Comments on: What’s happening to Tendulkar?

By: Suentoste

Suentoste — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:25:18 +0000

To me it is necessary to find

By: V.S.S.SARMA

V.S.S.SARMA — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:14:39 +0000

I hope he is not getting paid by his sponsors based on the number of balls he is facing ! That will be the greatest dis-service he and his sponsors would be doing to Indian Cricket. This great player who will any time walk into any world team as a opener (along with Gordon Greenidge) appears to have become rusty but is still the best Indian ODI player. Indian fans are sore at their God because the God has failed them. The way he got out to Mohammad Asif is so fresh in our minds. Tendulkar would do well to take the hint from Bobby Simpson. Yes, he is a sincere and great learner too. He still has about 2-3 years of great cricket in him.

By: blogesh

blogesh — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:48:40 +0000

Good post. I am just catching up with all the postings

I think Tendulkar has also gone into a defensive mind set of late, particularly when the bowling is a bit negative (like a left arm bowler bowling outside the leg stump) or when the team is under pressure. By curbing his natural instincts to attack (Is he doing this to hide any flaws in his techinque? I don’t know) and not score, he keeps putting himself under pressure and eventually ends up loosing his wicket.

Giles getting him stumped and Tendulkar’s last innings in South Africa are prime examples of this…

By: vish2000

vish2000 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:52:11 +0000

Kartikeya, Prey tell me how is admiration the root of our concern?

The admiration stems from the fact that he has had fanatical fan following and expectation for 15 years and he has carried them well until the last 3 years. Everyone expects him to take resposibility and deliver all the time. This plus the fact that in the midst of all the adoration and tons of runs, his head stayed screwed on to his sholders.

If you read carefully, I have asked why Tendulkar has’nt remedied his flaws given the time and resources at his disposal; and the fact that he needs to quit if he does’nt do so soon. My ‘admiration’ of Tendulkar has’nt prevented me from asking him to quit the game.

By: gnbmdr

gnbmdr — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:25:59 +0000

Tendulkar definitely deserves a good opportunity to retire from the game. Not “rested” and eventually dropped unceremoniously.

Brian Lara chose a good occasion to retire at WI, World Cup and all the press at WI.

Vengsarkar continues to make a fool of himself – with his explanation of “resting”.

By: Kartikeya Date

Kartikeya Date — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:26:39 +0000

“As a huge admirer of Tendulkar…….. ”

This is at the root of our concerns isn’t it?

By: Scribbler

Scribbler — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:06:53 +0000

I didn’t think it was rocket science that Tendulkar was technically ‘off’… if you check how many times he has been out LBW or Bowled in the last two years or so, it is clear that there is a flaw in the technique. The baffling part is he hasn’t tried to correct it yet. Maybe too many matches don’t allow time for it, but he had time off with injury and all. Hopefully the time he gets by not playing Bangladesh will help him clear it up.