “the elephant in the dressing room.†The impact was obvious. According to Tam Media analysis, Tendulkar currently endorses around 15 brands. But his nearest competitor, M S Dhoni, endorses more than double that number. That will surely change now. With his consistent performances over the last six months, everyone expects the Little Master’s brand fortunes to soar. Even in his tough days, Tendulkar earned Rs 5-6 crore a year per brand, but experts now say his brand value will no longer be dictated by his scores. Talent management firms, which peg his earnings now at Rs 50 crore a year, expect Tendulkar to re-scale the commercial value of cricket as a sport and multiply the value of the celebrity endorser. India Inc agrees. Andreas Gellner, managing director, Adidas India says, “Tendulkar is a generation-defining athlete and we are associated with him for a decade now. He personifies our brand values perfectly and is an inspirational figure for every Indian.†Gellner says Adidas believes in partnering with leading athletes who bring the passion behind ‘Impossible is Nothing’ to life through excellence in sports. The company has also launched ‘Adidas-ST’ cricket hardware range which is inspired and co-created with Tendulkar. Star-struck India is among the heaviest users of celebrity endorsements. In 2001, 25 per cent of all TV advertisements carried a known face. By 2008, this had grown to 62 per cent and continues to grow. In 2009, the top five brand ambassadors — MS Dhoni, Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sachin Tendulkar and Priyanka Chopra — endorsed 68 brands with Dhoni leading the pack, according to Tam Media. V L Rajesh, head of marketing - foods, ITC, says, “Tendulkar has been endorsing Sunfeast biscuits since 2007. He is extremely popular with kids and adults alike, reasons why we chose him as our brand ambassador. Also, associating with a national icon helps in our brand equity.†R C Venkateish, managing director of ESPN India, says, “Tendulkar was a brand ambassador for us between 2002 and 2006, when we had a brand-ambassador-driven marketing outlook. Now our content is our brand ambassador.†“We signed on Tendulkar because he is an iconic personality and the best association a sports channel could have,†adds Venkateish. However, many say even Tendulkar requires the right brands that go well with his current image. Anand Halve, co-founder of Chlorophyll, a brand building and strategy planning organization, says Tendulkar as a brand ambassador is best associated with ‘maintenance or fitness with longevity’. Companies, which want to harp on sustained performance over the years, is a perfect brand fit for Tendulkar. His brand recall is strong even though he has lost out on several endorsements due to advancing age. Halve may be spot on. But everyone agrees with one fact: If brand managers are looking for the maximum bang from the celebrity buck, Tendulkar is still way above others. He delivers quicker recall in a cluttered scenario. The recent performances will only cement that positioning of Brand Tendulkar. “You’ve got to create heroes and you've got to pay them,†said the late Mark Mascarenhas of WorldTel way back in 1995 after WorldTel made Tendulkar India’s first multimillionaire sportsperson. The hero has just ensured that companies keep on paying him for many summers ahead. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/brand-sachintopthe-world/387133/

[Dravid]

niceee :-D Any front pages of newspapers from diff countries? like eng, rsa, etc

[zubinpepsi]

this is the best

If Tendulkar had found an honest mirror three years ago and asked the question; "Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the best batsman of all?" It would've answered; "Brian Charles Lara." If he asked that same mirror right now; "Mirror, mirror on the wall should I retire?" The answer would be; "Yes."

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[SachDan]

^ :haha::haha:

[Chandan]

Was trying to find a comment from Ganguly. This is what I got:

Expects more surprises from Tendulkar : Ganguly Former skipper Sourav Ganguly heaps praise on Little Master Sachin Tendulkar By D. Datta, Special to Gulf News February 28, 2010 Kolkata : The opening partnership of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly in one-day cricket once used to put the fear of God among the rival bowlers. They still hold the record of scoring highest number of runs (6,609) for the first wicket, which came in 136 innings at an average of 49.32. Ganguly, the former Indian skipper who retired from international cricket towards the end of 2008, still maintains that he enjoyed batting most with Tendulkar. Gulf News contacted Ganguly to answer queries only on the little master's record-breaking effort of the first double century in one-day cricket. Excerpts: Gulf News: Did you congratulate him? Sourav Ganguly: Oh yes and he immediately replied back. How can I prevent myself from sending a congratulatory message on such a big world record? Now that he has crossed the 200-mark, will there be more surprises from the Little Master? I sincerely believe we'll be getting more. He would be playing till the 2011 World Cup. Maybe he would decide not to play one-dayers after that. But if he wants, he can play for two more years even in one day matches. And as long as he plays, there will be surprises. If you have to describe Sachin Tendulkar in one word… Phenomenon. We are really lucky that we belong to the same generation. The next generation will never know what they had missed! Nasser Hussain says that Sachin is greater than Sir Don. Your opinion... I have not seen Sir Don. But among those I have seen, Sachin is clearly the best. You have seen Sunil Gavaskar and Vivian Richards... Yes. In Tests, Sunnybhai and Sachin are at par, but in one-dayers, Sachin is much ahead. Viv Richards was a batsman of different kind. But just have a look at Sachin's numbers 93 international hundreds, 30,000 international runs, around 450 one-day matches and 165 Test matches. It's simply amazing. And if you have to consider his stature among the sporting icons of this generation? Roger Federer in tennis, Tiger Woods in golf and Armstrong in cycling — Sachin would be in the same class with these three. Only seven more hundreds needed to complete a century of international hundreds… The way he is playing now, I'll not be surprised if he gets it in this year! In the last two years, he has been in great nick. Can you tell me how many hundreds he had scored in the last two years? Six in Test matches and four in one-dayers. Since 2009 to date, his Test average is 78 while it's 62 in one-dayers. See, even now, his appetite is the same. He has an insatiable hunger for runs. He is proving it every day that age is not at all a factor for a performer of the highest class.

[Sachinism]

^^ Something seems off about that interview, how can the interviewer ask Ganguly about Sachins stats in the last 2 years and then Dada just gives them to him

[Karan114]

^^ Something seems off about that interview' date=' how can the interviewer ask Ganguly about Sachins stats in the last 2 years and then Dada just gives them to him[/quote'] Actually I've noticed this with Saurav in some previous interviews, he is really good with his stats. With any other player I'd have been really surprised at them knowing the exact averages and things (probably Ian Chappell is the one other exception to this, he also knows his numbers), but I can believe it in Saurav's case.

[vvvslaxman]

Now that he has crossed the 200-mark, will there be more surprises from the Little Master? I sincerely believe we'll be getting more. He would be playing till the 2011 World Cup. Maybe he would decide not to play one-dayers after that. But if he wants, he can play for two more years even in one day matches. And as long as he plays, there will be surprises. ---------------- On an aside..the interviewers asks "will there be more surprises" and gives a title as if Ganguly himself volunatrily said that. :cantstop: Soon you will see things like Do you think Sachin will become a serial killer? I don't think so.. topic will be Sachin won't become a serial Killer :Ganguly

[Ram]

---------------- On an aside..the interviewers asks "will there be more surprises" and gives a title as if Ganguly himself volunatrily said that. :cantstop: Soon you will see things like Do you think Sachin will become a serial killer? I don't think so.. topic will be Sachin won't become a serial Killer :Ganguly

:haha::haha::haha: Or maybe you might see something like this; Interviewer: How would you describe Sachin in one word? Saurav: He's certainly great. Headline next morning - 'Ganguly says 'Sachin not the greatest..' But I shouldnt really complaining... Most of the guys here complain a lot of my posts look like they have been lifted straight out of the ToI reporters' desk. :cantstop:

[vvvslaxman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/india/7332352/Sachin-Tendulkars-double-century-blows-away-talk-of-50-over-demise.html Sachin Tendulkar's double century blows away talk of 50-over demise Sachin Tendulkar's breathtaking double century against South Africa is one in the eye for one-day critics. On fire: India's Sachin Tendulkar (left) celebrates his double century as team-mate Mahendra Singh Dhoni Photo: REUTERS So 50-over cricket is dying, and only muscle-bound, switch-hitting and reverse-sweeping batsmen can survive in the modern one-day jungle. Pah! Sachin Tendulkar certainly blew those couple of absurd and trendy notions asunder last week with his record-breaking one-day international double century against South Africa. Its greatest glory was that it was an innings with which any era could identify; one of stunning convention and wonderful simplicity, full of straight-blade shots from a bat that somehow appears broader than any other. There were cover-drives aplenty, all directly from the text book, which was not bad for a man who was so concerned about the stroke that he recently made a Test century with barely a single drive. The area behind the bowler was explored relentlessly and the leg-side boundary found regularly with a late flick of the wrists. This truly was a victory for placement over power. I hope the myopic county chairmen who voted against 50-over cricket were watching. This is a form of the game that must prevail. And if properly marketed and scheduled (is it any wonder that county 40-over matches are more popular when played in high summer rather than the Arctic April afforded 50 overs?), it can do. The Australians may be bored of it, but they've just played 10 matches in a month. The delirious thousands in Gwalior offered a very different tale: Tendulkar's innings will live always in the memory. No Twenty20 or 40-over innings will ever be able to lay claim to that.

