Drop Sachin from the Indian Cricket Team

by **Vish** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:02 pm

Hey!!! Guys what do you say? He scores when it doesn\'t matter, unlike Steve Waugh. He never scores when the country needs him and makes a fuss about paying duties on his Ferrari. Did he play during the finals?

by **Kulcha Hyderabadi** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:46 pm

Just one failure and he should be dropped from the team!!! Thirty one (31) test hundreds and thirty three (33) hundreds in ODIs. About 20000 runs in International Cricket. So what if he fails to score in final matches? After all, it\'s because of him that our teams makes it to the finals!!! A lot of fuss is made about his failure to score in the recent World Cup final match. But think of the memorable innings he played in the matches leading to the final. The one against Pakistan was a gem. Tell you what, any captain would be glad to have Sachin in his side at any cost.
 
 
There are 11 guys in the team, who get paid for playing and should contribute equally because cricket is a team game. Why blame only Sachin if India fails? As for the comparison with Steve Waugh well, with so many great players in the Australian side, Steve is called upon to save his side ocassionally, whereas Sachin has to do it almost in every match!

by **Raj** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:18 am

I totally agree with Vish. Kulcha, tell me one match/championship where Sachin saved India. NONE. Yes! I agree he has won matches (like the one against Pak in World Cup) but when it mattered most (winning, championships, winning test series) he has never done it. I am not against Sachin. I agree he is the best batsman, but best batsman in unwanted games. Think about it. Tell me one championship/series we won because of Sachin (Again don\'t come back saying he won that game and this game. Show me if winning that game got us a cup).

by **Kulcha Hyderabadi** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:07 am

Was it the Coca-Cola Cup at Sharjah in 2000? I guess so. Gawd! Who can ever forget those gems from the Little Champion. Blistering back-to-back hundreds against the mighty Australians that got us the Coca-Cola Cup. Tony Grieg, Greg Chappel, Ian Chappel, David Hookes... seasoned commentators, who are kinda stingy on waxing eloquence to batting or bowling performances by non-Australian cricketers, went crazy that day, ran out of superlatives to describe those innings. India beat Australia 2-1 at home in the 1998 test series. Sachin Tendulkar set the tone by smashing a double hundred against the Aussies at Mumbai. In that season, he scored more than 1000 first-class and ODI runs agains the Australians. In the three test matches, he scored 446 runs with two hundreds and one fifty at an average of 111.50! India beat Australia 2-1 at home in 2000. Sachin Tendulkar scored a marvellous 116 at Chennai in the decider test, which India won to win the test series. In that series he scored 278 runs in 3 matches with a hundred and two fifties at an average of 46.33 His record against the Australians: TEST: 15 MATCHES, 1406 RUNS, HS:177, SIX 100s, FIVE 50s, AVE:44.07 ODI: 35 MATCHES, 1666 RUNS, HS:143, SIX 100s, SEVEN 50s, AVE:47.60 I have listed Sachin\'s performance agains the mighty Australians only. He has played many a great innings against other teams, but then you guys would say that the opposition was not strong enough! I am sure, any captain would love to have him in his side.

by **dreamboy** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:37 am

Hey man, where are you? He is the only person who played well in the World Cup 2003. You want to remove him. Are you the fixer or what? Do you know sachin is the world\'s best No. 2 batsman in the rankings?

by **weepee** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:49 am

Vish, you got any clue what you are talking about? Kulcha, it was in 1998 in Sharjah that Sachin scored those back to back centuries.

by **coolnut** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:51 am

Yeah he\'s the best on paper. Look at his performce rate when India needs him. Compare it with that of Lara and Steve Waugh. How many times has he saved us in a test match? Being an opener even Harbhajan can swing his bat and given the number of chances any rookie can score. He has piled up records. Is he like Dravid? Never. He has no temperament to put his head down and play. He is just plain flamboyant.

by V » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:53 am

Yes, Steve Waugh is not a flamboyant guy like him but is a slient perfomer. How many cenutries has Sachin scored in the West Indies, Australia, South Africa... He\'s a king in Inida, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe... And, what happened to him in New Zealand?

by **Vish** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:55 am

Can the moderator start a post-a-duestion link, which is can be the search engine for anything and everything in Hyderabad?

by **Kulcha Hyderabadi** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:16 pm

Let us examine his performance against Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and England in away test matches.
 
