The God Of cricket: Sachin
Cricket News Updates with daily.bhaskar.com
End of an era: Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell innings ends; departs for 74
Mumbai: An eerie silence enveloped Wankhede Stadium as Sachin Tendulkar, playing the last Test match of his career, hit a flat Narsingh Deonarine delivery straight into the hands of West Indian skipper Darren Sammy, who, to his credit, held on to a blinder.
The Little Master made 74 in his last appearance, and looked good for his 52nd Test match century.
In PICS: Sachin Tendulkar’s last Test innings
Mumbai: His final waltz was a throwback to his salad days. Wristy flicks, powerful punches, droolworthy drives and the vintage straight drive, Sachin Tendulkar reeled off some of the finest strokes straight from coaching manual to enthral the cricket world, one last time.
The Master batsman scored a fluent 74 before succumbing to Narsingh Deonarine, sending the nation into a final time-freeze. We get you images from his final flourish:
Major setback for Sachin Tendulkar fans as site selling farewell test tickets crashes
Mumbai: In a major setback to the millions of Sachin Tendulkar fans, the website selling tickets for the Wankhede test between India and West Indies has crashed. The website selling tickets was kyazzonga.com and heavy traffic led to its downfall.
Continue Reading
Tendulkamania: Amitabh Bachchan calls for innings declaration, Hrithik says would love to play Sachin!
Bollywood patriarch and an ardent Sachin fan, Amitabh Bachchan, took to the microblogging site and echoed what many would call the popular sentiment- declaration.
“I tell you the Indian mind is the most inventive in the world .. "declare and get Sachin to bat again" .. ingenious !!” the Big B tweeted.