Famous Quotes about Sachin:

"Tujhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?"
- Wasim Akram to Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin’s catch. Sachin was on 32 when this happened, he went on to score 98 and won the match for india

"I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India"
- Mathew Hayden

"On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!"
- Peter Roebuck

“If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.”
- Dennis Lillee

I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara.
- Glenn McGrath

Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.
- Brian Lara

I saw him (Sachin) 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...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel.
- Sir Don Bradman

"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others."
- Andy Flower

"Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has
many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the
world"
- Allan Donald


India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
- Sunil Gavaskar

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
- Richie Benaud


Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem.
- Geoffrey Boycott


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


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, after the coca cola cup finals in Sharjah.


I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.
- Viv Richards on Sachin Tendulkar


Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives
- BBC Sports, on Sachin Tendulkar

"India me aap Prime Minister ko ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin
Tendulkar par Ungli nahi utha Sakte.."
- Navjot Singh Sidhu

Sachin is cricket's God!
- Barry Richards

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.
- Ian Chappell


"I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets!"
- Anil Kumble

"To Sachin, the man we all want to be"
What Symonds wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.
- Andrew Symonds

"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin" -Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)
- Mark Taylor

Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours:
- Michael Kasprowicz

Nothing bad can happen to us if we’re on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.
- Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight.

Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting, they will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching cricket.
-A banner in Australia

Woh Paanch Din :)

India vs Australia ,Kolkata , 11-15 March 2001

Cricinfo URL : http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63920.html

Absolutely no surprise at all. If you ask any Indian cricket fan about which is the best test match that he has seen, this particular test match is the most likely answer. And why not, this is the test match which kick-started the process of India becoming one of the top test teams in the world.

I still remember this test match as if I had seen this yesterday. This test match happened at the worst possible time from my perspective. I was busy preparing for yet another worthless semester exams of my engineering, I was in the middle of 5^th semester exams.

As always, I was more inclined to watch the cricket match, than prepare to the exam, which obviously reflected in my 5^th SEM results, I got 73-74%, which was my lowest in all 8 semesters. But that was worth it, India won this series J

Day 1:

Match started with the news of aussies winning the toss and opting to bat. Aussies did justice to the star studded batting that they had, they got a solid start and went on to make a formidable score.

Indian bowlers were just plundered, but until the moment our own bhajji came to the party. He changed the course of the match(momentarily) with a hatrick! I think the first hatrick by an indian bowler in test matches. Day 1 was over with india needing to take just 2 more wickets.

Day 2:

But aussies as usual were not in any mood to give up so easily. The legend of steve Waugh was still batting. He frustrated the indian bowlers and got a great partnership with Jason Gillespie and propelled the score to 445.

As any optimistic indian cricket fan, I thought “NO PROBLEM “ we have the batting to overhaul this easily J. I got scared I would fail the next day , so switched off the tv and went back to studies.

Came out of the room after 2-3 hours , and India had lost 8 wickets by end of day 2 after scoring 120+ runs ! I cursed myself for wasting my time watching aussie batting and ruining my preparation for exam too. I vowed ( yet again ) that I will never watch indian cricket once again J

Day 3:

I lived up to my promise and didn’t see whole of day 3. This is because I had to go write the exam J (penultimate exam of that semester)

got to know that India were 4 down for 250 by the end of day, with VVS laxman scoring a century and still playing , and Rahul had just started to bat.

Nobody had any idea as to what was about to happen the next day

Day 4:

I had only one exam left which was OPERATING SYSTEMS, which was scheduled on the 5^th day of the test match. I assumed I wouldn’t miss any cricket action as india would be allout and be defeated by an innings on day 4.

I had no idea this would be the day Indian (and Australian) cricket would remember forever.

I had the last exam next day, had to prepare myself to attempt for atleast 100 marks. Divided my time from morning 10 till night 2’o clock into 4 segments

Morning 10-1 ( 30 marks worth of studies)

Noon 2-5 ( 30 marks worth of studies)

Evening 6-9 ( 30 marks worth of studies)

Night 10-2 ( remaining 10 marks and revision) ……….. was a foolproof plan.

But VVS laxman and rahul dravid had counter-plans for my exams ! I blame laxman … he started the day with a flurry of boundaries ! and then rahul joined him. The same thing continued through the day.

Because of the way these two guys played , I prepared only for 30 marks till 5 in the evening , needing another 70 marks worth of studies !! .. my plan went haywire , I still blame laxman and dravid , I scored only 56 in Operating System because of them J

India “following on” scored 335 runs with loss of ZERO wickets J … and I was damn happy . I thought even if I score less in OS who cares , it was totally worth it J

End of day 4 - India 2nd innings 589/4 (VVS Laxman 275*, R Dravid 155*)

Day 5:

Got up on this day being extremely nervous about the exam, but I was more excited about the prospect of laxman getting a triple hundred. I didn’t care much about the match as I thought it would be a draw. I didn’t see India bowling aussies out in 2 sessions.

Match started , dravid got out , laxman got out , ganguly declared. I was happy that we pulled off an amazing test match from the jaws of defeat , and I headed for the exam thinking that we should win the next match in Chennai to square the series.

But what happened while I was writing the exam was the best part of the match.

I am jealous that my brother got to see it and I didn’t L

Bhajji got 6 wickets, more importantly sachin got 3 wickets J and INDIA WON !!!!!

The most ironical among those wickets was

Sachin tendulkar ( all time greatest BATSMAN ) getting Shane warne ( all time greatest leg spinner) out by a GOOGLY !!!!!!!!!!!

Who is your tomorrow's competitor??

article by IIMB Professor
[Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks for india.wsj.com by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.].



Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?.

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Y. L. R Moorthi.

Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Cano[Gupte, Amey IN BOM SECPL] ns are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? .
You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?.

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? .
All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?".

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" .

The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines?.

Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment) . Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning?
The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors?
Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots?.
Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition.

He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.

—Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.