NEW DELHI: On the event of Sachin Tendulkar’s fiftieth birthday, the cricket fraternity prolonged their finest needs to the grasp blaster in their very own approach and a few recalled the fond recollections that they had with the sports activities’ probably the greatest batters.
Former India middle-order batter Mohammad Kaif additionally went down the reminiscence lane to recall an incident how Sachin wowed him along with his meticulous method, approach again in 2002.
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On his fiftieth birthday Sachin Tendulkar lists his finest ODI 50s for TOI
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<p>The first knock listed by the Master Blaster is the 52* towards a top quality bowling line-up of Pakistan in a tri-series at Sharjah in 1991. The innings was performed towards the likes of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aaqib Javed, and Imran Khan.<br /></p>
<p>Sachin performed an excellent knock of 52* runs off 40 balls at a SR of 130 with 5 fours. The innings propelled India to 238/4 and helped them win by 60 runs. This win additionally broke the jinx of dropping to Pakistan in Sharjah.<br /></p>
<p>Another particular knock near his coronary heart is the 62 off 73 balls towards the Proteas on the Eden Gardens in 1991. It was South Africa’s first match after their readmission to worldwide cricket and it was Tendulkar’s first huge confrontation towards Allan Donald.<br /></p>
<p>Chasing 179 in 47 overs, ‘White Lightning’ blew away India’s high order decreasing them to 60/4. But Tendulkar scored 62 runs off 73 balls at a SR of 84.93 with 8 fours and a six. India received by 3 wickets. Both Tendulkar and Donald shared the Man of the Match award.<br /></p>
<p>A neck harm to common opener Navjot Singh Sidhu made the Indian administration comply with Tendulkar’s request to open the innings and what adopted was merely carnage.<br /></p>
<p>Tendulkar performed a rampant innings of 82 off 49 balls at a SR of 167.34 with 15 fours and a few sixes. India received comprehensively by 7 wickets and Tendulkar was named the Man of the Match.<br /></p>
<p>Tendulkar famously revealed how he could not sleep the evening earlier than essentially the most fearsome encounter towards Pakistan within the 2003 World Cup at Centurion. Pakistan scored 273/7 because of a terrific innings of 101 runs by Saeed Anwar.<br /></p>
<p>In reply, Sachin, taking part in towards the tearaway quick bowler Shoaib Akhtar, Wasim Akram, Abdul Razzak, and Waqar Younis, performed some superb strokes and the long-lasting upper-cut off Akhtar for six. Sachin failed to attain a century by simply 2 runs however his contribution paved the best way for India to win by 6 wickets. Sachin scored 98 off 75 with 12 fours and a six.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Sachin’s first encounter towards the West Indies was approach again within the 1992 world cup at Wellington. It was not an excellent outing for the little grasp as he was dismissed by Curtly Ambrose with a magnificence.<br /></p>
<p>But after 4 years in 1996 in Gwalior, Sachin perfected his file towards West Indies, scoring 70 off 91 at a SR of 76.92 with 8 fours. India received the sport by 5 wickets.<br /><br /><br /></p>
“I remember when I made my ODI debut in Kanpur, there was a sports day celebration at school and someone asked me to get a message from Sachin Tendulkar,” Kaif recalled in an interplay with PTI.
Kaif requested the cricket icon to jot down “two lines” for the youngsters, and in flip he got here with a 15-line message.
“Back in those days, you did not have a mobile phone with you, that you could record and send across anything. So, he wrote a letter himself,” Kaif continued.
“I told him, ‘Paaji you just need to write two lines’, but he went on to write as many as 15 lines to wish the school kids.”
“This highlighted the fact that if you ask him to do even a small favour, he would do it in a proper way,” Kaif added.
“He was a great player but an equally humble person. We say that when a tree starts bearing fruits, it bends down. Sachin saab has been like that for me in my career,” Kaif, who’s commentating for Star Sports within the ongoing IPL, mentioned.
“We all were lucky to have got to play with him and we learned a lot from him. He was a role model for everyone; not just me, but for (MS) Dhoni, (Virat) Kohli, Rohit Sharma and they all take his name.
“India was fortunate to have unearthed such an excellent participant and I wish to thank him,” Kaif signed off.
(With PTI Inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
