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1st Ever E –Magazine On <strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
Our 1st E – Magazine, Dedicated to <strong>Sachin</strong> & his <strong>Fan</strong>’s all over the world<br />
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Preface & Editorial<br />
Inspiration leads to faith, which in turn<br />
makes individuals do extraordinary<br />
things.<br />
A fan movement which started a couple<br />
of years ago has already gone a fair way<br />
from just admiring the on-field<br />
adventures of their hero to actually<br />
making significant advances in self and<br />
societal development.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism is the faith which binds a good<br />
number of inspired individuals and makes<br />
them channelize their collective energies<br />
and efforts to achieve something<br />
productive. The opening issue of “<br />
SACHINISM –inside out” is a living<br />
example of this spirit.<br />
A lot has been happening in the<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism circle, despite of the not so<br />
busy cricket season with respect to India.<br />
Inside-Out aims at capturing <strong>Sachin</strong>ism<br />
in its entireness and giving the readers<br />
enough food for thought to eagerly look<br />
forward to the next issue.<br />
The meaning and essence of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism,<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> related news, site and community<br />
events, tributes, contests, quotes, trivia<br />
and just about anything you could wish<br />
for in a sachin related magazine. Every<br />
page has been carefully designed<br />
keeping in mind the psyche of the reader<br />
and every article picked for the opening<br />
edition is worth treasuring.<br />
We have made a sincere effort to make it<br />
as informative and appealing as possible,<br />
while we still maintain “Its just the<br />
beginning”. Growth never stops at<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism and we are committed to take<br />
the belief to unforeseen heights.<br />
Special Thanks, to Unbreakable for<br />
inspiring to make a magazine for<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism by showing a template &<br />
support he provided.<br />
Thanks, to <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Team who<br />
supported through the whole process.<br />
Team includes Aravind(who helped very<br />
much),Pavan, C.Aravind & Jayashree.<br />
Deepak Khurana<br />
SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
Editor<br />
deepak_khurana89@yahoo.co.in<br />
Brand <strong>Sachin</strong>-5<br />
TOP - News<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> top taxpayer -6<br />
I wanted to become <strong>Sachin</strong>,<br />
Sehwag-10<br />
Off the field ....The Jodi No 1: -12<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> Pays Tribute -21<br />
A Drama Over a Week -24<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> most reliable batsman :<br />
NZ Herald-25<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> targets 15,000 Test runs<br />
-26<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> to attend fitness camp -<br />
49<br />
Community Corner<br />
Community Special- 9<br />
Present Moderators -11<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Leaderboard- 15<br />
Hall of fame page -15.<br />
Birthday Zone-16<br />
Contests in Community<br />
Brain Twister - 17<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Quizes-17<br />
Ashes Master Predictor -15<br />
Six Wise Men , War Of<br />
Words & Spirit Award -19<br />
Fact – It’s A Lie- 34<br />
Walk The Talk-35<br />
Best Off Topics - 44<br />
Contents<br />
Site Corner<br />
Page-20<br />
Passion Play At<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com on<br />
MTV Wassup!<br />
Spot The Ball Contest<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com now<br />
on Facebook<br />
Special comments On<br />
Articles -10<br />
Articles<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism -4<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
A sport even outside his game -7<br />
The Idea , The Inspiration-8<br />
The life & Legen -14<br />
A Tribute–A Poem-27<br />
One summer in the life -28<br />
Bringing Back Memories - 29<br />
Anything For A Quiet Life-36<br />
How I met life -47<br />
Sach-in our teen life -48<br />
India at 62 Loves <strong>Sachin</strong> -50<br />
Others<br />
Opus Website-32<br />
CROSSWORD<br />
TIME -33<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> Hands -39<br />
Pictures Zone -41<br />
Fixtures -42<br />
Archive – The<br />
Ashes-43<br />
Archive –Over the<br />
World-45<br />
Latest ICC<br />
Rankings -46<br />
Feedback -51<br />
All the conents have not been included in index’s , go through<br />
magazine to find all stuff.<br />
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SACHINISM - More Than A Religion<br />
Here's SACHINISM in its simplest form , and goes beyond a religion as<br />
it encourages you to explore your own potential , your human potential<br />
perhaps knowing that <strong>Sachin</strong> is human , <strong>Sachin</strong> is mortal , <strong>Sachin</strong> is just<br />
like any of us but still SACHIN is SACHIN which is what makes<br />
SACHINISM special .<br />
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS<br />
1.COURAGE CONQUERS FEAR--- Believe in yourself, You can do better than what others<br />
expect from you, 85 + international hundreds were not dreamt off a decade ago.<br />
2. READ, ANALYZE & ACT ---It is important to have a plan B. Sometimes things don’t go<br />
as planned, analyze the situation before reacting to it, like every wicket is not a 300+<br />
wicket similarly every war can’t be won.<br />
3 .KEEP THE FIRE BURNING--- No matter what height you reach, sky doesn’t have a<br />
limit, there's always scope for improvement, remember you are as good as your last<br />
Innings .<br />
4. A TREE WITHOUT ROOTS IS JUST A DEAD PIECE OF WOOD --- Keep your feet firmly<br />
rooted to the ground, it’s easy to get carried away by success, greats don’t let it get to<br />
their head.<br />
5. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS --- Keep your tongue where it belongs<br />
(firmly in your cheek) , your acts can make people look at the mirror and introspect,<br />
harsh words merely reflect frustration .<br />
6. TOUGH TIMES DONT LAST, TOUGH PEOPLE DO ---- There are highs and lows in<br />
everyone life , You have to be strong when the time demands it .<br />
7. KEEP IT SIMPLE ---- The simpler you are, the lesser are your chances of messing up ,<br />
Style fades away , simplicity is always in vogue .<br />
8. TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY ----Take the responsibility and act accordingly, 91 in 190<br />
odd balls can make you look very very ordinary, but if it helps in the bigger<br />
objective(Winning) then it’s worth it .<br />
9. BE PATIENT --- Rome was not built in a day , 29 Thousand runs were not made in a<br />
single series , when it took 19 years for <strong>Sachin</strong> to achieve all this , what makes you<br />
think you can make a difference in a day, week, month or year .<br />
10. KEEP ON MOVING ---Failure is a part of life, and like success you shouldn't allow<br />
this to affect you either, one chance, one, year , one world cup. It doesn’t mean the end<br />
of the world.<br />
By One & Only – Unbreakable!<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
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August 15,<br />
2009<br />
SACHINISM<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong> , If you have watched the game<br />
like I have, the name evokes a thousand emotions. If you<br />
choose to go by what international cricketers say, you'll have<br />
to think that he evoked an equal sense of awe from opponents<br />
and fans .alike. What is it then, about this person, that even<br />
when he is going low, and most of the, so called, "experts"<br />
given .up on him, his contemporaries still believe, his fans still<br />
cheer. Is it that they know him better? For the former it's<br />
.quite possible, but the latter? Obviously it has all to do with<br />
blind faith. Faith in the man they call God, as insane as it .may<br />
sound. It's obvious that this man is just another man, a mortal<br />
like you and me, just gifted with something we .can only<br />
dream of! The gift which made people like Bradman and<br />
Richards take notice. And notice, not after two .decades at the<br />
top, but notice after barely one year into his debut season! At<br />
the face of it, one would be inclined to .say it was the genius<br />
which was so evident. After all, its not everyday that a sixteen<br />
year old hits a veteran leg .spinner for a hat trick of sixes! That<br />
seems so long ago now. Maybe because it indeed was a long<br />
time ago. Eighteen .years. It's been a long journey. A journey<br />
which has seen him spend three very important phases of his<br />
life playing .international sport. His teenage, youth, and now<br />
his middle-age. Taking the good with the bad, learning at every<br />
.step, with nothing but the goal in mind. It had "success story" written all over it even twenty years ago, when he was<br />
.a fourteen year old boy making his Ranji Trophy debut. Yes, he is the greatest youth icon that our country has<br />
.produced.<br />
Yet it's not the enormity of his achievements on the cricket field, which sets him apart. It's the way in which he has<br />
achieved it. His records will not last for ever. Some young turk or turks will eventually get to them, no doubt. But will<br />
they be broken in the manner that they were set? That's a very tough possibility. The very fact that these records<br />
were attained while dealing with stardom, public scrutiny (the kind world leaders would rarely face), criticism and<br />
acclaim, at an age when most people just get started makes him incomparable to any living mortal. The legacy that<br />
he would eventually leave behind for his fans and followers, thus, is not the records, but something even greater. It's<br />
what defines <strong>Tendulkar</strong> to them, to us. It's not the destination, but the path. This is what makes him appear akin to<br />
God for his "followers". A genius, yes. But God? Still, it sounds as insane as it did before! But, now, it becomes<br />
important to see it from their point of view. God, not for any supposed super human capabilities or immortality. God,<br />
not because of his seemingly impossible achievements. But God because in all his time under the limelight he has<br />
refrained from displaying any sort of human weaknesses. The kind his two greatest contemporaries, Brian Lara and<br />
Shane Warne, often fell for. It wasn't their fault. It's the sort of temptation that fame and fortune brings with it, and<br />
ordinary men can do nothing but bend in front of it. And the fact the <strong>Tendulkar</strong> could makes him an example for what<br />
"we all want to become", to quote Andrew Symonds. And if that perfection is not divine, then I don't know what is!<br />
For a lad who made his Ranji Trophy debut at 14, he has been a household name for quite some time. For twenty<br />
years he has seen it all. Highs, or lows, they cease to surprise him any more. He has attained a place in not only<br />
Indian cricket, but in world cricket, which only few like Bradman and Sobers have attained. Thus it is sad, that when<br />
he finally does hang up his boots, his greatest achievement, and his greatest gift to us all who admire him, is in<br />
danger of going totally unnoticed. The achievement that should be held aloft at highest pedestal one can afford him,<br />
the lesson that he has taught us all, the lesson that every rising star should follow, something his fans, or followers,<br />
like to call <strong>Sachin</strong>ism! To stare fear in the eye, to dare and defy any restrictions posed by a challenge, to keep a level<br />
head no matter what, to not get distracted, to focus on nothing but the goal, and to give a hundred percent to<br />
whatever you do and do it sincerely, so that you don't have any regrets when its finally over, and the curtain comes<br />
down. Because nothing is impossible. Because there is no limit to what you can do. Because to be the best is all that<br />
matters. Because every adversity is another challenge, and every challenge another opportunity.<br />
When <strong>Sachin</strong> is at crease, we sit with full of relief ; <strong>Sachin</strong> is God: <strong>Sachin</strong>ism teaches us One Nation n One Belief<br />
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BRAND SACHIN STILL GOING STRONG<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Is Boost the real secret behind <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>’s energy? Or is it the other way<br />
round? The SundayET-Synovate Individual-as-a-brand survey hints that the latter might<br />
just be true. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg — global warming notwithstanding!<br />
In a quest to zero in on individuals with the<br />
biggest borrowed equity (value of an<br />
endorser) today, the survey got in touch<br />
with 400 respondents belonging to SEC A<br />
households from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore,<br />
Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.<br />
They were asked various questions ranging from whether a purchase decision is influenced<br />
by the celebrity endorsing a brand to whether brand endorsements should be linked to<br />
performance in profession. The answers, to say the least, are eye openers, especially in a<br />
scenario where breaking through the clutter has become a challenge for companies.<br />
For instance, when asked whether a celebrity brand endorser influences a purchase<br />
decision, most respondents answered in the affirmative. And interestingly, 85% of the<br />
respondents in Delhi think that celebrity endorsers work.<br />
.<br />
Among sportspersons a majority of those polled choose <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> — 75% in Kolkata, which is not shocking considering<br />
the city’s craze for cricket; and 68% in Delhi and Mumbai.<br />
Likewise, Indian cricket captain MMS Dhoni who is also the<br />
skipper of Chennai Super Kings and has a huge fan following in<br />
Chennai, according to the survey, came second. Yuvraj Singh<br />
also makes an entry here at the third position, which might just<br />
put automobile company Fiat at ease since they have just chosen<br />
him as the brand ambassador for its new hatchback, the Punto.<br />
Do You Know ? Opus, the London-based company will shortly release<br />
a book revealing <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s thoughts on his achievements.<br />
But overall cricketers were<br />
preferred over other sportspersons<br />
such as Saina Nehwal, Abhinav<br />
Bindra and Jeev Milkha Singh. The<br />
lone contender though is Sania<br />
Mirza who came fourth as<br />
respondents thought that she adds<br />
value to the brand she endorses.<br />
But all is not lost for sportsmen<br />
from other fields. In the survey, a<br />
lot of respondents felt that<br />
sportsmen who are not cricketers<br />
but achievers from other sports<br />
such as shooting, boxing, golf and<br />
hockey, and have bagged important<br />
medals for the country, make for<br />
good brand ambassadors. And they<br />
have Chennai backing them. 100%<br />
of the respondents from Chennai<br />
felt that these sportspersons should<br />
be encouraged to become brand<br />
endorsers.<br />
And Chennai again steps in with<br />
strong views when it comes to<br />
remuneration of endorsers. When<br />
asked whether astronomical<br />
endorsement remuneration for<br />
cricketers and Bollywood stars are<br />
justified 95% of respondents from<br />
Chennai answered in the negative.<br />
Overall too, 52% of respondents<br />
felt that celebrity brand endorsers<br />
should not be paid exorbitant<br />
amounts. The only anomaly was<br />
shown by Delhi where 62%<br />
respondents felt that the amounts<br />
are justified.<br />
When asked to name the top three<br />
individuals as brands from any field<br />
respondents mostly chose cricket<br />
and Bollywood. <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>,<br />
MS Dhoni, Shahrukh Khan and<br />
Amitabh Bachchan were a few of<br />
the names that came up<br />
instinctively. But surprisingly,<br />
respondents also thought that social<br />
activists too make for good brand<br />
endorsers. Unfortunately, business<br />
leaders and politicians figured last<br />
in the list. .<br />
But last and definitely not the least,<br />
respondents came up with the top<br />
brands endorsed by celebrities —<br />
Boost, Lux, Airtel, Nokia and MRF.<br />
And the secret behind Boost’s<br />
energy is now well known, isn’t it?<br />
Peter Rebouck(Aussie Journalist)- On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train<br />
stopped by for few minutes as usual. <strong>Sachin</strong> was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials,<br />
everyone on the train waited for <strong>Sachin</strong> to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong> top taxpayer among Men in Blue<br />
There has been much talk<br />
of late about M S Dhoni<br />
being more sought after by<br />
advertisers than <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
Do You Know? Master<br />
blaster <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
has been voted as India's<br />
role model of health and<br />
happiness in a countrywide<br />
survey initiated by a<br />
magazine.<br />
'Complete Wellbeing'<br />
But if payment of income<br />
tax is any indicator, the<br />
little master is still way<br />
ahead of all other Indian<br />
cricket stars when it comes<br />
to earnings. Dhoni is a<br />
distant second, though<br />
catching up, in terms of<br />
tax paid, while Virender<br />
Sehwag is third.<br />
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2009<br />
Data on income tax paid by cricketers shows<br />
that <strong>Sachin</strong> has maintained a steady level of<br />
over Rs 8 crore for the last three years,<br />
2006-07 to 2008-09. Behind him, there's<br />
been a reshuffle in the batting order.<br />
Dhoni has moved up from third spot in<br />
2006-07 to second last year with a Rs 4.7<br />
crore tax bill. Rahul Dravid, who was<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>'s closest competitor in 2006-07 and a<br />
close third behind Dhoni in 2007-08, has<br />
dropped to fifth spot.<br />
Heaviest Scorers<br />
(Income tax paid in Rs crore and figures in<br />
brackets indicate last year's rankings)<br />
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2009<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> : A Sport Even Outside His Game<br />
Square Cut:<br />
During a World Cup, this man learns that his father is no more.<br />
He comes back home for the funeral rites; only to be chided by<br />
his mother because he did so. “You were playing for the country.<br />
Who asked you to come back?” He returns the next day and in<br />
the match that follows scores an unbeaten one hundred and forty.<br />
I could have introduced him by his<br />
records which is an object of envy for<br />
every player in the world; I could<br />
have narrated one of his many<br />
amazing batting displays; I could<br />
have told you that he is the only<br />
contemporary cricketer in Sir Don<br />
Bradman’s all time dream team; I<br />
could have counted out the various<br />
trophies that he has received; I could<br />
have told you that he is <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
And yet, I chose to introduce him in a rather unconventional way<br />
because that is precisely what he has meant to the game of<br />
cricket beyond his talent and his records – the spirit of a perfect<br />
sportsperson – passion, commitment, discipline and a never<br />
ending urge to perform.<br />
Cover Drive:<br />
His cricketing abilities need no words to be described. Over the<br />
years he has always let his bat<br />
to do the talking. A perfect<br />
gentleman on the field, he<br />
conducts himself with an<br />
exemplary attitude. A cool<br />
demeanor and a disarming smile<br />
– and you can easily take him<br />
for a rather gentle player of the<br />
game. Not so when he welds his<br />
willow. Ask the best bowlers of<br />
their worst nightmare and you<br />
would realize the king of<br />
devastating effect that he can<br />
have on his opposition. A British<br />
Newspaper had this to say on<br />
his batting prowess “Commit all your crimes when <strong>Sachin</strong> is<br />
batting, because even God is not looking any where else then.”<br />
On his day, he can murder any bowling attack, ruin the statistics<br />
of the best bowlers in the business and make the entire<br />
opposition run for cover. And he has been doing this for many<br />
years at a trot now. And he has been doing this without the<br />
slightest of arrogance for many years at trot now.<br />
Straight Drive:<br />
Over a span of 19 years that <strong>Sachin</strong> has<br />
dominated the cricket world, he has<br />
earned as many fans off the field as he<br />
has earned on the field – people have<br />
fallen for his humility, sweet yet caring<br />
talks and that ever pleasing smile. His<br />
straight and simple persona has<br />
influenced even his worst critics and<br />
rivals in the professional world; which<br />
goes on to speak volumes about him as a<br />
person.<br />
He is rich. He has been in media glare for most of his life. And<br />
yet, there is not a single controversy (the ones that haunt the rich<br />
and the famous) which is worth mentioning about this player. No<br />
wonder a British Newspaper called him ‘GOD’. As a person he is<br />
very much like his favorite shot on the ground – a Straight Drive!<br />
Sweep:<br />
With that kind of a personality and the<br />
charisma that he welds with his willow;<br />
he has wooed a nation of a billion cricket<br />
crazy people. In a country where cricket<br />
is religion and new stars are discovered<br />
everyday, it is unimaginable how this<br />
genius has managed to hold on to the<br />
attention that he had grabbed sixteen<br />
years team. May be, that is the reason<br />
why he is a genius.<br />
A single raised finger that proclaims <strong>Sachin</strong> out breaks a billion<br />
hearts in the country. A survey suggests that the Happiness<br />
