Pratters
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Tendulkar becomes ODI top scorer!!!
- Thread starter Sir Alex
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zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
yup - arguably the greatest bastman to play ODIs
Honestly, I have to take my hat off to the man. Words cannot describe how incredible an achievement this really is. Even quality ODI top-order contemporaries like Hayden, Ponting, Kallis, Yousuf, Anwar and Mark Waugh could not reach this milestone...nor could anybody else over the past 40 years of ODI cricket. He might well be the finest ODI batsman ever.
Silentstriker board.
irfan
State Captain
No need for these words, IMO
Fusion
Global Moderator
To do it at his age, after playing so many years of cricket, is simply amazing. Add to it the fact that many had written him off just a short while ago and it makes it all the more special. I mentioned it in the official thread, but I’m in even more awe of him today. What a champ!
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm not particularly bothered about whether Ponting or Sobers or Lara is a greater batsman than Tendulkar - arguably they are. They're all great players and picking one is always going to be a matter of argument.
As for performances in ODIs - a slightly different question to "who is the greatest batsman to have played ODIs" - Tendulkar clearly leads the way. He has the most runs and the most hundreds and now (FWIW) the highest individual score. It will take someone pretty damn good to better his overall record in ODIs.
Well, the gap between him and people like Ponting et al in ODI cricket is very close - just like in Tests, incidentally. Funny that.
Sir Alex
Banned
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
L Trumper
State Regular
This.
An absolutely incredible performance. He should have done it in NZ when he got out for 160 odd. But this time he timed it perfectly. Since 07 WC he is the best batsman in the world. With only one failure in SL in three years. How apt that he is the one who score first ever 200 in odis, now just hope that none of the "so called" dashers cash against minnows and spoil this record.
Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
I had the grand fortune of meeting him in his room at the city hotel and he really is very humble. I can write a whole piece on how humble Tendulkar is, how he deals with fans so well and is generally so nice. Thing about him I like best.Awesome Sachin. Like the Energizer bunny, he just goes on and on and on and ...you get it
Salute to the master.
It feels damn good when someone with his humility, love for the game, respect and talent makes it all count.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Some of Sachin's best ODI knocks prior to this one:
Sachin Tendulkar's finest ODI performances | Cricket Features | India v South Africa 2009/10 | Cricinfo.com
Sachin Tendulkar's finest ODI performances | Cricket Features | India v South Africa 2009/10 | Cricinfo.com
Well ... It's a record no doubt and Tendulkar is perhaps the only one who deserved it before anyone else in modern day cricket.
I feel this was coming one way or the other. With the introduction of T20 and power play rules, the game has become A LOT faster, scoring super fast runs with flurries of boundaries has now become the most essential requirement of the batting innings.
As someone pointed out .. Saeed's record was in india against india in an era where we did not have this batting and bowling powerplay bullsh!t and the game required actual patience, technique and confidence rather than tullay maari. For me, Saeed's innings still remains one the best ever played in an ODI. There is no doubt in it.
But yeah, we all know, Tendulkar is a class player, not a tullay maar... so, well deserved !!
I feel this was coming one way or the other. With the introduction of T20 and power play rules, the game has become A LOT faster, scoring super fast runs with flurries of boundaries has now become the most essential requirement of the batting innings.
As someone pointed out .. Saeed's record was in india against india in an era where we did not have this batting and bowling powerplay bullsh!t and the game required actual patience, technique and confidence rather than tullay maari. For me, Saeed's innings still remains one the best ever played in an ODI. There is no doubt in it.
But yeah, we all know, Tendulkar is a class player, not a tullay maar... so, well deserved !!