Why Sachin is called as god ?
THIS IS SACHIN
WHY HE CALLED AS GOD???
Andrew Flintoff:
...
When you bowl at him you are not just...
trying to get him out, you are trying to
impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking
'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he? I feel
privileged to have played against him.
Shane Warne:
"Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best
player without doubt - daylight second, Brian
Lara third."
Viv Richards:
He is 99.5% Perfect.. I'll pay to watch him play.
I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any
level.
Sir Don Bradman:
I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at
him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.
Barry Richards:
Consensus is that Sir Donald Bradman was the best batsman ever to play Cricket. Sir Don did not play One-Day Cricket but if he did, he could easily be Sachin Tendulkar.
Allan Donald:
"In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the
engagements." "During our team meetings, we often speak about the importance of the first 12 balls to Tendulkar. If you get him then you can thank your stars, otherwise it could mean that tough times lie ahead."
Harsha Bhogle:
In the recently concluded IPL when Sachin drove Ishant Sharma to a straight drive, he said- "Open the text book..turn to page no. 32"
Andrew Symonds:
wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin. " To Sachin, the man we all want to be " A.R.Rhaman Well, I’m no Sachin Tendulkar you know, whenever he takes the field, people expect him to score a century before he loses his wicket. I can only give in my best and I always strive to live up to fans expectations, but it’s not possible to get an Oscar every time.
Virendra Sehwag:
Both of us have come a long away and it is a great honour that Tendulkar thinks I come close to resembling him as a batsman. It is a great honour, like a dream come true. If I die tomorrow I'll be the happiest man because I played this game because of Tendulkar, and Tendulkar himself saying that I resemble him - there is no bigger compliment than that.
Mathew Hayden:
I have seen GOD , he bats at no.4 for india in Tests.
Ravi Shashtri:
He is someone sent from up there to play cricket and go back.
Mark Taylor:
We did not lose to a team called india...we lost to a man called Sachin.
Brain Lara:
Sachin is a genius , i am a mere mortal!
Barry Richards:
Sachin is crickets GOD
Martin Crowe:
The shot played on this ball is only possible
for the GOD of cricket.
Paul Strang:
What we [zimbabwe] need is 10 tendulkars.
Steve Waugh:
There is no shame losing to such a great
player(sachin).
Shane Warne:
I would go to bed having nightmares of
sachin dancing down the ground and hitting
me for sixes.
Mathew Hayden:
His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic
world... [When he goes out to bat], it is
beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a
nation to one man. The people see him as a
God...
Dennis Lillie:
If I had to bowl to Sachin I would bowl with a
halmet on. He hits the ball so hard.
Steve Waugh:
After being defeated in the Coca-Cola Cup
finals in Sharjah) "It was one of the greatest
innings I have ever seen. There is no shame
being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is
perhaps only next to the Don''
Michael Kasprowicz:
Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good
ones for fours."
Shane Warne:
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of
Sachin just running down the wicket and
belting me back over the head for six. He was
unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from
Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin
Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player."
Wasim Akram:
Today, he showed the world why he is
considered the best batsman around. Some of
the shots he played were simply amazing.
Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that
Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the
game. Today, I feel that the Indian players,
too, feel this way.
Wasim Akram, after game at Hobart, CUB
series, 1999
Brett Lee:
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and
think you have bowled a good ball and he
walks across and hits it for two behind
midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just
waves it around like it's a toothpick. Brett Lee,
on Sachin Tendulkar's batting, 1999
BBC Sports:
Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly
hair, inside the cranium, there is something
we don't know, something beyond scientific
measure. Something that allows him to soar,
to roam a territory of sport that, forget us,
even those who are gifted enough to play
alongside him cannot even fathom. When he
goes out to bat, people switch on their
television sets and switch off their lives.
Wasim Akram:
"I dont know what to bowl at him. i bowled
an inswinger n he drove me through covers
of d front foot. then i bld an outswinger n he
again punched thr covers of d backfoot(for
tamil fans-dai avan eppadi pottalum
adikaranda). he is d toughest batsmen i 've
bowled to.
He shold live long n score lots of runs, but not
against pakistan(smiling) "- on 24th april
2004 on espn Sachin's 30th B day program.