Quotient of India is up by three percent when <strong>Sachin</strong> scores a<br />
century. Need I say more to justify that this man has swept all<br />
cricket lovers off their feet – and guess what he has been doing<br />
this for the last nineteen years without fail!<br />
Flick:<br />
Cricket did exist before <strong>Sachin</strong> and<br />
will definitely do so beyond him. But<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> will always be remembered as<br />
a phenomenon that happened to the<br />
game. With respect to cricket’s entire<br />
history, this Indian Batsman might<br />
just be a flick; but a flick good<br />
enough to mesmerize an entire nation<br />
and enthrall every lover of the game<br />
on his day. What is even more<br />
wonderful is that he does it equally well off the field also. Cricket,<br />
after all, is a gentleman’s game.<br />
Harsha Bhogle’s One Liner - Touch of Class & stamp of Authority on <strong>Sachin</strong> reaching century<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com : The Idea , The Inspiration<br />
In the truest sense the actual inspiration started approximately 20 years back<br />
when a young lad, barely in his teens walked into the field with a bat that most<br />
felt was be too heavy for him. Many felt that the bloke would not be able to<br />
handle the pressure of international cricket and may burn out too soon, some<br />
suggested he needed exposure at domestic level for a few years …..a certain<br />
Imran Khan saw something in him even as he got hit by a Waqar Younis scorcher<br />
.and still went on to make a gritty 50.<br />
Talk about that inning or the way he smashed Abdul Quadir all over the place<br />
or the way he stood firmly when wickets kept tumbling on a bouncy Perth<br />
wicket.......... the signs of genius were evident but I doubt anyone expected him<br />
to become the greatest batsman ever at that stage.<br />
I’ve been tracking his career with awe right from the time i was around 8 or 9<br />
seeing him cross his highest score from 30 something to 50 something to 80<br />
something till he finally came off age and slammed his first ODI ton………….that<br />
was the thrill till then , then his centuries became a national obsession his<br />
scoring was no longer a talking point, but his rare failures almost always hit the<br />
headlines .<br />
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2009<br />
It was his authority over the bowlers of the world that forced an otherwise<br />
ordinary Indian team to the semifinals of the world cup in 1996 before India<br />
faced a familiar middle order collapse to succumb to Champions Sri Lanka in<br />
front of an unforgiving Kolkata crowd .It was the way he led his Mumbai Ranaji<br />
team to a win against a loaded Australian team …and the flavor lasted the entire season with Warnie’s nightmares and Waugh’s<br />
acceptance that there’s no shame in losing to such a man when the mighty Australian were blown away in what is famously known<br />
as “desert storm”.<br />
It was his resilience that made Indians feel that it was possible to face the likes of Donald in South African pitches, it was the way he<br />
took responsibility to address a tempestuous Indian crowd from South Africa and follow it up by a series of spectacular performances<br />
including man handling a Pakistani attack boasting of the likes of Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib and Razzaq, it was the way he decided<br />
against playing his favourite strokes and score a resilient 241* against the Aussies in Sydney, it was the way he pierced an outfield<br />
loaded with 7 fielders at will in his little cameo of 28* against England, it was the way he returned back after an injury layout and<br />
straightaway slammed a classy 141, it was the way he responded after a seemingly disappointing world cup to score runs against<br />
every team in the world the examples would never end, nor would the heroics.<br />
If his on field antics were awe inspiring, his conduct off the field is a lesson on handling success and fame with utmost dignity. The<br />
way he has handled astounding pressure, occasional failures and outrageous criticism with the highest degree of élan and still<br />
continue to walk in and live upto the expectations of more than a billion individuals is exemplary.<br />
The concept called SACHINISM, in simplest terms is a belief derived from the examples laid by the great man himself, following<br />
which we can greatly influence our own lives positively. <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com is a place where <strong>Sachin</strong> inspires our thought process and the<br />
way we react to day to day situations. Off course the idea has been laid down in concrete form by those who believe that the master<br />
is the most perfect role model for generations to come, who hold <strong>Sachin</strong> in very high regard not just for his cricketing<br />
accomplishments but also for the lessons he continues to teach tacitly.<br />
The technical work on the website began on 24 th October 2007 and the site opened up to an overwhelming reception on the 4 th of<br />
November the same year, its been due to active involvement of a large number of believers that the project was done at such brisk<br />
pace and since then the site has been literally being run by those who matter the most. We all have a common belief uniting us and<br />
we are committed in using our collective energies to promote the belief so that the benefits are visible in the society.<br />
One nation, one belief.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> -“When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to<br />
be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.”<br />
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SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
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(ODI's). Earlier this Tribute was dedicated to whole of<br />
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take more time to cover up.<br />
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Community. Members can pick up Maximum of 3 MOM<br />
Awards and minimum of 1 MOM.<br />
In the first season, <strong>Sachin</strong>’s first 10 Man of the<br />
Match Awards have been posted.<br />
The registrations for the next season comprising his<br />
next 15 MoM (11 th to 25 th MoM) Awards are open.<br />
Members are requested to select their choice and<br />
register as soon as possible.<br />
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I wanted to become <strong>Sachin</strong>,<br />
But he is GOD - Sehwag<br />
Sehwag has been compared to the great <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> time and again, but swashbuckling opener<br />
Virender Sehwag is not sure that he can ever match<br />
upto his childhood idol. Sehwag said he always wanted<br />
to emulate the<br />
little master.<br />
Sehwag was<br />
compared to<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> when he<br />
first broke into the<br />
Indian side and his<br />
explosive batting<br />
style coupled with<br />
a remarkable<br />
physical similiarity<br />
with the little<br />
master means the<br />
duo are<br />
indisguishable<br />
when they are out<br />
in the middle.<br />
Sehwag, however, was keen to assert that he has a<br />
long way to go before he can come anywhere near<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s stature.<br />
''I wanted to become a <strong>Tendulkar</strong>,<br />
but that's not possible because he is<br />
a God of cricket. When I was<br />
watching him on television, I tried to<br />
copy every single shot,'' Sehwag<br />
said.<br />
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Do You Know? Once Sehwag’s<br />
Mother Said , On Standing in front of<br />
mirror Sehwag used to say , One day I<br />
will become <strong>Sachin</strong>!<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> is Daniel<br />
Radcliffe's idol<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter, is a<br />
huge fan of cricket & <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>!<br />
On Being asked Who is his favourite Indian<br />
cricketer?<br />
He Said, I’m a huge fan of <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and I<br />
think he’s just fantastic. He has always been my idol,<br />
and on my 18th<br />
birthday, I got<br />
his autograph. I<br />
showed it to<br />
Rupert and<br />
Emma and<br />
made them so<br />
jealous. That<br />
was the best<br />
birthday gift, a<br />
piece of paper<br />
immortalised by<br />
the words ‘<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>’.<br />
What <strong>Sachin</strong> Has to Say about it -<br />
“It’s after you’ve asked me that I’ve checked with<br />
(Team India physio) John Gloster, who was there at<br />
that time.… Well, he has<br />
now confirmed that<br />
Radcliffe had indeed been<br />
in the queue,” a bemused<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> told The Telegraph.<br />
Speaking shortly after<br />
arriving here in the<br />
afternoon, <strong>Sachin</strong> added:<br />
“When there are that<br />
many autographs to sign,<br />
one keeps obliging without looking up. Unless, of<br />
course, somebody says something, Obviously, he<br />
(Radcliffe) didn’t say anything.”<br />
Next time, perhaps, <strong>Sachin</strong> may look up once in a<br />
while. Just in case.<br />
Australian Media On <strong>Sachin</strong> "-The most exciting batsman of his time because he finds the right<br />
balance between reason and passion, technique and power, nerves and placement and<br />
judgement that applies to all tastes."<br />
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Let us know a bit about<br />
Present Moderators Of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Community<br />
Pavan Kumar-Birthday : April 26<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
He has been one of the most consistent member of the community and is the oldest moderator among<br />
the current list of mods. Some of his new innovations include “Fact – It’s a Lie”. He also owns a blog<br />
on <strong>Sachin</strong> – sachinist.co.cc<br />
Jayashree-Birthday : February 11<br />
The most active female member/moderator of the community. The community is incomplete without<br />
her.<br />
C. Aravind-Birthday : September 30<br />
24 x 7 active moderator of the community. Innovative and responsible, he is one<br />
of the pillars of the community<br />
Christopher David-Birthday : August 15<br />
Active moderator who regularly takes care of updating leaderboard along with<br />
C.aravind.<br />
Kunal-Birthday : September 22<br />
A relatively new moderator who joined the panel after his immense contribution<br />
to the Six Wise Men contest. A guy with very high potential. (Hope you convert it<br />
into kinetic energy).<br />
Srinivasan -Birthday : December 30<br />
A guy with very good knowledge about the game and amazing debating skills!<br />
Keeps the community active throughout the day. He takes care of Quiz Threads as well.<br />
Harshit-Birthday : September 23<br />
Became a very active member after the community helped him with his personal life and has been a sincere<br />
moderator since he joined.<br />
Shiva-Birthday : April 3<br />
Winner of Leaderboard as a Member for Month of July and was appointed as moderator. Promises a good scope for<br />
the community.<br />
To become <strong>Sachin</strong>ism’s Moderator become a consistent active member.<br />
Rahul Dravid On <strong>Sachin</strong> - Playing in the same team as <strong>Sachin</strong> is a huge honour. His balance of<br />
mind, shrewd judgement, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time<br />
hero... You can't get a more complete cricketer than <strong>Sachin</strong>. He has everything that a cricketer<br />
needs to have.<br />
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New innings at <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s, the restaurant near Gateway of India,<br />
Colaba, is going in for a revamp.<br />
The restaurant, owned by cricketer <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>,<br />
has been closed from June 22, but is likely to open, "as<br />
soon as possible", said a representative of Mars<br />
Restaurants, of which the restaurant is a part.<br />
The representative added, "It is going to be back as<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s, but I can't tell you whether it would reopen<br />
as <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s with a capital T or a small t."<br />
But he confirmed that, "The <strong>Tendulkar</strong> family is<br />
involved in the revamp. They have always taken a<br />
keen interest in the restaurant."<br />
When the restaurant was launched in 2002, <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
was involved in the décor and planning.<br />
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<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s had<br />
some of his<br />
favourite dishes<br />
like fried Bombay<br />
Duck and baingan<br />
bhartha. Now, the<br />
cuisine too will be<br />
revamped, but<br />
they "would like<br />
to keep up the<br />
suspense for a<br />
while".<br />
Sanjay Narang, <strong>Sachin</strong>'s business partner and head<br />
honcho of Mars Restaurants, was unavailable for<br />
comment.The souvenir store below the restaurant is<br />
also going to close.<br />
New Villa<br />
Of <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> & Anjali <strong>Tendulkar</strong>: On and<br />
Off the field ....The Jodi No: 1<br />
A maharashtrian boy who is a legendary cricket player<br />
and the girl is Gujrati – a doctor by profession ... they<br />
met and after dating for few days they decides to tie<br />
knot....and today they are one of the most picture<br />
perfect and ideal<br />
couples for the Gen-<br />
X.... yes we can say<br />
...JODI No.1.<br />
We are talking about<br />
master blaster <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and his better half<br />
Anjali <strong>Tendulkar</strong>... Daughter of industrialist Ashok<br />
Mehta and his British wife, Anjali is four years elder to<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>. But the age difference did not deter <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
from proposing to her ...going beyond the boundaries<br />
of age factor ....The two met through common friends<br />
and before they knew it, they decided to tie the knot.<br />
This superstar of Indian cricket has all most all the<br />
records to his credit on the field...yes who can forget<br />
Ferrari 360 Modena that was gifted to him by none<br />
other than F1 star Michael Schumacher.....though<br />
according to <strong>Sachin</strong> ..Anjali has given him the best<br />
ever gift i.e their two childrens..... Sara and Arjun .....<br />
Both Anjali and <strong>Sachin</strong> have another humble side of<br />
their personalities...and very few people know about<br />
it....they sponsor 200 under-privileged children every<br />
year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO<br />
associated with his mother-in-law...... Though the<br />
great master is reluctant to speak about this, or other<br />
charitable activities, choosing to preserve the sanctity<br />
of his personal life despite the overwhelming media<br />
interest in him.<br />
But this cool and music loving couple loves their<br />
privacy and prefers being so low-key that... so far no<br />
journalist has ever succeeded in doing an interview<br />
with Anjali on and about their marriage.....It is<br />
rumoured that he even refused to appear on the Simi<br />
Garewal show..... <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has many new<br />
milestones to archive and defiantly with a wife like<br />
Anjali he surely has miles to go..........we can say on<br />
and off the field....<strong>Sachin</strong> and Anjali <strong>Tendulkar</strong> are the<br />
Jodi no.1.......<br />
W.V Raman (Former Opening Player) On <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
While is agreegate may probably be surpassed by someone in the years to come but i seriously<br />
doubt if someone can be as a great human being as Mr. <strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
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SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
I worry about runs, not contracts – <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
Even as quite a few players have sounded the impending<br />
death-knell of Test cricket in the wake of the huge popularity<br />
of Twenty20 , <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> , one of the game's icons, has<br />
said he does not fear for the health of the game's most<br />
traditional form.<br />
The master batsman likened Test cricket as the main<br />
course in a meal and Twenty20 as its dessert and told<br />
Wisden Cricketer magazine in an<br />
interview that one cannot survive<br />
on just the latter part of a meal.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> "There is no way<br />
Test cricket is dying. Twenty20 cricket<br />
is the dessert and you can't survive<br />
on that. Who wants to eat only<br />
desserts? Test cricket is my main<br />
course, with all the meat and<br />
vegetables, and then it is nice to have<br />
Twenty20 as a dessert," <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
said.<br />
The master batsman, who has<br />
earned crores in endorsement<br />
deals over several years, said he<br />
worries about the runs he would<br />
get and not about signing of<br />
lucrative contracts.<br />
"I started playing cricket at six with a<br />
tennis ball not because I wanted to be a millionaire but<br />
because I loved cricket. Maybe in 10 years or even now<br />
people will pick up cricket bats thinking only about the huge<br />
money in Twenty20 cricket.<br />
"Money should just be coincidental. The passion and the<br />
desire are the most important thing. I worry about runs, not<br />
contracts," he told the magazine.<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> also revealed that he had decided not to play<br />
Twenty20 internationals in order to prolong his Test<br />
and one-day career.<br />
"I felt as though I would have been a loose link in the team, I<br />
couldn't do that to them. I was not sure I would last, there<br />
was something missing. If my body wasn't strong enough to<br />
last through the tournament then I couldn't play," he said.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> said the secret to his<br />
batting lies in keeping the mind<br />
clutter-free and his best efforts had<br />
come when his mind thought of the<br />
present and not of the future, which<br />
was not an easy thing to do.<br />
"The toughest thing is to clear your mind.<br />
The mind always wants to be in the past or<br />
the future, it rarely wants to be in the<br />
present. My best batting comes when my<br />
mind is in the present but it doesn't<br />
happen naturally, you have to take<br />
yourself there.<br />
"I am not able to get in that zone as often<br />
as I would like but, when you are there,<br />
you don't see anything except the bowler<br />
and the ball."<br />
As he grows older, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> feels, he<br />
has realised the importance of good<br />
breathing and relaxing while batting.<br />
"You have to allow your instincts to take over, trust me, your<br />
instincts are 99 per cent right but, you know, the older I get<br />
the more I realise how important your breathing is to good<br />
batting. By that I mean, if you focus on breathing and<br />
relaxing, you can force yourself into a comfortable place to<br />
bat," he declared.<br />
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The life & Legend of <strong>Tendulkar</strong>-- Ayaz Memon<br />
For a reluctant public speaker, <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s measure of<br />
words and timing of delivery today would be only a whit lower<br />
in impact than when he plays one of his exquisite straight<br />
drives.<br />
I remember him as a man with monosyllabic responses to<br />
queries, but today he is a seasoned raconteur, with a sharp<br />
memory and more importantly a sense of humour.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s formal education was<br />
truncated just after finishing<br />
school, but he appears to have<br />
learnt well from the 'university of<br />
life'. At the release of Shadows<br />
Across the Playing Fields (a book<br />
on 60 years of India-Pakistan<br />
cricket co-authored by Shashi<br />
Tharoor and Shaharyar Khan) the<br />
other night, he had the audience<br />
in thrall with memories of his<br />
introduction to international<br />
cricket. He sent me 20hurtling<br />
years back in time.<br />
I was on that eventful tour of<br />
Pakistan in 1989, and remember<br />
the callow 16-year-old being the<br />
focus of attention of everybody --<br />
not the least Pakistan's dreaded<br />
pace attack led by Imran Khan<br />
and including Wasim Akram and<br />
Waqar Younis. Though a raw<br />
youngster, for psychological<br />
reasons, he was the obvious<br />
target for the Pakistan team.<br />
Ten months earlier <strong>Tendulkar</strong> had<br />
not been chosen for the tour of<br />
the West Indies despite scoring<br />
centuries in his first Ranji, Duleep<br />
and Irani Trophy matches<br />
because the selectors feared he<br />
might be hit by pace bowlers and<br />
lose confidence permanently. But in many ways -- some of<br />
which have been examined by Tharoor and Shaharyar in the<br />
book -- a tour of Pakistan was even more daunting.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> recalled how jittery he was before his first innings,<br />
but I can vouch his teammates were perhaps even more<br />
nervous. Concern over <strong>Tendulkar</strong> reached a crescendo on the<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> at his debut against pak in 1989<br />
Harsha Bhogle’s One Liner<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
eve of the final Test at Sialkot when it was discovered that<br />
the young player would not just talk, but often also walk in<br />
his sleep.<br />
Manager Borde, whose room would often become the hub for<br />
hacks in the evenings to sniff out stories, was most<br />
distraught. "Ab kya hoga?'' he asked the clueless press corps.<br />
As a precaution, I suspect he moved into the room adjoining<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s and kept vigil.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> had enjoyed a modest<br />
