Sachin Tendulkar

Is sachin greatest batsman of all time ...this is the most talked about topic after his great knock of200.Nasir Hussain recently said that tendulkar is greatest ..greater than lara ,ponting, Richards,gavaskar,border and greater than don bradman...tendulkar is one of the greatest batsman of all time and no one can deny that he is the greatest batsman after sir Donald bradman.but now the question is that is sachin even greater than bradman.

If most of us is telling that sachin is the best ..there should be some logic behind that ..we cannot always say bradman is greatest .gavaskar  always says that sachin has perfected the art of batsmanship.now we all have to know what is art of  batsmanship. Gavaskar is simply saying that sachin's batting is perfect but bradman was also perfect .tendulkar's balance in crease is great ..every other great batsman has this quality ,then why should we term tendulkar as  greatest.

According to me there is one thing in which even bradman is behind the little genius .tendulkar has carried  the expectations of 1 billion people for almost 20 years .no player in the cricketing history has always played under such pressure .

Everyone will now say tendulkar played with protective gears and on  the pitches that helped batsman.that's true but tendulkar played against warne and murali ...two of the greatest spinners of all times .bradman was never against such kinds of bowling. ...and ask them they will say tendulkar is greatest.once warne said if bradman is considered better than tendulkar it is good that he is an Australian.tendulkar played against the greatest team of all time ..the mighty Australian team (2000-2005) and see his records against them.the bowling attack of this team was greatest of all time ...many will argue that the best bowling attack was the bowling attack of west indies in seventies but according to me that bowling attack was unidimensional and they do not have a spinner like shane warne.tendulkar played for a country which for many years depended upon him for their success,bradman played for a country which was best at that time and which many will consider the greatest team of all time.

There is one aspect in which tendulkar is behind bradman and even lara ...they won more matches for their country.but tendulkar nowadays is doing same for india .if I would have written this article 2 years ago I myself should have written that bradman is way ahead of sachin but considering the fact what sachin has done in recent years I should say that tendulkar is as great as bradman if not more and tendulkar wil considered as greatest batsman if he could do that last thing what we all expect him to do ..win a world cup for india and if he will be able to do so ..I will consider him the greatest batsman of all times but for now he is tied with sir donald bradman as the greatest batsman of all time.

Muttiah Muralitharan vs Shane Warne

Muttiah Muralitharan

	Match	Inngs	Ball	Wikets	Runs	Averg	Econ	Strike	4wicket	5wicket	10wicket
Test	133	230	44039	800	18180	22.72	02.47	55.00	45	67	22
Odi s	345	336	18547	523	12132	23.19	23.19	35.04	14	10	00
T.twenty	73	73	1686	95	1732	18.23	06.16	17.07	03	00	00
First.class	232	232	66933	1374	26997	19.64	02.42	48.07	----	119	34

Shane Warne

	Match	Inngs	Ball	Wikets	Runs	Averg	Econ	Strike	4wicket	5wicket	10wicket
Test	145	273	40705	708	17995	25.41	02.65	57.04	48	37	10
Odi s	194	191	10642	293	7541	25.75	04.25	36.03	12	01	00
T.twenty	45	45	984	46	1225	26.63	07.46	21.03	01	00	00
First.class	301	300	74830	1391	34449	26.11	02.76	56.07	------	69	12

Tiger Woods

DATE OF BIRTH

December 30, 1975

Tiger Woods is a great athlete, and well on the road to becoming a hero. Before the age of 20, he’ d already attracted thousands of worshippers. For example, Sports Illustrated, the American bible of sports coverage rarely reserves ten pages to profile a college kid. But the magazine fairly gushed with reverence over the young golfer in March of 1995, exclaiming, “Only 19, amateur sensation Tiger Woods has the golf world shaking its head in awe.” Likewise, Newsweek heralded Woods’s prodigious talent, declaring in bold print: “He can hit like [Greg] Norman, putt like [Jack] Nicklaus, and think like a Stanford freshman. He’s already the best 19-year-old American golfer ever.” On August 28, 1996, Woods turned pro, according to The Source, “because there were no challenges left for him at the amateur level….”

