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Sachin's ninety odd runs at Cuttack were invaluable even though he missed his century. After all, nothing is perfect in life, the Don as lbw in his last innings missed a perfect average of one hundred. You could say Kartik was at fault but he would say 'I was just doing my job'. And, in fact it is quite believable that he was indeed doing his job.
But, then he could have done his job a little better. He is intelligent enough to know there was no hurry to finish the game. And, that Sachin could have completed his hundred if allowed to do so by his partner.
India however won and as Gavaskar used to say "it does not matter how the the runs come, as long as they come". Will Sachin return the favor to Kartik by perhaps running him out when the latter is a run short of his century. Only time will tell.
If i am not mistaken the Don needed four runs to achieve his hundred percent average. Sachin if i am not wrong needed 4 to reach his century. So, Sachin equals Don. All was not lost at Cuttack.
p.s. Brian Lara is the greatest because only he has scored that elusive four runs - hundred times to be the only batsman to have scored four hundred runs. Q.E.D.
by Roop Khanna
Sachin equals the Don at Cuttack - Lara remains supreme
Had Tiger Woods been a cricketer...
He hit the hedge, hydrant, hardwood and headlines. The long and short of it is -- Tiger can't drive.
Does that mean that had he ventured into cricket, he would have been one of those backfoot blighters who earn their bread and butter by the meagre means of cuts and slices?
Mind you, Tiger IS in the backfoot and has cuts all over his map and a slice beneath the lower lip. Talk about preempting the evidence-seekers.
Or maybe I'm wrong in my assumption.
Maybe he would have unfurled a square drive that would have given Dravid an inferiority complex. Mind you, Tiger drove squarely to the hedge, then hydrant and finally the hardwood in the said order.
Now that his life threatens to spin out of control, could Tiger have been a tweaker in the league of Warne? Possibly so.
For, like Warne, Woods too went on collecting babes as they came. And note their parental influence.
Woods' father made his career. Warne's mom marred his.
Tiger is reserved on the fairway. Does that mean he is a colonial cousin of Lara, who guarded his genius from mediocrity and stayed aloof in the dressing room?
Remember both tutored Barack Obama. Woods on swing. Lara how to hold a bat.
Or maybe he would have been the next Bradman.
The Don changed his technique in the Bodyline series, looked different at his peak and then evolved effortlessly into a run-accumulator.
So did Tiger. When it takes lesser mortals a life to master a swing, Tiger has already done it twice.
Bit of Warne, Lara and Bradman.
Well, in all probability, Tiger Woods would have remained Tiger Woods in cricket I guess.