 
Country-Matches-Runs-HS-Average-100s-50s
 
England-10-1074-193-71.60-4-4
 
Australia:8-646-148*-46.14-32
 
West Indies-10-620-117-47.69-1-5
 
South Africa-9-636-169-42.40-3-1
 
 
11 Hundreds and 12 Fifties in 37 test matches is not bad, I guess!!!

by **coolnut** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:30 am

See how he played... Just 55 yesterday.

by **dreamboy** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:51 am

Yesterday, Sachin achieved another milestone in his carreer. Yesterday, he proved himself to be the 5th Best Batsman in Test Matches. He created a record. What do you say about that?

by **dreamboy** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:05 pm

With yesterday\'s half century it was his 36th Half Century in his Cricketing Career.

by **Kulcha Hyderabadi** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:09 pm

Dismissed for 1 today!!! I hope India hangs on to draw this match.

by **coolnut** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:37 pm

See, when does he play again he dismissed for a paltry score. DROP him!

by **dreamer** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:33 am

He\'s justa ball polisher now and I guess he should run his restaurant. Even Parthiv Patel scored more than him. DROP him!

by ZC » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:40 am

Ha ha ha ha! Because your father stopped giving you pocket money this financial year, will you kick him out of the house? Very childish.

by **dreamer** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:39 pm

Doesn\'t make a wee bit of SENSE in this context. Sachin, Parthiv, pocket money, ball polisher, father, pocket money...

by **kishore** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:01 pm

Agreed that Sachin has not won a match or even managed to get a draw in tests. But can you probably show any other batsmen in India who can single handedly do it(except Dravid and Laxman)? Instead of dropping him, we as admirers of him should not idol worship him. If you probably show another batsmen who plays better than Sachin, then we can probably drop him.

by ZC » Wed Oct 22, 2003 3:08 pm

Sachin = father, pocket money = scoring runs, kicking him out = dropping him from the team. Sachin is like a father and everyone is talking of dropping him! Ha ha ha. People want use and throw stuff. Ha ha ha. Sachin = very very long lasting. You can\'t just drop him. It will remain your dream.

by b. » Wed Oct 22, 2003 3:43 pm

Dropping Sachin will be silly. Instead, the fans should look at him as a human being and not expect too much from him in every shot. Plus he should be used only as a batsman and not as a side bowler. By the way, Dravid should also concentrate on batting and stop keeping. Keeping should go to a new specialist keeper. Sheers!!!

by **coolnut** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:01 pm

Don\'t you think a non-performer for 4 matches shouldn\'t be in the team? Let\'s see how much he scores today.

by ZC » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:29 pm

Coolnut, what is the guarantee that a person who scored in the last 4 matches will score in this match?

by **Sandeep pingili** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:52 pm

Never think that Sachin is the only batsman in India. We have hundreds of batsman like Sachin but they don\'t find a place in the squad or in first class cricket. You know the reason why that is so. Well to be specific, the Board of Cricket in india, \'THE SILLY BIASED BOARD\', never gets the time for the search of the very best. It goes with a selfish player like Sachin who always plays for his own, not for Ganguly the present captain or for the Azhar the earlier one.
 
 
Before going deep, let me ask you all, why the Indian board is reluctant or never thinks of dropping Sachin as he is not in good touch, where as our local boy Laxman who turned the Australian tie by playing a devastating innings and won the test for India, was dropped from the World Cup Squad? The reason behind was that he was in out of form and he is not good in the field, as stated by the great board. Now, after scoring well against the Kiwis in the test series and saving India from defeat, he has been selected for one days and now there is no guarantee that he will be there for more. But I can give one guarantee that Sachin would be there, if he plays or not, irrespective of his ability to bat.

by **Mayavi Morpheus** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:32 pm

Excuse me, do you watch cricket at all?

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