Happy Birthday Sachin Tendulkar: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar), who has been awarded with titles like Master Blaster, Little Master and sits like a god in the hearts of cricket lovers, has turned 48 years old. Sachin, who ruled the cricket world for 24 years, has made so many records, has set such high records that breaking or even touching it is like a dream for the biggest cricketer. Today, on his birth, we know interesting stories related to his life.
He was born in 1973 in a Saraswat Brahmin family of Rajapur, Mumbai. His father's name was Ramesh Tendulkar and he named Sachin after his favorite music director Sachin Dev Burman. Sachin's elder brother's name is Ajit Tendulkar. It was Ajit who encouraged Sachin to play and learn cricket. Sachin was educated from Sharda Ashram Vidya Mandir. As a child, his dream was to become a fast bowler. Sachin even reached the MRF Pace Foundation to become a fast bowler. But there fast bowling coach and Australian player Dennis Lillee advised him to focus on batting. On the orders of Guru Ramakant Achrekar, Sachin started learning the tricks of cricket at a very young age and in the world of cricket, Sachin's name spread like a fire when in 1988, in a match of the school tournament Harris Shield, he caught Vinod Kambli. Set a record by playing a partnership of 664 runs with. As such It is said that after this partnership, the opposite team refused to play the match itself. Sachin scored 320 runs in this match and he scored more than 1000 runs in the entire series.
Perhaps Sachin Tendulkar had realized in his childhood that he would have to face the world's legendary fast bowlers when he grew up. Now where do such fast bowlers come from in street cricket. So for practice, he used to ask his friends to soak tennis balls in water. What would have happened was that the ball used to come very fast and there was a lot of stress on the arms to play the shot on it, because after getting wet in the water, the ball also became a bit heavy. So the practice of playing fast bowling was done and the shoulders also became strong.
This is how I encountered Guru Achrekar
Sachin Tendulkar was first taken by his brother Ajit to Shivaji Park in Mumbai, considered to be the Mecca of cricket. There Ramakant Achrekar, a very legendary cricket coach, used to teach cricket to the children. When Ajit requested Ramakant ji to teach cricket to my brother, the first thing Guruji said was to tell the child to come wearing pajamas from tomorrow. Wearing full trousers. This is not a game to be played wearing cricket knickers. Then from the very next day, Sachin Tendulkar started coming to Shivaji Park in full dress. But even this full dress had a strange compulsion. The compulsion was that Sachin had only one white shirt and trousers. When he used to practice in the morning, his clothes would get badly dirty, then he would go back and wash his clothes, and in the evening, when Sachin came again for practice, he used to come in the same dress again. It used to happen that the clothes used to dry from outside, but as we all know, the inside pockets etc. do not dry so quickly, so the pockets used to remain wet and that is why Sachin Tendulkar could never put his hand in the pocket on the cricket field. If you have noticed this habit, it remained till his later life. No one has ever seen Sachin Tendulkar walking around with his hands in his pockets in a cricket stadium. So the pockets used to remain wet and that is why Sachin Tendulkar could never put his hand in the pocket on the cricket field and if you have noticed, this habit remained till his later days. No one has ever seen Sachin Tendulkar walking around with his hands in his pockets in a cricket stadium. So the pockets used to remain wet and that is why Sachin Tendulkar could never put his hand in the pocket on the cricket field and if you have noticed, this habit remained till his later days. No one has ever seen Sachin Tendulkar walking around with his hands in his pockets in a cricket stadium.
story of 13 coins
Very interesting story. It is about the time when he used to go to Shivaji Park to learn cricket from Gurudev Ramakant Achrekar. At the behest of Sachin Tendulkar's brother Ajit, Ramakant Achrekar started teaching cricket to Sachin, but in the initial weeks, he could not get any special impression from Sachin. He also told Ajit that brother, this younger brother of yours will not do much in the world of cricket. You have brought it, so you are trying, teaching. Ajit felt very sad. He said, Guruji, he does not play well under your pressure. There is tremendous performance pressure on it. You do this, observe it from a little distance. Sachin does not know that you are watching his game. My brother plays well, you yourself will agree. Keeping Ajit's words, Guruji observed Sachin from a distance for a couple of days and felt that Ajit was telling the truth. The boy has guts.
When Ramakant ji thought that Sachin has to be groomed as a batsman, he found a unique way how to make him a better batsman. What would Ramakant ji do by placing a coin of one rupee on the stumps and telling the bowler that come brother, if you get Sachin out, the coin is yours and he would have challenged Sachin that if you were not out, remained unbeaten, then take this coin and go home. You can So Sachin took it as a challenge and decided to collect as many coins as possible. Even today, he has kept those thirteen coins of his childhood very carefully. Behind this there are memories of his childhood, first earning you can say, devotion towards Guru. Only after this the legendary match happened in which he shared a partnership of 664 runs with Vinod Kambli. Then there was a debut in first class cricket. Ranji Duleep and Irani Trophy, Sachin Tendulkar scored a century in his very first match in every tournament. He is the only batsman in India to do so and this record stands till date.
