God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar will still be great even if he misses 100th ton: Steve Waugh

Melbourne, Feb 7 (TruthDive): Australian great and former skipper, Steve Waugh has said that the quality in Sachin Tendulkar’s batting will never diminish even if he does not score his much awaited 100th international century.

“I think it’(s a huge statistic and India is obsessed by stats. The whole country wants him to get his one hundredth (100) so maybe that’s where the real pressure is coming from.

“It will be nice if he could get it down the road, but if he doesn’t get it I certainly won’t think any less of him as a player,” Waugh said. Waugh compared Tendulkar’s failure to score his hundredth 100 till today with Don Bradman, who retired with an average of 99.94. He also said it may be possible that Tendulkar does not have it in his destiny to score that elusive hundred but felt it is highly unlikely.

“He’s a great player. You know Bradman wasn’t meant to average 100, maybe Sachin Tendulkar is not meant to get a hundredth century. But I think he’ll get it pretty shortly,” Waugh was quoted as saying by ‘The Australian’.

Tendulkar, stranded on 99 international centuries since March last year, moved in the vicinity of 80s in the current test series against Australia. With cricketing fans across the globe waiting for Sachin’s elusive hundred, the Australian team will do everything to prolong the Indian great’s agonising wait for his 100th international century.

Tendulkar is a great player and the ton would only be another feather in his cap. Cricket experts and former players feel that Tendulkar’s 100 is only a matter of time. They demand patience from Indian fans and media. India’s iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar would soon score his landmark and much-awaited 100th international ton.

The records speak his greatness in the game of cricket and seem like the records are not only unbreakable until but forever. Until we could finish his extensive list of records SachinTendulkar is once again ready to hit another milestone. This time it’s the amazing feat of Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th Century that’s round the corner.

Well done, Viru, says Sachin Tendulkar

God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar, who inspired Virender Sehwag to become a cricketer when the latter broke his ODI record (200 not out).

“I am very happy for Viru and also happy about the fact that someone who has broken my record is my own teammate and an Indian! Well done, Viru.”

Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to get 15,000 Test runs

New Delhi: God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar achieved another milestone as he become the first player in history to score 15,000 runs in Test match cricket against the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.

Sachin Tendulkar ended the day unbeaten on 33, Playing in his 182nd match, Tendulkar reached the mark on the third day of the first cricket Test against the West Indies when he scored his 28th run in India's second innings with a single off leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo.

After crossing the coveted milestone, the batting maestro looked up at the heavens and acknowledged the standing ovation given by his teammates from the dressing room as his partner Rahul Dravid congratulated him.

The West Indian players also came up after the completion of the over to congratulate the iconic batsman.

Sachin Tendulkar was 35 runs short of 15,000 before this match and he scored seven in the first innings before being adjidged leg-before off Fidel Edwards.

With 14,422 crowd cheering him, Tendulkar, who came in at the fall of Virender Sehwag's wicket when the team total was 95 for two, played cautiously with India needing 276 runs to win the match.

He hit just two fours after facing 76 balls to reach 28. The 38-year-old Tendulkar, the world's most prolific batsman, now needs just one hundred to complete a historic 100 international tons. He has scored 51 Test tons and 48 ODI hundreds.

Tendulkar is the first cricketer in the history of the game to reach 12, 000, 13, 000 and 14, 000 runs in the Test format. He is the leading run-scorer in both ODIs and Tests, as well as in the number of centuries scored.

Tendulkar is the first Indian cricketer to break Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 Test centuries, and is also the only player in the limited-overs format to score 200 runs in an innings.

Top run-getters in Test cricket (minimum 10,000 runs)

15,005* - Sachin Tendulkar (IND)

12,859* - Rahul Dravid (IND)

12,487 - Ricky Ponting (AUS)

11,953 - Brian Lara (WIS)

11,947 - Jacques Kallis (RSA)

11,174 - Allan Border (AUS)

10,927 - Steve Waugh (AUS)

10,122 - Sunil Gavaskar (IND)

Waving chequered flag a memorable experience: Sachin Tendulkar

Greater Noida: October 31, 2011 - Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday met the Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone ahead of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida.

God of cricket sachin tendulkar, a self—confessed Formula One fan, described waving the chequered flag at the end of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix here as a memorable experience in his life.

Tendulkar, who witnessed the race along with wife Anjali Tendulkar and daughter Sara Tendulkar, waved the chequered flag

“What an experience it was to wave the chequered flag!!! Got to keep it as well!!!,” Tendulkar wrote on his Twitter account.

He has been personally invited by F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone to watch India’s first Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida. (CC)

Sachin Tendulkar also met seven—time world champion and ‘dear friend’ Michael Schumacher and Mercedes team’s other driver Nico Rosberg before the race.

He later joined the F1 fraternity in observing a minute’s silence as a mark of respect to Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli who recently died in tragic crashes in IndyCar and Moto GP races respectively.

Sachin Tendulkar feared my pace: Shoaib Akhtar

God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar Friday declined to comment on controversial Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Akhtar's remark that he and team-mate Rahul Dravid did not have the ability to finish matches.

Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said here Friday that people should read his autobiography first to ‘understand his remarks’ about Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, and added that they are ‘world class cricketers’.

In the book, Akhtar has claimed that god of cricket Sachin Tendulkar and wall of Indian cricket Rahul Dravid, who have scored 56,000 between them in Tests and ODIs, lack the ability to finish matches.

Harbhajan Singh Said, "I don't know what Shoaib is up to and what made him say so. If you talk about Sachin Tendulkar, obviously I would say that he is not only the best cricketer in India but in the world as well.

Everyone will vouch that Sachin is the best starter and best finisher in cricket. That he is still going strong speaks volumes. Dravid has been amazing in the manner he has batted.

Tendulkar's childhood friend and former cricketer Vinod Kambli,said Sachin was never scared of Akhtar's bowling, as claimed in the Pakistan cricketer's book.

'Sachin was never scared of Shoaib or anyone. Look at the way he played his cricket and scored highest runs.

"Nobody is even close to him and nobody ever dares talk to him"

like that," Kambli said.