Tendulkar is cross-dominant: he bats, bowls and throws with his right hand, but writes with his left hand. He also practices left-handed throws at the nets on a regular basis. Cricinfo columnist Sambit Bal has described him as the "most wholesome batsman of his time". His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes. He appears to show little preference for the slow and low wickets which are typical in India, and has scored many centuries on the hard, bouncy pitches in South Africa and Australia. He is known for his unique punch style of hitting the ball over square.
Playing style
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar | Playing style
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who won the bharat ratna award in 2018
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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when was this award initially given?
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2 January 1954
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what is the eligibility to receive this award?
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One must be of exceptional service/performance of the highest order irrespective of race, occupation,position or sex
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who presents the award?
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President
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was it a part of any controversy?
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Yes. Jawaharlal Nehru has been targeted of awarding Bharat Ratna to himself while serving as Prime Minister of India in 1955
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can you name any award winners?
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Sachin Tendulkar ,Mother Teresa, Dhono Keshav Karve
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what can you tell me about the former award holder?
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He is a former Indian international cricketer, also was the captain of the Indian national team.
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when did he begin his career?
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15 November 1989
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what can you tell me about his playing style?
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During the early part of his career, he was a more attacking batsman and frequently scored centuries at close to a run a ball. Ian Chappell, former Australian player, remarked in 2007 that "Tendulkar now, is nothing like the player he was when he was a young bloke".
Sachin Tendulkar | Playing style
Tendulkar is cross-dominant: he bats, bowls and throws with his right hand, but writes with his left hand. He also practices left-handed throws at the nets on a regular basis. Cricinfo columnist Sambit Bal has described him as the "most wholesome batsman of his time". His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes. He appears to show little preference for the slow and low wickets which are typical in India, and has scored many centuries on the hard, bouncy pitches in South Africa and Australia. He is known for his unique punch style of hitting the ball over square.
Sachin Tendulkar | Playing style
Bradman's wife, Jessie, agreed that they did appear similar." Former Australian cricket team coach John Buchanan voiced his opinion that Tendulkar had become susceptible to the short ball early in his innings because of a lack of footwork. Buchanan also believes Tendulkar has a weakness while playing left-arm pace. He was affected by a series of injuries since 2004. Since then Tendulkar's batting has tended to be less attacking. Explaining this change in his batting style, he has acknowledged that he is batting differently because, firstly, no batsman can bat the same way for the entire length of a long career and, secondly, he is a senior member of the team now and thus has more responsibility.
Sachin Tendulkar | Playing style
Sehwag was often compared to Sachin Tendulkar in his early days due to the similar batting style, build and appearance. He has acknowledged numerous times that he consciously attempted to model his playing style on Tendulkar's in his youth. Sehwag's technique is often cited as being particularly unorthodox, often backing away (considered technically incorrect) to free his arms whilst playing his shots, in particular,a to cut or drive spinners inside out. He is frequently cited by commentators for his extremely strong (physically) square cutting and upper cutting and power through the off-side. He is also an excellent player of the late cut.
Virender Sehwag | Playing style
He is also renowned for his picture-perfect straight drive, often completed with no follow-through. The straight drive is often said to be his favourite shot. In 2008, Sunil Gavaskar, in an article he wrote in the AFP, remarked that "it is hard to imagine any player in the history of the game who combines classical technique with raw aggression like the little champion does". Equipment-wise, his bats tend to be heavier than the average batman. Sir Donald Bradman, considered by many as the greatest batsman of all time, considered Tendulkar to have a batting style similar to his. In his biography, it is stated that "Bradman was most taken by Tendulkar's technique, compactness and shot production, and had asked his wife to have a look at Tendulkar, having felt that Tendulkar played like him.
Sachin Tendulkar | Playing style
For much of his career, Sarwan wore a bandana under his helmet whilst batting, but dropped the practice due to a change in the design of helmet. He shared the habit of his fellow countrymen Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Narsingh Deonarine of marking his guard with a bail.
Ramnaresh Sarwan | Style of play
While Gavaskar could not be described as an attacking batsman, he had the ability of keeping the scoreboard ticking with unique shots such as the "late flick". His focus of technical correctness over flair meant that his style of play was usually less suited to the shorter form of the game, at which he had less success. His infamous 36 not out in the 1975 World Cup, carrying his bat through the full 60 overs against England, led Indian supporters to storm the field and confront him for scoring so slowly when India needed nearly a run a ball to win; at the end of the game India had lost only three wickets but scored 200 runs less than England.
Sunil Gavaskar | Style
However, in the last two years he has improved his leg side and bouncer hitting considerably. This is shown in the recent ODIs against New Zealand where he utilised the pull, hook and flick shots to devastating effect.