Sunil Gavaskar:
India's fortune will depend on how many
runs the little champion scores. There is no
doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
Richie Benaud:
He has defined cricket in his fabulous,
impeccable manner. He is to batting what
Shane Warne is to bowling.
Geoffrey Boycott:
Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or
spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem. Eddie
Barlow:
He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin
Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in
his own way. He has a technique which is the
hallmark of a great player. Everything
indicates that he will be a great player and I
am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me
of Barry Richards.
Greg Chappell:
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows
perfectly well when to attack and when to
play defensive cricket. He has developed the
ability to treat bowlers all over the world with
contempt and can destroy any attack with
utmost ease.
Abdul Qadir:
I Was fielding in the covers Tendulkar came
out to bat in his debut Test at Karachi. I still
remember Waqar Younis was at his peak
form at that time. Tendulkar tried to drive
Waqar through the covers off his very first
ball in Test cricket but was beaten all ends up.
But I walked to captain Imran Khan and told
him 'this kid looks very good' and Imran
agree with me.
Sir Garfield Sobers:
I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we
have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in
him to be among the very best.
Peter Roebuck:
Sometime back I had written a piece that said
that Sachin's the master and Lara a genius
with his head high up somewhere. That's it!
Jeff Thompson:
Sachin is an attacker. He has much more
power than Sunny. He wants to be the one to
set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the
buzz about him.
Ian Healy:
Tendulkar is the most comouncy pitch with
Hughes, McDermott and Whitney gunning for
him he only had 60-odd when No 11 came in.
I've seen him against Warne too.
Mike Coward:
Sachin's the best. I've had this view since I
saw him score that hundred in Sydney in
1992. He's the most composed batsman I've
ever seen.
Hashim Amla:
Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a
plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.
Hashim Amla, the South African batsman,
reassures himself as he boards a flight.
Shahrukh Khan:
"Maybe the country doesn't pray for me like
they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I'm
on a good wicket as well. "
Martina Navratilova:
"Sachin was so focused. He never looked like
getting out. He was batting with single-
minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It
was a lesson." Tennis legend joins the Sachin
Tendulkar fan club after watching him bat at
Sydney.
Alistair Campbell:
After loosing to India in the Coca Cola Cup
final at Sharjah in November '98
"He has everything a top batsman needs.
Tendulkar is a classic example of a player
being so good that his age is an irrelevance"
David Boon:
"Technically he stands out as the best because
of his ability to increase the pace at will"
Cricket Historian Vasant Raiji:
"I have always felt C. K. Nayadu was the best. I
now think sachin has the honour of being the
most outstanding batsman of all time."
Steve Waugh:
"You take Don Bradman away and he is next
up I reckon."
Adam Hollioke:
"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But
then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle
arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can
you bowl me another one?'"
Tony Greig:
He is cool, has magnificent temperament, and
is so mature you tend to forget his age. I can't
think of any other example of a player who
has so dominated the world before the age of
25.
Allan Border: (after India won the Coca-Cola
cup )
"Hell, if he stayed, even at 11 an over he
would have got it."
Ajay Jadeja:
"I can't dream of an innings like that. He
exists where we can't."
David Gower:
"In the last session in Nagpur, when the
Indian chase was still on, Tendulkar hit a
reverse sweep, an orthodox sweep and a
lofted cover drive to (Ian) Blackwell. They
were all exquisite cricket shots. To play those
shots deliberately in such quick succession,
off almost similar deliveries, was genius. That
was a little jewel, just those 3-4 minutes.
"It reminds you how very few people are
special. It was a case of great thinking and
good technique."
Gavaskar..back in 1988 to tom alter:
I sat in the office of Sportsweek magazine
with that same Sunil Gavaskar. Ayaz Memon
and I were listening to Gavaskar in one of his
rare, priceless moods. The ?Little Master? was
delving deep into his own experience, his
own genius, and bringing forth pearls of
wisdom as sudden, and as effective, as his
straight- drives back past the bowler. Then
Gavaskar came up with the following
statement (remember, this was in 1988,
when Dilip Vengsarkar was about to become
captain of India): "The two best batsmen in
Bombay today are Vengsarkar and Sachin
Tendulkar." Full stop. End of statement. The
ball crosses the boundary-line underneath the
sight- screen.
