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Kapil Dev is wrong in saying Sachin didn’t do justice to his talent

October 29, 2015 by Dipu Shaw Leave a Comment

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Kapil Dev

Former India captain Kapil Dev has stirred up a hornet’s nest by arguing that cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar didn’t do justice to his talent.

“Sachin was a much better cricketer but somewhere along the line he just knew how to score hundreds. He didn’t know how to make it a double hundred, or a triple or even 400s,” Khaleej Times quoted Kapil Dev as saying.

The all-rounder, under whose captaincy India won the 1983 World Cup, added he would have advised Tendulkar to play like Virender Sehwag.

While Kapil Dev may be entitled to his personal opinion, there are certain things that he seems to forget in making such arguments. Sachin is respected across the world, by the greats who played this game, not only because of his cricketing skills but because he displayed them in his batting.

Tendulkar mostly played at a time when there was no Virat Kohli to take care of the batting when he was out. The master blaster took the task of shouldering the responsibility of India single-handedly in the 90s. If we can recall the era, Sachin’s early wicket usually meant all the other Indian batsmen fell like a pack of cards. Sachin played grounded shots applying his perfect technique to the best deliveries fired at him when expectations from him were sky high. In fact higher than any other player in cricket history.

To Kapil Dev’s point that Sachin could have made 200, 300 or even 400, he seems to forget that making 100 hundreds is no small task in cricket and reflects much more consistency, performance and ability to dominate bowlers.

It is amusing that Kapil Dev feels Sachin should have played like Virender Sehwag when Sehwag himself has said on numerous occasions that he has learnt a lot from Sachin.

That is the reason, the other cricket icons present at the event – Shane Warne, Wasim Akram and Ian Botham – did not seem to agree with Kapil’s view.

Shane Warne remarked Sachin was special and the best batsman he played against. “Sachin is a wonderful player and in my 20-odd years of playing, he is the best batsman that I played against. The expectations he was under and the skill he had against fast and spin. The way he judged the balls. He was great for the game of cricket and he was a fantastic and wonderful player. He dominated bowlers in the mid-90s and he was just outstanding against any bowler. He also played exceptionally well against Australia,” said Warne.

 

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Sachin Tendulkar, CNR Rao conferred Bharat Ratna

February 4, 2014 by newshourindia Leave a Comment

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sachinNEW DELHI: Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and eminent scientist Professor CNR Rao were conferred with India’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan today.

Sachin Tendulkar not only became the first sportsperson to be conferred with the Bharat Ratna but also the youngest recipient of the award. Prof Rao became the fourth recipient of the award from the field of Science.

President Pranab Mukherjee gave the award to Sachin and Professor Rao in presence of Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and several other union ministers.

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The cricket legend described the award as the greatest honour and said he would try his best to give the people of the country a reason to smile. He also congratulated Professor Rao. Sachin’s wife Anjali Tendulkar and daughter Sara Tendulkar were with him at the award ceremony.

Sachin Tendulkar was chosen for the award ahead of hockey maestro Dhyan Chand, whose name had been recommended by the Union sports ministry in July 2013. The Prime Minister’s Office sought information about Sachin on November 14 when he was playing his farewell Test at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The Sports ministry responded in less than four hours and the decision to confer him with the award was announced on November 16, 2013.

While Sachin Tendulkar towers above others in the country in terms of popularity, many feel that the timing of his being conferred with the highest award was politically motivated as the UPA government wanted to gain from it in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Legendary hockey player Dhyanchand was ignored the honour by the Indian government even after decades of pleas and prayers.

Dhyan Chand, regarded one of the greatest hockey players ever, had won three successive Olympic Gold medals in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

Shortly after Sachin received the award, former sports person and activist Sunita Godara criticized the decision recalling Sachin’s Ferrari tax evasion episode and eventual sale. She argued that if Bharat Ratna was given only on the basis of popularity, Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan equally deserve the award.

Sachin, 40, who is also a member of the Rajya Sabha may attend the upcoming Parliament session beginning tomorrow.

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