Virender Sehwag | Playing style
Then, in a hitherto unprecedented sequence, he scored 0, 0, 8 and 0 in the next four innings. He returned to form in the last Test scoring 41 and 86, one half century. However, India lost the series. In this period, in the third Test match against England in August 2002, Sachin scored his 30th Test century to surpass Bradman's haul, in his 99th Test match.
Sachin Tendulkar | Decline phase of career
However, he has mentioned that in his early years, when he was still in search of a good sitar, he had to play high speed to make a career as a musician.
Budhaditya Mukherjee | Playing style
Ankolekar initially played as a lower-order batsman, and started bowling left-arm orthodox spin on a regular basis at the insistence of his coach.
Atharva Ankolekar | Playing style
He is a Defensive Midfielder who can also play as a Defender.
Surat Sukha | Style of Play
He played as a defender or sometimes as a defensive midfielder.
Jan Rajnoch | Style of play
He also has the ability to cut the ball very fine down to third man if there are no slips, especially against spin bowlers, as he showed to great effect in his above-mentioned innings of 108 not out. These are his specialties, but he has large range of shots. However, many commentators have expressed that his defensive technique has flaws, and that he is prone to playing at balls outside off-stump which should be left.
Salman Butt | Playing style
Former Australian captains Steve Waugh compared Rahane to the batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar due to his compact technique, range of shots and temperament. Rahane showed what a versatile player he could be, adapting to the pitch and weather conditions with ease. His trademark shots are the back-foot square-punch towards the off-side, the cover drive, the flick shot towards square leg and the straight drive against the seamers. He is also a good hooker, puller and sweeper of the ball. Against spinners, his most-productive shots are the slog sweep-over mid-wicket, the back-foot punch towards the cover, the cover drive and the inside-out aerial shot over cover.
Ajinkya Rahane | Playing style
Kavthekar's playing style is based on the Punjab baaj with influences from Delhi baaj and contemporary tabla players, particularly Zakir Hussain. His style is regarded as sensitive.
Amit Kavthekar | Aesthetics
Cheruvathur is a right-handed middle order batsman and right arm medium bowler.
Sony Cheruvathur | Playing style
An aggressive wicketkeeper-batsman, Vishwanath is remembered for a hard six he hit out of Bangalore's Chinnaswamy stadium against Allan Border’s Australians. Border commented later, "The ball probably had ice on it when it came down!"
Sadanand Viswanath | Playing Style
Pandove started as a right-handed batsman, but later changed to left-hand. He did not obtain much formal cricket training, and picked up tips from his father. Sachin Tendulkar, who knew Pandove from his early career, wrote in a mail in 2011 that Pandove was a "fantastic left hander with a lot of talent and class" and that he "had a wonderful future as a cricketer ahead of him." He added, "I think my association with Dhruv in my earlier cricketing days has a lot of bearing on my eventual success in the International arena." Pandove's teammate Ajay Jadeja recalls Pandove as "fearless" with an "infectious spirit to fight", while Vikram Rathour commended his maturity and intelligence about cricket.
Dhruv Pandove | Playing style
Sharma is considered an aggressive batsman but with style and elegance. He is usually an opening batsman in limited-overs cricket, but has played most of his Test cricket as a middle-order batsman. Sunil Gavaskar considers Sharma to have a batting style similar to those of Virender Sehwag and Viv Richards. In his column for "The Times of India" in November 2018, Gavaskar said: While Sharma is not a regular bowler, he can bowl right arm off spin. He usually fields in the slips and says this is a part of his game on which he works very hard for improvement.
Rohit Sharma | Playing style
Padmanabhan is an all-rounder. He is a left-handed batsmen. He also bowls with left-arm. He is a Slow left arm orthodox bowler.
Padmanabhan Prasanth | Playing Style
During his youth playing career, Kotal played as a defensive midfielder. Once he joined the Pailan Arrows he said that he started to play all three positions in defense more, especially right and left back. Kotal is however adjusted to playing in the middle as well if needed.
Pritam Kotal | Style of play
Sachin served as a ball boy in the 1987 Cricket World Cup when India played against England in the semifinal in Bombay. In his season in 1988, Tendulkar scored a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game against St. Xavier's High School in 1988 with his friend and teammate Vinod Kambli, who would also go on to represent India. The destructive pair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the opposition unwilling to continue the game. Tendulkar scored 326 (not out) in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early years
His batting style was said to have been very similar to that of Sunil Gavaskar.
Carlton Saldanha | Career
He is an attacking player. He tries to draw out his team when fallen into critical situations. Once he had saved Tamil Thalaivas from going down to Bengal warriors and also had given a match-winning effort against Iran. Due to his height, he has one of the longest reaches (to the midline) in the current lot of players.
