ICC World Cup 2011 – title win would give Sachin Tendulkar closure
If you want to watch someone making or breaking the records, someone who is hungry for runs, desire to have a glimpse of a cricketer playing all the shots in the cricket book, a master in the art of batting, an artist someone like Van Gough, then you must
watch the little master Sachin Tendulkar scoring freely and fluently like a sculptor chipping at his piece of rock. He is now the King of his own dynasty, a dynasty that comprises of overwhelming stats and figures unparalleled in the history of the sport.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 India. He is a right-hand batsman and bowls right-hand leg spin off spin and medium pace. His passion for cricket started since he was in the school. Initially he wanted to become
a fast bowler and attended MRF Pace Foundation but was unable to impress the Australian legend Dennis Lillee who recommended him to concentrate on his batting. The recommendation by the great bowler was followed and Sachin then embarked upon the journey to
become a specialist batsmen. Such was his passion and motivation that he used to spend hours practicing in the nets.
He started playing cricket at school level and made history in 1988 with an unbroken partnership of 664 runs with his team mate Vinod Kambli, who also represented India. Sachin scored an unbeaten 326 runs in that match and became the highest run scorer in
that tournament. He commenced his first class match by representing Bombay against Gujarat and scored 100 unbeaten runs which earned him the honour of the youngest Indian to score a century on his first class debut.
Two legendary Indian cricketers might regard http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 as their lucky talisman for both of them started their careers playing against the men in green and rose to stardom within a span of a few years. One of these players was none other than the extraordinary
all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234. The other cricketer to have made his debut against Pakistan was none other than the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar at the tender age of 16 on 18th December 1989.
Sachin has played 177 Test matches and scored 14692 runs at a healthy average of 56.94 runs with 51 centuries and 59 fifties. He has taken 45 wickets as well with a career best of 3/10 runs.
He has played 444 ODI matches and scored 17629 runs at an average of 44.97 with 46 centuries and 93 fifties. He has also bagged 154 scalps in ODI’s with a career best of 5/32 runs.
Sachin was declared by Wisden in 2002 as the second greatest Test batsman behind Sir Donald Bradman and the second greatest one day international batsman of all time after Sir Vivian Richards. He is the leading run scorer in the history of the game by scoring
the highest no of runs in Tests and ODI’s.
Tendulkar has the honour of piling up most centuries in both forms of the game and has scored 97 centuries so far requiring only three more tons to reach an unparalleled record in history of a century of centuries.
Tendulkar has been honoured by many awards in recognition of his services to the game. Few of them are listed below.
Padma Vibhushn award which is the second highest civilian award of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
Arjuna award.
Padma Shri award.
Honorary Group Captain award by the Indian Air Force.
Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for the cricketer of the year award in 2010.
Castrol Cricketer of the year award.
Sachin was the ‘Man of the Tournament’ of the ICC World Cup 2003 by scoring 673 runs and claimed 2 wickets. He remained ‘Man of the Match’ 8 times in his 36 appearances of the World Cups. He has the honour to score most runs in the World Cups by soring1796
runs with 4 centuries.
India has entered the ICC World Cup 2011 today, 19th of February against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium, Mirpur with the anticipation of gearing up their journey of this master event by winning the game.
The entire Indian nation will have their eyes set on Sachin Tendulkar to perform in the tournament and lead India to their second World Cup victory. If India does manage to win the ICC World Cup 2011 tournament the win would be dedicated to Sachin Tendulkar,
a player, a legend who has served his country and the world of cricket like no other in the history of the game.
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