tour till then, and then faced a<br />
trial by fire in the last Test when<br />
he was felled by a vicious<br />
bouncer from Waqar Younis.<br />
There was blood on the pitch as<br />
he swooned briefly from the<br />
blow, but got only muted<br />
commiserations from Imran<br />
Khan who saw this as a decisive<br />
psychological moment to win<br />
the series.<br />
But <strong>Tendulkar</strong> was unfazed, and<br />
after some quick-fix remedy by<br />
the physio, was back into his<br />
stance. The next delivery from<br />
Waqar was sent scorching<br />
through the covers for a<br />
boundary. Imran's moment to<br />
put India on the mat had come<br />
and gone in a flash. <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
had sealed his brilliant script<br />
with destiny forever.<br />
It's almost 20 years since that<br />
day, and the marvel about<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> is now not so much<br />
about his record-breaking feats<br />
as his longevity. Heck, twenty<br />
years transcends a couple of<br />
generations at least. There have<br />
been 15 cricketers who have<br />
played 20 years or more and in<br />
the early 20th century,<br />
England's Wilfred Rhodes's<br />
career stretched to a whopping<br />
30 years and 315 days, but<br />
nobody has had the workload as <strong>Tendulkar</strong> who has played<br />
159 Tests and 425 one day internationals.<br />
This makes for arguably the most extraordinary story in<br />
Indian sport, and while every fact is well known, is still only<br />
half told. The other half should come from the man himself.<br />
For the sake of posterity, I insist, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> must start living<br />
his life again, as it were.<br />
Ind vs Aus 2000 icc knockout champioship played in kenya.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> was smasing all aussie bowlers, and then he his a superb off drive off lee.<br />
Harsha : " This innings by <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has been a beautiful garden, the last shot being the most<br />
beautiful flower in it "<br />
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SACHINISM LEADERBOARD<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Leaderboard was implemented for the first time in the <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Community to make the forum ground a competitive<br />
one. Every month the topper of the leaderboard becomes a member of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism's moderator panel. Basically it was<br />
implemented to Motivate the Members for a Healthy Competetion.<br />
It was in <strong>Sachin</strong>ism where for the First Time , Excel Sheets were used as Screenshots to show the Leaderboard<br />
Rankings. Definately it was exclusive and new Format which is followed now.<br />
The winner of leaderboard is rewarded with the Moderator Post. If Moderator is the winner then the member (Non-<br />
Moderator) is given that post.<br />
Leaderboard of July’2009<br />
Leaderboard for July’2009 was calculated by C.Aravind & Chris<br />
(<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Moderators) , C.Aravind Himself was topper of the<br />
leaderboard followed by Deepak & Aravind at 2nd & 3rd postions<br />
respectively.<br />
Shiva emerged as topper of leaderboard as a member and was rewarded<br />
with moderator post.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Community - Hall of Fame<br />
There is no doubt that all <strong>Sachin</strong>ists are special and equal and<br />
there is no grading between them. But it is necessary to recognize<br />
the unmatchable contributions of some people to <strong>Sachin</strong>ism. The<br />
Hall of Fame is dedicated to such people who have done different<br />
contributions for popularising the concept of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism and added<br />
new dimensions to it. The Hall of fame currently has 10 <strong>Sachin</strong>ists.<br />
(to be contd)<br />
Are You <strong>Sachin</strong>ism’s<br />
Master Predictor?<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Master Predictor is the<br />
Predictor Series for Ashes 09, which<br />
is being managed by C.Aravind. The<br />
results of the predictions for first 3<br />
test matches have been declared.<br />
Shiva tops the Prediction<br />
Leaderboard. Is he all set to be the<br />
"<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Master Predictor"? Is he<br />
all set to get one of the rarest<br />
collection of <strong>Sachin</strong> pics (45 pictures)?<br />
Only time will tell. Wait for the next<br />
magazine to know if he is the one or<br />
you get to see your name here! Till<br />
then predict predict n predict @<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism Forum. (5th Test Predictor<br />
is on. Predict before the toss.)<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is the only player in the history of cricket who got his 1st endorsement even<br />
before playing for his nation...<br />
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BIRTHDAY ZONE<br />
SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
Cricketers We Wished This Month<br />
Sunil Gavaskar, <strong>Sachin</strong>'s Idol turned 60 on July 10. <strong>Sachin</strong> on his<br />
birthday paid his tribute to him through a beautiful article about his memories<br />
with him.<br />
"Chandu" Borde celebrated his 75th birthday on July 21. He was a member<br />
of the Indian team between 1958 and 1970. On his birthday, Batting maestro<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> praised Borde's role in Indian cricket and thanked him for<br />
guiding him personally during the 1989 debut tour of Pakistan in which the<br />
latter was the team coach.<br />
Check Out For <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>’s Tribute to them on Page No 21.<br />
Members We Wished This Month<br />
Amit Singh - A silent member of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism and Owner of "<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
- The Maestro" celebrated his birthday on July 14.<br />
Ajay, <strong>Sachin</strong>ism's newbie who joined the passion from CFC community to<br />
participate in <strong>Sachin</strong>ism's Ashes extravaganza - Six Wise Men! He celebrated<br />
his birthday on July 15<br />
Tejeswin Sharma - <strong>Sachin</strong>ism's ex and youngest Moderator from Canada<br />
shared his birthday with Ajay and was rocked with wishes from his seniors ;)<br />
RK - One of the die hard fans of <strong>Sachin</strong> and an ex mod of <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
Main community celebrated his birthday on August 5.<br />
Naina - Been one of the consitently frequent visitors of sachinism community<br />
for a long time, Celebrated her birthday on August 7 th<br />
Sandesh - One of the active members of Mumbai Indians community who is<br />
a participant of 6wm celebrated his Birthday on august 10.<br />
Sathya - Moderator of <strong>Sachin</strong> Main community,ex mod of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism and a<br />
die hard fan of sachin celebrated his Birthday on August 10.<br />
Pranav - Ex-Mod of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism and a highly enthuiastic young sachin fan,<br />
Pranav celebrated his Birthday on 14th August.<br />
Chris – One of the Senior most Moderator, popular among community<br />
members and friends as Rocky, shared his birthday with 'Mother India'<br />
Upcoming<br />
Birthday’s<br />
Members<br />
Pradeep-<br />
18 th August<br />
Deepak-<br />
27 th August<br />
Cricketers<br />
Javagal<br />
Srinath-<br />
31 st August<br />
Add your<br />
name in<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism's<br />
Birthday<br />
Calender by<br />
registering<br />
in<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism<br />
Community<br />
Birthday Thread<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong>ism’s Cricket - Brain Twister Contest Is Back<br />
A very popular <strong>Sachin</strong>ism’s Cricket Brain Twister Contest , is back with Series<br />
II.<br />
As the Name Suggests , This contest can Twist your mind to any extent. In This<br />
Contest , 5 Pics are given as Questions with desired Queries and Participants need to<br />
Answer to the Question as per query. This Contest was the one which brought back<br />
Activeness to the community again. Now, It is a very<br />
Popular Contest.<br />
We had 12 Contests in Series Ist , which was very<br />
successful many Guys participated in that series. Last<br />
Contest being Played in Dec'2008!<br />
So, many Guys were missing that series , so the new series<br />
of contest has been started , so that new guys should also<br />
enjoy the contest.<br />
This time there is a limit in series, it will be consisting of 5 contests & Finally the winner will<br />
be announced on basis of Top Points. So, best chance to be winner is Participating in all 5<br />
contest.<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Two Contests have been posted till now , both got very good response.Winner of 1 st contest was C.Aravind and<br />
Chris & Illiyas wont 2 nd contest. 3 rd Contest is going to be posted shortly.<br />
Dare To Participate In <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Quizes<br />
During the off cricket season of Indian Team, One of the <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Moderator (Srinivasan) took a step by making a<br />
thread which will be the Official Quiz Thread to test the knowledge of fellow members regarding cricket and also<br />
to make sure the community remains active when there is little news to discuss. Anyone can post questions and<br />
people can try to answer them. Here, members are requested to post tougher question which will make it more<br />
interesting. questions can be based on all aspects of<br />
cricket(players/officials/rules/googly/stadiums/records etc).<br />
With this we are also running “ <strong>Sachin</strong> Quiz “ Thread , So it’s a challenge for all<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> fans to answer the questions asked by fellow members. There have been<br />
few questions which were not easy to answer. There is a Point system for<br />
participating in these quizzes which can make you go on top of Leaderboard. So<br />
Dare to Participate!<br />
Points Allotment Rule<br />
1. 10 Points for asking a question.<br />
2. 5 Points for answering a question correctly.<br />
3. 20 Points bonus (for members creating a question), if the question remains<br />
unanswered and satisfies both the below conditions<br />
A. No correct answer for 48 hrs since the question was created.<br />
B. Atleast 20 Members have attempted to answer the question unsuccessfully.<br />
Currently, the Leader of Quiz Threads is Srinivasan , followed by Shiva & Surendra. Partcipate now to test Yours<br />
and Others Knowledge<br />
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Special comments On Articles in SACHINISM.COM<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Have you ever submitted articles on <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com , The Most Popular website about <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>? If not then do submit the Best of the articles you read about <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. Let<br />
us see some of the best comments recived on articles by members.<br />
He made us believe that we as Indians could take on<br />
the world, we could dictate our own terms and we<br />
could actually be the world's best. For a nation that<br />
had shaken from its economic slumber and was<br />
entering a new era of opening its doors to the world<br />
here was the perfect poster boy. Young, fearless,<br />
talented, world class but with a value system that was<br />
so endearingly rooted and Indian that he gave the<br />
burgeoning middle class of our nation hope that any<br />
dream was possible.<br />
Alien Quakers for Little man standing tall<br />
dear anon,<br />
i'm new to sachinism and i thank my kids who have<br />
made me a member of the site. read ur article, it is<br />
really not only readable but thinkable too. may god<br />
bless india with lots of sachins not only in the field of<br />
cricket but in other areas of work bcz just like sachin,<br />
all areas of work get atleast one sachin, which is<br />
equivalent to a superpower in every field.<br />
Vikas on <strong>Sachin</strong>ism by Anon Payn<br />
Its this article that prompted me to create an account<br />
ad join this group, thanks a lot Girish! I consider<br />
myself really lucky to have witnessed and still<br />
witnessing "the <strong>Tendulkar</strong> Genius" in my life. I still<br />
laugh thinking about some of our teenage stories<br />
relating to the Master, one of them being "the last guy<br />
entering the TV room before <strong>Sachin</strong> would get out<br />
would be kicked real hard."<br />
I think my whole teenage life have revolved around<br />
him. I remember I went to watch an Ind-Aus ODI<br />
match in a scorching summer day in April. It was hot<br />
beyond limit when Aussies were batting and I was<br />
cursing myself at my decision to come to watch at the<br />
stadium. Then suddenly lunch time came and Indian<br />
batting followed soon after. <strong>Sachin</strong> batted and batted<br />
majestically as only He can, a century followed along<br />
with 7 sixes, and then everything in this world seemed<br />
so beautiful and pleasant, even though I checked out<br />
later that the temperature was even more during the<br />
post-lunch session.I bunked my college on that day,<br />
but I can bunk months of classes if I get to watch<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> practicing, let alone match plays, or centuries.<br />
Its a feeling as if I was the one who was batting and<br />
not <strong>Sachin</strong>. Sometimes I remember watching matches,<br />
when I would agree within myself to strike an<br />
imaginary deal with the God that I am ready to<br />
sacrifice my exam grades for a <strong>Sachin</strong> century (it was<br />
so silly but I still do it at times and I feel proud at the<br />
end if he makes it).<br />
In <strong>Sachin</strong>, I think a lot of us try to see ourselves; his<br />
pride is our pride, his honour is our honour, his<br />
success is ours, his fame is ours, his strength is ours,<br />
his character is ours, so is his victory, glory, courage,<br />
and vice-versa. Its as if he is a part of all of us. Its a<br />
feeling beyond words. I think we all share this feeling<br />
that He is limitless just as the God is. Just as I dreamt<br />
one day after the 2003 WC final debacle that he scored<br />
an unbeaten 200+ as India made 360 to win the final,<br />
only to realize after the sleep that it was all a dream. I<br />
still remember how I often wanted to have him in the<br />
non-striking end, as that was the safest place on the<br />
pitch where He is still there for us yet he can not get<br />
out (but for the unfortunate ones).<br />
I'll always be greatful to God for he created such a<br />
wonderful creature on earth - <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
Susanta Nanda on Sach-in our teen lives<br />
he smiled...oh god , he smiled ....he stopped next to<br />
me ...he was looking at me ....HE WAS LOOKING AT<br />
ME !!!!<br />
Though it wasnt anything remotely close to meeting<br />
HIM in person , the experience i had a year back was<br />
something similar when he spot our <strong>Sachin</strong>ism poster<br />
in a crowd and waved his hand at us during a test<br />
match in Chennai<br />
Life became frantic. Life became still.Life felt like a life<br />
well-lived.Life was worth living again.Life became<br />
speechless. Life was a musical.<br />
Life "at that moment" was a Life in itself.<br />
Ashwin on When I met life<br />
Read best of the articles on <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com & be the one to post best comment’s on them.<br />
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WE HAVE CREATED HISTORY !<br />
Six Wise Men , War Of Words & Spirit Award<br />
For the first time Last Month <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Introduced- Six Wise Man- Unlocking<br />
CFL Code. As the name suggests it is a team game of Six men.It is similar to<br />
the normal CFL game but here you must work as a team to prove you are the<br />
Six Wise men. This is being played for Ashes.<br />
When for the 1 st time our Admin Panel decided to play this game for Ashes, it<br />
was believed that along with OCT in Match Winner Community, This will be a<br />
Failure. But No, This became very famous game in just few days and we got<br />
support from everywhere. Our Special Thanks to CFC Community for getting<br />
many of their members to play this game & Thanks to Match Winner<br />
Community for supporting us to introduce this game alongwith very famous<br />
OCT.<br />
Now, You all must be wondering what<br />
history did we make?<br />
With Six Wise Men we started a thread, War<br />
Of Words (see Below) , after the start of<br />
Ashes 1 st test we reached 5000 post only<br />
during 1 st Test , which was big achievement<br />
, when it was believed that Six Wise Men<br />
along with OCT will be a failure.<br />
If Ever There was Proof Needed To<br />
Justify Cricket's Greatness<br />
It Has to be soemthing Extraordinary ,<br />
It Had to be the Ashes<br />
Here the result is Always Unpredictable<br />
and Impossible to Guess<br />
Heartbeats Change Their Pace and<br />
Players are Always into a Mess<br />
The Aussies and British lock their horns<br />
for a great Clash<br />
Every Series Soemone Becomes a Hero<br />
and some Hopes are Buried into Ash<br />
Here , National Integrity and pride are<br />
at Stake<br />
Whoever Holds their nerves till the End<br />
burns the Candles on the Cake<br />
A poem for Six Wise Men – Ashes<br />
– By Pravin<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Do you want to know the definition of consistency? Ask<br />
the Midnight Raiders for they have proved they know<br />
the answer. Consistenly topping the 6 Wise Men<br />
contest for the first 3 matches, they are suffering a<br />
little low in the last day of 4th match but beware of<br />
them - the tigers never sink<br />
War of Words : Want to have a battle ground to show the superiority<br />
of your teams? War of Words discussion forum is the place for you.<br />
Credits go to Sumeet - ex mod of sachinism who came up with the idea<br />
during V IPL. Aravind developed on that concept and gave a 3<br />
dimension to the idea which later proved to be a huge success. The<br />
thread currently running close to 9000 posts is the forum where all<br />
participants meet to discuss Ashes. Newbies are welcome to join as the<br />
thread is open for non-participants of the contest as well.<br />
Spirit Award : The Team that<br />
tops on a day will be awarded<br />
with 10 points, at the end the<br />
team which would have topped<br />
for maximum days will be<br />
acknowledged by the Spirit of<br />
the Game Award. Right Now ,<br />
Midnight Raiders Top Spirit<br />
Board also.<br />
OCT <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Update- With able leadership by the Captain of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism CFL Team - Aravind, and support from his teammates -<br />
Chris, Surendra, Vijay, Harshit, Srini,Illiyas , <strong>Sachin</strong>ism is consistently doing well in OCT for Ashes.The team started at the last place<br />
on day 1 of the first test and since then there was no looking back as they climbed up faster than a SSC Ultimate Aero to reach the<br />
O 2nd place by the end of the 2nd test. At the end of the 3rd and 4th test they maintained a stable position at the 2nd place. We wish the<br />
team all the best and hope they win this season of OCT.<br />
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August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Contests, Passion Play , Updates & More @ <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com<br />
Passion Play At <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com<br />
Passion Play at<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com is a<br />
Leaderboard which<br />
maintains the<br />
rankings of the<br />
members. This is<br />
based on<br />
Participation in<br />
Forum & submitting<br />
Articles & and other<br />
informations.<br />
Now, <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com has brought New Ranking together<br />
with Leaderboard where rankings are as follows<br />
1.Absolute <strong>Sachin</strong>ist<br />
2.Hardcore <strong>Sachin</strong>ist<br />
3.<strong>Tendulkar</strong>ized<br />
4.Loyal fan<br />
5.Normal fan<br />
6.Newbie<br />
So, to find out your rankings or how big <strong>Sachin</strong>st<br />
you are, just log on to <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com now And<br />
Start Contributing to the site to become Absolute<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>st!!!<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com on MTV Wassup!<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com<br />
has completed<br />
more than one<br />
and a half<br />
years. The site<br />
has grown very<br />
fast. Thanks to<br />
orkut and other<br />
social networks<br />
and of course,<br />
Dr. Akshay’s<br />
banner. To make the concept of sachinism more<br />
popular, the diligent and zealous mods of<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com came with a new plan to popularize the<br />
website and the concept via MTV – ‘Wassup?’ program.<br />
The shoot is on hold due to technical reasons. We hope<br />
the problem gets resolved and we get a good coverage<br />
of the website, the idea and the passion i.e. sachinism.<br />
So have patience till the show is telecasted. Keep in<br />
touch with the site/community to know the updates!<br />
Spot The Ball Contest<br />
At <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com<br />
Although, It has been popular contest<br />
but playing on <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com means<br />
there will be tough competition , so<br />
Gear up to Participate in the contest on<br />
your very own website.<br />
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Be Updated about stuff on <strong>Sachin</strong>ism everyday.<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong> Pays Tribute to Gavaskar & Chandu Borde<br />