Ajay Thakur | Playing style
Keene's playing style tended toward the strategically original and positional. Strongly influenced by Aron Nimzowitsch and Richard Réti, he accordingly preferred hypermodern openings such as the Modern Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence and King's Indian Defence.
Raymond Keene | Playing style
The train has passed but he’s not 50-years-old, he’s 20-years-old [in June] and I think he has to take stock of his mistakes. He needs to play consistently, because we can see he’s lost some match sharpness. I’ve noticed a few improvements though."
Hachim Mastour | Style of play
Raj Singh Dungarpur is credited for the selection of Tendulkar for the Indian tour of Pakistan in late 1989, after one first class season. The Indian selection committee had shown interest in selecting Tendulkar for the tour of the West Indies held earlier that year, but eventually did not select him, as they did not want him to be exposed to the dominant fast bowlers of the West Indies so early in his career. Tendulkar made his Test debut against Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989 aged 16 years and 205 days. He made 15 runs, being bowled by Waqar Younis, who also made his debut in that match, but was noted for how he handled numerous blows to his body at the hands of the Pakistani pace attack.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early career
Dhar has often been commended for keeping his style of play true to the core as well as giving his renditions an own idiomatic touch. His typical Alap reflects the true style of Tantrakari Been Ang as well as the traditional playing (Baaj) of 'Alap' and 'Jod'. The fine aspects of Sarod playing mark his innovation and creativity through 'Tantrakari', 'Laykari' and different styles of 'Ekhara Taan'. He has brought audiences all over the world the timeless compositions of great stalwarts of his generation and past.
Narendra Nath Dhar | Style of play
A bowling all rounder, he played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler and captained his state, Haryana.
Joginder Sharma | Style of play
Wisden described his innings as "a disciplined display of immense maturity" and also wrote: He looked the embodiment of India's famous opener, Gavaskar, and indeed was wearing a pair of his pads. While he displayed a full repertoire of strokes in compiling his maiden Test hundred, most remarkable were his off-side shots from the back foot. Though only 5ft 5in tall, he was still able to control without difficulty short deliveries from the English pacemen. Tendulkar further enhanced his reputation as a future great during the 1991–92 tour of Australia held before the 1992 Cricket World Cup, that included an unbeaten 148 in the third Test at Sydney, making him the youngest batsman to score a century in Australia.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early career
The emergence of Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble in 1989 and 1990 was to herald an era of Indian cricket that was dominated by stars and individual brilliance. Sachin Tendulkar became arguably the best batsman in the world, along with Brian Lara of the West Indies and in 1998, Sir Donald Bradman himself remarked that Tendulkar batting style was similar to his. Mohammed Azharuddin, who captained India for most of the 1990s, proved a captain whose main strength, if not his motivational skills, was an ability to stay cool under pressure. Azharuddin's artistic batting, however, declined during the later years of his captaincy, and his best innings during this time were mostly when playing at home.
History of the Indian cricket team | Late 20th century (1985–2000)
Even though he is only 1.76 meters tall, Chimtalay scored most of his goals by heading the ball.
Chatree Chimtalay | Style of play
An all-rounder, his playing style has been described as “substance-over-style” with “nothing graceful or stylish” about it. Batting with an “unorthodox front-on stance”, he privileges hard hitting over precision, at times launching “ugly swipes”. His left-arm spin is also said to “come out awkwardly” and lack deceit, with Dar preferring to dismiss the batsman rather than contain him.
Munir Dar (cricketer) | Playing style
Rahul primarily plays on the left wing position. He's naturally right-footed. He's known for his speed, explosiveness and work rate.
Rahul Kannoly Praveen | Style of play
Known for his stamina, work-rate, direct running and movement off the ball. Despite his lack of technical proficiency on the ball, his style of play often results in his appearance on the scoresheet. Some of them are crucial goals for his club and country.
Mongkol Tossakrai | Style of Play
In his youth academy days, he used to play as defender. But in the senior team he was converted to central midfielder by team management.
Sheikh Sahil | Style of play
A diminutive player, he also possessed excellent close control, a low centre of gravity, and quick feet, as well as his dribbling skills, which allowed him to retain the ball in tight spaces. He is also accurate from set pieces. Despite his ability, however, he has often struggled with injuries throughout his career.
Santi Cazorla | Style of play
Apratim Majumdar (born 1978), is an Indian classical sarod player from Kolkata, India. His style is the "Dhrupadiya Veenkar" style of Alauddin Khan's Seni Beenkar Gharana.