Desmond Haynes:
In terms of technique and compactness,
Tendulkar is the best: Desmond Haynes.
Mark Taylor:
He's a phenomenon. We have to be switched
on when he plays allow him no boundries, for
then he doesn't stop.
Wasim:
"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime
and I am privileged he played in my time"
"Tuzhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?"
Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter
dropped Sachin's catch.
Allan Donald:
His shot selection is superb, he just lines you
up and can make you look very silly.
Everything is right in his technique and
judgement. There isn't a fault there. He is also
a lovely guy, and over the years I've enjoyed
some interesting chats with him… Sachin is in
a different class to Lara as a professional
cricketer. He is a model cricketer, and despite
the intolerable pressures he faces back home,
he remains a really nice guy… Sachin is also
the best batsman in the world, pulling away
from Brain Lara every year.
Anil Kumble:
he's shy little gentleman.
I am very privileged to have played with him
and seen most of the runs that he has scored.
I am also extremely happy to have shared the
same dressing room... He is a very reserved
person and generally keeps to himself. He is
very determined, committed and doesn't
show too many emotions. He just goes about
doing his job.
The thing I admire most about this man is his
poise. The way he moves, elegantly without
ever looking out of place in any condition or
company, suggests his pedigree. I remember
he had once come to New Delhi in the 1990s
to collect his Arjuna Award (India's highest
award to its top sportspersons) and he asked
me if I would attend the function. He is a very
sensitive human being….
Sometimes you feel he really hasn't felt the
kind of competition in the world his talent
deserves. I would have loved to see him
perform against top quality cricketers of the
previous generation. It would really have
brought out the best in him.
Greame Pollock:
Tendulkar is the best in the world at the
moment. Why I've always liked him is that
batsmen tend to be negative at times and I
think batting is not about not getting out - it
is to play positively. I think you got to take it
to the bowlers and Sachin is one such player.
When you do so, you change the game, you
change bowlers because they suddenly start
bowling badly because they are under
pressure.
WHY HE CALLED AS GOD???
Andrew Flintoff:
...
When you bowl at him you are not just...
trying to get him out, you are trying to
impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking
'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he? I feel
privileged to have played against him.
Shane Warne:
"Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best
player without doubt - daylight second, Brian
Lara third."
Viv Richards:
He is 99.5% Perfect.. I'll pay to watch him play.
I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any
level.
Sir Don Bradman:
I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at
him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel! in reference to Sachin Tendulkar.
Barry Richards:
Consensus is that Sir Donald Bradman was the best batsman ever to play Cricket. Sir Don did not play One-Day Cricket but if he did, he could easily be Sachin Tendulkar.
Allan Donald:
"In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the
engagements." "During our team meetings, we often speak about the importance of the first 12 balls to Tendulkar. If you get him then you can thank your stars, otherwise it could mean that tough times lie ahead."
Harsha Bhogle:
In the recently concluded IPL when Sachin drove Ishant Sharma to a straight drive, he said- "Open the text book..turn to page no. 32"
Andrew Symonds:
wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin. " To Sachin, the man we all want to be " A.R.Rhaman Well, I’m no Sachin Tendulkar you know, whenever he takes the field, people expect him to score a century before he loses his wicket. I can only give in my best and I always strive to live up to fans expectations, but it’s not possible to get an Oscar every time.
Virendra Sehwag:
Both of us have come a long away and it is a great honour that Tendulkar thinks I come close to resembling him as a batsman. It is a great honour, like a dream come true. If I die tomorrow I'll be the happiest man because I played this game because of Tendulkar, and Tendulkar himself saying that I resemble him - there is no bigger compliment than that.
Mathew Hayden:
I have seen GOD , he bats at no.4 for india in Tests.
Ravi Shashtri:
He is someone sent from up there to play cricket and go back.
Mark Taylor:
We did not lose to a team called india...we lost to a man called Sachin.
Brain Lara:
Sachin is a genius , i am a mere mortal!
Barry Richards:
Sachin is crickets GOD
Martin Crowe:
The shot played on this ball is only possible
for the GOD of cricket.
