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Tendulkar gets his 100th hundred

MrOneLung
MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
edited March 2012 in Other Football and Sports
About bloody time !!!!
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  • moleo88
    moleo88 Posts: 303
    Only took him about a million try's since he got 99.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Nice one, well done the little master!
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    A great achievement, now for a hundred first class hundreds.
  • Spanish
    Spanish Posts: 856
    What a legend and thank god.... the press made so much of this which obviously got to him.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    A great achievement, now for a hundred first class hundreds.
    Do you really think he can get there? Or indeed has he the desire? Maybe if he took a contract at a 2nd Div county for a year or so he could do it. Needs another 22.

    If he doesn't, I cannot really see anyone else ever achieving this feat again.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    A great achievement, now for a hundred first class hundreds.
    Do you really think he can get there? Or indeed has he the desire? Maybe if he took a contract at a 2nd Div county for a year or so he could do it. Needs another 22.

    If he doesn't, I cannot really see anyone else ever achieving this feat again.
    How old is he now? He was very young when he started so could be younger than we perhaps think.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,874
    A great achivement, if a slight anticlimax to get it in Bangladesh!

    It's hard to get 100 first class centuries these days, as international players play so little 3/4 day cricket outside test matches. The likes of Cook would previously have got several tons for his county Essex a season before central contracts.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051


    How old is he now? He was very young when he started so could be younger than we perhaps think.
    He's 39, so not too many seasons left I shouldn't think
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    It's hard to get 100 first class centuries these days, as international players play so little 3/4 day cricket outside test matches. The likes of Cook would previously have got several tons for his county Essex a season before central contracts.
    I'd say it's impossible.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001
    It's hard to get 100 first class centuries these days, as international players play so little 3/4 day cricket outside test matches. The likes of Cook would previously have got several tons for his county Essex a season before central contracts.
    I'd say it's impossible.
    Agree. As much as I like and admire the guy it must surely be time for him to seriously consider retiring with head held high.
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    You know what? .. despite all the facts and figures, the riches and adulation, I think he is and always has been overrated. The Bollywood barons love him and his cute little face .. awwwwwww ..... that has prolonged a career as a bit of a flat track bully. A very good batsman but ....
  • weird thing is he scored all them runs yet the thing i remember most about seeing him live was a catch he took at lords as a 17 year old to dismiss alan lamb.

    8.08 in the link


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wanPEBFujE
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    You know what? .. despite all the facts and figures, the riches and adulation, I think he is and always has been overrated. The Bollywood barons love him and his cute little face .. awwwwwww ..... that has prolonged a career as a bit of a flat track bully. A very good batsman but ....
    You just love it don't you?

    Overworshiped by a billion plus people yes but I don't think he's over rated as a batsman. However I do reckon Lara was the better batsman of this era.
    For my whole time of watching cricket though, no one was better than Viv.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,437
    You know what? .. despite all the facts and figures, the riches and adulation, I think he is and always has been overrated. The Bollywood barons love him and his cute little face .. awwwwwww ..... that has prolonged a career as a bit of a flat track bully. A very good batsman but ....
    LOL @ Overrated. You're insane.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    You know what? .. despite all the facts and figures, the riches and adulation, I think he is and always has been overrated. The Bollywood barons love him and his cute little face .. awwwwwww ..... that has prolonged a career as a bit of a flat track bully. A very good batsman but ....
    Just looked at the figures: his test average v the best team of his era, Australia, is 57, and 53 in Australia.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    This is what infuriates me about this board. It is quite clear from the title of the thread that this is about cricket. Ok some of you don't like cricket but to come on and insult us with that nasty "ZZZzzzz" comment is just rude.
    If you don't like the topic, don't open the thread. Simple!
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,495
    He is overrated by Indian fans who worship him like a minor deity. He's still one of the best cricketers of his generation and in the top 10 batsmen of al time.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    edited March 2012
    You know what? .. despite all the facts and figures, the riches and adulation, I think he is and always has been overrated. The Bollywood barons love him and his cute little face .. awwwwwww ..... that has prolonged a career as a bit of a flat track bully. A very good batsman but ....
    You just love it don't you?

