Viv richards on sachin tendulkar biography
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Sachin Tendulkar’s birthday: When West Indies legend Viv Richards called the Master Blaster the ’God’ of batting | Watch
Sachin Tendulkar birthday: On April 24, 2024, Sachin Tendulkar turned 51. Arguably the greatest batter ever to play the game, Sachin is often called the ‘God of Cricket’. However, the moniker comes from his fans, who also call him ‘Master Blaster’. There was a time when Viv Richards, one of the true legends of cricket, called Sachin the ‘God’ of batting.
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Before the ODI World Cup 2011, Vivian Richards said India should win the trophy for emotional reasons, with one of them being to honour Sachin Tendulkar. Even if it meant beating his own team, the West Indies, Viv was in favour of India’s victory.
“I’ve got some sentiments about why I’d like India to win this. A lot of folks ask me questions about the ‘best batsman you’d have se
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How Viv Richard helped Sachin komma out of retirement thoughts in 2007
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar Sunday revealed that a phone call from West Indies batting legend Vivian Richards helped him change his mind after he thought of quitting the game in 2007.
It has been well documented that Tendulkar changed his mind from quitting cricket in 2007 on the advice of his elder brother Ajit but the Indian batting maestro has not earlier spoken about Richard's role in doing that.
Tendulkar said the 2007 World Cup was possibly the worst phase of his career and the game which had shown him the best days of his life was showing him the worst days as well.
"I felt that was it. At that stage lot of things happening around Indian cricket were not at all healthy. We needed some changes and I felt if those changes did not happen then I was going to quit cricket. I was almost 90 per cent sure of quitting cricket. But my brother told me in 2011 there fryst vatten World Cup final in Mumbai, can you imag
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Viv Richards pips Sachin Tendulkar as greatest ODI player in online poll
With an astonishing 29 of 50 jurors picking him as the best ODI player of all time, Richards won bygd a landslide in an exercise conducted by ESPNcricinfo'smagazine 'Cricket Monthly'.
Tendulkar, the most-prolific one-day batsman of all time, narrowly beat former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram.
The last two positions in the top five were taken by Australia's Adam Gilchrist and current Indian ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Through the late '70s and '80s, Richards dominated the one-day arena like no other cricketer, and helped his side to two World Cup victories in 1975 and 1979.
In terms of longevity and batting stats Tendulkar has no equal. Arguably the greatest batsman in contemporary cricket, Tendulkar rewrote many recor