Sachin Tendulkar : A Tribute

I consider him above Sir Don Bradman because when Bradman played, there was not so competitive cricket played. Also, during those times, Sir Don Bradman would sometimes keep on batting for 3-4 days in a test match. It didnt matter whether their team was winning or not. The teams would just try to bat till they get out. But, today the scenario is entirely different. The players need to deliver the goods within the given time. And given this situation, Sachin is far better than Sir Donald Bradman. Check out what the cricketers from all over the world have to say about the greatest batsman of all time. This is a tribute to this living legend. Hats off to The Maestro, The Little Master, The Master Blaster, The God of Cricket.

Matthew 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."

Andy Flower:

"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others."

Matthew 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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

Shane Warne:

"Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third."

Time Magazine:

"When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will."

And just have a look at the newspapers all across the country, the day after he became the first on this planet to score a double hundred in a one-day internationals on 24th February, 2010, against a team called South Africa which boasted of being one of the most formidable bowling line-up.

Its Sachin Tendulkar for you,
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