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I'm appearing in Masters in English. I've been reading all types of old Poems / Dramas etc. It's kinda interesting.
I came to appreciate works of John Milton (Paradise Lost), Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer), Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope). These are some good poems.
I read through a lot of other stuff but I don't have the time to really talk about everything now.
I found an article online where a girl describes 7 or 6 type of Pakistanis who are on facebook. Link is this, http://www.ideasevolved.com/6-kinds-of-annoying-pakistanis-on-facebook/
The reason I think she's a total 'ho is because she is the kind of person who would add just anybody as a friend just to find out what type of person the other guy is.
Why the hell would she know about all type of people on facebook if she hasn't had experience.
If that's not true then she's a biased person which again means that she would turn out to be a total b*tch if you meet her.
I have a few questions for all the people who watched Royal Wedding and the whole T.V Fiasco.
What difference do those two make in your life? Other than getting roads blocked and being on the news all the time with their fake smiling faces.
I'm sure they're going to be happy and all that with their marriage, which is good. But how is that going to make you happy in your life?
Can they make your job a better job? Can they get you a better car? Can they tell you everything is going to be alright if things are not going good for you?
No they can't.
So when someone makes no difference in your life or affects you in any way, why bother?
Purpose of his article is to clear the illusion from a lot of people's minds that Sachin Tendulkar is the best batsman in the world on the basis that he has got more centuries than anybody else.
Coming straight to the facts,
Sachin has played 177 test matches to date. Generally a batsman gets 2 innings in a test match. Sachin mostly played in upper order so there's a good chance he has played most of the second innings as well. He has played 453 ODIs.
Total innings to date Sachin played are 290 + 453 = 743. That's a huge number for any batsman by today's standards.
So if he's played 743 innings and total centuries are 98, then
98 / 743 * 100 = 13.19%.
So his total conversion rate for centuries is 13.19% per game to get a century. For a batsman who has opened 330 ODI innings for his country.
The Wisden 100 is a set of lists created by Wisden which attempted to objectively rate the 100 best individual innings performances in Test and One Day International cricket in each of the disciplines of batting and bowling. The Test list was released in 2001 and the ODI list was released in 2002.
The ratings were calculated by scoring each individual batting and bowling performance in various criteria. Apart from the player's actual score or figures, criteria which were taken into account included the strength of the opposition players, the quality of the pitch, the result of the match, and the player's contribution to this result. The maximum possible rating was 300.
Top 10 Batting performances Test Cricket
The top-rated batting performance was Donald Bradman's 270 for Australia against England at Melbourne in the 1936-37 Ashes series. 5 of Bradman's innings appeared in the top 100, more than any other batsman.
Following the success of the list for Test cricket, the Wisden 100 list for ODI cricket was released on 1 February 2002.
The top-rated batting performance was Viv Richards' 189* for West Indies against England at Manchester in 1984. 7 of Richards' innings appeared in the top 100, more than any other batsman.
Despite his highly impressive career record, not one of Sachin Tendulkar's innings appeared in the top 100 batting performances. His omission was strongly criticised by fans and many sections of the media in India.
Wisden defended the list stating that performances which majorly contributed to victories received a much larger weighting than those in which the match was drawn or lost.
Tendulkar's most important innings had usually come in draws and defeats which received a lower weighting.
ICC Top Batsman of all times cricket ratings:(Wikipedia Link)
Comparison with Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis: These guys have the most number of centuries after Tendulkar in recent times (Ricky 69 100s) (Kallis 57 100s)
If you try to compare this conversion rate with some of the other batsmen to date then Ponting has 11.29% and he doesn't even open the innings for Australia. Kallis has 10.4% and he doesn't open the innings for South Africa.
Ricky Ponting (achievements) has only opened in ODIs 3 times. All his innings come at middle and lower middle order positions. Same case with Kallis (Wikipedia Page >> Achievements), he only opened 6 times in ODIs.
Those guys play according to the situation of the game because in later overs normally batsmen don't have too much time to play out their innings and the game generally comes down to slogging.
They're pretty close to Tendulkar's conversion rate with not even opening half of the games he's opened with.
So it's not fair to compare their number of centuries to Tendulkar.
Can you say this conversion rate belongs to the best batsman in the world? Considering the fact that the guy goes on and opens the innings more than anybody in his class? Not at all.
Problems in Middle Order:
Tendulkar has found it difficult to maintain a good average and scoring rate at positions lower down the order. His overall average in ODIs coming at No. 3 is 10.22, at No. 4 is 38.85, at no 5 is 28.46. These positions are supposed to be held by key batsmen who need to score no matter what.