    Overworshiped by a billion plus people yes but I don't think he's over rated as a batsman. However I do reckon Lara was the better batsman of this era.
    For my whole time of watching cricket though, no one was better than Viv.
    Yeah, Viv the Butcher (not Basil) .. and a lucky man at never having to face his own bowling attack .. a pleasure to watch such a brute of a batsman .. BUT in the clichéd event of having to ask a batsman to bat to save my life and/or my daughter's virginity .. Ricky Ponting is the man for me. EDIT .. should say 'was the man for me' as, of course he is now about 45 and very short sighted. One for this era and beyond .. Capn Cook'll do me
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,357
    Just looked at the figures: his test average v the best team of his era, Australia, is 57, and 53 in Australia.. is that all Lawrie ?

    the way people carry on it's as if it should be 157 and 253
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  • eldavide
    eldavide Posts: 384
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    This is what infuriates me about this board. It is quite clear from the title of the thread that this is about cricket. Ok some of you don't like cricket but to come on and insult us with that nasty "ZZZzzzz" comment is just rude.
    If you don't like the topic, don't open the thread. Simple!
    Like you on the Formula 1 thread then?

    Hypocrite

  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    This is what infuriates me about this board. It is quite clear from the title of the thread that this is about cricket. Ok some of you don't like cricket but to come on and insult us with that nasty "ZZZzzzz" comment is just rude.
    If you don't like the topic, don't open the thread. Simple!
    Like you on the Formula 1 thread then?

    Hypocrite

    Gotcha!

    Glad it was you young Rudd!

  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,495
    Steve Waugh for me. The best batsman in his family.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,862
    Steve Waugh for me. The best batsman in his family.

    I love that sledge to Mark Waugh.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,807
    Shame The Master had to do it against Bangladesh.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Tendulker's seen as the best not just because of his stats but also his technique is close to flawless. Some of the shots he plays are from a technical standpoint incredible.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,576
    Saatchin Tendulkar v Sunil Gavaskar = two masters
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    He's only 5 ft 3.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    A great achievement, now for a hundred first class hundreds.
    Do you really think he can get there? Or indeed has he the desire? Maybe if he took a contract at a 2nd Div county for a year or so he could do it. Needs another 22.

    If he doesn't, I cannot really see anyone else ever achieving this feat again.
    How old is he now? He was very young when he started so could be younger than we perhaps think.
    He's a few days shy of his 39th birthday - and currently needs 22 FC hundreds, as he mostly plays Test cricket these days (in First Class cricketing terms) and has commitments with Mumbai in the IPL then it's unlikely and sad too as a 100 FC hundreds would be a great achievement. If he doesn't make it then I doubt we'll see a cricketer get there (or even get close) for a long time if ever. Only in England do teams play more than a few matches a season and we are cutting back. The last two players to get there - Graeme Hick and Ramps played Test cricket but never made it as Test cricketers so they had few distractions, anyone half decent is going to go on a central contract and play at best half a dozen FC matches for their County a season and a few Tests so they simply won't play enough cricket. For that reason I hope he does carry on and get there - but realistically it'll take him five/six seasons and he'll have long retired by then.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    You know what? .. despite all the facts and figures, the riches and adulation, I think he is and always has been overrated. The Bollywood barons love him and his cute little face .. awwwwwww ..... that has prolonged a career as a bit of a flat track bully. A very good batsman but ....
    Just looked at the figures: his test average v the best team of his era, Australia, is 57, and 53 in Australia.
    They are still good numbers, it's hard to score runs in Test cricket when wickets are falling around you. But one of his first Test hundreds was at Perth, any batsman who gets runs on that track is special, more so when he's a bit short of a length himself. Saying that Kid Concrete took a hundred off Lillee, Thommo and Gimour at Perth in 1975. And he was around Tendulkar's height.

    http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63151.html