Apratim Majumdar | Introduction
He played a part in India's victory in Mumbai in that series with a fast 55, though Australia took the series 2–1.
Sachin Tendulkar | 2003 tour of Australia
Attwan a hard-working player, he excels at breaking down opposition plays due to his positional sense, defensive attributes, tactical intelligence and ability to read the game. with high technique.
Amjad Attwan | Style of play
However, he is sometimes criticized for being poor in flat pitches. He is also a useful lower order batsman, capable of hitting big shots.
Basanta Regmi | Playing style
However, early in his career he was not comfortable with the hook and pull, often giving his wicket away with mistiming such shots. He was also criticised for having difficulty in handling short bouncers, notoriously exploited by the Australians and South Africans. However, after his comeback in 2007, he worked upon these weaknesses to a large extent. Amrita Daityari, author of "Sourav Ganguly: the fire within", noted that in ODIs, where Ganguly usually opened the innings, he used to try to take the advantage of fielding restrictions by advancing down the pitch and hitting pace bowlers over extra cover and mid-off.
Sourav Ganguly | Playing style and influences
Ballesh can play various style’s in his shehnai, aalaapi and aakaar like khayal singing, jhala like sitar and sarod, tatkar like kathak-dancers, meend & harquatts like sarangi and violin, continuity of tone like been and also he adds sweetness of bansuri to all this.
S. Ballesh | Shehnai playing style
Rahane plays in the middle-order for the national team in Test and as an opener in all forms of ODI and T20 cricket. He batted in the top three for Mumbai – starting as an opener and later playing at No. 3. Rahane is widely praised by Dhoni for his batting technique, temperament, commitment and discipline to the game, often being compared with Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar. He is often regarded as the best test batsman and a very athletic fielder. He has been described on a number of occasions as "one of the rising stars of Indian cricket".
Ajinkya Rahane | Playing style
His use of angles, length and width of the crease. Also, guessing what a batsman was likely to do. And the kind of field placing that he is comfortable with. Those are the factors that struck me immediately – that this guy not only loves bowling, he also has a fair idea of what spin actually is. For somebody who started out at 18 or 19, I thought that was a big thing [...] Here is a guy who knew what the ball is supposed to do, where this guy is expected to play and what are the plans to keep that guy in check and put pressure on that guy.
Ravichandran Ashwin | Bowling style
He was handpicked to play for the team by the then Bombay captain Dilip Vengsarkar after watching him easily negotiating India's best fast bowler at the time, Kapil Dev, in the Wankhede Stadium nets, where the Indian team had come to play against the touring New Zealand team. He followed this by scoring a century in his first Deodhar and Duleep Trophies, which are also Indian domestic tournaments. Tendulkar finished the 1988–89 Ranji Trophy season as Bombay's highest run-scorer. He scored 583 runs at an average of 67.77, and was the eighth highest run-scorer overall. He also made an unbeaten century in the Irani Trophy match against Delhi at the start of the 1989–90 season, playing for the Rest of India.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early domestic career
He is the main wicket-keeper in the team but he occasionally bowls as a medium-fast bowler.
MS Dhoni | Playing style
Sachin was picked for a young Indian team to tour England twice, under the Star Cricket Club banner in 1988 and 1989. In the famous 1990–91 Ranji Trophy final, in which Haryana defeated Bombay by two runs after leading in the first innings, Tendulkar's 96 from 75 deliveries was a key to giving Bombay a chance of victory as it attempted to chase 355 from only 70 overs on the final day. His first double century (204*) was for Mumbai while playing against the visiting Australian team at the Brabourne Stadium in 1998. He is the only player to score a century on debut in all three of his domestic first-class tournaments (the Ranji, Irani, and Duleep Trophies).
Sachin Tendulkar | Early domestic career
Like most modern Table Tennis players, Idowu favors a forehand attacking style. His forehand loop is noted as appearing rather relaxed and unorthodox.
Saheed Idowu | Playing Style
Having equal command over raiding and defence, Raju Bhavsar was one of the finest all-rounders of his time. He was a quick both side raider and solid right center. He is the only player who has played on all 4 defensive positions for Maharashtra men's team in Nationals. He was known as master strategist and tactician.
Raju Bhavsar | Playing style
On 20 January 1987, he also turned out as substitute for Imran Khan's side in an exhibition game at Brabourne Stadium in Bombay, to mark the golden jubilee of Cricket Club of India. A couple of months later, former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads and consoled him to not get disheartened for not getting the Bombay Cricket Association's "Best junior cricket award" (He was 14 years that time). "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," Tendulkar said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early years
His philosophy towards batting is summarized by an all-aggression approach and over the years he has dominated almost every one-day bowling combination that he has faced at one stage or another. This is because of his ability to make huge match-winning contributions at a rapid pace once he gets in, he holds the record for the second-highest number of one day centuries and has scored the second most 150+ scores (4 scores) (Sachin Tendulkar has the most 150+ scores at 5). His devastating performances have ensured that Sri Lanka has won almost over 75% of the matches that he scored over 50 runs in limited-overs cricket.
