Rafiqul Sharif
February 1, 2009, 7:16 pm
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There are some serious fans of Sachin Tendulkar expressing their view on the great batsman of India. Some of them are quoted below:
"He is 99.5 percent perfect. I'd pay to see him" - Viv Richards.
"It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him" -Allan Border.
"There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don” - Steve Waugh.
“You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon” - Steve Waugh.
"There is no shame being beaten by such a great player. We didn't lose to Team India. We Lost to Sachin Tendulkar" -Steve Waugh.
“I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara” - Glenn McGrath.
"If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard" - Dennis Lillee.
"I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd do okay" -Greg Chappell.
"He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease." - Greg Chappell
"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time" - Wasim Akram.
"The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin, like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and it is too much pressure on him" -Mark Waugh.
"Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person I've admired over a 15-year of period, it's definitely Sachin." - Brain Lara
“Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I’m a mere mortal” - Brian Lara
"I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player" -Shane Warne.
“You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer” - Shane Warne.
“Destined to be a great” - Barry Richards.
“Sachin is cricket’s God” - Barry Richards.
"He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling." - Richie Benaud
"He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry Richards". - Eddie Barlow
"I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel" -Sir Donald Bradman.
"In an over I can bowl six different balls. But then Sachin looks at me with a sort of gentle arrogance down the pitch as if to say 'Can you bowl me another one?'" - Adam Hollioke
"You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick? "-Brett Lee
"You have to decide for yourself whether you're bowling well or not. He's going to hit you for fours and sixes anyway?" -Micheal Kasprowicz
"Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours" - Michael Kasprowicz.
"Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ? Nothing is a problem?" -Geoffrey Boycott.
"His life seems to be stillness in a frantic world... [When he goes out to bat], it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God... ?" Mathew Hayden, on Sachin Tendulkar.
"I have seen GOD , he bats at no.4 for india in Test." - Mathew Hayden
"He's a phenomenon. We have to be switched on when he plays allow him no boundries, for then he doesn't stop" - Mark Taylor
This one is not by any legend, but some fans:
"Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord Is watching" - Placard at the SCG as Sachin was making his century, January 2008
February 1, 2009, 7:16 pm
