< 1 minute read The Cricinfo headline reads: “Tendulkar not thinking of 100th ton”. Now we haven’t got time to actually click the link and read the article, but we have got time to sit here with a beer or two, spending hours thinking about that headline. How can Cricinfo know that Tendulkar isn’t
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Tendulkar v Murali
< 1 minute read We wrote about the various World Cup storylines during the quarter-finals. The stories of Tendulkar and Murali, two ageing greats, seem to be the strongest now, but that’s mostly due to hindsight. All the same, it makes for a good narrative. There’s also a minor subplot that no-one will care
Continue readingDale Steyn versus Sachin Tendulkar in an abbreviated title bout
< 1 minute read There’s a great Test series taking place in South Africa at the moment and we’re gutted that we’re missing so much of it because of the Ashes. It’s like when you get carried away ordering takeaway. The leftovers won’t keep for a week, so you’ve got to make some tough
Continue readingTaking Sachin Tendulkar for granted
< 1 minute read It is so easy to take Sachin Tendulkar for granted. He’s 191 not out against Australia. You see that and you think: “Of course he’s 191 not out against Australia. Why wouldn’t he be?” The statistics are everywhere. Picking some pretty much at random, this was his eighth hundred in
Continue readingHow good is Sachin Tendulkar?
< 1 minute read If Sachin Tendulkar hits exactly 100 and another batsman hits exactly 100, Sachin Tendulkar is top scorer. When Sachin Tendulkar gets bowled, it is only because he can hear the thoughts of wood and one of the stumps has insulted him. The wood only insults him because it is bitter
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar hits an ODI double hundred
< 1 minute read Due respect to Saeed Anwar, but from the minute Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry equalled his world record ODI score of 194 against Bangladesh, someone needed to go past it. That someone was Sachin Tendulkar. There are some pretty ordinary batsmen making big scores these days, but Sachin is not one of
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag
< 1 minute read Comparison’s probably inappropriate, but Virender Sehwag is more eye-catching than Sachin Tendulkar these days and people get infatuated with the way he plays. As we asked this morning: which is more memorable, a Virender Sehwag double hundred or a Virender Sehwag 15? His achievements are high profile. A couple of
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar – 20 years of batting like this is just astonishing
3 minute read Did you know that it took 78 one-day internationals for Sachin Tendulkar to score a hundred? It’s an odd fact, that, considering he’s squeezed in another 44 since then, including a whopping 175 against Australia today. It’s sometimes difficult to appreciate Sachin Tendulkar properly. It’s like thinking about the vast
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< 1 minute read It’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar wins the Test match
< 1 minute read Watching Sachin Tendulkar bat is always a disappointment for us. It’s not his fault. He’s had the decency to be a batting genius and we can’t really ask much more of the man. The fault lies with our own expectations. When you watch Sachin Tendulkar at work, you expect to
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