Sanath Jayasuriya | Batting style
Despite his ability, however, he also struggled with injuries throughout his career. He also lacked pace, which had a negative impact on his performances in his later career, due to his physical decline with his advancing age, although his positional sense at his peak often allowed him to compensate for his lack of speed.
Nemanja Vidić | Style of play
In one on one situations, however, he usually preferred to remain closer to his line and position himself with his body constantly facing the shooter, in order to increase the distance between himself and his opponent, giving him more time to parry the ball; this playing style, which was later described as "geometric" rather than "reactive" by Sarti, was considered unusual for the time, but very effective.
Giuliano Sarti | Style of play
Bawne's technique has been widely praised in domestic circles. Maharashtra coach Surendra Bhave said in 2014, "Look at his front-foot stride. I can't see anyone else who has a front-foot stride as big as that against fast bowlers. Middles everything, bat sounds very sweet, and he gives us solidity, real solidity." He is known for scoring runs in "tricky situations" and as "a go-to man for Maharashtra in times of crises."
Ankit Bawne | Playing style
In the ODI Series against Australia in October 2007 Tendulkar was the leading Indian run scorer with 278 runs. Tendulkar was dismissed seven times in 2007 between 90 and 100, including three times at 99, leading some to suggestions that he struggles to cope with nervousness in this phase of his innings. Tendulkar has got out 27 times in the 90s during his international career. In a five-ODI series against Pakistan, he was caught by Kamran Akmal off the bowling of Umar Gul for 99 in the second match at Mohali, and in the fourth match of that series, he got out in the 90s for a second time, scoring 97 before dragging a delivery from Gul on to his stumps.
Sachin Tendulkar | Return to old form and consistency
He is a technically sound player and primarily plays as an attacking midfielder. However, his pace gives him an added advantage thus, allowing him to play as a right-winger too. He even helps the team in pressing and defense when not in possession.
Chanso Horam | Playing Style
Ajit told Achrekar that he was feeling self-conscious due to the coach observing him, and was not displaying his natural game. Ajit requested the coach to give him another chance at playing, but watch while hiding behind a tree. This time, Sachin, apparently unobserved, played much better and was accepted at Achrekar's academy. Achrekar was impressed with Tendulkar's talent and advised him to shift his schooling to Sharadashram Vidyamandir (English) High School, a school at Dadar which had a dominant cricket team and had produced many notable cricketers. Prior to this, Tendulkar had attended the Indian Education Society's New English School in Bandra (East).
Sachin Tendulkar | Early years
He is famous due to his long-range strikes and free kicks.
Donjet Shkodra | Style of play
Singh plays as a deep-lying midfielder.
Harmeet Singh (footballer) | Playing style
Others point to his lack of effectiveness and a seeming disproportion between his talent and his overall career statistics.
Dragoslav Šekularac | Playing style
Despite his age, he is still going strong on the tour.
Joo Sae-hyuk | Style of Play
Following poor performance in the 2012 series against England, Tendulkar announced his retirement from One Day Internationals on 23 December 2012, while noting that he will be available for Test cricket. In response to the news, former India captain Sourav Ganguly noted that Tendulkar could have played the up-coming series against Pakistan, while Anil Kumble said it would be "tough to see an Indian (ODI) team list without Tendulkar's name in it", and Javagal Srinath mentioned that Tendulkar "changed the way ODIs were played right from the time he opened in New Zealand in 1994". After playing a Twenty20 International in 2006 against South Africa, he said that he would not play the format again.
Sachin Tendulkar | Retirement
This was Tendulkar's sixth century in a final of an ODI tournament and his third consecutive score of over 50 in such finals.
Sachin Tendulkar | 2009–2010
Tendulkar was born at Nirmal Nursing Home in Dadar, Bombay on 24 April 1973 Tendulkar spent his formative years in the "Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society" in Bandra (East). As a young boy, Tendulkar was considered a bully, and often picked up fights with new children in his school. He also showed an interest in tennis, idolising John McEnroe. To help curb his mischievous and bullying tendencies, Ajit introduced the young Sachin to cricket in 1984. He introduced him to Ramakant Achrekar, a famous cricket coach and a club cricketer of repute, at Shivaji Park, Dadar. In the first meeting, the young Sachin did not play his best.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early years
He was first selected for the West Indies based on his attacking style of play; he cites Rohan Kanhai as one of his early influences. It was from Kanhai that Chanderpaul took his nickname, "Tiger". He maintained this style during the early part of his international career, but as the batting of the West Indies side around him grew weaker, he developed a more defensive style of play, and turned himself into what ESPNcricinfo's Vaneisa Baksh described as "the anchor of the team, the solid man." The Australian spin bowler Shane Warne described Chanderpaul as "a bloke you needed to crowbar away from the crease," and he is often labelled as "limpet-like."
Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Personality and style
Scott Yanow wrote that Hakim "had a particularly unusual boppish style in the '40s, playing dissonant lines, using repetition to build suspense, and certainly standing out from the many Bud Powell impressionists. Later in his career his playing became more conventional." "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" compared him with Powell, and wrote that Hakim did not have a characteristic playing style.
Sadik Hakim | Playing style
In particular, his tendency to strike the ball in the air and risk dismissal is a trait which has seen him noted for his chancy and adventurous mindset. He is also noted for a relative lack of footwork, with his timing often attributed to his eyesight. Of late, Sehwag has shown a proclivity to be dismissed by inswing deliveries, something attributed to his leaden-footed batting style. He has also got dismissed playing the cut shot when the ball was too close to his body to cut, especially in limited over matches. Virender Sehwag is often noted for his extremely attacking style of batting, and in 2005 he was described by "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" as the "most exciting opener in the world" due to his aggressive style in Test matches, his strike rate being inferior only to that of Adam Gilchrist and Shahid Afridi.
Virender Sehwag | Playing style
He then scored 114 on a fast, bouncing pitch in the final Test at Perth against a pace attack comprising Merv Hughes, Bruce Reid and Craig McDermott. Hughes commented to Allan Border at the time that "This little prick's going to get more runs than you, AB."
Sachin Tendulkar | Early career
Many regard him as one of the best clean strikers of the ball, with his trademark punch through the covers a treat to watch. When in good touch, he can clear the ropes quite effortlessly. A Cricinfo report published in late 2005 showed that since 1999, he was the fourth most prolific fielder in affecting ODI run outs, and of those on the list of prolific fielders, he had the second highest rate of effecting a run out.
Yuvraj Singh | Playing style
Ahmad Tharmini played most of his career as a central defender. He was known for his positioning in defensive line and quick on man-to-man marking to stop the opposing players.
Ahmad Tharmini Saiban | Style of play
Khedekar started as a theatre artist before moving to acting in movies. He started acting in plays in 1985. His first play was "Vidhilikhit". He has also been in a play titled "Shyam Rang" in 2000. He got into Hindi television through the show "Imtihaan" in 1995.
Sachin Khedekar | Career
This was a record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006, when it was broken by two under-13 batsmen in a match held at Hyderabad in India.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early years
Sharman started out as a child prodigy and is often called a guitar virtuoso.
Dave Sharman | Playing style
Laxman is known for his fluid style, technically sound and aggressiveness. Sambil Bal of ESPN Crincinfo writes: "At his sublime best, VVS Laxman is a sight for the gods. Wristy, willowy and sinuous, he can match – sometimes even better – Tendulkar for strokeplay... [He] has the rare gift of being able to hit the same ball to either side." He was equally skilled against both pace and spin, with great timing and outstanding ability to place the ball splitting the tightest field positions. Laxman was particularly skillful in using his wrists (reminiscent of his role model and fellow Hyderabadi, Mohammed Azharuddin) that allowed him to place the same ball to different areas of the field.
VVS Laxman | Playing style and position
Krishnan's playing style was known as "touch tennis". Critics hailed Krishnan as a marvel, Lance Tingay of "The Daily Telegraph" described his tennis as "pure oriental charm" while another described his style as "Eastern magic". More recently, Robert Philip wrote that "each and every Krishnan rally was a thing of rare beauty". According to veteran sports journalist C.V. Narsimhan, "His service was never a powerful weapon, he did not have any powerful groundstrokes either. He won with consistency, angled volleys, and a graceful half volley drop shot now and then". Rafael Osuna, Nicola Pietrangeli and Krishnan's son Ramesh were some of the other notable exponents of this style emphasizing finesse.
Ramanathan Krishnan | Style of play
On 14 November 1987, the 14-year-old Tendulkar was selected to represent Bombay in the Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic First-class cricket tournament, for the 1987–88 season. However, he was not selected for the final eleven in any of the matches, though he was often used as a substitute fielder. He narrowly missed out on playing alongside his idol Gavaskar, who had retired from all forms of cricket after the 1987 Cricket World Cup. A year later, on 11 December 1988, aged 15 years and 232 days, Tendulkar made his debut for Bombay against Gujarat at home and scored 100 not out in that match, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on debut in first-class cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early domestic career
As a bowler, however, after his quick rise up the batting order (until he became captain, and settled in at 4), the comparisons to Shane Warne never gathered momentum. He was an able option as a leg spinner early in his career, but was under-used because he was described as a very defensive bowler. In ODIs it becomes more apparent, as he will put himself on to bowl when others' economy rates are too high.