Writers had ample reason to employ so many superlatives. At the age of 15, Woods had become not only the first black man to win the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, but also its youngest victor. He was also the first male to win three U.S. Junior titles--1991, 1992, 1993--and had enjoyed a few casual rounds with professional golfers Sam Snead, Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus, and John Daly. Woods’s amateur title also qualified him for a trio of prestigious professional events—the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the British Open. Perhaps more importantly, the Stanford freshman captured the latter championship by staging the greatest comeback in a game in the 99-year history of the tournament. It was a dazzling performance that suggested Woods was a champion of the highest order.

Tom Watson, a tried and true legend himself, called Woods “the most important young golfer in the last 50 years.Another golfing great, Bryon Nelson, told Newsweek that compared to the youthful games of Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Tom Watson, Woods stood alone. “I’ve seen ’em all,” he said, adding, “This fellow has no weakness.Coach Butch Harmon, who tutored Greg Norman and later Woods, declared, “He handles pressure like a 30-year-old. And his creativity is amazing. Some of the shots I’ve seen him hit remind me of Norman and Arnold Palmer.”

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RONALDO

Ronaldo's first professional club, which went in March 1993, at age 16, was from the city of Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte. He was offered the leadership of the team by a former representative of Brazil - Jairzinho, who also proposed another great team player - São Paulo FC, but their then-coach Tele Santana, has not used the occasion to employ junior. Jairzinho, bought the club, Ronaldo - Sao Christovao, for $ 10,000. In fact, his first club was FC Flamengo, with whom he had gone too far, and he was on the bus tickets. Cruzeiro paid for part of the rights to Ronaldo's $ 50,000. His first official match was played in the senior team May 25, 1993, when the coach Cruzeiro - Pinheiro - saving players from Brazil's Cup semi-final, let him play in an away match against Caldense Poços de Caldas (1-0 win) in the Minas Gerais State Championship.

By September the same year, Ronaldo appeared only in the junior team, or friendlies. Good performances in those games and move away from the team of one of the assailants opened the door to the first team. September 7, 1993 he made his debut in the championship against the Corinthians of Brazil (0-2 in Belo Horizonte), and has been a key player Cruzeiro. That same month, had the chance to fight for his first title seniorskiego - Recopa 1993 in the final against Sao Paulo FC. After two games, finished bezbramkowymi draws, there was a series of penalty kicks. Ronaldo has not used her, and Cruzeiro lost the title.

By the end of the Campeonato Brasileiro games still played 13 games and scored 12 goals in them, which gave him third place in the tournament's top scorers list [1]. Performance brought him fame at home against Bahia (7 November 1993), which Cruzeiro won 6-0, and 17-year-old Ronaldo then scored 5 goals. He became the sixth time player in the history of Campeonato Brasileiro which made the play (a record that was beaten in 1997 by Edmundo - 6 goals).

A few days after he wielded the first vocation was for the national team for the match with Germany, which, however, like a month later with Mexico, did not play. Impact on the appointment of Ronaldo to the team were also performances by the Supercopa 1993, where in four games scored 8 goals. Then gained the nickname "Matador Azul" (Blue Killer, from the color outfits Cruzeiro), and the word "matador", indicating a very effective striker, inscribed on a permanent basis for the vocabulary of Brazilian football commentators.

In 1994, in Minas Gerais State Championship (Campeonato Mineiro), continued its excellent performance. In 18 games in these competitions scored 22 goals, becoming the top scorer, and led by him, Cruzeiro won the championship title. He made the long-awaited debut in the national team, and it happened on March 23 in the match against Argentina, won by Brazil 2-0. Ronaldo then had to act as "Ronaldinho" because the team was already another Ronaldo. In the next match, against Iceland on May 4, scored his first goal as Brazil won 3-0. In the meantime, he took the Cruzeiro (which in April bought for a million dollars the rest of the rights to the player's) participation in the Copa Libertadores 1994, where he played 8 games and scored 2 goals. Cruzeiro knocked out in the eighth finals of Chile Unión Española, but Ronaldo's goal gave to remember Boca Juniors scored when the ball went through nearly half a pitch past the Argentine defense.

Good game at the club led to his appointment to the FIFA World Cup 1994, during which, however, did not play any match. After returning from World Cup Ronaldo starred in yet another game for Cruzeiro (socially v Botafogo, 7 August), in which he scored his last goal for the club. Before the match it was announced that PSV Eindhoven paid for him $ 6,000,000 and Ronaldo goes to Europe. It was the most expensive transfer from Brazilian club abroad.