[vvvslaxman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/sachin-tendulkar-the-mich_n_484068.html Sachin Tendulkar: The Michael Jordan Of India By Jason Overdorf NEW DELH, India -- At 7:30 on a sunny Saturday morning, most of the city is still fast asleep. Rush hour won't begin until 10. But three separate cricket matches are already underway at New Delhi's Africa Avenue sports field. There's a chill in the air as one portly bowler runs up, windmills his throwing arm and fires the ball at the wicket. Then, thwack!, shouts erupt as the batsman swats the delivery high into the sky toward the car park. It's a "six," cricket's version of the home run. "Now we play twice in a week," said 26-year-old Sunil Kumar, who was keeping wickets. "In younger days, we used to play every single day. We come early in the morning, at 6 or 7, so we can play at least four matches before people have to go to work." A quick glance at the players tells you everything you need to know about the reason they're here. By turns spindly, pot-bellied, pigeon-toed and bow-legged, these are no fitness freaks. They're not up on the sports field at the crack of dawn out of some misplaced obsession with the peak of their biceps or the cut of their abs. They're here because, like millions upon millions of Indians, they're mad about the one maddening sport at which this dismally unathletic country excels. And, again like millions upon millions more, they all worship the same hero: a 5-foot, 5-inch tall, curly-haired, 37-year-old cricketer with a reedy, teenager's voice who just might be the Greatest Of All Time -- and the best athlete you've never heard of. His name is Sachin Tendulkar. But here in India, he's simply Sachin. "The only name that we think of when we think of cricket is Sachin," said Kumar. "Every single record of batting is Sachin. Whatever -- centuries, half centuries, sixers, fours, boundaries, runs, test matches, one days -- he is the one." As Kumar's passion and these early morning games suggest, India's love for cricket verges on the pathological. Walk through any neighborhood at any time of the day, and there's bound to be a match on in an alley (or "gulley," as it's called here). Drive from Delhi to Agra or Lucknow, and with every sign of civilization you'll find a tea stall and a cricket match. Everything from the schoolyard to the cemetery doubles as a "pitch," or field, and everybody from the lowliest cowherds to the poshest scions of snooty South Delhi seems to carry a bat and ball. Maybe it's popular because its gentlemanly style recalls the British benchmarks for native upward mobility -- in its classic five-day form, after all, the game is still played in starched white uniforms. Maybe it is that it doesn't require huge muscles or tremendous stamina. Or maybe it is simply that Indians are good at it. But everyone agrees to one thing. Cricket is the one religion that unites Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and Jain. And Sachin? "They call him 'god of cricket,' and I think he is god of cricket," said Vijay Lokpally, cricket correspondent for the Hindu newspaper. Last month, Sachin staked perhaps his strongest claim yet to the title of the greatest batsman of all time with a brilliant performance against South Africa. Parrying and slashing the ball all over the field, he became the first player in the 39-year history of that form of the game to score 200 runs in a one day international, or ODI. But even though it was the cricketing equivalent to Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in the NBA, it was not the statistical milestone -- which joins Sachin's long and growing list -- so much as the bold and seemingly effortless grace of the "knock" that converted nay-sayers. That's because unlike baseball, which it resembles in other ways, cricket does not reward power and bat speed so much as cleverness and control. "In the history of cricket, four individuals have had a definitive impact on the game; the Englishman W. G. Grace, the Australian Don Bradman, the West Indian Garfield Sobers and the Indian Sachin Tendulkar," said historian Ram Guha, the author of "A Corner of a Foreign Field." "He is certainly one of the four greatest cricketers ever." Wedge-shaped and flat on one side, the cricket bat is more like a paddle or broadsword than a club. And the gold standard of batting is the ability to wield its blade to slice and steer the ball at will to the spots in the field where there are no defenders -- employing a daring and creative variety of swings, cuts, chops and blocks that commentators evocatively describe as "swashbuckling." Sachin was arguably the first Indian player to embrace this free-flowing and aggressive style of play -- emerging at a time when India was a puny, Third World-upstart vying for respect. "India suffered from a combination of self-loathing and a feeling that it was not getting its due recognition," said Santosh Desai, CEO of FutureBrands. Sachin changed that. India's Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali rolled into one, Sachin's rise prefigured and paralleled that of the country. When he first walked onto the pitch against Pakistan in hostile Karachi in 1989, Sachin was a pint-sized 16-year-old with