Maharoof drops the ball a little short, the batsman shifts his balance a little from front to backfoot and almost effortlessly picks up and pulls the ball for a mighty six. And you can surely say "GOD is back".
Yes! it was Sachin's first innings in like 6 months and what a innings it was. It was not as much as how many runs he scored but in what way he scored them. You could see the old tendulkar in there. The tendulkar of 90's. The tendulkar whoes arrival at the crease used to make the whole nation stop. There has been lot of debates about who is the best batsman of modern era and how Tendulkar can't be it for the lack of match winning knocks to his credit. How he fails under pressure while chasing. If you leave the numbers out for sometime and try to name the batsman watching whom gave you the most pleasure then I am sure Tendulkar would be right up there. And coming to numbers he isnt bad either. He has 51 man-of-the-match awards(ODI) and 29 have come while India was chasing. Infact I think Sachin can have a Phd in how to chase totals of 200-250 in one-day games!!
Anyways when India plays SA tomorrow, Tendulkar would become the most capped player in the history of ODI. Hats off to this run machine for providing us entertainment for over 15 years now!! And to think of it he is just 32. I just hope he bats this way till he retires!!
trivia: Who is the only current batsman whoes test strike rate is not on records??
ans: TENDULKAR !! Yes, among current cricketers he is the most experienced. And when he started paying innings length (in tests) was still measured by minutes rather than no. of balls faced. So his strike rate can not be caculated !!
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yep GOD is certainly back with a bang!!!
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