Steve Smith (cricketer) | Playing style
Lehmann’s batting technique was quite unconventional; taking guard outside leg stump, and, just before a ball was bowled, stepping back and across toward and sometimes past off stump. This peculiar technique meant that if the ball was short in pitch, he did not need to step back any further. Lehmann was noted for his play against spin, and was a useful left-arm orthodox spinner himself, as evidenced by his match figures of 6/92 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2004. He was relatively accurate, but had little ability to turn the ball and used a flat trajectory.
Darren Lehmann | Playing style
He is an aggressive batsman, who generally bats in the middle order for his team. He is strong on the lofted drive and he consistently clears the fence in ODI with his big hitting in the final overs. He is also a useful seam bowler, regarded as being his country's fastest in the current squad, clocking at more than 140 km/h when at his peak. In the field he is an athletic outfielder, once taking 4 catches in an ODI against the West Indies at Queen's Park Oval.
Elton Chigumbura | Playing style
Pandit Budhaditya belongs to the Imdadkhani gharana, the name coined by himself, to credit Ustad Imdad Khan, who created the unique style and had named it after Etawah, where he lived. His alap consists of deep and fine meends (gliding across notes) for which he pulls the string up to five and a half notes on a given fret. This technique is part of executing the gayaki or vocal style of playing, Budhaditya is particularly known for his unmatchable high speed and clarity, which he says is a product of good control over the instrument, and should be played only for complementing the music.
Budhaditya Mukherjee | Playing style
In the subsequent Test series against Bangladesh, Tendulkar returned to his opening slot and was chosen as the Man of the Series. He continued by scoring 99 and 93 in the first two matches of the Future Cup against South Africa. During the second match, he also became the first to score 15,000 runs in ODIs. He was the leading run scorer and was adjudged the Man of the Series. On the second day of the Nottingham Test on 28 July 2007, Tendulkar became the third cricketer to complete 11,000 Test runs. In the subsequent one-day series against England, Tendulkar was the leading run scorer from India with an average of 53.42.
Sachin Tendulkar | Return to old form and consistency
Harbhajan is an attacking-minded bowler who is regarded for his ball control and ability to vary his length and pace, although he is often criticised for his flat trajectory. His main wicket-taking ball climbs wickedly on the unsuspecting batsman from a good length, forcing him to alter his stroke at the last second. With a whippy bowling action, he was reported for throwing in November 1998. Although forced to travel to England for tests, his action was cleared by former English player Fred Titmus. He has developed an ability to bowl the doosra, which was the subject of an official report by match referee Chris Broad, on-field umpires Aleem Dar and Mark Benson, and TV umpire Mahbubur Rahman after the Second Test between India and Bangladesh at Chittagong, Bangladesh in December 2004.
Harbhajan Singh | Playing style
Chanderpaul is well known for his unorthodox batting stance, in which he stands facing the bowler, as opposed to most batsmen who stand side-on. He adopts this stance in order to see the ball clearly with both eyes, something he developed as a child when facing hostile fast bowling. Despite this, when he began playing Test cricket, he had a reasonably traditional stance, with his feet only angling slightly forwards. After a year of playing international cricket, he had eliminated the forward angle, and his feet pointed square of the feet in a classical stance. Between 2000 and 2005, he started to rotate his feet forwards, until they eventually pointed almost directly down the wicket, a position he has maintained since.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul | Personality and style
On 15 August 2015, he broke the record of most catches in a test match when he took 8 catches in the first test against Sri Lanka at Galle.
Ajinkya Rahane | Playing style
Standing tall and still at the crease, Laxman had a keen awareness of the off-stump and a polished ability to dispatch the bad ball. He plays with a high elbow and a steady stance and a textbook technique with natural elegance and flair. At the start of his career, Laxman was rated by Geoffrey Boycott as one of India's best players of the hard (new) ball. However, Indian selectors played around with his batting positions, whenever India felt a lacuna regarding any batting number. He was forced to play in almost every position, including opening. Laxman found his home in the middle order, where he played most of his best innings, batting at numbers 3, 5 and 6.
VVS Laxman | Playing style and position
Murati's most known skill was his heading ability; he is known to have scored more than 75% of his goals with headers.
