Sachin retirement thread

[Clarke]

Tendulkar should be allowed to play until he rediscovers his form ?

[diga]

South Africa is the last series for Tendulkar... period

[Sidhoni]

Yeah right, lets call our beloved Sri Lanka to play a test match at Wankhede to bid him good bye.

[JaFanatic]

No, he should make his way into the team by scoring well in the domestic circuit IMO. There is no place for him in the side atm But anyway the selectors will pick him for the SA series

[Crookbond]

Tendulkar's scores since 2012 season - 2x50+ scores No code has to be inserted here.

[Sidhoni]

^You can include scores from the England tour onwards as well.

[saneindian]

The batting average had crept upto 56.95 in SA, now down to 53.85 post that amazing 100 at Cape Town :((

[tweaker]

The SA series should be farewell series for Sachin i e high or low.

[adi B]

he`ll get dropped after the 2nd test so the cape town test will be his last

[Crookbond]

^You can include scores from the England tour onwards as well.

It's called playing with numbers - I don't want to do that. It's more about painting an honest picture.

[cowboysfan]

A nice gesture would be retiring no 10 from all indian cricket,he just cant play anymore.

[Laaloo]

He should be given a phainty :bumsmack:

[Brainfade]

The article itself does a fair assessment, but the title is misleading. No one should be "allowed to" leave gracefully. As great a player as he is (and IMHO, from a holistic perspective, he is the greatest-ever sporting personality ever), he has to leave when his current value expires. And it almost has.

[Gunner]

A Test Series Win over South Africa would be the ultimate high Tendulkar could wish for before retiring.

[Sidhoni]

A Test Series Win over South Africa would be the ultimate high Tendulkar could wish for before retiring.

If he had to retire on a high, he would have retired from ODIs on the night of 2nd April itself. Instead he chooses to retire from T20 when his team wins IPL..

[Lord]

Why does one have to retire on top..... You would be more beneficial to the team when you are on top of your game ?????

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[Vilander]

OK. give him some on the way out.

[vamos_rafa]

If he had to retire on a high, he would have retired from ODIs on the night of 2nd April itself. Instead he chooses to retire from T20 when his team wins IPL..

:facepalm: for comparing the retirements of ODIs and IPL. He made it pretty clear as to why he did not retire post WC. He said he did not want to steal the limelight away from the WC win. Moreover, till the WC, he was in the form of his life in both tests and ODIs but he was simply picking and choosing ODIs. He has had quite a dip in form since the WC and he continued his practice of picking and choosing ODI series(whether it was right and wrong is another discussion). He played 2 full ODI series after the WC and retired. And I seriously don't understand why would you retire on a high. Look at how the Ozzies are badly missing Hussey. That's the perfect example of retiring on a high. You should retire only when you can't contribute to the team's cause or when you no longer are left with the zeal to go out and perform. Sachin, on current form, falls in the former.

[Sidhoni]

:facepalm: for comparing the retirements of ODIs and IPL. He made it pretty clear as to why he did not retire post WC. He said he did not want to steal the limelight away from the WC win. Moreover, till the WC, he was in the form of his life in both tests and ODIs but he was simply picking and choosing ODIs. He has had quite a dip in form since the WC and he continued his practice of picking and choosing ODI series(whether it was right and wrong is another discussion). He played 2 full ODI series after the WC and retired. And I seriously don't understand why would you retire on a high. Look at how the Ozzies are badly missing Hussey. That's the perfect example of retiring on a high. You should retire only when you can't contribute to the team's cause or when you no longer are left with the zeal to go out and perform. Sachin, on current form, falls in the former.

I wasn't really comparing the two. Just found it a bit weird. Most probably he was tired of all fixing and stuff and though it is best to be away. His retirement from ODIs meant somewhere he knows he can't contribute to the team in a manner which he used to do. Surely he knows the same is the case in Tests as well. I agree that retiring on a high can be bad for your team especially when the team is in a bad state.

[Sidhoni]

That's pretty rich isn't it and assumptions and guessing are a fantastic way of feeling better about the lil world that we live in hmmmm.

Not blaming him or something. I actually think it was a good decision.