Sachin - Learning School For Cricketers
Friday, January 28, 2011
Former captain and Director-General of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Javed Miandad has urged the Pakistani cricketers to learn from the achievements of Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar in order to excel on the field. “We keep on reading and hearing about some of our players making tall claims about how they will deliver, but on field that is not happening and it is a big let down for the nation,” said Miandad.“I would advise them to just focus on their game and go for improvement and take every match seriously.
They should learn from Sachin who has had a marvellous career and and yet one never hears him making tall claims about his performances or achievements. He is a proper professional and someone our players can learn from,” said the master batsman.Miandad also called on captain Shahid Afridi to take more responsibility as a player and lift the team by example and added that the all-rounder has enough talent to be a match-winner but needed to channelise it properly.“He (Afridi) shouldn`t be playing the way he is. Imran Khan is a great example of how a captain should perform. Imran lifted the team in the 1992 World Cup by his own performance and Afridi needs to start doing that himself. He did it during the World T20 Championship, so he is perfectly capable of doing it again,” Miandad said.
Urging the players to take the current one-day series against New Zealand seriously Miandad said: “Unfortunately, what I noticed was that the players didn`t appear serious about their business in the first match. In international cricket this is just not acceptable.”“It is important for the players to realise that once they get into a losing streak, it will be difficult for them to come out of it,” he said.
Labels: Sachin Tendulkar
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Tendulkar - The First Man To Score 14,000 Runs
Monday, October 11, 2010
India’s Sachin Tendulkar passed another major milestone but a dogged century from Australian Marcus North put the touring side in control of the second test on Sunday.
North’s career-best 128 was the cornerstone of the Australian first innings which folded for 478 at tea on day two, but not before their lower half had added 193 runs to their overnight score of 285 for five wickets.
In reply, India made a feeble start, losing the explosive Virender Sehwag (30) and bail-out specialist Rahul Dravid (one) in quick succession. Tendulkar remained unbeaten on 44 with opener Murali Vijay (42) at the other end with India still trailing Australia by 350 runs.
“It’s going to be extremely important tomorrow that we have a very big partnership,” Tendulkar told Neo Cricket channel after the second day’s play which ended with India on 128-2. “A couple of partnerships will bring us back in the game and put us in a decent position. Right now it’s one of those challenging phases.”
Playing his 171st test, Tendulkar became the first batsman to amass 14,000 test runs in the 27th over of the Indian innings, hitting off-spinner Nathan Hauritz for a boundary. Earlier, North’s 149-run sixth wicket stand with fellow overnight batsman Tim Paine (59) defied the Indian bowlers in the morning session and took the visitors past the 400-run mark.
North mixed caution with occasional aggression, slog-sweeping Pragyan Ojha for the first six of the innings before retreating into his defensive shell. Paine’s was a more eventful knock in which he was caught behind off a Shanthakumaran Sreesanth no-ball and was dropped by Suresh Raina off Ojha before the left-arm spinner returned to settle the score.
North completed his fifth test century in the next over and eventually fell to Harbhajan Singh after a resolute 240-ball knock with 17 boundaries and a six in it. “I got a start last night, so I needed a big score,” North said. “It’s a very good batting wicket, so it will be nice to get a couple of early wickets tomorrow. They have got a partnership in Vijay and Sachin but we will come out very hard tomorrow.”
Labels: Australia, India, Sachin Tendulkar
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