In a unique way of paying tribute to Sachin Tendulkar, a new variety of mango has been named after the Indian batting icon. Kalimullah Khan, an elderly farmer from Malihabad in Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, came up with a noble way to salute the highest run accumulator in Tests and One-Day Internationals.
The India captain placed his helmet on the ground, pointed to his bat and made a yapping gesture with his gloved hand after scoring a sublime century on day three of the Perth Test.
Sachin Tendulkar has cemented his greatness with a truckload of runs but what former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar admires most about the batting great is his humility, manners and the unabashed love for the game that he has maintained for nearly two decades.
There have been a number of players who have shown solidarity, but the big guns have been silent, with the stellar exception of former India captain Anil Kumble, notes Suhit K Sen.
Many have already started talking about new batting sensations and India's vice-captain Virat Kohli as Sachin's possible successor but legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan said there was no point in this comparison.
'One of the things I have seen with Rohit is that if he gets in, he scores big runs and really affects the game. He must have scored 4-5 hundreds in the World Cup last year.'
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'For so many years, I did whatever I wanted to do and the camera captured that.' 'But then suddenly I was asked to do particular things and then the camera captured that, so it was a bit different for me, a big change.'
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting rates Sachin Tendulkar as technically the best batter he ever played against. The legendary Indian cricketer, he says, always found a way to combat anything the bowlers threw at him.
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Sachin Tendulkar's prolonged form slump may have raised questions on his retirement but West Indies batting legend Sir Vivian Richards reckons the veteran batsman is still a 'class act' and should not be pressured into calling time on his career.
The one and only Sachin Tendulkar has been motoring along with phenomenal precision for the last few years, and the mammoth occasion of the ton of tons, the hundredth of hundreds, ought to be a moment of immensely heady celebration, a hitherto unimagined batting record that should galvanise the nation and bathe it in bubbly as we toast and thank our stars, says Raja Sen.
Former Pakistan captain and current team coach Inzamamul Haq has said that Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar should have announced his retirement after the Pak-India series.
For Yuvraj Singh, it was the perfect payback for a similar thrashing India had received 23 years ago.
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'Sorry for stealing it (the player of the Match award) from Jaddu. I wanted to make a big contribution. I have made fifties in World Cups, wanted to finish it off this time.'
Pollock, who took 393 ODI wickets and 421 scalps in Tests besides scoring over 3,500 runs in both formats, said there was a time when all their plans would fall apart against Tendulkar and they would wait for him to make a mistake.
If Yashasvi Jaiswal is happy slamming his first Test double hundred in only his sixth match, he is happier just being able to sleep, wake up, and work.
On the verge of completing 20 years in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar revealed that every time he crosses a milestone or breaks a record, Gavaskar always calls to congratulate him.
Cricket pitches need to be more bowler-friendly if the rising imbalance between bat and ball is to be addressed, Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar has said.
Former Australia captain Mark Taylor on Sunday warned that ban on the usage of saliva in cricket, in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, runs the risk of upsetting balance between bat and ball in Test matches. The International Cricket Council has banned the use of saliva on ball as an interim health safety measure to combat the spread of coronavirus -- a move that has raised concerns about the game becoming even more batsmen friendly.
Virat Kohli said he had painted the perfect picture after confirming his place as cricket's modern-day master batsman with a record 50th ODI hundred.
The batting maestro held his birthday celebrations with his close family members and friends outside Mumbai.\n
Coming into Champions League T20 as the defending champions, Mumbai Indian might be leaving South Africa without a single win under their belt but for Dwayne Smith the experience has been fulfilling personally, as he got a chance to open the batting with Sachin Tendulkar.
Shivam Dube carried his rich recent form into domestic circuit cracking a rapid fifty but Shreyas Gopal's four-wicket haul ensured that Mumbai were bowled out for 251
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In a chat with PTI ahead of Tendulkar's 50th birthday, Gaekwad fondly recalled the time spent in the dressing room with the little master during the memorable home series against Pakistan in 1999, the 'Desert Storm' in Sharjah the year before, and his first meeting with a 15-year-old Sachin during a Ranji Trophy game in the late 80s.
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