Paul Strang:
What we [zimbabwe] need is 10 tendulkars.
Steve Waugh:
There is no shame losing to such a great
player(sachin).
Shane Warne:
I would go to bed having nightmares of
sachin dancing down the ground and hitting
me for sixes.
Mathew Hayden:
His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic
world... [When he goes out to bat], it is
beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a
nation to one man. The people see him as a
God...
Dennis Lillie:
If I had to bowl to Sachin I would bowl with a
halmet on. He hits the ball so hard.
Steve Waugh:
After being defeated in the Coca-Cola Cup
finals in Sharjah) "It was one of the greatest
innings I have ever seen. There is no shame
being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is
perhaps only next to the Don''
Michael Kasprowicz:
Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good
ones for fours."
Shane Warne:
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of
Sachin just running down the wicket and
belting me back over the head for six. He was
unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from
Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin
Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player."
Wasim Akram:
Today, he showed the world why he is
considered the best batsman around. Some of
the shots he played were simply amazing.
Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that
Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the
game. Today, I feel that the Indian players,
too, feel this way.
Wasim Akram, after game at Hobart, CUB
series, 1999
Brett Lee:
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and
think you have bowled a good ball and he
walks across and hits it for two behind
midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just
waves it around like it's a toothpick. Brett Lee,
on Sachin Tendulkar's batting, 1999
BBC Sports:
Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly
hair, inside the cranium, there is something
we don't know, something beyond scientific
measure. Something that allows him to soar,
to roam a territory of sport that, forget us,
even those who are gifted enough to play
alongside him cannot even fathom. When he
goes out to bat, people switch on their
television sets and switch off their lives.
Wasim Akram:
"I dont know what to bowl at him. i bowled
an inswinger n he drove me through covers
of d front foot. then i bld an outswinger n he
again punched thr covers of d backfoot(for
tamil fans-dai avan eppadi pottalum
adikaranda). he is d toughest batsmen i 've
bowled to.
He shold live long n score lots of runs, but not
against pakistan(smiling) "- on 24th april
2004 on espn Sachin's 30th B day program.
Sunil Gavaskar:
India's fortune will depend on how many
runs the little champion scores. There is no
doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
Richie Benaud:
He has defined cricket in his fabulous,
impeccable manner. He is to batting what
Shane Warne is to bowling.
Geoffrey Boycott:
Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or
spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem. Eddie
Barlow:
He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin
Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in
his own way. He has a technique which is the
hallmark of a great player. Everything
indicates that he will be a great player and I
am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me
of Barry Richards.
Greg Chappell:
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows
perfectly well when to attack and when to
play defensive cricket. He has developed the
ability to treat bowlers all over the world with
contempt and can destroy any attack with
utmost ease.
Abdul Qadir:
I Was fielding in the covers Tendulkar came
out to bat in his debut Test at Karachi. I still
remember Waqar Younis was at his peak
form at that time. Tendulkar tried to drive
Waqar through the covers off his very first
ball in Test cricket but was beaten all ends up.
But I walked to captain Imran Khan and told
him 'this kid looks very good' and Imran
agree with me.
Sir Garfield Sobers:
I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we
have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in
him to be among the very best.
Peter Roebuck:
Sometime back I had written a piece that said
that Sachin's the master and Lara a genius
with his head high up somewhere. That's it!
Jeff Thompson:
Sachin is an attacker. He has much more
power than Sunny. He wants to be the one to
set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the
buzz about him.
Ian Healy:
Tendulkar is the most comouncy pitch with
Hughes, McDermott and Whitney gunning for
him he only had 60-odd when No 11 came in.
I've seen him against Warne too.
Mike Coward:
Sachin's the best. I've had this view since I
saw him score that hundred in Sydney in
1992. He's the most composed batsman I've
ever seen.
Hashim Amla:
Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a
plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.
Hashim Amla, the South African batsman,
reassures himself as he boards a flight.
Shahrukh Khan:
"Maybe the country doesn't pray for me like
they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I'm
on a good wicket as well. "
Martina Navratilova:
"Sachin was so focused. He never looked like
getting out. He was batting with single-
minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It
was a lesson." Tennis legend joins the Sachin
Tendulkar fan club after watching him bat at
Sydney.
