200 not out...

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I know this won't make sense to Americans and other strange creatures that don't appreciate cricket, but Tendulkar hit a 200 not out for India against South Africa yesterday.

200 runs, not out in a limited overs ODI....Godamn!! On the one hand I hate the guy for playing for the opposition but, credit where credit is due, the man is a god with the bat!
 


Godly, godly stuff that is. I saw it too down here in Melbourne on the news. Far can't wait til the Test Cricket starts again.

Cheers,

-Johnson.
 
It's not so great, considering he is the one who is leading some special league of cricket batsmen. There are many more people of the same league who can score 200 or more, there are already a couple of 180+ scores. The thing is they count it extraordinary if someone scored double century in ODIs as opposed to someone else's 199 (or 194 which actually happened twice). I bet someone like Sehwag will break this 200 record and set a new record within one year.

Then again it's cool to watch someone stay not out right from the start of the innings to the end.
 
Cricket is like Baseball, the only reason to watch it is to get away from the wife and drink some piss. If you think otherwise you're an idiot and probably Indian.
 
Records ... Sometimes I don't understand how to react to them! What's the big deal of a difference between 194 and 200, except that the latter is 6 runs more and is called a double century??

Sachin Tendulkar has scored 17,000+ in ODIs and 13,000+ in Tests and they are going to call them a couple of other great records when he makes it to 20 k in ODIs and 15K in tests. More often than not the records don't make any sense to me.

For me, something to be called a record must have a big difference between itself and the second best (at least in Cricket).

Probably, they claimed it a record when they first started playing cricket and someone reached to double digit score (10 runs). The heading must have read "Mr X is the first person to reach double digits in ODI cricket" :rolleyes:
 
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The first and only time I've seen cricket being played I was frying on 12 hits of liquid.

Laughed until I cried every-single-pitch.
 
^^ People would cry once they stood up before the wickets facing 150+ KMPH balls which wouldn't give you a fucking clue which direction they would take once they pitched in front of you.
 
Big ups to cricket.

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Wickets, Bowling, Creases...WTF. If you can't hit a homerun and have a hot dog, I don't want to fucking hear about it.
 
^ When I said that I was referring to his ability to do that. And based on his style of play, technique and the way he can dominate the direction of balls after hitting them. Also it took Tendulkar 20 years to achieve that feat, and it took 40 years to see a double ton in ODIs since the inception of the game. Just because Tendulkar didn't score a 200 until before that day, it didn't deny him that 200 on that particular day. Things of that kind can happen at anytime and with any little time interval. You remember the Australia vs. South Africa match at Johannesburg?? Australia in South Africa, 5th ODI, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some of the biggest cricket records were broken and rebroken within a matter of 7 hours.

Then again any new kid with a few international ODI matches experience could come and break that 200 record, even before Sehwag.

What I felt sorry about was, as cool as it may look, people giving so much importance to that 200, which is just 6 runs more than the previous record. It is because, Of course a century may look cool, I am not the kind of person who sees a lot of difference between a 90+ score and a century (100 runs).
 
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