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Sachin Tendulkar's birthday being named World Cricket Day is a tremendous tribute by cricket's apex body, the International Cricket Council. The announcement came a day after arguably the world's finest cricketer, Garfield Sobers, paid handsome tributes to Sachin, saying that with all his achievements he won't give it away so easily. Before this tribute to Sachin, Indians were basking in the glory of the world's finest hockey player, Dhyan Chand, being remembered by his birthday being named the National Sports Day of India. One can't remember other sporting greats being similarly commemorated. But Sachin's glory is that he is being honoured in his lifetime. Only recently we had Winter Olympic gold medallist Hannah Kearney seeing a day named after her in Vermont, US. Hannah Kearney opened the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games with a bang, winning the United States' first gold medal in the moguls' competition. That sparked a great run for the US, as they went on to win 36 more! Last week, Hannah returned to her hometown of Norwich to parade through the town. She also went through Hanover, where she was born. Vermont governor Jim Douglas declared that February 26 will for ever be known as Hannah Kearney Day! Otherwise we have only had things, events, tournaments, etc named after sporting heroes. On surfing the internet you find that there are Bradman Biscuits named after the Aussie legend. Someone says he wants to see an Alfonso Soriano shampoo, named after a major League baseball outfielder. Another doesn't like a talk show being named after the brash tennis icon John McEnroe. He says basketball great Magic Johnson was given a talk show because he was a likable guy. A highway in the US was named after Mark McGwire, famous baseball player who averaged a home run once every 10.61 at bats, the lowest at bats per home run ratio in baseball history. It was a portion of I-70 near downtown in his hometown St Louis. After his disgrace following a drugs scandal, the portion of I-70 was "renamed" I-70. There were calls to have a Jim Ross Barbeque Sauce after this WWF wrestler peddled his barbeque sauce so much on the WWF airwaves. There was actually an entire WWF cookbook at one point. American NFL footballer Mike Ditka, one of the two people to win Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach, was remembered by the Mike Ditka Steaks when he went into the steak and restaurant business in Chicago. And no one minded that. When Howard Johnson Hotels came on the scene people thought they were named after the baseball star. Not so. Just a coincidence. Like his short-form, HoJo, like the late track queen FloJo. But a George Foreman Grill was actually named after the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. It was mandatory for anyone who had their own apartment in the late 90s and early 2000s to own a Foreman grill. But when people realized that chicken breasts usually take more than two minutes to cook, the Foreman grill headed to the back of the cabinet. There's also a happy-sad medical touch to the naming game of sports folk. A Tommy John Surgery was named after a US baseball pitcher, Tommy John, who won 288 games in his career. The Los Angeles Dodgers player was the first professional athlete to successfully undergo the operation in 1974. Called the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction, it is a surgical procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body (often from the forearm, hamstring, knee, or foot of the patient). The procedure is common among collegiate and professional athletes in several sports, most notably baseball. On the poignant side, Lou Gehrig's Disease was the name given to a nerve disease. The Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a form of motor neuron disease, a fatal, neurodegenerative one caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. The condition is often called Lou Gehrig's disease in North America, after the New York Yankees baseball icon who was diagnosed with the disease in 1939 and died from it in 1941, at age thirty-seven. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is also suffering from it. The sadness of all this has been mitigated by the Sachin Tendulkar name game which will meet with universal joy.

www.indiatimes.com - Pradeep Vijaykar
Sachin Mania continuesssssssssssss :--D
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ICC has declared 24th of April – Birthday of the God of Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar, as the ‘WORLD CRICKET DAY’!! ICC has declared 24th of April – Birthday of the God of Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar, as the ‘WORLD CRICKET DAY’!! Can someone confirm if this is true?

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hope that's not the case. We don't want anyone even sachin to be bigger than the game. after all sachin is what he is because of cricket.

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hope that's not the case. We don't want anyone even sachin to be bigger than the game. after all sachin is what he is because of cricket.
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