Alistair Campbell:
After loosing to India in the Coca Cola Cup
final at Sharjah in November '98
"He has everything a top batsman needs.
Tendulkar is a classic example of a player
being so good that his age is an irrelevance"
David Boon:
"Technically he stands out as the best because
of his ability to increase the pace at will"
Cricket Historian Vasant Raiji:
"I have always felt C. K. Nayadu was the best. I
now think sachin has the honour of being the
most outstanding batsman of all time."
Steve Waugh:
"You take Don Bradman away and he is next
up I reckon."
Adam Hollioke:
"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But
then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle
arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can
you bowl me another one?'"
Tony Greig:
He is cool, has magnificent temperament, and
is so mature you tend to forget his age. I can't
think of any other example of a player who
has so dominated the world before the age of
25.
Allan Border: (after India won the Coca-Cola
cup )
"Hell, if he stayed, even at 11 an over he
would have got it."
Ajay Jadeja:
"I can't dream of an innings like that. He
exists where we can't."
David Gower:
"In the last session in Nagpur, when the
Indian chase was still on, Tendulkar hit a
reverse sweep, an orthodox sweep and a
lofted cover drive to (Ian) Blackwell. They
were all exquisite cricket shots. To play those
shots deliberately in such quick succession,
off almost similar deliveries, was genius. That
was a little jewel, just those 3-4 minutes.
"It reminds you how very few people are
special. It was a case of great thinking and
good technique."
Gavaskar..back in 1988 to tom alter:
I sat in the office of Sportsweek magazine
with that same Sunil Gavaskar. Ayaz Memon
and I were listening to Gavaskar in one of his
rare, priceless moods. The ?Little Master? was
delving deep into his own experience, his
own genius, and bringing forth pearls of
wisdom as sudden, and as effective, as his
straight- drives back past the bowler. Then
Gavaskar came up with the following
statement (remember, this was in 1988,
when Dilip Vengsarkar was about to become
captain of India): "The two best batsmen in
Bombay today are Vengsarkar and Sachin
Tendulkar." Full stop. End of statement. The
ball crosses the boundary-line underneath the
sight- screen.
Desmond Haynes:
In terms of technique and compactness,
Tendulkar is the best: Desmond Haynes.
Mark Taylor:
He's a phenomenon. We have to be switched
on when he plays allow him no boundries, for
then he doesn't stop.
Wasim:
"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime
and I am privileged he played in my time"
"Tuzhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?"
Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter
dropped Sachin's catch.
Allan Donald:
His shot selection is superb, he just lines you
up and can make you look very silly.
Everything is right in his technique and
judgement. There isn't a fault there. He is also
a lovely guy, and over the years I've enjoyed
some interesting chats with him… Sachin is in
a different class to Lara as a professional
cricketer. He is a model cricketer, and despite
the intolerable pressures he faces back home,
he remains a really nice guy… Sachin is also
the best batsman in the world, pulling away
from Brain Lara every year.
Anil Kumble:
he's shy little gentleman.
I am very privileged to have played with him
and seen most of the runs that he has scored.
I am also extremely happy to have shared the
same dressing room... He is a very reserved
person and generally keeps to himself. He is
very determined, committed and doesn't
show too many emotions. He just goes about
doing his job.
The thing I admire most about this man is his
poise. The way he moves, elegantly without
ever looking out of place in any condition or
company, suggests his pedigree. I remember
he had once come to New Delhi in the 1990s
to collect his Arjuna Award (India's highest
award to its top sportspersons) and he asked
me if I would attend the function. He is a very
sensitive human being….
Sometimes you feel he really hasn't felt the
kind of competition in the world his talent
deserves. I would have loved to see him
perform against top quality cricketers of the
previous generation. It would really have
brought out the best in him.
Greame Pollock:
Tendulkar is the best in the world at the
moment. Why I've always liked him is that
batsmen tend to be negative at times and I
think batting is not about not getting out - it
is to play positively. I think you got to take it
to the bowlers and Sachin is one such player.
When you do so, you change the game, you
change bowlers because they suddenly start
bowling badly because they are under
pressure.
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