The Case Against Personal Records

Nothing to it; typical bloody Indian !!! And Sachin is an Indian after all, although, his batting talent is almost un-Indian like ! ! We Indians always had been idol worshippers, and we always want our heroes, instead of doing something worthwhile, oneself. All said and done, the statistics say it loud and clear that all the other top players in India has played more match-winning innings, than Sachin !!!

Though I will enjoy Tendulkar getting 100th century but I maintain that I will be more happier if he scores brilliant 80s and 90s and help India win more number of matches. We must enjoy his subtle batting, his timing , technique and courage to score on dangerously rising balls. He started his batting career like this.Every body enjoyed his batting on his debut when he hit Abdul Qadir for 3 sixers and he got out. He underwent a change after some seniors like Gavaskar, Kapildev, Vengasarkar retired and shifted his gear to play cautiously and strengthen the middle order. Now with the advent of Aggressive batsmen like Sehwag, Dhoni, Gambhir, Yuvi / Raina / Kohli and defensive batsmen Dravid and Laxman, Sachin is in a dilemma to remain in which Lane. Defensive or Agressive. His defensive Technique is better than even Dravid. And his stroke play surpasses even Sehwag, Raina or Yuvi. There is no better player of hook and pull shots in entire India than Sachin. Why dont Indian Cricket fans enjoy his batting. Law of averages will catch Sachin and a string of centuries will come out of his bat. The Experts should not create a monster monkey and put on the mind or shoulders of Sachin. His innings of 94 was very very enjoyable. Experts failed to recognize it. If Sachin and some other seniors are allowed to skip ODIs against the West Indies and sent to Australia earlier, to practice in Australian Conditions, Then it is a very good idea. That will give our players some more time to acclimatise in those conditions and perform well. Sachin, forget the century. Just Play good cricket and help India Defeat Australia on their home grounds. Sachin, just beat Australia. Our good wishes are with you.

Why India or Indian Cricket Team is looking after Sachin's record. Is it going to make any difference. We need India to win against any country. Sachin's record is meaningless if he took a match or all the overs just to make a record and its worthless. See Gavaskar or Lara who made their best and made a move for freshers to come and show their talent for their team and country. What's going on now as after 28years we won WORLD CUP which is because of DHONI's leadership and new players' best performance for their team and not for their own records. LARA or DHONI as a good batsman never always used to bat at first just mere to sore runs but manage the team in a way so that the team in a whole can score which results in winning the match. Indian government (INDIA being a poor country and even don't respect players of other sports who earned lots of PROUD to INDIA) spending a lot for the cricket players but they even don't understand their responsibility and player like Sachin playing for their personal goals instead for their country and its just a shame.

Not expected from Siva. He has tried to belittle Ashwin's and Kohli's efforts. No individual player is greater than the team.

Well said Mr Hemant.Usually I press ''mute'' button whenever Shivaramakrishnan and Ravi Shastri come on air to commentate.But it was amusing to see even Harsha Bhogle[on CNN-IBN] wanting Sachin to play the one day series for entirely defferent,if not for the obvious reasons.

It is quite clear,commercial interests of sponsors and TV channels are being pushed through a group of cricket experts.Some experts are even pushing the case of Harbajhan Singh for Australian tour and funnily the reason they give is,Harbajhans capacity to play mind games with Australians..!! for a man who has forgotten how to bowl on a cricket field.

Kudos...very well written. It is often due to the commentators that the players get demoralized...

Thanks God mate you are an Indian. Had this piece been written by a writer from any other country then he would've been killed. Such euphoria is common among the Indian public and the cricket pundits who badly want their heroes record more than winning a match. It should've been corrected from the very start.

author cant understand that nobody is overlooking india's chances in the match.....but this is people's love towards sachin...that except few....all are eagerly waiting for that milestone....if it is some other player ....same would not be the response my dear.........

AR hemanth ji..
For making into news two things are there either do great things or critcise the people who achieved greatness/ fame. Let us thing what category we are..
Then coming to scoring runs..there are many cricketers in indian current test team who contributed less than sachin..why no body talks about them..Why focusing only on sachin..When laxman fails u take it granted, when shewag dosenot score it is ok, gambhir doesnot score its purple patch, dhoni do not score (not now but before world cup final..many games) it is also ok..
This dual standards should not be there. He is not a robo, he is human he too have human weeknesses even though he is far ahead of all of us.
God also makes mistakes some times as per ithihasas, puranas..so why this cry about tendulkar..
Leave him he is better than a lot of current young/ semi senior players.

ups and down are there always with a person in a game.As we all say the god of crick, Sachin Tendulker, delivered the best over the years.But about his 100th Century, it is just more then our over exoectation.So just wait and watch

A well-written piece.

typical indian mentality is proven with these bloody statements,if sachin caught after his 100th ton ,about wat v ppl comment about him...............he done 94 in the match this is the best score i think..and may i dont sachin thinking about his 100th ton u ppl looking the match for that ton only
so plz.......dont keep over pressure on our god

wheather we dont know he playing for records or for money. we r all enjoying his cricket.And cricket is a game who knows wat happens in the next ball.........so former cricketers if u want to criticize. him just overlook urs career.

and for commentators,and for former players if u know wat could happen in the next ball u will be bestest.......crickketer still now so just keep quite to see the next sachin tons watever the number

some ppl talking about the mny if the legendary players play in this time they will also earn with out their intention

and another thing some ppl talking rubbish without knowing much about cricket.so for them just analyse the stats and then start commenting

as per a cricket fan sachin done very well in the westindies series.......6 th best scorer among all players who played in the series.......

all of the world players agreed that sachin is god of cricket & we indians commenting on him

so for all plz keep quite for the next ton by cricket god.

thank u all.............