I was a ball boy at the Wankhede during the 1987 World Cup. My interest in cricket really took<br />
root after we won the 1983 World Cup, and for an aspiring youngster, to be at the ground during<br />
the next edition of the Cup and watch his heroes from close quarters was an unforgettable<br />
experience.<br />
What made it even more special was when he called me to the Indian dressing room and<br />
introduced me to the team’s superstars. I had just entered my teens and couldn’t believe my<br />
eyes. These were the men I adored, and here I was, shaking hands with them.<br />
What’s more, he spoke highly of me and my cricketing ability to his teammates. It was a big<br />
moment, a huge inspiration.<br />
After all, how many cricketers get the opportunity to enter the Indian dressing room before<br />
making it to the national team?<br />
I was then a school cricketer,<br />
but from the way he treated<br />
me, it felt like I had already<br />
played for India. I could feel his<br />
affection. Twenty-two years<br />
down the line, nothing has<br />
changed. I receive that same<br />
love and affection from him<br />
even today.<br />
In many ways, 1987 was a<br />
watershed year. I remember<br />
batting particularly well, making<br />
more than 1500 runs, so it was<br />
disappointing not to get the<br />
best junior cricketer award from<br />
the Mumbai Cricket Association.<br />
That’s when I got a letter from<br />
him. He wrote that I should not<br />
be disappointed because bigger<br />
awards were in store. At the<br />
end, he mentioned that if I<br />
looked at the list of players who<br />
had received the award, there<br />
would be one name missing<br />
that hadn’t done too badly in<br />
international cricket!<br />
He was referring to himself.<br />
That letter is as valuable as any<br />
other award I have ever<br />
received. That was the<br />
beginning of a long and cherished association.<br />
Just before my Ranji Trophy debut, he gave me a pair of his pads, which I was thrilled to use. It<br />
was light and not many of my age could afford them. Though I was young, I could see that there<br />
was a special place in his heart for me, something I am as proud of now as I was then.<br />
Over the years, we have spent countless hours in Mumbai and almost every cricket ground<br />
around the world, discussing cricket.<br />
During our first few meetings, it was one-way traffic as I hardly spoke. For one, I was in awe of<br />
him, and then, I wanted to make the most of being privy to the wisdom of Sunil Gavaskar. When<br />
our coaches told us to follow a particular routine and we asked why, the reply was:”SMG did this”.<br />
He was the ultimate example, and to our coaches and to us, if he did something, then we had to<br />
do it as well.<br />
Whichever way you look at it, he is an institution. When he retired, for our generation, 34 Test<br />
hundreds was the ultimate ambition.<br />
I have been fortunate to have done a few special things myself. One of my abiding memories is<br />
my 34th Test century in Dhaka. For one, I had equalled him statistically, and he was present at<br />
the ground.<br />
It was wonderful to be hugged by him after crossing the boundary rope during a break. Seeing<br />
him standing there to receive me signified the coming together of my childhood days, my<br />
adolescence and youth. After congratulating me, he said: “Please enjoy the rare moments of<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
becoming a member of a rare, elite club.”<br />
But for me, it was a great feeling to climb<br />
the same peak as Sunil Gavaskar.<br />
Later, he gave me 34 bottles of champagne<br />
and I have been fortunate to receive gifts<br />
from him time and again. When I got my<br />
35th ton at the Kotla, he wasn’t in India.<br />
But just before dinner that night, he called<br />
from Nepal to congratulate me. I had really<br />
been waiting for that call. People say he<br />
does not miss a special occasion and I can<br />
vouch for that. I’m really fortunate that I<br />
have had the wisdom of a legend to fall<br />
back on. When I got the opportunity to<br />
write this piece on his 60th birthday, I told<br />
myself: “time flies”.<br />
He still is and will continue to remain my<br />
hero, the same person I first met in 1987.<br />
The only change is that my respect for him<br />
has increased over the years. Many happy<br />
returns, and here’s wishing you a 35th<br />
hundred!<br />
The felicitation of former India captain<br />
Chandu Borde on his 75th birthday here<br />
saw batting maestro <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
reminiscing his 1989 debut tour of Pakistan<br />
where Borde, as the coach, introduced him<br />
to the cricketing world.<br />
"Chandu Sir guided me through the<br />
difficulties a 16 year old was expected to<br />
undergo on his first appearance on a<br />
foreign tour. He told me how to improve<br />
upon mistakes without disturbing my<br />
natural game technique and instincts,"<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> said last night, in an<br />
overwhelming expression of gratitude to<br />
Borde, who served Indian cricket in various<br />
capacities.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> recalled Borde's contribution to<br />
his shaping as a cricketer on the debut tour<br />
and said the gentle way in which the former<br />
all-rounder gave him useful tips in the nets<br />
boosted his confidence.<br />
"What Chandu Sir did for me then came<br />
from his passion for the game”.<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong> Gives Slip To Media<br />
Master Blaster <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> skipped visits to Kudupu<br />
Temple and Sri Kukke Subramanya Temple in DK on<br />
"Nagarapanchami" today taking a flight to Mumbai from Bajpe<br />
Airport much to<br />
the disappointment<br />
of the press who<br />
had been waiting<br />
for him.<strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
visited the humble<br />
town of Bhatkal on<br />
Saturday and<br />
emplaned to<br />
Mumbai after<br />
attending a<br />
wedding of his<br />
childhood friend<br />
Mr. Mohammad Umar a shoe factory owner in Dubai.<br />
The Master Blaster arrived by a Kingfisher aircraft from<br />
Mumbai on Saturday and drove to Bhatkal in a convoy of cars<br />
and attended the marriage.<br />
Early this morning he left Bhatkal and arrived in Bajpe airport<br />
and took a flight and went to Mumbai.<br />
According to the police the Master Blaster was supposed to<br />
visit the Kukke Subramanya Temple for a darshan of his<br />
favourite diety Lord Subramanya but his hosts had advised<br />
Are <strong>Tendulkar</strong>-Dhoni above Phelps & Bolt?<br />
While the cricket world awaited with bated breath to know<br />
what position Indian cricket’s governing body - the BCCI<br />
would take in order to push forward the uncomfortable<br />
‘whereabouts’ clause of World Anti Doping Agency, the Indian<br />
board made it clear that it would not succumb to anything<br />
and sided with their players.<br />
Prima-facie, what the<br />
BCCI has done seems to be right, if one looks at the players’<br />
point of view, but what it has done is something which will<br />
only be detrimental for the reputation and transparency of<br />
players like <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.<br />
By refusing to toe the WADA line, BCCI has created a problem<br />
for International Cricket<br />
Council, as it would become toothless if a few more boards<br />
follow the Indian board’s footsteps.<br />
So, let us take a look at the contentious clause which has<br />
Team India worried , and because which it is refusing to sign<br />
on the dotted line.<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
him against that visit, today being Nagarapanchami the<br />
temple was filled to the brim and they were afraid that his<br />
visit could throw in some security problems. The police had<br />
deployed extra men at the temple and Mr. <strong>Tendulkar</strong> could<br />
have had leisurely darshan but it was too risky said one of the<br />
temple officials.<br />
Somehow, press corps got information that <strong>Sachin</strong> would visit<br />
Kateel Durgaparameshwari Temple at Kateel, near Mulky in<br />
the district, after his arrival at Mangalore and later in the<br />
night, he would make an halt for visit to Sri Kukke<br />
Subramanya Temple. The press corps descended in hordes<br />
waiting in advance for the star cricketer at both the places.<br />
He also declined to speak to the waiting press people at the<br />
airport.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>, however, visited the famous Murdeshwar Temple<br />
built on a rock near the seashore.<br />
Mr. <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s friendship with the family of Nayate Irfan<br />
(father of the groom) was over 2 decades and had been a<br />
good friend of the family said sources close to the Nayate<br />
family in Bhatkal.<br />
In what is possibly, till date, one of the most effective ways to<br />
free the sport<br />
from cheats<br />
and create a<br />
fair-play<br />
environment,<br />
WADA<br />
brought its<br />
anti-doping<br />
code in effect<br />
from January<br />
1, 2004.<br />
According to<br />
its draft, the<br />
WADA code is<br />
the core document that provides the framework for<br />
harmonized anti-doping policies, rules, and regulations within<br />
sporting organizations and among public authorities.<br />
And to guarantee a dope free sport, it has ensured that<br />
players are tested randomly and made to undertake routine<br />
sample tests, even if they are not playing.<br />
The number of runs <strong>Sachin</strong> scored till 11th Feb 2009 in Test, ODIs and First Class cricket are<br />
equal to a distance of 1450 Kms. We should remember that the length of the pitch between the<br />
wickets is just 22 yards!"<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> hits back<br />
at John Buchanan<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has hit back at John Buchanan for<br />
finding faults in his batting technique against pace<br />
bowling and advised the<br />
former Australian coach to<br />
change his opinion which<br />
"doesn't have to be right all<br />
the time".<br />
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"It is only his opinion. John<br />
Buchanan doesn't have to<br />
be right all the time. If I<br />
couldn't handle short<br />
deliveries, then I wouldn't<br />
still be scoring runs,"<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> said in an<br />
interview to the 'Wisden'.<br />
"Maybe he needs to change his opinion. There must be<br />
something very wrong with all the bowlers around the<br />
world that they have allowed me to score so many<br />
runs," he retorted.<br />
Buchanan had said before India's 2007 tour of<br />
Australia that video analysis of the <strong>Tendulkar</strong> reveals<br />
his footwork has become sluggish, especially early in<br />
his innings, making him vulnerable to short-pitched<br />
deliveries followed by a fuller one<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
.<strong>Sachin</strong> slams Chappell<br />
Well, it was just waiting to happen. Master blaster<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
finally lost his cool and<br />
reacted sharply to<br />
former cricketer Ian<br />
Chappell’s criticism.<br />
Ian Chappel has been<br />
unfair to <strong>Sachin</strong> on<br />
more than one<br />
occasion. He blasted<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> in several of his<br />
columns.<br />
Milestone man Koertzen lauds <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
Recently Chappell<br />
wrote, "<strong>Sachin</strong> only<br />
plays for records. It’s high time he should realise the<br />
damage he is doing to Indian cricket. Now he should<br />
just retire from cricket".Known for his dignified silence,<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> finally decided to give it back to Ian Chappel.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> said, "Some people indulge in such remarks<br />
only to gain popularity. Ian Chappel has no knowledge<br />
of cricket"."When I started playing international<br />
cricket, I was 16 and used to play aggressive shots. At<br />
26, my style changed and today at 36, I play according<br />
to the requirement of the team," <strong>Sachin</strong> added.<br />
Rudi Koertzen, who became only the second umpire to officiate in 100 Tests, said <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and Brian Lara are<br />
the two cricketers he has highest regard for.<br />
Looking back on his career, the 60-year-old South African said he was fortunate to have seen <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and Lara bat<br />
from close quarters.<br />
"I have been fortunate and privileged to have seen some of the greatest modern<br />
day cricketers very closely. It would be unfair to pin-point one or two players but I<br />
have to name Brian Lara and <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> for whom I have the greatest<br />
respect and I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing them bat," he said.<br />
"They had amazing reflexes and used to pick up the ball as soon as it left the<br />
bowler's hand which helped them make batting look very graceful and elegant due<br />
to their superb timing, excellent footwork, ability to hit the gaps and score runs off<br />
good balls. While <strong>Sachin</strong> continues to delight us with his batting, it was sad to see<br />
retire Brian in 2007," Koertzen said.<br />
"I don't think you can replace batsmen like <strong>Sachin</strong> and Brian in a day or two. The batsmen of these qualities and class<br />
are born in years and we are so fortunate to have seen them when they were at their brilliant best," he added.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> - “I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know<br />
where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.”<br />
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August 15,<br />
2009<br />
A Drama Over a Week , <strong>Sachin</strong> & Kambli are still Friends Forever!<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> didn't stand by me: Kambli<br />
One of Indian cricket’s most enduring friendships has<br />
developed cracks. Vinod Kambli blew the lid on his friendship<br />
with <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> on a TV show that goes on air this<br />
week.<br />
According to an insider at the show, Kambli said his childhood<br />
chum <strong>Tendulkar</strong> didn’t lend a helping hand during his<br />
downward spiral, which was also marked by self-destructive<br />
behaviour.<br />
is part of the show.<br />
‘‘We are very<br />
close... we were<br />
very close. He could<br />
have done a little<br />
more, but he<br />
didn’t,’’ he said in<br />
reply to a query on<br />
his friendship with<br />
Te ndulkar during a<br />
polygraph (lie<br />
detector) test which<br />
The Mumbai southpaw replied in the affirmative when he was<br />
asked whether <strong>Sachin</strong> is embarrassed to accept him as a<br />
friend now.<br />
Kambli denied making remarks against <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
Former Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli denied having accused<br />
his childhood friend <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> of not helping him<br />
enough and said such reports had left him and his family<br />
shattered.<br />
"I have never said anything against <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. He is my<br />
friend for 26 years, people should know that I will never say<br />
such a thing against my friend. He is currently in London and<br />
I will meet him soon," Kambli told reporters here.<br />
The 37-year-old former batsman apologised to <strong>Tendulkar</strong> for<br />
the inconvenience cause to him and his family by the report.<br />
"We share a very good family relationship and I and a lot of<br />
my friends are shattered by this. My family is also shattered<br />
by this,"he said.<br />
Asked from where such a report emanated, Kambli said"I<br />
dont know but its is completely baseless. I condemn it I dont<br />
do anything for publicity. I know people love me and I have<br />
fans who love me. I will not do anything for cheap publicity.<br />
During their school days, they were decided to have one<br />
wada-pav[vegetarian fast food] after each century. Kambli<br />
has presented dozens of wada pav to his pal.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>-Kambli fall-out impossible: Achrekar<br />
While the Indian cricket fans reacted with shock at the news<br />
of a rift in Vinod Kambli and <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s friendship,<br />
their coach Ramakant Achrekar was hurt the most.<br />
Achrekar had nurtured the duo's career at Shardashram<br />
Vidyamandir (English) and has seen their friendship grow<br />
along with their batting partnerships.<br />
"Kharab laga hai sunke (It<br />
felt bad to hear)," Achrekar<br />
told. "Aisa ho hi nahi sakta,<br />
unka baat hota rehta hai.<br />
(It is not possible. I know<br />
they are in regular touch<br />
with each other)," said<br />
Achrekar, who speaks<br />
haltingly due to old age.<br />
Kambli and <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s<br />
schoolmate Ricky Couto and his brother Marcus, who were<br />
both part of the controversial reality show, said their<br />
friendship will survive the current controversy.<br />
Ricky said: "During schooldays they must have argued<br />
hundreds of time, but after two minutes they were best of<br />
friends again. They are still good friends and it won't be<br />
affected because of this issue."<br />
Marcus said the two were still the thickest of friends. "Only<br />
last week Kambli had spoken to <strong>Tendulkar</strong> about attending his<br />
function to announce plans for his sports academy. <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
told Kambli that he had his full support in the new venture."<br />
Kambli invites <strong>Sachin</strong> to open his sports Academy<br />
There may have been TV and media reports about rift<br />
between <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and Vinod Kambli's old friendship<br />
but if the common friend between the two is to be believed,<br />
India's master-blaster has promised his friend to grace the<br />
occasion when the new Khel Bharti Sports Academy is being<br />
opened by Vinod Kambli within two months in Mumbai.<br />
"The invitation was extended to <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> (now in<br />
England) on the day when Sunil Gavaskar delivered the<br />
inaugural Dilip Sardesai Memorial Cricket Lecture in Mumbai<br />
on July 2 and <strong>Sachin</strong> has promised to remain present, if he is<br />
in the city on that day", the common friend said on condition<br />
of anonymity.<br />
Who says <strong>Sachin</strong> never scored a 100 at Lords? <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> treated the Lord's crowd to a sparkling<br />
exhibition of batting as he crunched 125 runs off just 115 balls against a Rest of the World attack<br />
comprising Glenn McGrath, Allan Donald, Javagal Srinath, Anil Kumble and Brian McMillan. This match<br />
was played in July 1998, in order to raise money for the Princess Diana Memorial fund.<br />
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<strong>Tendulkar</strong> most reliable batsman : NZ Herald<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
When it comes to batting for life, <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is the choice for most of the Kiwi cricketers, who rate the Indian batting maestro<br />
as the most accomplished player of his generation.<br />
New Zealand`s `Herald on Sunday` newspaper asked a few former cricketers who was the best batsman in the world and whom<br />
they would like to bat for their life?<br />
Replying to the questions, former Kiwi Test players John Morrison and Dipak Patel picked the Indian batting ace and were all<br />
admiration for his exploits all around the world in different conditions and various match situations.<br />
"I`d go with <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. He is still the most capable batsman in the world. He has the full array of shots too, though he might not<br />
play them as freely as he once did," Morrison said.<br />
"I like <strong>Tendulkar</strong> because there are guys out there brilliant on certain types of surfaces but he is adept at playing on anything. Slow,<br />
bouncy, turning, whatever – he covers the field on all of them.<br />
"I`d still back him ahead of everybody, even at<br />
the age of 36," Morrison, who played 17 Tests<br />
between 1974 and 1982, said.<br />
Dipak Patel echoed the same sentiment.<br />
"I like Gautam Gambhir and Graeme Smith at<br />
the moment but in the end, if they were batting<br />
for my life, I couldn`t go past <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. He`s<br />
got the experience, the sheer weight of runs and<br />
best all-round game.<br />
"He can bat for survival and can bat to force<br />
wins. He`s got a big-match temperament and<br />
he has scored runs all around the world," Patel,<br />
who played 37 Tests between 1987 and 1997,<br />
said.<br />
"Gambhir is the new kid on the block but I<br />
would put Smith in just behind <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. He<br />
has a wonderful track record of getting through<br />
the new ball. Every game he is out there facing<br />
the music and is just a terrific competitor," he<br />
added.<br />
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<strong>Tendulkar</strong> targets 15,000 Test runs<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has said he is not satisfied with his achievements and hopes to accumulate 15,000 runs and win the World Cup in<br />
2011.<br />
"I am not pleased yet with what I have done," <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, who has scored a record 12773 Test runs at an average of 54.58 from 159<br />
matches, said in an interview with the Wisden Cricketer. "Sunil Gavaskar has<br />
told me that I have to get to 15,000 runs. He said he would be angry with me<br />
and would come and catch me if I didn't. I admire him so much and to score that<br />
many would be a terrific achievement, but that is not the only aim." His other big<br />