Agim Murati | Style of play
Meanwhile, at school, he developed a reputation as a child prodigy. He had become a common conversation point in local cricketing circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. Sachin consistently featured in the school team in the Matunga Gujarati Seva Mandal (MGSM) Shield. Besides school cricket, he also played club cricket, initially representing John Bright Cricket Club in Bombay's premier club cricket tournament, the Kanga League, and later went on to play for the Cricket Club of India. In 1987, at the age of 14, he attended the MRF Pace Foundation in Madras (now Chennai) to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early years
Rahman achieved success in the beginning of his international career by bowling off cutters, a type of bowling which moves away (from the right-hander) off of the pitch. Rahman stated on a press conference in June 2015 that he first discovered the technique after his fellow cricketer, Anamul Haque insisted he bowl a slower delivery.
Mustafizur Rahman | Playing style
He is generally deployed as supporting striker with another player in the 4-4-2 formation but can act as play maker (He wears the No-10 Shirt in national team) in 3-4-3 or 4-5-1 formation just behind the lone striker. He is the preferred penalty taker. In one of his recent interview, he said Neymar was his favourite player and aims to endorse Neymar's playing style in the pitch. Despite his short height, he is well built-in player and uses low centre of gravity to the cut pass or hold players in the opposition box.
Anil Gurung | Style of Play
One of the unique characteristics of his playing is that he preserves the purity of the Raga and maintains the balance of the two mixed styles in "Gayaki Ang" (Vocal style) and "Tantakari Ang" (Instrumental style). His self-discipline and devotion to music is evident in the fact that he has mastered the "Gamak Taans", which is considered to be the one of the most difficult techniques on the sitar. His command over the finger board is exemplary. The music that he produces is pure melody. Audiences are enthralled by the movements of his nimble fingers on each note he plays.
Rafique Khan | Musical Style
Obviously he is still learning and improving at 22 years old, but he already has many of the qualities that we look for in our attacking players. He's a direct player who is comfortable with the ball at his feet and with genuine pace, which suits our style perfectly."
Adama Diakhaby | Style of Play
A short man but with a strong build, as a batsman he was a vigorous hooker and a wristy cutter, scoring mostly square of the wicket. He was particularly good against spin bowling, even on difficult pitches. During his time at Somerset, he was known for "[turning] a match with his cracking strokes in an hour." Alan Gibson wrote: "We hardly think of him as a stylist, and he was mostly a back-foot player, getting the greater number of his runs in the segments fanning out from point and square-leg. But he was enjoyable to watch, compact, tidy, combining powerful hitting with delicate placing.
Colin McCool | Playing style
Sachin Chaudhari (born 27 March 1986) is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Maharashtra.
Sachin Chaudhari | Introduction
Another double century was an innings of 233* against Tamil Nadu in the semi-finals of the 2000 Ranji Trophy, which he regards as one of the best innings of his career.
Sachin Tendulkar | Early domestic career
Helped by his six-foot-three-inches frame, Inzamam has been known to be a very destructive batsman in both One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Test matches. He has the ability to pick the length of a delivery very early and play very late. His footwork is generally considered to be fast, enabling him to position himself early for shots. He averaged just under 50 runs per innings in Tests and nearly 40 runs in ODIs, with a strike rate of 54.03 and 74.23 respectively. Inzamam is especially strong when playing shots off his legs and has been considered to be amongst the best employers of the pull-shot in world cricket.
Inzamam-ul-Haq | Playing style
An accumulator, Butt works hard for his runs, not indulging in too many big hits; his statistics show the low number of 19 international sixes to date (1 September 2010) of which he's scored 10 in Twenty20 cricket, 7 in One-Day Internationals and only six in Test cricket. He scores a lot of his runs between backward point and extra cover. He uses his superb wrist work to angle the bat, placing the ball into gaps using the pace of the ball to his advantage; a very good technique for ODIs where it is best to keep the scoreboard ticking all the time.
Salman Butt | Playing style
Pahang fans considers Suren an incredibly quick player and one of the fastest in the team, with excellent skill on the ball and a keen eye for a pass and cross ball.
Surendran Ravindran | Style of play
She commented: "Ganguly was notorious for attacking left-arm spin bowlers. Due to excellent eye–hand coordination, he was noted for picking the length of the ball early, coming down the pitch and hitting the ball aerially over mid-on or midwicket, often for a six. However, he did have a weakness in running between the wickets and judging quick singles." There were many instances where Ganguly's batting partner was run out due to Ganguly's calling for a run, and then sending him back while halfway down the pitch. A situation like this happened in an ODI against Australia where he took a single when on 99, but he coasted and did not ground his bat.
Sourav Ganguly | Playing style and influences