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[ajithfederer]

India vs England 6th ODI Part 3

A tendulkar 94 against England in 2007 tour. High octane drives make up this affair. A very fluid innings. I think Nerd says this is one of his top 5 Innings. A worthy contender

[19thmay]

I don't think dhoni gets bashed much in media. It is vjust in this forum0 and a few blogs.

Namma Ju.Vi-la oru article vandhuchu idha pathi.

[Plum]

I don't think dhoni gets bashed much in media. It is vjust in this forum0 and a few blogs.

Namma Ju.Vi-la oru article vandhuchu idha pathi.

ju.vi-yA? AdhellAm Dhonikku kosukkadiya vida chinnadhu

[Nerd]

A tendulkar 94 against England in 2007 tour. High octane drives make up this affair. A very fluid innings. I think Nerd says this is one of his top 5 Innings. A worthy contender

Yayy! If we are polling the best 50s, I am voting for this innings. 97 against Pakis in the '03 world cup will get many votes anyway!

The three consecutive boundaries of Anderson which set the tone, the inside out strokes, the drives etc., And remember BCCI was 2-3 down, desperately needing a win to stay in the series and were chasing 310+.. Wonderful innings and from there on, no looking back. All the way to a double century

[ajithfederer]

Guys what about poll?. Fav 50's excluding WC (2003) 98 vecharalamaa??

Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:07 pm
Guys what about poll?.

[littlemaster1982]

Sure

My nominations:

94 vs England, Oval

82 vs Newzealand, Auckland

95 vs Pakistan, Lahore

Will add more later

[ajithfederer]

List of ODI 50's by sachin

Guys use this link to pull up your nominations.

[ajithfederer]

http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64710.html

Actually this was also a great innings. Sachin scored 62 of just 38 balls with 11 fours against Australia in 2001. I came to know about this only thorugh orkut sachin fan late sheetal madam.

[ajithfederer]

Tendulkar's mileage, and the woman who beat himThe distance Sachin has run between wickets, the highest List A scores, most balls faced in ODIs, and the paw-word

Steven Lynch

March 2, 2010


Belinda Clark got a double in ODIs in 1997 © Cricinfo Ltd



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How many miles or kilometres has Sachin Tendulkar run between the wickets in his international career? asked Sundar from India
After his amazing double-century onslaught in Gwalior - and how appropriate it was that he was the first man to reach the 200 barrier in a format where he heads the run-scoring lists by such a long way - Sachin Tendulkar had scored 31,055 runs in international cricket (13,447 in Tests, 17,598 in ODIs, and 10 in Twenty20 internationals). Of those, 16,140 have come in boundaries (3675 fours and 240 sixes), so he has had to run 14,915 of his own runs in singles, twos and threes, which adds up to 328,130 yards or over 186 miles (300 kilometres). He will also have covered a similar distance for his partners while non-striker - not quite so many runs, perhaps, but a significant number nonetheless. If we allow his batting partners 75% of Tendulkar's output, that's another 12,105 runs, or 266,310 yards, or 151 miles (243km). That makes a total of around 337 miles (543km). There will also have been many byes and leg-byes, lots of runs completed before the ball crossed the boundary line - and even partial runs during run-outs, so it's impossible to calculate it any more exactly!

Was Tendulkar's score the highest in any senior limited-overs match (not just a one-day international? asked Surinder Nayyar from Ahmedabad
Sachin Tendulkar's 200 not out in Gwalior was actually the 10th double-century in senior limited-overs cricket (now usually called "List A" matches). Two of them have been scored by Alistair Brown, the electric Surrey (now Nottinghamshire) batsman who had a surprisingly short England career of just 16 ODIs. Those included the highest List A score yet recorded: an astonishing 268 - from 160 balls, with 30 fours and 12 sixes - in Surrey's C&G Trophy match against Glamorgan at The Oval in June 2002.