cricketing ambition is to "win the World Cup in 2011".<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>, 36, also spoke about how he has been consistently playing<br />
with pain. "I always play in pain, all the time. I played with a broken finger for<br />
the last three months, but you know when pain is manageable or not, and most<br />
of the time I can do it," he said. "I can still do what I did when I was 25 but the<br />
body is changing, so your thought process has to change too. I have had to<br />
change how I think, which is about taking less risk."<br />
Don Bradman had said <strong>Tendulkar</strong> reminded him of himself and the Indian<br />
batsman was the only modern player in Bradman's all-time XI. Does <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
think the same way about anyone? "I would say Virender Sehwag comes closest<br />
to my style."<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> said he was not thinking about retirement yet but he would know<br />
when to quit cricket. "I will know when it is the right time, I won't have to be<br />
dragged away. I am the person who will make the decision and I will know<br />
whether I still belong."<br />
He admitted life after cricket wouldn't be easy. "It's a scary thought. It has been<br />
there for my whole adult life, it will be difficult, I have been around for a long<br />
time, I can imagine when I finish I will long to face just 10 more balls but you<br />
have to move."<br />
Lets see , about <strong>Sachin</strong>’s Target , what Harsha Bhogle has to say<br />
Meanwhile <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, as clean a cricketer as any you will meet, has come<br />
public with the targets in his mind. I am intrigued because that is one thing he has<br />
never done in all these years. Yes, winning the World Cup is an ambition that<br />
everyone harbours and <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has made no secret of the fact that he yearns<br />
for it, but the fact that he has announced this target of fifteen thousand test runs<br />
is unlike him. He needs another 2227 runs to get there and even if he can retain<br />
an average of 50, it means another 45 innings.<br />
Over a long career he has averaged 1.64 innings per test so it would be pretty safe<br />
to work with 27 tests as the number he needs to play. I see two things coming in<br />
the way. First, his body needs to hold for that long and he has to maintain the<br />
resolve to go through more sets of rehab, something that gets increasingly<br />
difficult. Second, more critically, the BCCI needs to schedule 27 tests quickly<br />
enough. My suspicion is that we are looking at a minimum of three years; three<br />
injury free, good form years. It is a daunting target and one that I will be<br />
overjoyed to see surpassed.<br />
Commit all your crimes when <strong>Sachin</strong> is batting. They will go unnoticed for even Lord is watching<br />
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A Tribute To God Of Cricket<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
A very beautiful poem contributed by a Member of our Community , Pravin Jain. In Tribute Of God Of Cricket , <strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>. This is certainly One of the most beautifully written poem you will come across.<br />
Once in a Millenium ,On Earth Comes God's Incarnation<br />
As Every other Day such Legends are not Born<br />
God Sent it to Earth to Bless us people<br />
Thats Why for Everyone he is So Special<br />
He is the Soul of the World<br />
And this Run Machine Never Comes to a Halt<br />
He is as Pure as the Ganges' Water<br />
He is Popularly known as <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
His Class and Elegance is Difficult to counter<br />
He can Play any Ball Whether That be a Googly or Bouncer<br />
I Call him the Cricketing Czar<br />
Because one Special Innings from him can end a War<br />
As Even the War Fighters Wont do Such Silly Things<br />
They Would Miss Everything but not <strong>Sachin</strong>'s Innings<br />
This Maestro is Just so Difficult to Explain<br />
When he is Batting the Runs Keep Coming like Rain<br />
His Smile is Sweeter than a Sugarcane<br />
His Batting Will Give Nightmares to Bowlers Even 20 Yrs Down the Lane<br />
He Performs the Art of Batting to an Amazing Perfection<br />
Watching him Play, every Youngster has a Lot to Learn<br />
His Class Can Never Be Imitated by Anyone<br />
He is the One and Only " The Cricketing Don"<br />
This Master Brought So Many Critics to Rest<br />
He has in a Magical Way Surpassed Every Test<br />
He Lets his Bat do the Talking<br />
And if he is Out , You'll FInd him Walking<br />
Thats why he is a Cricketing Genius<br />
Who has an Inborn Class<br />
He has Proved Time and Again that he is A Champion<br />
Cricketers May Come and Go But Like <strong>Sachin</strong> There will be None<br />
Yet This Day is Just so Special for Me $ the <strong>Sachin</strong>ism Family<br />
All the Records have Been Bagged Finally<br />
I Will Party Dance and Rejoice<br />
I Will Shout at the Top of My Voice<br />
Thanks <strong>Sachin</strong> For Everything tat U Have Given<br />
No one Can Ever Come close To your Contribution<br />
You Efforts Will Never Ever Be Forgotten<br />
You Are and Will Always Be Loved by Everyone!!<br />
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One summer in the life<br />
of <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
It is not often that <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> gets a break from cricket. The few<br />
times he does, he somehow finds himself in London.<br />
He may not accept it but he loves the English summer and tries to<br />
spend some quality time with his family and friends there. It may be his<br />
way of unwinding and getting fresh before the demands of a new<br />
season, or a new series.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s trip to London, this summer, was however extra special.<br />
For, he made his first-ever trip to Madame Tussauds where his wax<br />
figure came up recently, gracing the A-list lineup along with greats like<br />
Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods and Jesse Owens.<br />
He joined his contemporaries Brian Lara and Shane Warne but still he is<br />
the first Indian sports personality to be portrayed here. <strong>Tendulkar</strong> also<br />
caught up with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who incidentally is a<br />
huge fan of the little champion.<br />
He also joined greats like Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras in<br />
the Royal Box to watch his favourite, Roger Federer, make history. He<br />
just has one little regret though: his plan of watching Michael Jackson<br />
didn't materialise due to the American icon's unfortunate, and<br />
unexpected, death.<br />
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2009<br />
"You can say it struck a jarring note on what was otherwise a great trip. Michael Jackson's death came as a shock because I was<br />
actually looking forward to his concert in London," <strong>Tendulkar</strong> told TOI in an exclusive interview.<br />
"It was unnerving for me because I grew up listening to his music. I missed his concert in Mumbai, way back in 1996 because we<br />
were playing the Titan Cup final after five days. I was looking forward to this show."<br />
On the positive side, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> made his first ever trip to Madame Tussauds. "My family had been there before but this was the first<br />
time for me. It was a terrific experience. All the personalities there are special. Their precision and accuracy in producing the wax<br />
figure is unbelievable," quipped <strong>Tendulkar</strong> whose wax figure came up at a cost of £150,000. Yet another first for <strong>Tendulkar</strong> was<br />
catching up with Daniel Radcliffe. The Harry Potter star took <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s autograph at Lord's on his 18th birthday in 2007. But so<br />
engrossed was <strong>Sachin</strong> in obliging his fans that he didn't even notice signing up for Daniel.<br />
"I first met him when we were touring England in 2007. After the Lord's Test, we drove down to Nottingham for the second Test and<br />
it was there that I got a call from my wife, Anjali, who asked me about my meeting with Harry Potter. I said, no, I haven't met him.<br />
But she insisted I did because the statement had come from Daniel himself that he got his best birthday present. As it turned out,<br />
just before the day's play at Lord's, I was obliging fans on my way back to the dressing room. And when you sign autogrpahs you<br />
aren't always looking up at the person. So I missed the opportunity to meet him and say hello to him then. However, this time<br />
around I met him at Lord's during the T20 World Cup and I got a chance to say hello to him."<br />
A summer in London is incomplete without a trip to the Centre Court at Wimbledon. <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, who grew up admiring John McEnroe,<br />
made an appearance at the Royal Box to watch Federer make history. "I am a huge Federer fan, so obviously I was backing Federer.<br />
But at the end I didn't want a loser there." <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, who knows former champion Michael Schumacher and Australian Mark<br />
Webber on the Formula One circuit, hasn't had the chance to meet Federer. "I would love to say hello to him sometime somewhere,"<br />
says <strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
While he isn't too passionate about golf, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> enjoys following Formula One. But, after the limits on spending this season, this<br />
year's Formula One has been different. "To be honest, this year I haven't been able to follow much. And, this year, it hasn't been the<br />
same."<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> -I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.<br />
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Bringing Back Memories – An Old Article On Master Blaster<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Belief in himself, the will to win, the fear and respect of the rivals--he has it all. India's star batsman is<br />
sheer genius. What makes him a living legend?<br />
By Rohit Brijnath and Peter Roebuck.<br />
I don't think anything is impossible. Of course, I'm not always right.<br />
-- <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, after scoring 143 against Australia<br />
This is the first thing about genius. Self-belief. Inside the stomach of some men smoulders a defiance that is<br />
abnormal, a will so powerful that no ordinary barometer can register it. We dream, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> does. On that day when<br />
the sandstorm blew in to stop play -- it was God announcing he had taken his seat -- <strong>Tendulkar</strong> told coach Anshuman<br />
Gaekwad in the dressing room: "Don't worry I'll be there in the end." Don't worry! With four of the topline batsmen<br />
out and 94 runs to get in 87 balls; Vinoo Mammen of MRF telling his wife, "Let's go to the hotel and cry", and hope<br />
generally abandoned by all. Except by one man. Later, a spectator says, "It's sad one billion people in India have to<br />
rely on one man."<br />
This is the second thing about genius. Desire. They could<br />
have turned off the lights in Sharjah, <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s shots<br />
would have illuminated the city, such is the sunlight of his<br />
batting. India has qualified for the final, but he paces the<br />
dressing room hissing, "I was not out." It was the rage of<br />
a man who believes he has no limits. He was not there to<br />
help India qualify, he was there to win the match. We<br />
dream small, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> lives bigger. Says Allan Border,<br />
Australian coach, a day later: "Hell, if he stayed, even at<br />
11 an over he would have got it."<br />
This is the third thing about genius. Fear. From the Aussie<br />
dressing room bustling with hard men, all sorts of stories<br />
emerge. One strategy is "get the bugger to the other<br />
end"; another says, "We bowled short, on the off stump,<br />
nothing worked." Michael Kasprowicz is sort of<br />
speechless. In the first match, he hits <strong>Tendulkar</strong> on the<br />
pads, smirks, gets hit for two successive fours. This<br />
match it's two successive sixes. Now he swears, "Shit, I'm<br />
sick of this *$#%."<br />
This is the final thing about genius and that innings. Respect. Next day, by the pool side of the Princeton Hotel,<br />
WorldTel boss Mark Mascarenhas throws a party for <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. Friday, final day, is his birthday and it strikes you<br />
starkly that as he turns 25, he has more centuries (14 in one dayers, 16 in Tests) than he has years in front of his<br />
name. Meanwhile, in a corner the conversation goes something like this:<br />
Border: It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him.<br />
Ian Chappell: Yeah mate, but that's with all great players.<br />
Border: Well yes, but imagine what he'll be like when he's 28. Contd.<br />
Harsha Bhogle released a book on <strong>Sachin</strong> on his 35th birthday. The 300-page hardbound<br />
book,"<strong>Tendulkar</strong>" contains several rare photographs of the master blaster, including those<br />
from his childhood days.<br />
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I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay."<br />
- Greg Chappell.<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Finish the argument, close the conversation, end the discussion about Brian Lara. The Aussies insist. Mark Waugh<br />
says, "<strong>Sachin</strong>'s better; Lara is more risky outside the off stump." Shane Warne adds, "Nothing affects <strong>Sachin</strong>, Brian<br />
lets things bother him." Steve Waugh then takes the debate to a higher plane with one statement, a grand canyon of<br />
a compliment actually: "In history <strong>Sachin</strong> will go down as second to Bradman." What he's saying is this: <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
owns the present, and perhaps one day will<br />
surpass the past as well.<br />
It is too early to go further, but this much can<br />
be said already. His average in Tests at 54.84<br />
is already higher than those of Greg Chappell,<br />
Vivian Richards, Javed Miandad, Lara, or Sunil<br />
Gavaskar. But it's not just that, it's not either<br />
the awesome truth that in 61 Tests he has 16<br />
centuries, while Richards got 24 in 121 Tests.<br />
No, statistics are not the scale to judge him<br />
by; it is in the stories that the bowlers tell,<br />
the men who stare at him down 22 yards.<br />
Listen to Warne: "You have to decide for<br />
yourself whether you're bowling well or not.<br />
He's going to hit you for fours and sixes<br />
anyway." Kasprowicz has a superior story.<br />
During the Bangalore Test, frustrated, he<br />
went to Dennis Lillee and asked, "Mate, do<br />
you see any weaknesses?" Lillee replied, "No<br />
Michael, as long as you walk off with your<br />
pride that's all you can do."<br />
There is no one thing to greatness. It is<br />
physical, alertness, technique, wisdom,<br />
humility, patience, vision, but more a<br />
confluence of these in one surging river of genius. <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, five centuries in his last 12 Test innings, but not yet<br />
arrived at his peak, is a river bursting its banks. What doesn't he have?<br />
He is short, a Maradona of a man at 5 ft 4 inch, and, like the footballer, blessed with a balance that all sport demands.<br />
He can see so well that as the ball leaves the bowler's hand, he has decided -- while lesser men are still deciding --<br />
where to go, back or forward. He is never wrong.<br />
He is calm, the impulses from his brain bringing the message to the body never impeded by tension or indecision.<br />
When he does this, he gains something: time. Other men look rushed, he unhurried and able to play any shot he<br />
desires, arrogant hook or artful slide.<br />
He has vision or what Chappell calls "peripheral awareness", a man who without looking already has a map of the field<br />
logged into his brain.<br />
He has technique, says Ravi Shastri, meeting the ball under the chin and the eyebrow where timing comes sweetest.<br />
It is so outrageous these gifts, to play with the abandon of a street thug and yet with the finesse of Michelangelo, that<br />
some men find it unreasonable. Master technician Geoffrey Boycott, so goes one story, actually called to argue when<br />
Gavaskar recently said that <strong>Tendulkar</strong>'s technique was the best. Contd.<br />
Hashim Amla Once Said<br />
"Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> on it."<br />
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He has ... is there anything left? Yes, he has strength, in wrist, in thigh. The heavy bat helps. Still, says Warne, he<br />
has enormous power. "It's a bit discouraging. In India he ran down the pitch and hit me off the toe of the bat. It<br />
should have gone to mid-on but it went for a six." On that day in Sharjah, it was in evidence again. Gaekwad was<br />
stunned, for <strong>Tendulkar</strong> was running singles like a demon -- four 3s, fifteen 2s, thirty-five 1s -- yet hitting sixes (five of<br />
them) in between. "The running tires you, yet he was never out of position for a shot."<br />
"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then <strong>Sachin</strong> looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch<br />
as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?'"<br />
-- Adam Hollioke to a friend.<br />
So what is it <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, what's the motivation, what moves you? Records? No. He just says, flatly, "It's the challenge<br />
that drives me."<br />
There is an understanding, a never articulated awareness among the abnormally gifted that records will arrive<br />
anyway. It is the situation to be mastered, the opponent to be numbed that pushes such men. It is elevating not<br />
oneself but an entire sport, it is stretching the envelope of possibility, it is all this desire that lurks within Michael<br />
Jordan and John McEnroe and <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. Eleven versus one on the cricket field is the <strong>Tendulkar</strong> fantasy. Says<br />
Shastri: "I have never seen such arrogance, such contempt for bowlers since Richards."<br />
Yet it takes work, talent bolstered by industry. <strong>Tendulkar</strong> will sweat at the nets on a line that troubles him. He would,<br />
prior to tours of the West Indies, get net bowlers to fire away at him from 18 yards. When he was told that like the Sri<br />
Lankans who discomforted him by bowling down the legside, Warne might aggravate him similarly, he went to the<br />
nets in Mumbai, snuffed the pitch where he expected the ball to land and asked the bowlers to bowl there. When<br />
Warne arrived, the greatest batsmen in the world awaited him. Ready.<br />
Now the search begins, in all earnestness, for the chink of daylight in his stance, the edge of weakness in his method.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> himself sees none. "I don't think I need to improve in any specific area, just generally." The Aussies are as<br />
unhelpful. Steve Waugh feels -- and check this for a weakness -- "his only danger is seeing the ball too well and going<br />
for his shot too early". Warne says bowl dot balls to frustrate him. Kasprowicz says, "Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits<br />
the good ones for fours."<br />
They know, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> knows there is no fragility apparent. As with all such men, it is only themselves who can prove to be the<br />
enemy; <strong>Tendulkar</strong> may nurture his genius or spurn it, the responsibility of greatness lies with him. It seems he<br />
understands that. He is surer now than before, less driven to petulant strokes or rakish indiscretion. That innings was<br />
just a reminder, a page from a book, that this is a batsman who was conceived under God's full attention. Imagine,<br />
what greater deeds remain, the other pages of that book are yet to be turned.<br />
Of that night some final stories remain. Chappell saying, "What would I want of his batting? Everything." And then<br />
finally, Ajay Jadeja, echoing us all: "I can't dream of an innings like that. He exists where we can't.<br />
An Amazing Incident<br />
17 year old Lavan Sagar from Hyderabad is living with a rare form of renal failure which retards growth. Since his<br />
childhood he has been an avid cricket fan… and naturally a big admirer of <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. It thus came as no<br />
surprise when he told our volunteers that his cherished wish was to meet his cricket hero. When <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong><br />
was visiting Hyderabad the foundation arranged for Sagar to meet him in his room at Hotel Taj Krishna. Sagar<br />
could hardly contain his excitement when he was introduced to the greatest cricketer of our times. He was bursting<br />
with questions about the game and the cricketer patiently answered them all. Having got over his initial shyness<br />
Sagar patted <strong>Sachin</strong>’s cheek and told him that he liked not only the style of his game but his smiletoo. When it was<br />
time to leave Mrs.<strong>Tendulkar</strong> gave Sagar a pat on his head and affectionately tugged his cheek. In response our<br />
little man like a true gentleman kissed her hand.<br />
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We are Official Partner Of <strong>Tendulkar</strong> Opus Website<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
"<strong>Tendulkar</strong> Opus, a tribute to the cricketing legend" : Newspapers and magazines glittered with this<br />
headlines a few weeks back. As a part of it, a website has been launched by the opus group -<br />
http://www.tendulkaropus.com . The site has some copyrighted wallpapers and screensavers of <strong>Sachin</strong> for<br />
download. Apart from this, you can win signed items(of Sach) by participating in the competitions.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> Says:<br />
This Month we also became Official Partner of <strong>Tendulkar</strong> Opus website.<br />
