Sachin Tendulkar's 50th Test Hundred Celebration !!!
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We are eagerly waiting for the Historic Moment
Sachin is the Bradman of today-British media
“Let us just say that Tendulkar is the Bradman of today — less hypnotic but scarcely less phenomenal”, according to cricket writer John Woodcock, who reckons the Indian icon has every chance of making his 50th Test century this week.
In his column for The Times, Woodcock paid rich tributes to Tendulkar for his ” insatiable” hunger to score runs and said comparing him to Bradman did not diminish the legendary Australian and his achievements.
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“Bradman, I believe, would have been proud to play today’s game as well as Tendulkar does, just as Tendulkar, like all of us, holds Bradman in awe. Let us just say that Tendulkar is the Bradman of today — less hypnotic but scarcely less phenomenal — and leave it at that,” Woodcock said.
“There is every chance that Tendulkar will make his 50th Test hundred this week, against New Zealand, in itself an amazing achievement. But if Bradman had played the same number of Test innings (Tendulkar has played 280 to Bradman’s 80), he would have finished with something like 100 hundred, given the rate at which he scored them,” the veteran columnist wrote.
Woodcock said physically, Tendulkar is the shorter and stockier of the two and with the sub-continent being the breeding ground of the world’s most natural batsmen, there could be a few more talented cricketers from that region in the future.
“What eventually it comes down to is opportunity, ambition and temperament. Tendulkar belongs to the school of those Indian batsmen (Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath were others) who make up for a lack of inches with eye, wrist and insatiability. He uses a bat so heavy that Bradman would have laughed at it. You need only to pick it up to realise how strong his arms must be,” he said.
“To say that Tendulkar, or anyone else for that matter, might be as good as Bradman does not diminish Bradman and his achievements. This is intended not as a comparison between Bradman and Tendulkar but as a celebration of a wonderful little Indian player — insatiable, resourceful, unflinching and orderly,” Woodcock added.
Harbhajan eager to celebrate Sachin's 50th Test century
Sachin Tendulkar is one hundred away from achieving an incredible milestone of scoring 50 Test centuries and India spinner Harbhajan Singh is eagerly waiting for the historic moment.
The upcoming three-Test series against New Zealand will give Tendulkar ample opportunities to get to the magical mark and Harbhajan is hoping the Mumbai batting icon will touch the mark in the first Test at Ahmedabad.
"It's going to be the biggest achievement to notch century number 50 in Tests. I am looking forward to the part of the celebration. Hope he gets it at Motera," the Indian spin wizard said.
"He has a lot of milestones to his name. But this is going to be the biggest. Hats off to him. He has shown us that nothing is impossible," Harbhajan said.