a squeaky voice and a wild 'fro. More Harry Potter than LeBron James, he was David facing Goliath, and a nation of mothers held their breath when Waqar Younis rushed toward him to fire a 100-kilometer fastball at his skull. Watching him beaned repeatedly and then unceremoniously bowled out for a mere 15 runs, many softhearted souls cried out that the boy batsman had been brought along too fast. "The general impression was that he was being pushed too early," said Lokpally. But on the last day of the match, again against Younis, a legend was born. Decked by a fastball to the face, Sachin picked himself up, dusted himself off, and went on to post 57 runs with blood streaming from his nose. "That convinced everybody that this boy was different," said Lokpally. A fan club soon followed. Then accolades, then unprecedented riches, and, finally, as the years marched on, a cascade of statistical records. Begun around the same time that India liberalized its economy and allowed the introduction of private television channels (in 1991), Sachin's career drove an "economic renaissance" in a sport that had never been lucrative, according to Desai. When Sachin first signed an endorsement deal worth about $5 million at today's exchange rate, he changed the scale of cricketing -- and Indian -- economics by several orders of magnitude. Before long, he was selling everything from laundry detergent to Pepsi, and on the way to an estimated net worth of about $60 million today, he'd help make the celebrity endorsement a vital part of the marketing strategy for any brand that wanted to compete. The key to his appeal was simple. To Indians, he showed that the fearless underdog -- no matter how small -- was not only capable of standing up to the larger players from swaggering England, South Africa and Australia, but was also able to dominate them. "What Sachin did was for the first time he gave India a sense of domination. Sunil Gavaskar played a defensive role. He proved that Indians could face up to the fastest bowlers in the world. But it was about facing up, navigating and negotiating, rather than dominating," said Desai. "In Sachin's case, he was this cherubic 16-, 18-year-old boy with a reedy voice, and that only made it more distinctive and more magical. When you had very little to back and look up to, Sachin became something that everyone could feed off." For a long time, he was virtually India's only hero. And his career suffered as a result. Through his long innings he has amassed more than 12,000 runs in Test (or five-day) cricket and more than 30,000 runs in international cricket -- thousands more than any player in history. He holds the record for the highest number of "centuries" (100-run games) in both Test and One Day cricket, and his tally is still rising. As of last week, he's the only man to score 200 runs in a single one-day match. And he did it all despite adverse conditions. In the '80s and '90s Sachin labored like the proverbial Casey at the Bat. India's batting lineup was compared disparagingly to a bicycle stand: When one falls, they all fall. Sachin carried the heavy burden of the hopes and dreams of a billion Indians on his shoulders. And as he grew and became one of the team's senior players, sometimes he could not help but temper his naturally aggressive and inventive style of play. That's why last week's performance was especially exhilarating for so many Indians. Over the past five years, Sachin's team has been transformed by an infusion of brash, young players from the new, booming India. The pressure is as great as ever. But their level of confidence is unprecedented. Today India's giant, growing consumer market provides the advertising dollars that fund the game -- giving India more muscle than England or Australia when it comes to the business of the sport. And just as India's entrepreneurs are now acquiring companies like Jaguar and Land Rover and threatening to overtake the biggest markets in the world, India's cricketers no longer play "not to lose." That means that even at 37 years old, with his best days as an athlete behind him, Sachin has been freed to play like he was meant to do since he was 17. And India can't get enough.

[vvvslaxman]

wow huffington post. A news paper that is far far from cricket has decided to write a piece about him.

[ludhianvi]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmNix-T8xU4]YouTube- Best Comments on Sachin Tendulkar[/ame] :hmmm:

[Lord]

we r admiring Sachin but forgetting the contribution of Nehra n co.if we had lost the match,the same innings would have been called selfish n SRT a choker

[Holysmoke]

Just saw this on the streets

[Sachinism]

Brilliant

[Gunner_Mania]

Finished? Really?

There are times when Sachin Tendulkar reminds you of the intrepid tourist, methodically ticking off places of interest in the tour guide. Even by his standards, though, events at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior were something special, equivalent to turning a corner and coming across the ruins at Machu Picchu

http://wisdencricketer.com/item.php?parent_id=3&child_id=0&item_id=662

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[Roshanrocks]

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