Competitions at tendulkar opus are<br />
interesting as they offer real prizes –<br />
an item personallysigned by <strong>Sachin</strong>.<br />
What you need to do is answer a<br />
simple question @ tendulkaropus.<br />
Thanks to the 800+<br />
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CROSSWORD TIME - Word for Word<br />
Across<br />
Down<br />
3. Identify the player based on his actions (5)<br />
5. Who was sachin's last test wicket (8)<br />
8. The only bowler to get <strong>Sachin</strong> hit-wicket (5,3)<br />
9. <strong>Sachin</strong> broke Lara record of max test runs against this bowler<br />
(5,6)<br />
12.Which current international cricketer has a score of 199 in<br />
tests? (3,4)<br />
14. The team which won the inaugural World Cup – Short Form<br />
(3)<br />
16. What was the Nick Name of Charles Turner (6)<br />
17. <strong>Sachin</strong> crossed Sunil Gavaskar record of most test 100s in<br />
which CITY? (5)<br />
18. He was the MoM in India’s victory over Zimbabwe in ICC CT in<br />
2002? (4)<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
1. <strong>Sachin</strong>’s 10000th ODI run was scored off this bowler<br />
(5)<br />
2. This <strong>Sachin</strong>ism mod celebrates his b’day on the<br />
Independence Day(5)<br />
4. Who had the Nickname – Atlas (6, 7)<br />
6. Which Cricketer recently scored 3 conscetive 100 in<br />
tests?<br />
7. Old name for Yorker (4)<br />
10. This guy scored a Double century and picked 4 wickets<br />
in the same test, a spin legend made debut in that match.<br />
Name him (4,7)<br />
11. This is the home ground of which County (10)<br />
13. This batsman has the 2nd highest number of runs in a<br />
single innings batting at no 3 (5,4)<br />
15. Dada’s 100th ODI victim (6)<br />
Submit Your Answers, with your Name at sachinism.insideout@gmail.com<br />
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Fact – It’s A Lie<br />
After the immense response in the<br />
Funny Photos thread, we decided to<br />
have some funny comments about the<br />
Pictures related to CRICKET.<br />
In this a Picture is posted by the<br />
Administration and all the members<br />
must give funny comments about the<br />
Picture. And the Best comments(Top<br />
3) among them will be chosen and<br />
credited in the Leader Board. All<br />
Participants will be given points in the<br />
Leaderboard.<br />
Members can also contribute the<br />
Pictures, but they cant post it directly<br />
they must give the Picture to<br />
theAdministration and we will post the<br />
Picture. Contributing Pictures will Fetch<br />
Valuable Points in the LeaderBoard.<br />
This thread is managed by<br />
Community Moderator , Pavan<br />
Kumar along with C.aravind.<br />
Already, two pictures have been<br />
posted and Results of 1 st Picture<br />
(Ponting & Clarke) have been<br />
declared.<br />
Top 3 Comments As per Judges For<br />
the 1 st picture :<br />
First :<br />
Pointing : Welldone Mate. That was a<br />
Captaincy material. You opened the<br />
doors for us to stay in alive in this<br />
series.<br />
Clarke : But still u showed who's the<br />
captain, I fought hard for four n half<br />
hours to open the doors but u made it<br />
in jus 2 seconds by breakin the Doors<br />
itself.... he he he<br />
Pointing : Lol...! Stumped....... By<br />
Badrinarayanan<br />
SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
FUN TIME<br />
Santa went to a police station<br />
for filing a report.<br />
Santa: Paaji, Yesterday some<br />
thiefs entered our house and<br />
robbed everything Fridge,<br />
clothes, Furniture, Jewellery,<br />
money they took everything.<br />
Inspector: They did not leave<br />
anything behind?<br />
Santa: Ah Paaji, Only TV was<br />
left out, I was watching a<br />
match wherein <strong>Sachin</strong> was<br />
batting..<br />
---------------------------------<br />
Submitting photos for “Fact - It’s a Lie” will fetch<br />
you extra points in Leaderboard.<br />
Second :<br />
Sticky Ponting: ''(undertone) cams<br />
everywhere mate, show as if we are<br />
very happy and content...(loudly,with<br />
a broad smile)congrats mate, you<br />
saved the match,that was a great<br />
century!!''<br />
Clarke:(loudly,with a broad<br />
smile)Thanks, skip!...(undertone)Why<br />
''as if''? Goddamn it, I am indeed very<br />
happy and content!!''<br />
Caption: Though they are one down in<br />
the series...Team Australia looked<br />
very happy and content after the 3rd<br />
test match which was saved partly by<br />
Michael Clarke and rest by the rain.<br />
By Swarnapali<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Winner for comments on 1 st picture was<br />
Badrinarayanan, followed by Swarnapali &<br />
Shiva both were on 2 nd Spot and Rashpal on 3 rd<br />
spot.<br />
2 nd Picture (Ganguly & Chapell) is posted in<br />
Community , Make your Comments quickly to<br />
be winner.<br />
Punter-LOL,that century was damn<br />
fluke,somehow u got it...hehe!<br />
Pup-Some cause happiness wherever<br />
they go. Others whenever they go.HE<br />
hE HE By Shiva<br />
Third :<br />
Mahatama Gandhi has said - Sach Hi Ishwar hai!! (Sach Is God)<br />
Punter: Well Done Pup , but you were<br />
way too lucky to score this 100.<br />
Clarke: Thanks Captain , but more<br />
than me you were lucky that i scored<br />
a ton with luck else we would have<br />
lost and ur a** would be on fire by<br />
now from all quarters. By Rashpal<br />
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August 15,<br />
2009<br />
WALK THE TALK WITH SHIVA – OUR NEW MODERATOR<br />
How did you come to know about<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism ?<br />
I knew <strong>Sachin</strong>ism through an ad in the CFC<br />
community for Six Wise Men<br />
Did you like the concept of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism<br />
?<br />
Ya. I do like the concept nd thats why am<br />
here<br />
Roger Federer his<br />
Favorite Tennis Player<br />
From when did you started watching<br />
Cricket ?<br />
I guess its somewhere around the year<br />
1995. I don’t remember exactly when, but<br />
I loved and started following the game for<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>.<br />
What made you become <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>’s fan?<br />
Sometimes we really dont know why we<br />
are <strong>Sachin</strong> fans, same with me. I admire<br />
his talent, the way he dominates the<br />
opposition, he has been an inspiration to<br />
me. Impossible is nothing is what i learnt<br />
from him, proof-just go through his stats.<br />
Which knock of <strong>Sachin</strong> you like the<br />
most?<br />
Hmmm.. All his<br />
centuries are<br />
my favourite. If<br />
i had to single<br />
out one, it would be definitely the 143 vs<br />
Aus at Sharjah 98...If anyone want a<br />
match won by single player dominance i<br />
would definitely recommend this at first<br />
place. Complete massacre of the<br />
Australian bowling attack. Fortunately<br />
sandstorm was the only one which was<br />
able to contain <strong>Sachin</strong> and the stadium for<br />
a while and not the Australians. Pure<br />
He Cheers For<br />
Arsenal<br />
Genius, no more words to say.<br />
How was your first day experience?<br />
Everyday when I enter the community,i<br />
can be sure of atleast two articles which<br />
would be put up on the forum .All sachin<br />
related news here at one place from<br />
different corners of the world.<br />
And there is something called members<br />
count,which never remains constant<br />
whenever you log in, just shows the<br />
He Loves Eminem<br />
growth never stops here.<br />
How did you feel when you came to<br />
know that you are a mod of<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism ?<br />
That was really surprising and great<br />
experience. I just logged in to check the<br />
community,and found myself being<br />
invited. Being a mod for god's community<br />
is really fantastic and its a great privilege<br />
to me ,there was no second thought and I<br />
accepted it<br />
immediately<br />
What’s your<br />
favourite<br />
match?<br />
My fav match<br />
is the one with Pak in ICC world cup-<br />
2003.Chasing a target of 273. <strong>Sachin</strong> and<br />
Viru opened for India. Consecutive upper<br />
cut sixers ,flicks,elegant straight drives<br />
and most importantly blowing off Shoaib<br />
who was breathing fire, was simply a treat<br />
to watch. Though unlucky not able to get<br />
a century, his 75 ball 98 sent pakistan<br />
packing. A absolute magical innings and a<br />
great match.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> - “At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.”<br />
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Anything For A Quiet Life<br />
A black Mercedes pulls up to the curb in a<br />
central London street and out steps<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
There are no crowds, no bodyguards, and<br />
no one pays any attention to this stocky<br />
and unremarkable gentleman who, aside<br />
from a chunky watch, looks like any other<br />
office worker as he stops to make a call<br />
on the pavement.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> wanders up and down the busy<br />
street, tourists and Londoners walking<br />
past him, enjoying the midsummer<br />
warmth and the rare anonymity. It is a<br />
mundane act for the rest of us but a treat<br />
and something to revel in for him.<br />
“I like it here, I have more freedom to do<br />
whatever I want and move around without<br />
any problems,” he says. “I enjoy that<br />
feeling, it is very different for me. I am<br />
given my space, which is important, and I<br />
can go for nice walks in the parks.”<br />
While his Indian team-mates were unsuccessfully attempting<br />
to defend their World Twenty20 title <strong>Tendulkar</strong> was here to<br />
spend time with his family at their London home. He watched<br />
cricket from the stands, went to the men’s final at<br />
Wimbledon, took a trip to Iceland to sample some cold<br />
weather, took his nine-year-old son Arjun for net sessions at<br />
Lord’s and simply enjoyed unmolested trips to the cinema and<br />
restaurants.<br />
When asked if he could repeat any of these pursuits in<br />
Mumbai he laughs and looks utterly astonished at the<br />
question. “No, no, no, I couldn’t do any of that, I have not<br />
done it for a long time and I don’t see myself doing it again<br />
really.”<br />
Back home in India, of course, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is an icon. His every<br />
movement and utterance are monitored, while his image is on<br />
billboards and in as many as a quarter of all advertisements<br />
on Indian television.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> recalls one public appearance several years ago in<br />
Bangalore when nearly 200 policemen were needed to control<br />
an impromptu crowd of up to 7,000 people after word had<br />
spread he was in the city.<br />
“There have been a few scary moments but that was the<br />
worst, it was out of control and there didn’t seem to be<br />
enough policemen,” he says. “A lot of people wanted to get<br />
close to me, it was just affection but there was a chance of<br />
me or others getting injured.”<br />
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To avoid a repeat <strong>Tendulkar</strong> rarely ventures out or, when he<br />
does, it is in disguise or very early in the morning. “I have<br />
sometimes worn a baseball cap, a beard, spectacles and a wig<br />
not to be noticed,” he says with a smile. “It was just a bit of<br />
fun and I was once getting away with it until I dropped the<br />
spectacles and a couple of guys recognised me.”<br />
“I also love going for a drive about 5am, when the roads are<br />
empty and people won’t see me. I am not driving fast, just<br />
25mph, I listen to relaxing music, there is no one else, I like<br />
it being just me on my own.”<br />
Today <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has come to the Opus store in Covent<br />
Garden to promote his own forthcoming Opus, a mammoth<br />
800-page book weighing 30 kilos, which will tell the story of<br />
his career (see panel). <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is only the second<br />
sportsman after Diego Maradona to be given such lavish<br />
treatment.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> remains humble and warm, obliging and polite,<br />
speaking in a soft voice.<br />
In a room decorated with large images of <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and his<br />
greatest innings he will later hold a press conference that<br />
offers a glimpse into the madness of his life. It begins with a<br />
nurse taking a swab of saliva for his DNA profile, which will<br />
then become a work of art for his Opus. It ends with a gaggle<br />
of fawning Indian journalists, prefacing their questions with<br />
statements such as “I would like you to know I named my son<br />
‘<strong>Sachin</strong>’ … ”<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> - I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take<br />
whatever the result.<br />
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<strong>Tendulkar</strong> is at pains to make clear that the launch of his Opus<br />
does not signal the end of his career and, while at 36 it is<br />
inevitably approaching, he has set no retirement date, even<br />
privately.<br />
“I have given it no thought at all,” he says, “I am good at cricket,<br />
so I will play a while longer. I still love the game as much as ever,<br />
it is my job but it remains my passion too. This is fun. Cricket<br />
remains in my heart.”<br />
As the scorer of both the most Test and one-day runs, as well as<br />
the most Test and one-day centuries <strong>Tendulkar</strong>’s standing as one<br />
of the modern game’s greatest players is secure, and the 2002<br />
Wisden argued that only Sir Donald Bradman can claim to be<br />
better in the entire history of the sport. Even so he is far from<br />
sated. He wants more. <strong>Tendulkar</strong> once said being satisfied is like<br />
pulling up the handbrake on a car and expecting it to keep<br />
moving forward.<br />
“I am not pleased yet with what I have done,” he says shaking his<br />
head. “Sunil Gavaskar has told me that I have to get to 15,000<br />
runs, he said he would be angry with me, he would come and<br />
catch me if I didn’t. I admire him so much and to score that many<br />
would be a terrific achievement but that is not the only aim.”<br />
What else? “Winning the World Cup in 2011.”<br />
To prolong his Test and one-day career <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has decided not<br />
to play Twenty20 internationals. “I felt as though I would have<br />
been a loose link in the team, I couldn’t do that to them,” he<br />
says. “I was not sure I would last, there was something missing.<br />
If my body wasn’t strong enough to last through the tournament<br />
then I couldn’t play.”<br />
At 36, does he feel his body is letting him down? He pauses to<br />
think. “No, it still does what I want it to but I am older so it is<br />
different, you just have to work harder. There are moments when<br />
I try something and it doesn’t happen but it isn’t because of my<br />
age.”<br />
In recent years <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has tightened his style, becoming<br />
increasingly cautious, but he remains as prolific as ever with an<br />
average of 52.11 over the last 18 months. The last year also<br />
contained what he considers to be his greatest innings, the<br />
unbeaten 103 he made against England in Chennai, for the<br />
performance but also for its defiant symbolism coming weeks<br />
after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.<br />
After two decades playing international cricket, how has he so<br />
ruthlessly accumulated these runs? “The secret to batting is to<br />
stay still and just react to what the bowler has done,” he says,<br />
making it all sound simple. “You have to be still both in your mind<br />
and physically. It is so important that your mind is not full of a lot<br />
of thoughts because your reaction time is not going to be good.<br />
You have to keep your mind blank.<br />
“The toughest thing is to clear your mind. The mind always wants<br />
to be in the past or the future, it rarely wants to be in the<br />
present. My best batting comes when my mind is in the present<br />
but it doesn’t happen naturally, you have to take yourself there. I<br />
am not able to get in that zone as often as I would like but, when<br />
you are there, you don’t see anything except the bowler and the<br />
ball.<br />
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You have to allow your instincts to take over, trust me, your<br />
instincts are 99% right but, you know, the older I get the more I<br />
realise how important your breathing is to good batting. By that I<br />
mean, if you focus on breathing and relaxing, you can force<br />
yourself into a comfortable place to bat.”<br />
And when the end does finally come <strong>Tendulkar</strong> says he will not<br />
resist it: “I will know when it is the right time, I won’t have to be<br />
dragged away … I am the person who will make the decision and I<br />
will know whether I still belong.” And what will he do afterwards?<br />
“I would like to do something with the game.”<br />
How will he adjust to life without playing cricket? “It is a scary<br />
thought,” he says candidly. “It has been there for my whole adult<br />
life, it will be difficult, I have been around for a long time, I can<br />
imagine when I finish I will long to face just 10 more balls but you<br />
have to move away.”<br />
Who will surpass <strong>Tendulkar</strong>’s record haul of runs? Bradman<br />
anointed <strong>Tendulkar</strong> the player who most reminded him of himself<br />
and picked him as the only modern player in his all-time XI.<br />
Would <strong>Tendulkar</strong> extend the same compliment to anyone? “I<br />
would say Virender Sehwag comes closest to my style.”<br />
What state will <strong>Tendulkar</strong> leave the game in when he does<br />
eventually retire? He made his name in Test cricket but he has<br />
significantly added to his fortune with the emergence of Twenty20<br />
as captain of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.<br />
“There is no way Test cricket is dying,” he says. “Twenty20 cricket<br />
is the dessert and you can’t survive on that. Who wants to eat<br />
only desserts? Test cricket is my main course, with all the meat<br />
and vegetables, and then it is nice to have Twenty20 as a<br />
dessert.”<br />
But does he have any fears about the growing influence of<br />
Twenty20 cricket? “I started playing cricket at six with a tennis<br />
ball not because I wanted to be a millionaire but because I loved<br />
cricket,” he replies. “Maybe in 10 years or even now people will<br />
pick up cricket bats thinking only about the huge money in<br />
Twenty20 cricket. Money should just be coincidental. The passion<br />
and the desire are the most important thing. I worry about runs,<br />
not contracts.”<br />
Following the attacks on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore and those<br />
attacks in Mumbai, which prompted the IPL to relocate<br />
temporarily to South Africa, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has seen terrorism pose an<br />
increasing threat to cricket.<br />
“It was a horrible surprise … I was shocked about what happened<br />
to the Sri Lankans. I always thought that sportsmen would be left<br />
alone and we wouldn’t be targeted.”<br />
Would he ever feel safe touring Pakistan again? “It is not up to<br />
me to judge whether it was safe, it is up to the government to<br />
make those decisions once they have done their homework.” And<br />
that would be enough? “Probably, yes.”<br />
A couple of hours after his arrival, a small band of mostly Indian<br />
students are now milling around the front of the store and<br />
attempting to take pictures of <strong>Tendulkar</strong> through the windows.<br />
Sir Garfield Sobers on <strong>Sachin</strong> - I have watched a lot of <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and we have spoken to each<br />
other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best.<br />
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Indo-Pak matches cease to<br />
remain cricket: <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Fan</strong>s in India and Pakistan react in the extreme and cricket<br />
does not remain merely a sport when the arch-rivals lock<br />
horns, said <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
Indian players are either<br />
garlanded like 'kings' or<br />
treated like 'criminals',<br />
depending on the outcome of<br />
an Indo-Pak series, and the<br />
feeling is not different on the<br />
other side of the border,<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> said at the launch of<br />
'Shadows Across the Playing<br />
Field', a book authored by<br />
Minister of State for External<br />
Affairs Shashi Tharoor and<br />
former Pakistan Cricket<br />
Control Board chief Shaharyar<br />
Khan.<br />
"Both the nations react to our highs and lows. Sometime we<br />
say that cricket is just a sport...but that does not happen. You<br />
get different reactions on your performance and rather (on<br />
the performance) in the last match," he said.<br />
Referring to the 1997 ODI series in Canada, <strong>Tendulkar</strong> said,<br />
"We beat Pakistan 4-1 and the reception we got in Delhi was<br />
incredible. About 5000-7000 fans were there to receive us at<br />
the airport at two in the morning. They threw garlands and<br />
roses at us. We were treated like kings," he recalled.<br />
The Mumbaikar then revealed the other side of the coin.<br />
"We lost an ODI series 2-1 and the reaction was completely<br />
different. People looked at us as if were criminals and we<br />
have done something wrong. We lost 2-1 and because Ijaz<br />
Ahmed played an outstanding innings.<br />
"These experiences teach you and help you lead a balanced<br />
life," he said.<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong>, other Test cricketers back<br />
Wadekar for gymkhana post<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and a number of former players have come<br />
in support of former India captain Ajit Wadekar in his quest to<br />
retain his seat as the President of the famous Shivaji Park<br />
Gymkhana in Dadar here.<br />
Supporting Wadekar, who led<br />
India to historic back-to- back<br />
series wins over the West<br />
Indies and England overseas in<br />
1971, <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, in a letter to<br />
the former Test batsman, said<br />
the gymkhana, where he<br />
learnt his ropes as a young<br />
boy, needed Wadekar&aposs<br />
leadership qualities it its<br />
centenary year.<br />
"I am glad to learn that the Shivaji Park Gymkhana (SPG),<br />
which has produced so many cricketers for the state and the<br />
country, will be completing 100 years soon,"the champion<br />
batsman has said in his letter to Wadekar.<br />
"It is also heartening to see the tremendous progress made<br />
by SPG not only in cricket but in other sports like tennis,<br />
billiards and lots of indoor games too, especially in the last six<br />
years.<br />
"It requires sporting leadership and I hope that you continue<br />
to lead SPG as President in the centenary year too",<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> has said in his letter to Wadekar.<br />
Wadekar&aposs former Mumbai and India colleague Bapu<br />
Nadkarni, ex- India skipper and selection panel chief Dilip<br />
Vengsarkar and flamboyant ex- India batsman Sandeep Patil<br />
have also written letters to Wadekar extending their support<br />
Expect the unexpected when it comes to Test cricket says Indian batting ace <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>, who<br />
recalled how Wasim Akram peppered him with bouncers even as he expected yorkers in his maiden<br />
Test series in Pakistan.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> was speaking here yesterday at the launch of a book 'Shadows across the playing field,<br />
authored by India's Minister of state for External Affiars Shashi Tharoor and former PCB Chairman and<br />
diplomat Shaharyar Khan .<br />
"I was included in the first Test (in 1989). On the first day we fielded and I was so tired after six<br />
hours on the field that I slept after we returned to the hotel, woke up for my dinner and again went<br />
back to sleep," <strong>Tendulkar</strong> said.<br />
"The next day we batted and Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were charging in. The first ball I faced<br />
from Wasim was a bouncer.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> - I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a<br />
different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.<br />
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<strong>Sachin</strong> Hands Youth Inspired Association - Trust<br />
“SERVICE TO MANKIND IS A SERVICE TO GOD”<br />
This is a famous quote. But we feel that it’s a duty of every<br />
citizen to do the best for the society and make this world a<br />
better place to live. It’s not a service it’s a duty.<br />
SACHIN’s HANDS – Youth Inspired is a charitable<br />
organization formed by a group of motivated and fans of<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong> in May 2008.<br />
Vision: Make this society a better place to live in!<br />
Mission: A little help in whatever possible way to all the<br />
needy people.<br />
There are lots of charities, Why one more ???<br />
In every walk of life we meet several people who amaze us,<br />
motivate us and inspire us. One such name is <strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>, the difference being, that this inspiration spans<br />
across several generations.<br />
A person who not just made us believe that Indians are good<br />
enough to be the best in the world, but actually went ahead<br />
and gave us an entirely new set of ethics which help us battle<br />
any situation. The teachings were instrumental in starting a<br />
new cult, which has now become a rage. Yes <strong>Sachin</strong>ism is the<br />
way to a successful, satisfying and more meaningful life.<br />
His service to nation is incredible and might take centuries for<br />
one to match his inhuman talent and records, but little master<br />
is master of all celebrities when it comes to giving back to<br />
society and being unselfish irrespective of the richest<br />
sportsmen in the country. He has been involved in<br />
humanitarian deeds since quite some time and would<br />
continue to do his bit to help the underprivileged.<br />
¤ <strong>Tendulkar</strong> a Successor to Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam in the<br />
Board of CARE Hospitals, and the hospital has been of great<br />
help to the needy, especially sportspersons of the state.<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> has been instrumental in the hospital taking care of<br />
total expenses for treatment of even state level sportsmen<br />
and women.<br />
¤ <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has also been lending a helping hand to the<br />
downtrodden in Tardeo in Mumbai for over 11 years now by<br />
providing clothes and other necessities to 250 children<br />
besides taking care of their complete education, including<br />
books, notebooks, shoes and school uniforms.<br />
¤ <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has helped over 300 have-nots so far through the<br />
Dr. Agarwal Eye Hospital in Chennai since October 2004 to<br />
get their cataract and eye grafting operations done.The<br />
champion batsman said he was unwilling to talk about this<br />
aspect of his as he did not want to seek publicity from these<br />
causes.<br />
¤ "<strong>Sachin</strong> is involved with 'Apnalaya' in Tardeo, Care Hospitals<br />
in Hyderabad and Dr. Agarwal Eye Clinic in Chennai, besides<br />
the 'Make Wish Foundation', which has been doing a<br />
remarkable job for over a decade."<br />
Unarguably <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is a “silent crusader” when it<br />
comes to charity. We have been following him since 18 years<br />
and he gave us all moments of joy and happiness that makes<br />
us proud to be born in TENDULKAR ERA.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> dreams of an India which is more than just hope, and<br />
to fulfill it he is actively involved in various programs for<br />
social upliftment in various capacities .But since God cannot<br />
be everywhere its our responsibility to take the teachings<br />
further and ensure that no child remains underprivileged in<br />
the country.<br />
There are still lots of places which needs attention. Our motto<br />
is to make those places a better place and that’s why we have<br />
started this. <strong>Sachin</strong>'s hands starts with a vision that even if a<br />
handful of us contribute to the society to whatever extent we<br />
can, we can definitely make a difference.<br />
Please do remember that this is not a fan club but a TRUST<br />
formed by fans of <strong>Sachin</strong> inspired by his contribution to the<br />
society and following his foot steps. Also this TRUST is no way<br />
affiliated to <strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and the acts of the<br />
TRUST are purely based on the board and members of the<br />
TRUST.<br />
“Small acts of help can make a big difference but<br />
helping to make a big difference is not a small act!!”<br />
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Achievements :<br />
We planned to help an orphanage (Barath Matha<br />
Orphanage)which is giving shelter for about 30 odd children<br />
in Chennai this year and collected money from friends and<br />
relatives. We collected nearly Rs/-20,000 and donated it to<br />
the orphanage. At that time our TRUST was not registered.<br />
But only after that we felt that we have to be professional in<br />
dealing with such things and contribute to the society in<br />
whatever manner possible. Hence as a result we have formed<br />
this TRUST.<br />
http://picasaweb.google.com/sachinprasanna/<strong>Sachin</strong><br />
DayCelebrationsPartII<br />
GOALS of the TRUST:<br />
Current goals: -<br />
April 24th 2008 we did our duty for an orphanage of about 30<br />
children<br />
(http://picasaweb.google.com/sachinprasanna/<strong>Sachin</strong>DayCele<br />
brationsPartII).<br />
One of the current goals is that to get them a house of their<br />
own (they are in a rented house), to get them their basic<br />
needs like food, clothing and study continuously.<br />
Generalized Goals of the trust: -<br />
1. To help the children to study, to provide clothes, books,<br />
food and everything we can do for the kids in orphanages.<br />
2. To help the people who need medical emergency i.e. blood<br />
and can’t afford things necessary for any operations.<br />
3. To create an awareness about Child labour.<br />
4. Apart from these goals we will fix a period of duration (say<br />
2 year or like that) depending on our resources and in this<br />
period we will select one orphanage (again this will be done<br />
city by city depending on the resources in each city, resources<br />
here mainly stands for no of members who can devote some<br />
time) and will work with them in co-operation to make that<br />
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orphanage self dependent (guiding them how to earn small<br />
money even while reading etc) and try to make them capable<br />
of joining us in future.<br />
Primary Members and Board:<br />
Right now we have about 20-25 active members and trying to<br />
increase the strength.<br />
President: Prasanna.V.K. from Chennai<br />
Vice-President: Prem Prakash Pandey from Chennai<br />
Secretary: Pavan Kumar from Hyderabad<br />
Treasurer : Ashwin Susarla from Chennai<br />
Joint Secretary: Karthik from Hyderabad<br />
Executive member1: Sunil from Hyderabad<br />
Executive member2: K.Sumithra from Chennai<br />
Other active members and office bearers are:<br />
Pradeep Srinivasan :Sydney,AUS<br />
Badrinarayanan : New Castle,UK<br />
Ankit : Delhi<br />
Rajesh : Bangalore<br />
Manuj : Delhi<br />
Aravind : Trichy<br />
Update on Registration of the TRUST:<br />
We are done with Registration. Waiting to get bank account<br />
opened… which may take couple more weeks<br />
Meetings and Agenda:<br />
Since the members are from different parts of the world we<br />
conduct online meetings every week on Sunday at 11 am.<br />
The MOM and Agenda are captured online in a social<br />
networking site called “ORKUT” and discussion will go on<br />
there. Apart from this, people in INDIA will meet once in a<br />
year and have a BOARD of members meeting. Also, member<br />
in each city will meet often and do the work allotted by<br />
BOARD.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> - I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on<br />
me.<br />
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Pictures Zone<br />
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Here in this zone, Check Out for some of The Rare Photos of Master Blaster <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
--> "You don’t raise heroes, you<br />
raise sons. And if you treat them<br />
like sons, they’ll turn out to be<br />
heroes, even if it’s just in your<br />
own eyes."<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>’s Superb Poses for <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
watching<br />
finals @<br />
Wimbledon<br />
2009<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> at<br />
madame<br />
tussauds to<br />
check out<br />
his statue.<br />
-<br />
-->Rare collection of <strong>Sachin</strong>’s<br />
Young Age Photographs!<br />
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Upcoming Fixtures<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
Some important upcoming fixtures next month. India Plays a Tri Series in Sri Lanka & Ashes Continues.<br />
Other Series are not so big as these two series as we see…<br />
For Team India<br />
For The Ashes<br />
Mathew Hayden, on <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> -His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... [When<br />
he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The<br />
people see him as a God...<br />
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On This Day - Archive – The Ashes<br />
Uncapped keeper Hartley covers for<br />
Haddin, Manou<br />
Aug 14, 2009: Australia draft in<br />
Chris Hartley, an uncapped<br />
wicketkeeper, for tomorrow's two-day<br />
match against England Lions.<br />
I don't want it enough - Trescothick<br />
Aug 13, 2009: Marcus Trescothick<br />
rules out a return to international<br />
cricket, ending all speculation about a<br />
dramatic comeback to the England<br />
Clark no certainty for The Oval<br />
Aug 11, 2009: Andrew Hilditch, the<br />
Australia's chairman of selectors,<br />
insists Stuart Clark could be dropped<br />
for the final Ashes Test<br />
Australia name Nannes for Twenty20s<br />
Aug 11, 2009: Two months after<br />
making his debut for Netherlands,<br />
Dirk Nannes is given a lifeline by<br />
Australia after being named.<br />
Flintoff to play Ashes decider<br />
Aug 10, 2009: The England & Wales<br />
Cricket Board is understood to have<br />
received a positive diagnosis of<br />
Andrew Flintoff's knee condition<br />
England defeat proves costly for Leeds<br />
Aug 10, 2009: England's dismal<br />
defeat to Australia at Headingley cost<br />
the local economy in Leeds up to £2<br />
million<br />
Ponting ready for 2005 revenge<br />
Aug 9, 2009: Ricky Ponting artfully<br />
dodges questions relating to England's<br />
2005 Ashes triumph.<br />
Dominant Australia take control<br />
Aug 7, 2009: Ricky Ponting and<br />
Shane Watson compile more in a<br />
single second-wicket stand of 119<br />
than England's entire line-up<br />
managed in 33.5 overs<br />
Australia opt for pace barrage<br />
Aug 6, 2009: Australia consider<br />
employing four fast bowlers at<br />
Headingley in the hope of blasting out<br />
England in the fourth Test and<br />
leveling the Ashes series<br />
Ponting brushes off spectator incident<br />
Aug 6, 2009: Ricky Ponting is torn<br />
between wanting the booing from the<br />
local supporters to stop and giving<br />
himself more of an opportunity to be<br />
a target<br />
Aura-less Australia could slip to fourth<br />
Aug 4, 2009: Australia require<br />
victory at both Headingley and The<br />
Oval to retain their No. 1 Test ranking<br />
Johnson comes out of his shell<br />
Aug 3, 2009: Mitchell Johnson<br />
delivers a promise to team-mates to<br />
puff his chest out against England on<br />
Sunday despite his series-long<br />
struggles with the ball<br />
The Watson gamble pays off<br />
Jul 30, 2009: Shane Watson enters<br />
the Edgbaston Test having never<br />
batted higher than No. 6, and scores<br />
amazing 50s<br />
Haddin out with broken finger<br />
Jul 30, 2009: Australia deal with a<br />
major blow just moments before the<br />
scheduled start of play with Brad<br />
Haddin forced out of the side with a<br />
suspected broken finger<br />
Ponting looking beyond Border's<br />
record<br />
Jul 29, 2009: Ricky Ponting is 25<br />
runs from becoming Australia's<br />
leading scorer and the third most<br />
prolific in Tests.<br />
Pietersen experienced pain at IPL<br />
Jul 24, 2009: Kevin Pietersen's<br />
participation in the IPL comes under<br />
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further scrutiny after it emerged his<br />
Achilles injury deteriorated in IPL<br />
Lee rules himself out for Edgbaston<br />
Jul 24, 2009: Brett Lee confirms his<br />
unavailability for the third Test next<br />
week and is focusing on a potential<br />
return in the fourth Test at Leeds<br />
Koertzen upset by catch "cheats"<br />
Jul 22, 2009: Rudi Koertzen has<br />
bemoaned the attitude of batsmen<br />
who refuse to take the word of<br />
fielders.<br />
Flintoff ends England's 75-year wait<br />
Jul 20, 2009: In his last Test at the<br />
home of cricket, Andrew Flintoff broke<br />
England's 75-year Lord's curse with<br />
his first five-wicket haul<br />
Hauritz battles the pain<br />
Jul 18, 2009: Nathan Hauritz ignored<br />
a badly bruised middle finger to<br />
dismantle England's top order but his<br />
brave performance was not enough to<br />
stop Australia from needing a<br />
monumental effort to save the second<br />
Test<br />
Lord's Test to be Koertzen's 100th<br />
Jul 16, 2009: Rudi Koertzen will<br />
become the second umpire after<br />
Jamaican Steve Bucknor to stand in a<br />
100 Tests<br />
Flintoff to retire from Test cricket<br />
Jul 15, 2009: Andrew Flintoff<br />
announces retirement from Test<br />
cricket at the end of the summer<br />
Ponting hits back at 'hypocrite'<br />
Fletcher<br />
Jul 15, 2009: Ricky Ponting labels<br />
Duncan Fletcher a "hypocrite" after<br />
the former England coach's comments<br />
that Australia had no right to claim<br />
the moral high ground on Spirit of<br />
Cricket issues<br />
Navjot Sidhu on <strong>Sachin</strong> - "His mind is like a computer. He stores data on bowlers and knows where they are<br />
going to pitch the ball."<br />
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SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
Best Off Topics Of Community This Month<br />
We don’t only discuss abt <strong>Sachin</strong> & Cricket always<br />
sometimes off topics are also discussed. Here are<br />
some of the good off topics discussed last month..<br />
When Former FI Racer, Michael Schumacher announced<br />
he will be returning to the F1 Grand Prix circuit to fill in at<br />
Ferrari for badly injured driver Felipe Massa. It was a good<br />
news for all his fans.<br />
But he dissapoined everyone by finally calling of his return<br />
due to a bike injury.<br />
Roger Federer is showing off his new doubles team.<br />
The Swiss tennis great has posted the first public photo of his<br />
twin girls on the Internet.<br />
Federer wrote below the photo on his Facebook account today<br />
that the girls and mother are "doing great." He thanked<br />
friends and fans for their wishes.<br />
Federer and his wife, Mirka, are each holding a baby in the<br />
picture. Federer said the photo was taken by his father.<br />
SWINE FLU ---- don't panic<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
WHAT IS SWINE FLU?<br />
Influenza A (H1N1) virus is commonly known as swine flu. It<br />
is a viral infection that originated from pigs, it is a pandemic<br />
strain that is brand new to humans which means we do not<br />
have natural immunity to it and therefore are prone to this<br />
viral infection.<br />
SYMPTOMS?<br />
The symptoms of swine flu are similar to that ofregular<br />
human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches,<br />
headache, chills and fatigue. Some people can have diarrhea<br />
and vomiting associated with swine flu. It can cause severe<br />
illnesses like pneumonia, respiratory failure and could worsen<br />
chronic medical conditions.<br />
IMP<br />
Emergency warning signals that need urgent medical<br />
attention<br />
Fast breathing or trouble in breathing or shortness of breath<br />
Bluish or gray skin color<br />
Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen Sudden dizziness<br />
, Severe or persistent vomiting<br />
Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and<br />
worse cough<br />
PREVENTION<br />
Swine flu can be prevented and following precautions can<br />
safeguard us:<br />
Practice a high standard of personal hygiene - routinely wash<br />
hands with soap and warm water<br />
Wear a face mask/respirator in crowded places.<br />
Avoid/defer nonessential travel, especially to affected places;<br />
if necessary to travel, carry and use mask.<br />
Avoid spreading of germs - cough on your sleeve and not into<br />
your hand<br />
Avoid contact with sick people. If you are sick, then<br />
immediately report to the hospital and stay at home<br />
Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers to minimize infection risk.<br />
Air purifier can also be used to help reduce exposure to<br />
airborne germs.<br />
Get an influenza shot for now. Antibiotics do not help this<br />
infection since it is not from bacteria. The only medicines<br />
which help are antiviral.<br />
TREATMENT<br />
Symptomatic care is most important. You should ask your<br />
doctor about options. Those at high risk should strongly be<br />
considered for treatment with medication. (High risk patients<br />
include those with diabetes, heart disease, immune<br />
compromised<br />
SPREAD AWARENESS....SAVE LIVES!!!!<br />
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August 15 : Lara eyes T&T coaching role in Champions<br />
League John Wright, confirms he is in the running for the<br />
coach's position at the Kolkata Knight Riders<br />
August 14: Sehwag to 'wait and watch' on his fitness<br />
KPL : Uthappa highest earner, Binny comes close<br />
August 13 : Younis Khan takes responsibility but refuses to<br />
resign from the captaincy<br />
August 12: Pakistan signed off the tour in style with a<br />
comprehensive 52-run win in the one-off Twenty20<br />
Wanderers regains international status<br />
August 11 : Four new venues announced for IPL's third<br />
season<br />
August 10 : ICC clears Pakistan players of contact with<br />
bookies<br />
BCCI holds fitness camps in Delhi, Mumbai<br />
August 9 : Winning belief helped us win series - Sangakkara<br />
Pakistan won 5th test by 132 runs<br />
August 8 : Shoaib's career not over - chief selector<br />
Glucose injections revived Bond's battered back<br />
August 7 : Zaheer ruled out of Champions Trophy<br />
Pakistan won 4th odi by 146 runs<br />
August 5 : Gibbs picks Deccan over Cape Cobras<br />
August 4 : ICC board will hold on to WADA<br />
August 3 : Srikkanth pleased with depth in Indian cricket<br />
August 2 : Caddick announces retirement<br />
New Zealand players admit missing IPL will be 'tough'<br />
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August 1 : India take Emerging Players title<br />
July 31 : Bangladesh complete 3-0 sweep<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
July 30 : Muralitharan says he will retire from Test cricket in<br />
November 2010<br />
July 29 : Yusuf questions Irfan's exclusion<br />
July 28 : Shoaib in more trouble with PCB<br />
Tampering with ball won't help much – Akram<br />
July 27 : Sreesanth joins Warwickshire<br />
July 26 : Razzak and Shakib seal Bangladesh win<br />
July 23 : Langer breaks Bradman runs record<br />
July 22 : IPL accused of violating norms at Wanderers<br />
July 21 : Taibu slapped with ten-match ban<br />
July 20 : $4 million prize money for Champions Trophy<br />
July 18 : Karnataka board launches Twenty20 league<br />
July 15 : Chennai target Flintoff for entire third season<br />
Brett Lee, on <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>’s batting, 1999 - You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you<br />
have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy<br />
but he just waves it around like it’s a toothpick.<br />
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Latest ICC Rankings<br />
ODI Rankings :<br />
Teams :<br />
In the Latest annual ODI rankings released after the<br />
year 2008-09 SA are placed 1st ahead of India which<br />
is at a close 2nd and Australia. After the impressive<br />
show in the last 12 months Dhoni and boys jumped 1<br />
place ahead of Aus to become the 2nd best team.<br />
Batsman :<br />
In the Batting rankings for ODIs there are 5 Indians at<br />
the Top 20. And the top two slots is being taken by MS<br />
Dhoni and Y Singh. V Sehwag, S <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and G<br />
Gambhir also are in the Top 20.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is currently at 14th spot<br />
with 689 ranking points, after missing the West Indies<br />
series and Last part of Sri Lanka series.<br />
Bowlers :<br />
In the Bowling rankings for ODIs there is only one<br />
Indian bowler in the Top 20. Its is Zaheer Khan at 16th<br />
spot. H Singh is the next best Indian bowler, he is at<br />
23rd spot. The Top spot is occupied by N Kulasekara of<br />
Sri Lanka with 730 rankings points.<br />
All Rounders :<br />
In the All Rounders rankings for the ODIs Y Singh is<br />
the only Indian in the Top 10. He is at 6th Spot with<br />
330 points. The Top spot is occupied by Shakib Al<br />
Hasan of Bangladesh with 424 ranking points.<br />
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Test Rankings :<br />
Teams :<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
In the Latest annual Test rankings released after the<br />
Year 2008-09 Australia(124 rating points) continue to<br />
stay at the top of the charts, but they are closely<br />
followed by South Africa(122 rating points), Sri<br />
Lanka(119 rating points) and India(119 rating points).<br />
Batsman :<br />
In the Batting rankings for Tests there are 4 Indians in<br />
the Top 20. G Gambhir is the Top ranked Indian at<br />
Thrid Spot. The other Indians in the Top 20 are S<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>, VVS Laxman and V Sehwag. The Top spot<br />
is occupied by K Sangakkara of Sri Lanka with 862<br />
ranking points.<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong> has climbed upto 14th<br />
position with 720 ranking points after a Good show in<br />
the India - New Zealand test series.<br />
Bowlers :<br />
In the Bowling rankings for Tests there are 3 Indians in<br />
the Top 20. Harbhajan Singh is the Top ranked Indian<br />
at tied Fifth spot. The other Indians in the Top 20 are Z<br />
Khan and I Sharma. The Top spot is occupied by D<br />
Steyn of South Africa with 844 rankings points.<br />
All Rounders :<br />
In the All Rounders rankings for Tests H Singh is the<br />
lone Indian in the Top 10 with 213 ranking points. The<br />
Top spot is occupied by J Kallis of South Africa with<br />
455 ranking points.<br />
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How I met life<br />
This is a story written by on of the regular member<br />
(Madhyama) of <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com, about how she met<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> & her personal experience over it.<br />
This is a beautiful write up, a must read for all..<br />
25 th October 2007<br />
A day I can never forget.<br />
A day when my dream came true.<br />
A day when time stopped still in the madhyama<br />
world.<br />
A day when I met <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> !<br />
Yes, THAT day!! how can I ever describe it ! that's the<br />
day when 25 became the most beautiful number and<br />
Hotel Maurya Sheraton , Delhi , became the most<br />
sacred place in the whole of India ! for that's the day<br />
and place on which I finally got proof that <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> wasnt a myth . that he actually existed , in<br />
flesh blood and bones . that there actually was<br />
somebody who could change millions of lives everyday<br />
.our dictionary doesn't have words enough to describe<br />
what all happened to me that day !<br />
There I was impatiently waiting for Him to come .<br />
fidgeting all around , unmindful of hunger , thirst or<br />
fatigue . not believing it all was actually happening .<br />
not believing that in a few moments <strong>Sachin</strong> himself<br />
would be in front of me .not believing that I could be<br />
so very blessed ! that's when there was some<br />
commotion in the main entrance of at mighty hotel .i<br />
rushed as I have never rushed...<br />
There he was , clad casually in a red T- shirt , blue<br />
jeans and goggles , an aura of power and peace<br />
emanating from him . he looked magical ! I stood<br />
rooted to the spot . couldn't move an inch . my voice<br />
died in my throat . the only thing I did was to look at<br />
his serene face . looking at him strangely filled me with<br />
immense calm and wonder . sense prevailed. I thought<br />
to myself " madhi , this is the one chance you have ,<br />
go forward ". But my legs didn't want to move ! I<br />
stood transfixed .somehow though, I made a move. I<br />
thought, could it be this easy, just one more step and I<br />
will be standing alongside my idol ? I took that one<br />
step, it was the most laborious step I have ever taken<br />
. but then no other step changed my the way this one<br />
did , so it was more than worth it !!<br />
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2009<br />
I was next to him...I still don't remember what I said ,I<br />
only know that mumbled for his autograph... he was<br />
holding a bouquet ...he smiled...oh god , he smiled<br />
....he stopped next to me ...he was looking at me<br />
....HE WAS LOOKING AT ME !!!! ... he gave the<br />
bouquet to someone else ...had a look at my <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
diary , signed it and went ahead ...I don't know<br />
whether I said thank you or not...I probably didn't ,<br />
couldn't .....<br />
I wanted to tell him how much he meant to me. I<br />
wanted him to know how my whole life and personality<br />
had been determined by his presence. I wanted to<br />
show him how much more than a great cricketer he<br />
was .i wanted him to know how looking at him made<br />
me feel blessed to be living and how I pray to god<br />
everyday for his happiness and peace . I wanted him<br />
to know that I learnt my biggest lesson, of being<br />
courageous enough to dream, from him ....i wanted to<br />
hold him ...to say thank you ....<br />
but I couldn't say anything .not one single word... I<br />
just stood there , feeling him beside me ,blessed to be<br />
breathing from the same air as him , watching at his<br />
hand trace our his signature and then watching him go<br />
away ! everyday since then , whenever I am sad or<br />
depressed , the thought of this amazing day fills me up<br />
with hope and happiness !! I get faith that as long as<br />
somebody like him is around , there is hope for this<br />
crazy world. I get reassured that if ever I feel that life<br />
isn't worth living I will only have to remember those<br />
few hours spent at Maurya Sheraton , to know how<br />
good dividends one can get paid to be alive .I hope<br />
others like me are also bestowed upon with such an<br />
honour and that they are sensible enough to value it .<br />
but more than any of this , I feel peaceful , serene ,<br />
calm and happy from the very roots of my heart . I<br />
feel alive !!<br />
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova -"<strong>Sachin</strong> was so focused. He never looked like getting out.<br />
He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson."<br />
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Sach-in our teen life<br />
One of the most read article on <strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com written by a<br />
Member- Girish is again back in the Articles collection of<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>ism.com. So, we are again sharing that article through<br />
our 1 st edition..<br />
This isnt an attempt to write an elegy about the man. Better and<br />
gifted pens have already done that. Neither is this an attempt to<br />
"statistically" prove the "greatness" of this man and how he is<br />
"non pareil". Those have been done to death as well.<br />
I am just representative of the coterie of preponderant number of<br />
people who entered their teenage world with the entry of cable<br />
TV, liberalized economy, rapidly changing middle class dynamics,<br />
clandestinely purchased<br />
Debonairs, paradigm shift<br />
in middle class values,<br />
increased access to<br />
happenings in "western<br />
world", ubiquitous Street<br />
cricket, cornucopia of<br />
Hardy boys, Nancy Drew's<br />
and Archies, highly<br />
accommodative parents,<br />
over achieving siblings,<br />
the ravishing Steffi Grafs,<br />
vanishing Sabatinis',<br />
ebullient Agassis and one<br />
man whose presence in<br />
the currently playing Indian Cricket team could bring our whole<br />
day to a standstill. <strong>Sachin</strong> Ramesh <strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
In hindsight it is amazing how the <strong>Sachin</strong> phenomenon had<br />
perpetrated into the Indian collective consciousness ( especially<br />
the middle class the one I was intimately acquainted with ). I am<br />
an unabashed <strong>Sachin</strong> fan ( using it as loosely as possible ) not<br />
because of his exquisite strokeplay, his dazzling cover drives, his<br />
scintillating straight drives, his pulverizing pulls or the impeccable<br />
prancing down the tracks to hoist the hapless fast bowler for a<br />
maximum.It was for all this and so much more.Again going down<br />
the nostalgic lane it is amazing how much of my teenage life I<br />
remember revolving around <strong>Sachin</strong> and his innings.<br />
There would be plenty in this forum who, I am sure ,like me<br />
would have feigned illness on a match day just to watch the little<br />
Master play.<br />
There would be plenty who would have sneaked a radio into the<br />
class just to be updated ball by ball how <strong>Sachin</strong> (ostensibly<br />
"India" ) was progressing. (Remember no mobile phones in mid<br />
nineties)<br />
There would be plenty who like me would have dreamed before a<br />
match day the Little Master would yet again score a century.<br />
Assuming they slept.<br />
There would be plenty who like me could recount in amazing<br />
detail the exact words he spoke in the man of the match<br />
ceremony, the way he got off the mark, the number of balls he<br />
took to do it, the way he "unfortunately" got out, the number of<br />
fours and sixes you ask? Child's play.<br />
There would be plenty of people like me who would have had a<br />
knot in their stomach every ball he faced. Waiting. Hoping against<br />
hope hopen. The desperate of us even praying.<br />
There would be plenty of people who like me would have hurled<br />
imprecations on the poor non striker who didn't have the<br />
"common sense" to "take a single" and give "strike" to the Little<br />
Master.<br />
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2009<br />
There would again be<br />
plenty like me who<br />
would have missed the<br />
"model board exam" (<br />
oh what is the wrath of<br />
the principle and<br />
parents when compared<br />
to the master dancing<br />
down the track and<br />
giving Warne the<br />
nightmares of his life?<br />
Nothing was<br />
comparable to it and<br />
nothing could have<br />
compensated missing it.) and sneaked into Chepauk stadium just<br />
to see the Little man take on the mighty Australians .<br />
There would be plenty like me who would have read the<br />
dependable "The Hindu" the moment we woke up after a match<br />
day, the habitual morning ablutions hardly being a priority.<br />
There would be plenty like me who when introduced to a girl who<br />
professed interest in cricket and actually remembered how much<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> scored in the last match would immediately start believing<br />
in soul mates.<br />
There would be plenty like me who would have devoured every<br />
article about the Master ( Favorite being R. Mohan's ) and still<br />
feeling no adjectives could do justice to him.<br />
There would be plenty like me who would have expressed an<br />
undisguised scorn at the disinterest shown by the sis and the<br />
parents with their callous and blasphemous "I don't understand<br />
what the big deal is!!"<br />
There would be plenty like me who would have thought spending<br />
a whole three hours seeing the Little master striking a ball with a<br />
wood a life well spent.<br />
There would be plenty like me who would have stayed well late<br />
into the night just to catch the highlights after watching the full<br />
match in the morning. Sometimes watch a re run of the match<br />
again in the night.<br />
Finally there would be plenty like me for whom teenage life<br />
without <strong>Sachin</strong> would be almost unimaginable as The God Father<br />
without Don Corleone.<br />
Lets face it there are probably people like me out there for whom<br />
it was never really about India actually "winning". ( If <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
plays and they win it would be just a "nice feeling". )<br />
Who really cares about how many matches India actually "won"<br />
because of his contribution?<br />
It's like arguing Britney Spears sells more than Beethoven ergo<br />
Britney Spears is a better artist.<br />
Yes that's bad logic but logic, teenage life and <strong>Sachin</strong> didn't really<br />
go hand in hand.For some of us it wasn't really about winning at<br />
all.It is the realization how far we would have gone to just see<br />
him play that shot.<br />
Oh just to see him on the pitch.<br />
Oh the unbridled pure adulation for a man whose dismissal could<br />
break a billion hearts.<br />
Oh if there was heaven it would be just it.<br />
It's a moment of epiphany which plenty of people like me would<br />
have gone through. It wouldn't be banal to say "You can take<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> out of the Indian team but can never ever take him out of<br />
some people's teenage life! “<br />
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<strong>Tendulkar</strong> to attend fitness camp<br />
in a few days: Kirsten<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> will attend the pre-season fitness<br />
camp in a few days' time as he was unavailable today<br />
due to prior commitments as eight players were put<br />
through their paces here.<br />
Coach Gary Kirsten, who<br />
oversaw the fitness camp at<br />
the Mumbai Cricket<br />
Association's Indoor<br />
Academy in Bandra-Kurla<br />
Complex today, said it was<br />
not possible to get all the<br />
players available for the<br />
camp at a short notice.<br />
"<strong>Sachin</strong> was unavailable<br />
today. It was not possible to get everyone available at<br />
such a short notice. <strong>Sachin</strong> would do the test in the<br />
next few days," Kirsten said.<br />
The eight players who took part in the fitness camp<br />
conducted by Indian team physiotherapist Nitin Patel<br />
and trainer Ramji Srinivasan, who is tipped to soon<br />
join the national squad, were Yuvraj Singh, Rohit<br />
Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthick, Pragyan Ojha,<br />
Abhishek Nayar, Ravindra Jadeja and S Badrinath.<br />
SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION<br />
August 15,<br />
2009<br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> can continue as long<br />
as he wants: Ganguly<br />
Age might be catching<br />
up with <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> but former<br />
India captain Sourav<br />
Ganguly feels the<br />
Mumbai veteran is the<br />
best cricketer in the<br />
world right now and can<br />
continue as long as he<br />
wants.<br />
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The iconic left-hander<br />
said his 36-year-old<br />
former opening partner<br />
is a better batsman than him and can pick the time to<br />
call it quits.<br />
"To be honest, he is a bigger player than I am. He<br />
deserves to go whenever he wants to. He is probably<br />
the best in the world with (the retired) Brian Lara. He<br />
can play until anytime he wants and I am sure his<br />
performance will remain consistent," Ganguly told PTI<br />
in an interview here today.<br />
Ganguly said he enjoyed partnering <strong>Tendulkar</strong> at the<br />
top and doesn't regret quitting earlier than him.<br />
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag might<br />
have arrived ...<br />
But for a school going kid,<br />
who bats in the streets and<br />
the maidans of our country,<br />
he still dreams to be a<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>!<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong>'s stance, style of<br />
play is what every kid on<br />
the streets of India wants<br />
to impersonate. Everyone<br />
wants a slice of the little<br />
genius. We found <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
over 20 years back as a<br />
prodigiously talented<br />
teenager; even our mums loved him. The curly hair, the<br />
boyish looks, he was the kid in a man's world.<br />
In the 1990s, <strong>Sachin</strong> became synonymous with the Indian<br />
cricket team. When <strong>Tendulkar</strong> would be dismissed early in an<br />
innings the spectators in the stadium retreated, and the ones<br />
watching at home switched off their TV sets.<br />
For a million Indians, the word <strong>Sachin</strong> spelled hope. <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
was also the only Indian batsmen whose game did not falter<br />
when playing on the hard and bouncy or seaming tracks<br />
abroad. He was at ease on all surfaces. He was one Indian<br />
batsman, whom we knew would never flinch in front of<br />
bouncers or<br />
short-pitch<br />
bowling. In the<br />
1990s the Indian<br />
team did not win<br />
any Test matches<br />
outside the subcontinent,<br />
and<br />
the only<br />
consolation would<br />
be a <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
hundred on<br />
foreign soil.<br />
Away from Tests, <strong>Sachin</strong>'s attacking style of play made him<br />
an exciting proposition in the 50-over version of the game.<br />
Every time he was called onto bat, the expectations surgedanything<br />
less than a hundred was deemed as a failure. In the<br />
ODIs, <strong>Sachin</strong> played a number of memorable knocks, but one<br />
of his innings stands out. Remember the 'desert storm' in<br />
Sharjah in 1998, when he single-handedly took the Indians to<br />
the finals of the tournament, and then followed it by a matchwinning<br />
innings in the same. He psyched the Australians then<br />
and simultaneously mesemerized us.<br />
But for the champions, the real test is not only the numbers<br />
but the spirit as well.<br />
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Just days after his father's funeral death, <strong>Sachin</strong> returned to<br />
score a century in World Cup<br />
England 1999. Such is <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong>.<br />
The hundred that was dedicated to<br />
his father was testimony to his<br />
focus and a tribute to his<br />
commitment towards the Indian<br />
cricket team. In 2003 World Cup<br />
when the cricket fanatics were<br />
seething in anger, <strong>Sachin</strong><br />
<strong>Tendulkar</strong> was called upon to do<br />
some firefighting on behalf of the<br />
team. When the master spoke, the nation listened, as he<br />
asked the fans to keep their faith.<br />
In the next few games India worked a turnaround chiefly on<br />
the back of some scintillating knocks from <strong>Sachin</strong>.<br />
The beginning of this decade saw the younger brigade in the<br />
Indian team come to the fore. As for <strong>Sachin</strong>, he never grew<br />
old, yes the bones creaked much more, and tennis elbow<br />
injury kept him down for almost a year. The master though<br />
never got tired of making centuries. After surpassing Don<br />
Bradman's record of 29 Test centuries, <strong>Sachin</strong> is now at 42<br />
and still counting for more. He is also the highest run maker<br />
in both Test match cricket and ODIs.<br />
From a child prodigy to an institution of the game itself,<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> has walked straight into the hearts of his fans and his<br />
team members alike. He is the senior member now, a person<br />
to whom everybody looks up to for all sorts of advice.<br />
Be it a technical flaw in the batting style of a way to deal with<br />
all the pressure on the cricketing field, <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> is<br />
the man-to-go for all the members of the team. On the field<br />
or off it, <strong>Sachin</strong> soothes the nerves of his team members, by<br />
constantly joking and squeezing in humour in the tense<br />
dressing room atmosphere. The master is enjoying the<br />
success of the Indian team , something which he missed<br />
doing during the 90's.<br />
For the fans, he is the cricketer for<br />
whom kids have bunked school, the<br />
office-goers have feigned illness.<br />
After a hard day's work he is the one<br />
guy who has lit up the faces of the<br />
common man, with his breath-taking<br />
performances. Everyone relishes<br />
<strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong>. His game, his<br />
smile, his humility has charmed one<br />
and all. At the age of 36, <strong>Sachin</strong> is<br />
still playing with the same passion,<br />
the same hunger that he had when he first held the bat to<br />
thrash a turning or a swinging ball to the boundary. All we<br />
can say is may the good work continue for a long time in the<br />
future. India@62 loves <strong>Sachin</strong> <strong>Tendulkar</strong> and asks for more!<br />
We Wish You All a Very Happy 62nd Independence Day<br />
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