39 things about SRT!!

by Viresh Tue 24 Apr 2012, 1:37 pm

1. Sachin loves experimenting withhis hairstyle. If you noticed, he had coloured it brown during the WC 2011 and currently has straight black hair.
2. His favourite food items are prawns and brinjal.
3. Sachin is the first cricketer to score 50 Test Centuries.
4. Sachin Tendulkar fielded for Pakistan as a substitute during a one-day practice match against India at the Brabourne Stadium in 1988.
5. At the age of 19, he became the youngest to play county cricket
6. Sachin started off with centuriesin his debut matches in the Ranji, Duleep and the Irani Trophy. No other domestic cricketer has been able to break this record till now.
7. Sachin once went to watch the movie Roja in 1995 with a beard and disguise. It all went wrong when his glasses fell off and people identified him.
8. Sachin’s father Ramesh Tendulkar named him after the the musician Sachin Dev Burmanwho he was a big fan of
9. After a four month tour of Australia after the 1992 World Cup, Sachin came back to represent Kirti college in 1992. How about that for dedication and commitment from a man who was already a house hold name.
10. Sachin was a big bully during his school days. He was famous for picking up fights.
11. Sachin Tendulkar loved band aids. As soon as he got the tiniest of wounds, he would put a band aid on it.
12. Sachin once asked his friend todip a tennis ball in water and hurl it at him so that he could find out if he was middling theball or not.
13. Sachin’s wife doesn’t eat or drink anything when Sachin is at the crease.
14. Sachin Tendulkar did not have a bat contract until the start of the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
15. Sachin has gotten stumped outonly once in Test.
16. Sachin’s record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current World record.
17. Sachin has 20 century partnership for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a WorldRecord.
18. Sachin wanted to become a pace bowler and even joined the MRF Pace Foundation in 1987.
19. During his coaching days, Ramakant Achrekar his coach would keep a coin on top of his wicket and give it to him
20. Tendulkar was a ball boy during the 1987 semifinal between India and England.
21. Tendulkar was the first player to be given out by the third umpire in an international game.
22. Tendulkar was the first individual without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.
23. Sachin was made the captain of the India when he was only 23. He went on to score a century in the first game as captain.
24. Sachin scored 7 test hundreds before he scored his first in ODIs
25. Sachin got an opportunity to meet and speak to his favourite music star, Mark Knopfler, the lead guitarist of the rock band, Dire Straits for the very first time during a programme he was doing for the ESPN network.
26. Sachin was a big fan of John McEnroe. During his childhood days, he even sported a similarhairstyle.
27. Sachin played for Yorkshire. Sachin was their first oversees player ever.
28. Sachin loves collecting perfumes and watches.
29. In 1992, Sachin became the youngest to score 1000 test runs.
30. During his debut, Sachin wore the pads that were gifted to him by Sunil Gavaskar.
31. Sachin holds the unique feat ofmaking maximum stadium appearances. He has played at 90 different stadiums!
32. In 1998, he scored as many as 9 centuries. Highest by any batsman in a calendar year.
33. Sachin is the only Indian cricketer to win Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri.
34. In a game against Australia, Sachin once gave his wicket to Brad Hogg who later came to him for his autograph on the ball. Sachin wrote “I will never give you my wicket again” andsigned under it. Since then the two have faced each other on numerous occasions and hasn’t given his wicket to him yet.
35. Sachin always wears his left pad first.
36. Along with Graham Hick and Allan Border, Sachin has 20,000 plus runs in List A plus ODIs combined.
37. He once flooded teammate Sourav Ganguly’s room as a prank.
38. Sachin is one of the few players to have scored a century against every test playing nation.
39. Sachin has won the maximum number of man of the match and man of the series awards

by ND Tue 24 Apr 2012, 1:43 pm

kaka se copy kiya? Tongue out

by DKN Tue 24 Apr 2012, 3:58 pm

HaappY BirthdaY~~Sachin bhai

by Viresh Tue 24 Apr 2012, 7:06 pm

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39TH BIRTHDAY CAKE

by Kush Tue 24 Apr 2012, 7:07 pm

hbd srt

by Viresh Tue 24 Apr 2012, 7:42 pm

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39TH BIRTHDAY

by **Fahad** Tue 24 Apr 2012, 9:13 pm

Happii b'day SRT

by **Saad** Tue 24 Apr 2012, 10:39 pm

Great Cellebration

by **Saad** Tue 24 Apr 2012, 10:44 pm

10th one Lolzzzzzzzzz

by Mad max Tue 04 Dec 2012, 8:40 am

South Africa was readmitted into international cricket 20 years ago. Since then everything has changed: the flag, the national anthem, the name of the team. But, in all the years since readmission, there has been one constant: Sachin Tendulkar.
When you play Tendulkar, you’re a living part of cricket’s best traditions. A hundred against you isn’t a setback, it’s a war story to be treasured. When you dismiss him, it’s not just a cricketing triumph, but rather one of the truest, finest moments of success you will ever experience in your life. In all, South Africa has played against the Little Master for almost as long as the country was out of international cricket.
Can we say that Sachin Tendulkar taught the Proteas how to bat? Not all by himself. But his influence has, nevertheless, been immense. From Hashim’s quiet adulation and hunger for greatness, to Jacques’s precision, the great Tendulkar has helped shape South Africa’s game. This is the history of South African cricket’s relationship with Sachin Tendulkar.

It was twenty years ago that South Africa’s cricketers formed their first impressions of a 19-year-old prodigy called Sachin Tendulkar, twenty seasons since he crafted 111 out of an Indian total of 227 at the Bullring. In cricketing terms, it was lifetimes ago. Batting ratings were dominated by niggardly nudgers like Graham Gooch and Alan Border; but perhaps it wasn’t surprising that batting was less expansive than today, for macho pace still ruled the world. If Curtly Ambrose and Waqar Younis didn’t get you, Wasim Akram or Craig McDermott would. Beyond the grandstands the world was also very different. South Africa was still ruled by white supremacists, albeit ones who had read the writing on the wall. The Soviet Union had only been officially dismembered a year earlier. But if you really want a sense of how long Tendulkar has lasted, consider that in his first two seasons, he played against Imran Khan and David Gower. This superstar of the 21st century is a living contact with the 1970s.
It is unlikely that Tendulkar will play Test cricket for much longer. Nobody has dared to doubt his hunger for runs in the game’s most elevated form, but even his most determined fans will have noticed a recent string of relative failures, and that in the last two years he has been clean bowled or trapped in front in half of his innings. The Maestro, anointed by Sir Donald Bradman himself as his own reincarnation, is going to retire soon, and will disappear under an avalanche of accolades and honorary titles and degrees. No doubt some South Africans will offer their reminiscences, but these will probably be a list of isolated innings, of timeless moments removed from real life by the soft-focus effect of nostalgia.
South Africans generally tend to avoid context when they discuss the past. Our history before democracy is contested ground, saturated with unexploded land-mines of race, identity and injustice. That resolute refusal to sit down and map out a shared past became even more rigid after the end of apartheid, as its beneficiaries rushed headlong towards a future free of repercussions and reparations. No, the middle-class South Africans who play sport and write glowing tributes to cricketers don’t do context. Which is a pity, because if they took a moment to remember their history, they might see that Sachin Tendulkar had a far more powerful influence on South African cricket – and therefore South African society – than they might ever have imagined.