The Tendulkar Fatigue Syndrome

[Shehezaada]

I've been wanting to reply for a while but unfortunately school has me busy. Still with an hour or so today imma respond to Dhondy uncle's stuff. Dhondy..I've tried to explain this to you many times...it hasn't gotten through. I don't think you have played team sports or been part of a team atmosphere. So I'll try to explain with an example, see if you can grasp what I'm trying to say. Picture an outstanding cricket team. They play hard, fight hard, and from 1-11 they are a professional unit led by the the best fast bowler of his generation, along with the best spinner of his generation. These are the Australians. Now, picture a team that is the complete opposite. A greedy board, corrupt selectors, no professionalism, and before Sehwag, a team that had a tail at both ends. This is the Indian team of the 90s. This team has one bright spot. The best batsmen in the world, Sachin Tendulkar. India plays Australia the first time around in 1999. You know how Dravid and Ganguly did, even how they looked playing on that tour. The team was a joke. Consider what McGrath's strategy is....on a length outside off, ball, after ball, after ball. Now tell me, Sachin Tendulkar, his team's ONLY hope, he leaves them. When he comes closer to the stumps, Tendulkar scores off McGrath, so McGrath pitches outside and keeps them there. So you dig up some hallf-assed stats on Statsguru, divide runs by balls, and come up with McGrath dominated Tendulkar!?? If Tendulkar hits a couple of boundaries and then gets out, India is DOOMED. If he stays there and guides the ship, atleast there is some chance of someone else getting it going, and then he can pick up from there. This is called strategy and TEAM sports...something which you unfortunately aren't able to grasp. Which is why your comparison of Tendulkar and Sehwag are ludicrous. Why do you think Sehwag can go out and play like Sehwag? He knows he has the world's best behind him, so they give him the license to go out and play. Try to look at it from a TEAM perspective, instead of an INDIVIDUAL perspective. Then you might appreciate a man who has done everything in his career to win. For someone who writes so beautifully about cricket, it's unfortunate that you don't exactly understand it.

[Shehezaada]

by the way, for comparison sakes, here are some ball by ball stats data size is limited because CI doesn't store old logs: 1) Sachin Tendulkar - 2 Matches, 4 Innings -> 5 runs off 45 balls, 1 dismissal, S/R: 11.1 2) Brian Lara - 5 matches, 10 innings -> 84 runs off 222 balls, 1 dismissal, S/R: 37.8 3) Jacques Kallis - 12 matches, 24 innings -> 139/403, 4 dismissals , S/R: 34.5

[sandeep]

dhondy dont like tendy. that's the gist of it. move along, not much else to see here.

[flamy]

Haven't gone through the posts in this thread, but just to let you guys know the first hand experience of the effect a Sachin innings can have. I was at the Ganga Ram Hospital (in Delhi) pediatric ICU for the last 2-3 weeks due to a personal emergency. As you can imagine, near a hospital unit dealing with terminally sick kids, the scene on the floor was always somber with families praying for their kids to get healthier and there used to be the regular wailing from nervous families or from the families which bid good bye to young kids of the household who couldn't struggle against their acute illnesses anymore. For those 75-80 minutes after SRT scored his 100 and then went onto unleash those gorgeous shots, the scene on that entire floor was completely different. There were smiles all around. I saw people who used to wail and cry all the time praying for their kids well being, jumping with joy and cheering for Sachin's 200, saw even some patients on wheel chairs being carried to their rooms stopping before a TV on the floor and applauding the knock. So much of positive energy all because of one humble human being wielding his bat and unleashing those sumptuous drives, cuts, pulls and delicate paddle sweeps. And last but not the least, there was this young boy aged about 14, struggling with a multiple organ failure and on whom the doctors had given up all hopes of a recovery, he sat with me for 10-15 minutes during the last stages of that knock praying for the world record to be broken first and then for the 200, returned to his room with a huge smile despite all the pain and then 2 days later his struggle abruptly came to an end and he breathed his last. Trust me, I never saw him without a smile during his last 2 days. Forget everything, if an innings can bring such joy and smile to someone in so much of pain, lets have more such gems, even if it's termed as useless by some people. Thank you Sachin!

:hail: Hope all is well with you personally now :icflove: