Cricket Special Report: Tendulkar Set to Become Most Capped Test Player
The man who was simply born to play cricket is set to have another jewel in his crown, as he will become the most capped player in the history of test cricket. He will be honoured when he takes the field for the third and final test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 at the P.Sara stadium in Colombo tomorrow.
The champion from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 will be playing his 168th test match that is a test more than Australian legend Steve Waugh, in what is his 22nd year in test cricket.
The master blaster was all of sixteen years, when he confronted with the likes of Waqar Younis, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292 and Imran Khan in what was a fearsome Pakistani pace attack in 1989.
He displayed first class cricket alongside, Pakistani Waqar Younis in his debut test at Karachi’s national stadium at a match, where even Waqar was making his test debut.
In the same series, he showed glimpses of his talent and incredible batting ability, as he fought his way through tough conditions in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sialkot-c842 and Faisalabad, giving an inside of his capabilities at an incredibly young age.
Since then, he has not looked back, and after 167 tests, he has amassed an almost in-human 13742 runs at an average of 56 runs per innings, he has a staggering tally of 48 test hundreds besides 55 half centuries.
The sheer weight of runs make him an absolute legend of the game, who has taken batting to a new level altogether, a level that no one felt could be reached by an individual.
He has the tally for most hundreds in the longest and One-Day formats and has proven time and again that if there was ever a man born to bat, it was him.
Even at the age of two, he had the same stance as he has now, which is a clear testament of his God given abilities that have transcended all barometers.
The most incredible feature of his success has been his down to earth nature that belies the achievements with the bat that have put him in the league of the greatest of them all.
Some critics feel that Tendulkar is simply the greatest of them all, even better than the great Sir Don Bradman, as Tendulkar’s career is much longer than the Australian. He played in the modern era, where batting is perhaps tougher than the era when Bradman played as in those days, where only four teams were playing test cricket, unlike today, when there are as many as ten test playing nations.
After the Colombo test, the iconic batsman would have the fifty overs World cup in his sights, the tournament is set to be played in the Indian sub-continent with the final in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
The little master has vowed to lift the trophy and bring smiles on the faces of one billion people, just as he had done through out the most celebrated career in test cricket.
He might also end up playing 200 test matches, by the time he hangs his gloves and with his incredible consistency and penchant for runs. Anything is within his reach, perhaps 20,000 test runs and 100 test 100’s, since batting is all about Sachin Tendulkar, the one true master that the world has seen.
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