Sachin "Two-Tondulkar" faced 147 deliveries during his record-breaking innings. Was this the highest number of balls faced by a batsman in a 50-over one-day international? asked Rahul Bagree from India
In early one-day internationals innings were usually limited to a maximum of 60 overs (and often 55 in England), so it's not surprising that, overall, the six longest individual innings in ODIs come from those days: the leader is New Zealand's Glenn Turner, whose 171 not out against East Africa at Edgbaston during the first World Cup in 1975 occupied 201 balls. Another Turner innings from that World Cup - his 177-ball 114 not out against India at Old Trafford - lies second on this list. The longest individual innings in any 50-over ODI was one of 172 balls, by Canada's Ashish Bagai, who made 137 not out against Scotland in Nairobi in 2006-07. The longest in a match between two Test-playing nations was 168 balls, by David Boon, during his 102 not out for Australia against New Zealand in Hobart in 1991-92. For the full list of the longest individual ODI innings (irrespective of over limit), click here.

Sachin Tendulkar was the first man to score a double-century in a one-day international, but my sister insists that a woman achieved this feat first, more than a decade ago. Is she right? asked Keith D'Souza
Hats off to your sister, as she remembered that Australia's Belinda Clark hammered 229 not out against Denmark in Mumbai during the 1997-98 women's World Cup. It was a bit of a mismatch: after scoring 412 for 3 in their 50 overs, the Aussies bowled Denmark out for 49

http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/con...ry/449574.html

[ajithfederer]

March 1, 2010

Posted by Aakash Chopra at 4:00 AM in Technique

Tendulkar double ton reiterates technique

Technique is perhaps one of the most important things that distinguish a good cricketer from a great cricketer; Tendulkar's great innings told us just that © Associated Press


Only the God of cricket could have made a daunting 200 look so effortless. The game of numbers isn’t one for Sachin; he has gone well past that. That evening on the 25th February, Tendulkar didn’t just break an overwhelming record, he narrated cricket’s lost story. The double ton, perhaps, brought back, the passé ‘technique’ into the game. My admiration of Tendulkar’s masterclass didn’t just stop at the record, but the manner in which he pulled it off.

You would assume that a certain amount of slogging is almost mandatory to score a double century in fifty overs. But Sachin proved that it can be done by playing good cricket and knocking some skillful cricketing shots. The reason why Sachin doesn’t need to slog his way to big runs is his impeccable technique.

Ironically though, talking technique has almost become blasphemous in modern day cricket. No longer is it only about the number of runs you score, the strike-rate at which those runs are scored is equally important if not more, especially in the shorter formats. Perhaps, there is seemingly nothing wrong about thinking in terms of strike-rate because that makes for entertaining cricket. Innovation is not an aberration anymore but a norm.

While most cricketers playing international cricket are capable of changing gears and adapting to the new demands of the game, a whole crop of youngsters trying to break into their respective state under-16, under-19 teams are not. To a young mind, the easiest way to score quickly is to take the aerial route and play adventurous shots. The impression a youngster carries is that technique restricts you from playing all the shots and hence slows you down. Little do they realize that in reality, technique empowers you to play almost every shot in the book or perhaps more. It’s the technical dexterity and not slogging which enabled Sachin to score a double century off merely 147 balls.

I see that the role of a cricket coach more important now than ever before. He ought to help a youngster find the right balance and ensure that he doesn’t sacrifice technique for adventure. But are these coaches well equipped to ensure that a youngster doesn’t go astray? The answer is an unfortunate No. Only a few cricket academies in the country are run by qualified coaches. Others are merely organized net practice facilities which would rarely produce good cricketers. We may not be able to organize the cricket-academy sector but we can always ensure that the coaches working with the state teams at all levels are qualified coaches. After all the BCCI organizes coaching clinics on a regular basis producing Level 1, 2 and 3 coaches. These coaches in turn should be absorbed by the state associations.

I watched a Ranji Trophy probable bowling big no-balls and all that the coaches around could possible tell him was a feeble ‘stop overstepping’. No one would tell him how to do it. Poor kid kept bowling for nearly an hour with no success. I felt sorry for the boy because it wasn’t his fault. It’s the duty of the coach to rectify mistakes, but sadly, they couldn’t. If this being the state of affairs at the First class level, pity how things would be at levels below Ranji. The way forward is most certainly a sound lesson in technique, for you can break a rule only when you know it.

Technique is perhaps one of the most important things that distinguish a good cricketer from a great cricketer. And the God of the Cricket told us just that.

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