"When Tendulkar goes out to bat, it is beyond chaos - it's a frantic appeal by a nation to one man" -- Mathew Hayden

Today i am not in the mood to work and i ma seriously missing my sat morning cricket marathon.. Anyway.. Jsut oding a bit of light reading on Sachin Tendulkar who to my mind if one of the greatest batsmen that have palyed the game and... well jsut go ahead and read for yourself on what people have said about him...


"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... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel": Sir Donald Bradman.

"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"
- Shane Warne.

"Sachin is cricket's God"
- Barry Richards

"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours."
- Michael Kasprowicz

You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway. Kasprowicz has a superior story. During the Bangalore Test, frustrated, he went to Dennis Lillee and asked, "Mate, do you see any weaknesses?" Lillee replied, "No Michael, as long as you walk off with your pride that's all you can do"
- Shane Warne

"You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon."
- Steve Waugh

"I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you, he'd do okay"
- Greg Chappell

"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard"
- Dennis Lillee

"I have seen God. He bats at number 4 for India"
- Mathew Hayden

"He's 99.5 percent perfect"
- Viv Richards

"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime, and I am privileged he played in my time"
- Wasim Akram

"Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal"
- Brian Lara

"He's a phenomenon. We have to be switched on when he plays allow him no boundries, for then he doesn't stop"
- Mark Taylor

"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"
- Peter Roebuck

"When Tendulkar goes out to bat, it is beyond chaos - it's a frantic appeal by a nation to one man"
- Mathew Hayden

"You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer"-- Shane Warne

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling: Richie Benaud.

I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara: Glenn McGrath.

Hell, if he had stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it: Allan Border (after India won the Coca-Cola cup in Sharjah).

Tendulkar is the most complete batsman I have stood behind. I saw the hundred in Perth on a bouncy 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: Ian Healy


And jsut for the record:

156 test matches -- 12429 runs -- @ avg of 54.27 -- 41 centuries -- 51 half centuries
419 ODI matches -- 16422 runs -- @ avg of 44.26 -- 42 centuries -- 90 half centuires

I am speachless... I mean just to have lived when he palyed and seen his prime... I think i am one of the lucky million and well if i can remember his innigs against Pakistan in the world cup or Australia in sharjah or even in australia u name it i still get gosse bumps....