Why was the entire stadium empty in that match?
There was tremendous craze about Sachin among cricket lovers. A very strange incident happened during one such test match. The first two days of the match were very exciting, very tight contest between bat and ball. The stadium used to be packed. Thousands of cricket lovers used to stand outside the stadium as there was no place to go inside. Then suddenly what happened in the morning of the third day that in an hour the stadium became completely empty. All the spectators returned. Very funny story. Sudhir Asanani, who was the umpire in that match, still remembers that incident, says that on the third day morning, Sachin Tendulkar was about to enter the ground to bat. There was a lot of frenzy in the stadium that day. There was no place to keep mole inside the stadium, outside also there was a crowd of 20 to 30 thousand people. Such was the frenzy of the people for Sachin Tendulkar, Such was the craze for his batting. So on the morning of the third day, when Sachin Tendulkar came out to bat, he hit a four off Kumble's ball and then got out clean bowled.
Even if a needle had dropped in the stadium, there would have been a sound, such silence prevailed. Everyone is silent. Within an hour the entire stadium was empty. Umpire Asanani says that the scene was such that someone had swept the whole stadium, no one could be seen. You can imagine the kind of craze there was for Sachin Tendulkar when he used to come down for batting. According to Sudhir Asanani, he had never seen such a scene in his umpiring career before or after that. And why would there not have been such a craze for Sachin, Sir Don Bradman while praising Tendulkar had once said that Tendulkar was the only one who reminded him of his best days.
Sachin (Sachin Tendulkar) made many records in his career. Hundred centuries in international cricket, most ODI matches he played was 463, he scored the most runs in ODIs. He hit the maximum number of 49 centuries in ODI matches and Sachin Tendulkar also holds the record of winning the most number of Man of the Series, Man of the Match etc. in cricket.
Sachin through the eyes of Harsha Bhogle
Sachin (Sachin Tendulkar) played his first first class match for Mumbai at the age of 14. International cricket started at the age of 16. Then a month later, ODI debut against Pakistan was also done. Harsha Bhogle while giving an interview had said that in the early 1990s the Indian economy was also opening up and at that time we needed an icon, a superstar in the sports world as well. So the conditions were ready and the star was also ready. Harsha Bhogle further narrates how gradually Sachin started opening up and speaking in the 2000s and then he understood how big a genius Tendulkar really is, how tremendous a player he is. Harsha Bhogle believes that Sachin's greatness is not hidden only in what he shows on the field of play. Bhogle says, I met Sachin for the first time when he was 14 years old, Ranji had not played yet. His coach was angry with me that I was interviewing him. The coach said that you are distracting this boy. If you distract him, then his eyes will be somewhere other than cricket, then he will not play cricket properly. From the age of fourteen-fourteen and a half years, it was in people's mind that he is going to become a big player. There comes a moment in the life of every sports man when he does something which he later feels should not have been done. But, we never heard of any scandal about him, nor did he ever fight with the umpire, nor did we ever hear that the match referee was calling him again, nor did we ever hear that he abused any player on the field. It was a generation Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar in Indian cricket, it was a great generation. Then he will not play cricket properly. From the age of fourteen-fourteen and a half years, it was in people's mind that he is going to become a big player. There comes a moment in the life of every sports man when he does something which he later feels should not have been done. But, we never heard of any scandal about him, nor did he ever fight with the umpire, nor did we ever hear that the match referee was calling him again, nor did we ever hear that he abused any player on the field. It was a generation Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar in Indian cricket, it was a great generation. Then he will not play cricket properly. From the age of fourteen-fourteen and a half years, it was in people's mind that he is going to become a big player. There comes a moment in the life of every sports man when he does something which he later feels should not have been done. But, we never heard of any scandal about him, nor did he ever fight with the umpire, nor did we ever hear that the match referee was calling him again, nor did we ever hear that he abused any player on the field. It was a generation Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar in Indian cricket, it was a great generation. Never heard that he abused any player on the field. It was a generation Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar in Indian cricket, it was a great generation. Never heard that he abused any player on the field. It was a generation Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar in Indian cricket, it was a great generation.
Sachin in the eyes of Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag takes great pride in being compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Virender Sehwag is also making a different appearance in Indian cricket. When he used to bat and the day he was in form, then there was no need for anyone else. But, seeing his style, everyone used to say that it has the image of Sachin Tendulkar. It has the style of Sachin Tendulkar. On this Virender Sehwag said that it was an honor for me. Because seeing Sachin Tendulkar, I started playing and started copying him. Always wanted to be like him. When compared to him, it is a matter of pride for me that I am being compared with such a big player. What could be better for me than this. He is my role model. It is a matter of pleasure that I am compared with him, but Sachin Tendulkar can be only one, there can be no other like him.
So our master blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is like this. There is an entire generation of Indian cricket that wants to follow in the footsteps of Sachin Tendulkar. Who learns and understands the nuances of cricket from him. As their guru is Sachin Tendulkar. On the other hand, cricket fans are Gods and till then Sachin Tendulkar will remain in the heart of every Indian as long as cricket continues to be played in India.
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