Sachin Tendulkar is seriously contemplating retiring from one-day cricket after India’s home engagements against Pakistan and Australia later this season, it is reliably learnt. Tendulkar, one-day cricket’s most prolific and dominant batsman, will, however, continue playing Tests and will travel to Australia in December. Sources close to Tendulkar said he was inclined to announce his [...]
September 6th, 2007
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The best one-day matches are decided in tight finishes and, when the life of a series hangs in that balance, it makes the tension that much more real. Led by a magnificent 94 from Sachin Tendulkar and an icy-cool unbeaten 47 from Robin Uthappa, India hunted down the target of 317 with two balls to [...]
September 6th, 2007
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India broke their losing streak with a morale-boosting 38-run victory courtesy of the Duckworth-Lewis method in the must-win fifth one-day international to keep their hopes alive in the seven-match series in Leeds on Sunday. Sachin Tendulkar (71) at the top and Yuvraj Singh (72) in the middle order led a perfect batting performance with aggressive [...]
September 2nd, 2007
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Sachin Tendulkar topped Shane Warne’s countdown of greatest cricketers edging out Brian Lara, who was placed second. Curtly Ambrose, Allan Border and Glenn McGrath rounded out the top five in Warne’s Times column. Warne rated Tendulkar ahead of Lara on account of his mental toughness and hailed him as a “great player and a great [...]
September 1st, 2007
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