Why can't Tendulkar perform? The reason is obvious. Later on in the innings you have to craft your runs because there are no field restrictions so it's harder to get runs. So again, he has had a clear advantage throughout his career in opening for India when the fielders are inside the circle and it's easier to get boundaries.
Batsman and Captaincy?
Tendulkar lost more matches than he won when he was a captain. He couldn't handle the pressure very well that is why he had to resign from captaincy because he had problems coping with the pressure and only wanted to concentrate on his batting so he left Indian captaincy.
In his track record he played 72 ODIs as a captain, won only 23 and lost 42 of them.
Sure Sachin has made the most number of centuries and reached many other milestones but how many big matches has he won India really?
2011 World Cup Final, Sachin only scored 18 runs out of 21 balls.
2009-2010 ICC Champions Trophy only managed to make 8 runs against Pakistan in whole series!
2007 World Cup Sachin only averaged 32 with his highest score 57* against Bermuda! While, Ricky Pontings average was 67.38.
2006-2007 ICC Champions Trophy Sachin averaged only 24 with his highest against England being 35 runs!
2003 World Cup Final Sachin scored only 4 and got out in the first over! While Ricky Ponting's average was 51.88.
2002-2003 ICC Champions Trophy Sachin averaged 19.50 with his best of16 against South Africa.
1999 ICC World Cup Sachin scored 140 against Kenya an underdog and managed to provide totals like 22 (SAF), 2 (SRL), 22 (ENG), 0 (AUS), 16 (ENG).
The list goes on and on. Sachin just crumbles on big occasions. Overall if you look up the stats Sachin's stats are wonderful. On paper. But he has a tendency of falling under huge pressure.
If Sachin is the best batsman in the world then why is he struggling in big matches?
He is one of the great players for sure. Not the best though.
An assessment of Sachin Tendulkar's current popularity can be made through Google Trends here. Sachin Tendulkar is the top most searched keyword only in India and after that United Arab Emirates. No body else is searching for him around the world that is of much significance of google!
Having said that, I'm a big fan of Sachin's batting style. He's a good sight to watch when he's playing well. Here is a list of achievements of Sachin Tendulkar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achievements_of_Sachin_Tendulkar. :)
But I'm not blind and don't like to treat cricket players as gods. They're just human beings and people should know they have limitations as well.
Here's a special tribute for Sachin Tendulkar from me,
You know it's kinda annoying to keep on getting ads from BBC Urdu while you're trying to watch your favourite videos on YouTube.
First of all, I'm not that much interested in news. Secondly, I went on the website just to check it out and also make YouTube some money out of the whole escapade!
But the urdu writing on the website is pretty hard to understand. It's not the regular Urdu font style that you would see normally in books or other places.
They really need to work on that.
So again, BBC Urdu sucks! I appreciate that you guys are trying to make an effort in portraying the news as you think it is in Urdu as well. But don't. No body's asking you to.
It is kinda sad to watch Pakistani team falling to India in the Semi Final of a World Cup. Worst thing about it is that I don't really watch cricket matches just for that reason. If Pakistan loses then it hurts.
But Pakistan lost the match because of their own mistakes. They dropped too many catches and when they managed to bowl out India for a reasonably low target which was very much achievable, their batting just faltered.
To give credit to Afridi, he did the best he could in all the games. He was consistently taking wickets in all matches. He created catches out of Tendulkar in this match as well but not body seemed to grab on to the opportunity when it arrived.
None of the batsmen looked to bat with a real purpose of winning the game. Everybody seemed to come and chip in with a small knock but never really seemed to man the innings in a way a winning team does.
Younis Khan should really have done much better than what he did on the play ground. Besides dropping Sachin Tendulkar, he wasted too many deliveries when he was batting. This added to the overall pressure on the team and then got out without adding much on the score board.
Misbah played extremely slow for anybody's liking. If you compare his dot balls to the score remaining to win for Pakistan you won't find a lot of difference there.
I messed up my files by simply uploading an update package without backing up anything. I always take those type of risks and mess things up for myself. I shouldn't do that.
But anyway, my site went down and I got a few errors. But now it's all cool because I was able to restore old files using this feature.
I think the whole Wikileaks deal is a bunch of B.S. Why? Not because the stories in it might not be true. But because I think it's all about political propaganda. Making people aware of some facts about selective people/governments to achieve some unknown objectives.
Besides I'm least bit interested in politics. I'd rather be watching a movie or something instead of wasting even a minute of my time on that website.
That's my advise to anyone. Don't waste your time around things that don't affect you directly. Do something useful with you time. If you can't do useful stuff with your time, at least don't involve yourself in something that doesn't have positive affects on your brain!