Sachin Tendulkar / #cricket
October 17, 2008 at 12:09 pm 4 comments
Some day when I am rich, I will hire someone to take me to a Cricket match and explain the highly nuanced game. Why? I’d love to be able to understand this quote “Sachin Tendulkar broke Brian Lara’s record for most Test runs just after tea on the first day of the second Test against Australia in Mohali” Until that time comes you’ll have to settle for this incredibly uninformed post.
It would appear that Sachin Tendulkar, a Cricket player of some renown broke a record today. From wikipedia:
“Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India), often referred to as the Little Master or the Master Blaster, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time next only to Sir Donald Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time next only to Sir Viv Richards. On 17 October 2008, he surpassed Brian Lara’s record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket.
Tendulkar is the first player to score 10,000 runs in One-day internationals, and has the most centuries in both Tests and ODIs. He is the only batsmen ever to make 12000 runs in test cricket. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket and the first Indian to do so. He is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman to score the most number of centuries in these two forms of the game.”
Unfortunately, that does little for me to clarify what exactly happened. If any Cricket fans would care to enlighten this post, please, please write to me as I would like to update that post and overcome my obvious ignorance here.
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Update: A generous commenter has helped to clear things up a bit, be sure to hit the comments.
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1. Pushkar | October 17, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The event that has happened is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar now has gone past the record of highest number of runs (12,027) an individual has scored in Test cricket i.e older, pure 5-day version of cricket. Previous record was held by Brian Charles Lara(11,953 runs) of West Indies. Now this man (Sachin) holds all the important records in cricket that a batsman can possess viz
1) Highest no. of runs an individual has scored in both one day & test formats of game.
2) Highest no. of centuries (100’s) in both one day (42) & test (39) formats.
All this does is that it provides the testimony that he is the best batsman of the modern era of cricket. Hope you will get it now.
2. TJ Sondermann | October 17, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Thank you Pushkar! That sheds a bit of light on it. For me anyway.
3. Geoff Bilbrough | October 18, 2008 at 10:38 pm
If you ever come to London in the summer I’d be happy to take you to a game of cricket.
4. tsondermann | October 19, 2008 at 1:02 am
You’ve got yourself a deal!