The hype surrounding Tendulkar's 100th hundred is by the media, of the media and most certainly for the media. Yes, every Tendulkar fan watches each of his innings with bated breath, waiting for the inevitable to happen....but is this hysterical hype a media creation? The test cricketers talking about this issue in the above article, are today media personalities first and test cricketers later, so their views need not be taken too seriously. Has Tendulkar stopped scoring runs ? No. There are two scores in the nineties and a few fifties in this interim short period. Ofcourse insufficient by his own high standards but to think even after twenty years, people still expect him to score a century every time he walks out to bat is itself an amazing epitah on this batting prowess. That is why it is silly to read nonsense being written about him by the armchair critics...Not that he bothers or has bothered in all these years. As for personal milestones being above the game of cricket and the team.......by harping on it in the media and commenting on it here..we are showing that this is what WE want not Tendulkar.

Ha ha here is another one demeaning the champion.
What kind of analysis is this ? Comments made by Siva and Manjrekar are given a different meaning . But atleast they are about something which the gentlemen said publicely.

How doed the author of this article know about Sachin's mind ?
The analysis says much more about Sachin ................................................................... ''He may not admit it. But we know it: Tendulkar wants this hundred badly''

Did Sachin tell the author so ?
OR the author can read mind of someone playing about 100mtrs or so away from him.
Similar sentiment was aired when the great Sunil Gavaskar was at the end of his career (scored 80 plus on a turning track in his last Test appearance).
Sunil Gavaskar followed a 'Winners dont quit and Quitters never win ' attitude and came out with flying colours.So will Sachin !

It is true that This is the time for Team India to induct new faces. It is also true that currently Indian cricket is bestowed with talent as never seen before. This talent must be given opportunity NOW.
But all this has nothing to do with 100th hundred.

For instance why not play a youngster in place of VVS ?
Not with an intention to belittle the touch artist but to groom an youngsters as well as provide more opportunities to let Sachin have a go at getting the 100th hundred ?

Any person and a sportsman in particular would WANT to conquer the highest peak in his/her feild. An amount of anxiety always overcomes every one from a normal staff worker to the manager as the increm,ent / promotion day nears.Those near and der to the person also are excited for the person getting close to it. Why then this sentiment be held against a sportsperson ?

If Sachin is about to conquer the peak and if he is fit and still capable of doing it , then do not belittle the great man for being cautious.On the contarary his colleagues, media. critics, selectors and fans must make it a very enjoyable.

As for this game if one analyses the Mumbai Test draw , 94 scored by Sachin are as important as the Sehwagesque 100 by Ashwin. In fact , R. Ashwin who may be be much younger to the author ,showed more maturity in celeberating his first 100 politely, fully concious of the fact that someone has done it 99 times.

Any young cricketer like Ashwin the importance of 100th hundred, perhaps their answer will be more realistic that of any armchair Bradman makng a living writing about the 100th hundred from a distance.

Cricket is in limelight as india watch it with heart and thats due to greats like Sunny, Kapil, Sachin. Its natural to be bias for player then game. you idiot will not understand it. Just selectively written article. proof
talk of letting the veteran (with nothing left to prove to anyone) improve his individual record. Nobody is leting he
India’s No. 8 scored a hundred at a Sehwagesque pace; Harbhaja score faster then dhoni. its trend.
and even Rahul Dravid scored quicker than Tendulkar on Day 3. Sachin's Strike rate on day 3 was 51 (who played end of the day seesion) against dravid's 55
Get lost man. Just writting subjective to earn comments.

first he was playing for india at that time he was god and now he just tried to achieve one more milestone for himself(means he is not trying to b selfish ) everyone is giving negative comments..

I don't think fans have taken it seriously. It is pure media hype. In fact the real news is that in recent months interest in cricket generally has come down drastically which media does not portray due to their vested interets.

Sachin has gone old and loosing his concentration, he is in the team more for his 100 and almost ZERO for the nation, We all should stop shouting for Bharat Ratan for him, rather we should drop him from the team and let some young blood get chance to improve Indian team which is full of oldies at the Movement. You all will see their DRAMA in Australia, just wait and see. If it is Ego problem that Sachin should get his 100, then better we should play against Zim/Ban on a dead pitch so that we can get rid off this situation. He must retire with pride or in next series he will be forced to sit outside.

The great Don Bradman had the opportunity to score 4 runs in his last innings and take is average to a 100. He failed in his last innings but he never bothered. Sachin should take the same attitude. He is already one of greatest, so why should he bother about the 100th hundred?

No doubt My Sachin is the Greatest Player in the whole world, but how may time he have to show this to people, if he is not doing his 100 over 100, everyone says "yar ab Sachin ko Cricket s chale jana chahiya" I do not understand one thing- that is Sachin decided to play Cricket in his young age and he himself has to decide to declare retirement, no one has right to say he should go, if he is making so many runs it means he is capable to play cricket in this age and if he will not making runs then his fans will have a chance to say " he should go" I think, people say always something "if one doing right or wrong". Successful persons do not care others, otherwise no one will be a successful persons. Like Sachin- if he were listening to everyone, he had to quit from Cricket during his Tennis Elbow & Back Pain problem. He is a splendid and greatest personality. No one can match him in this World. So pl keep quite and see whatever you are doing. Are you giving 100% in your work. But Sachin is giving 100% to his Cricket and His Country INDIA. No one can say even a Single word to him. "Agar koi aur hota to retirement lekr Ghar m baith jata vo itne hard work s Cricket ni khelta". This is MY SACHIN TENDULKAR. Aya Samaj me------- Neeraj Kush