IPL-Sachin Tendulkar

One cannot evade Sachin Tendulkar name, in history of International cricket and even after many centuries, his script would still be engraved in golden ink without doubt. He has almost redefined all the adjective for a good player in cricket and heartening thing is still continues to do so.

He made his ODI debut and International debut in 1989, at a tender age of 16. In fact astonishing thing is he has shared same dressing room, along with Dilip vengsarkar, Mohammed Azaruddhin and even Ravi Shastri and hasn’t still finished yet.

Initially it took him few time to stamp his foothold on International Cricket, he almost took 65 ODI matches to bring about his first century. He scored a match saving scintillating century in Old Trafford test at the age of 17, from which there was no u – turn, in his batting explosion.

We are talking about the man who has 43 ODI centuries and 42 test centuries, which can be still greater than cumulative addition of centuries by players of few present International teams. He has scored 16,684 ODI runs and 12,589 test runs, in his glittering career and also he hasn’t finished with it yet. His resent rollicking 163 runs against New Zealand in ODI is a testimony to the statement.

Many historians argue that his scotching century in Perth against Australian team is one of the best knocks cricket has ever witnessed. Even though Australian team were in their pinnacle of success, he was one of the few names which daunted them.

His knocks against Australian team in sharjah, where India defeated Australia, to clinch trophy is one of the perfectbyword, for one of his many inspirational performances. He has proved his mettle and artifice in all over globe and even great cricketing legent Sir Donald Bradman was quoted saying that Tendulkar reminded of him, in his playing days.

Tendulkar did not have a fruitful time as a captain and he voluntarily stepped down from captaincy to concentrate more on his batting to aid his country, which showed his selfless attitude. In spite of all these, it’s very surprising to hear that, Tendulkar has played only 1 T 20 international and he has willingly opted out to give chance and groom the youngsters.

He is also the icon player and captain of Mumbai Indians franchise in IPL2.This year it was said he would be available for the whole tournament unlike last year, where injury forced him to sit out in initial phase of tournament. It will be a writer’s crime, if we don’t signify his bowling skills, where he has almost took 157 wickets with two five wicket haul, which was hugely eclipsed, by his astounding batting

Tendulkar has kept two groups of people interested in his whole illustrious career; one is cricketing audience through his array of batting and bowling and other one group is statisticians, as he redefined the boundaries and norms of International Cricket.