Ronaldo Cruzeiro played in the colors of 44 meetings, and they scored 44 goals, becoming the top scorer in the tournament Campeonato Mineiro, who won with a team of Cruzeiro and Supercopa Libertadores, and the Viceroy of Campeonato Brasileiro.

Great Brazil football legend Ronaldo retires

The tearful Corinthians striker announced his decision at a press conference in Sao Paulo.
“I’m stopping my career as a professional footballer,” he said, his voice breaking. “It’s been a beautiful, emotional, marvellous career.
“These last two years, I’ve had a long series of injuries, from one side to the other, one leg to the other, one muscle to the other. The pain pushed me to think about the end of my career.”
Ronaldo also revealed that he suffered from a thyroid problem that had made it difficult to control his weight.
“Four years ago, in Milan, I discovered that I suffered from an under-active thyroid that slowed down my metabolism and that to control it, I had to take hormones that weren’t authorised in football as they were considered a form of doping,” he said.
“Lots of people must regret having made jokes about my weight. But I feel no anger towards anyone.”
Having earlier indicated that he hoped to play on until the end of the year, injuries and Corinthians’ early elimination from the Copa Libertadores prompted him to bring forward his retirement.
During a glittering 14-year spell in Europe, Ronaldo scored goals at a prolific rate for PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and AC Milan, before returning to Brazil in 2009.
He won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002 and became the leading scorer in World Cup finals tournaments when he scored his 15th goal at the 2006 tournament in Germany.
He was twice named European Footballer of the Year, in 1997 and 2002, and finished his international career with 62 goals in 97 appearances.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, ‘El Fenomeno’ (The Phenomenon) won the World Cup with Brazil for the first time in 1994, though on that occasion the 17-year-old was part of the squad and did not play.
In 1998, he was among the losing finalists, beaten 3-0 at Stade de France by a rampant French side that included the inspirational Zinedine Zidane.
Brazil’s star striker suffered a convulsive fit on the eve of the match and was removed from the starting line-up.
In a dramatic changing-room re-shuffle, he was reinstated just before kick-off but was a shadow of the intimidating forward who had scored four goals in the run-up to the final.
But the 2002 tournament was where he made history.
Shrugging off injury in the tournament, which was hosted by Japan and South Korea, he played a key role in helping Brazil to the trophy, scoring both goals in his country’s 2-0 win over Germany in the final in Yokohoma.
At the 2006 World Cup in Germany he took his World Cup tally to 15 goals, surpassing the previous record held by Gerd Mueller by one goal.
Ronaldo, who began his career with Cruzeiro, had to fight back from three career-threatening knee injuries over the course of his career.
He was sidelined while playing for Inter by a knee injury in 1999 only to damage the same knee in his comeback for the club in February 2000, effectively keeping him out of action until March 2002.
In February 2008 he ruptured a tendon in his right knee playing for AC Milan against Livorno, an injury that ended his career in Europe.

Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi born in Kyber aggency FATA(Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Pakistan.He is a very popular cricket

personality in Pakistan and cricket world.

Shahid Afridi is current One Day International oneday and Twenty20 captain of the Pakistani national team in the international cricket.

He is known for his aggressive batting style, and holds the record for the fastest ODI century which he made in his first international innings, as well as scoring 32 runs in a single over, the second highest scoring over ever in an ODI.Execellen performer.

He is a allrounder player but Afridi considers himself a better bowler than batsman, and has taken 48 Test wickets and over 300 in ODIs cricket.

Bat and Field

	Match	Inns	N.out	Run	Ave	H.s	Str	50	100	4	6	Ct	St	Bf
Test	27	48	01	1716	36.51	156	86.97	08	05	220	52	10	00	1973
Odi s	315	296	18	6626	23.83	124	113.84	31	06	608	288	102	00	464
T.Twenty	81	74	05	1274	18.46	54*	159.84	03	00	106	62	24	00	797
First--Class	111	183	04	5631	31.45	164	------	30	10	----	----	75	00	------

BOWLING

	Match	Inngs	Ball	Wikets	Runs	Averg	Econ	Strike	4wicket	5wicket	10wicket
Test	27	47	3194	48	1709	35.60	3.21	66.05	01	01	00
Odi s	315	290	13526	306	10416	34.03	4.62	44.01	03	05	00
T.twenty	81	81	1760	98	1865	19.03	06.35	17.09	04	00	00
First.class	111	----	13493	258	7023	27.22	03.12	52.02	-----	08	00