Tendulkar’s legs shivered facing Shoaib Akhtar: Afridi

 Afridi said Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was scared of his pace, saying that he was a witness of “Tendulkar s legs shivering” in front of the Rawalpindi Express.

In his book, Controversially Yours, Akhtar wrote that Tendulkar was scared of his bowling, a comment that has caused furore across the border, forcing publishers to cancel all launch-related and publicity events.

When asked about Akhtar’s claims in his book, Afridi showed no hesitation in backing the former speedster.

“Shoaib is telling the truth. Tendulkar was afraid of him, and while fielding, I saw Tendulkar’s legs shivering while facing his bowling,” Afridi said.

However, the all-rounder added that it was not an unusual feature of a batsman.

“There are times when every batsman feels the pressure, it happens against Pakistani off-spinner Saeed Ajmal even,” said Afridi.

The former captain, however, was critical of Akhtar’s comments blaming Afridi for his omission from the 2011 ICC World Cup semi-final squad against India.

“Shoaib should remember that I apologised to the chairman and manager on his behalf and got him back into the national squad. While he hasn’t lied about other things, he won’t be able to look at me in the eyes after he’s said all that,” Afridi said.

Afridi is out of his mind, says Ganguly

 ”Afridi is out of his mind,” Ganguly quipped, reacting to the former Pakistani skipper s claim that he has seen Tendulkar “tremble” while facing Shoaib.

Afridi also said that Ganguly’s career was cut short due to Shoaib Akhtar’s furious bowling.

Ganguly is not surprised at off-spinner Harbhajan Singh s omission from the upcoming first two ODIs against England.

He is confident that the off-spinner s return for India s year-end tour of Australia for a four-Test series.

Pakistan VS India Semi-Final: Blue Shirts set the target of 261

Blue shirts have set the target of runs for green shirts in the Pakistan VS India 2nd semi-final of ICC World Cup 2011, at Punjab Cricket Association Ground Mohali. Sachin Tendulkar played the innings of 85 runs. Wahab Riaz made his selection right by picking 5 wickets.

According to details Indian Captain MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first. Aggressive Virender Sehwag played powerful strokes all around the ground. He hits five boundaries in the second over of Umar Gul. Sehwag was taken by Wahab Riaz when his score was 38. New batsman Gautam Gambhir and Tendulkar batted very well and added 68 runs in the second wicket partnership. Gambhir was stumped by wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal on the score of 27. Virat Kohli failed to play a big innings and was dismissed by Wahab. His score was 9. Wahab not give the chance to dangerman Yuvraj Singh to open his score account and clean bowled him on very first ball.

The innings of Tendulkar ended on 85. He faced 115 balls for this score. MS Dhoni became the fourth wicket of Wahab, his LBW review carries no advantage. Harbhajan Singh bowled out by on 12. Zaheer Khan turned back to pavilion after scoring 9 runs. Ashish Nehra goes runout on the second last ball of innings. India posted the total of 260/9 in the limited number of overs. Wahab Riaz was the best Pakistani bowler with five wickets. Saeed Ajmal finished the innings of two Indian players.

Pakistan VS India 2nd Semi-Final

Pakistan now need 261 runs to win in 50 overs at 5.20 runs per over. Stay with us for more cricket live updates of Pakistan VS India 2nd semi-final.

Afridi Focused On Controlling Tendulkar’s Century

Pakistan Vs India, semi final match of world cup 2011, mother of all matches will be played on Wednesday.  Pakistan team has reached India and Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi said that they are enjoying their cricket in India.

Tendulkar rejects liquor endorsement offer

Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar has refused a huge offer of 20 billion rupees to endorse a liquor brand.
Sachin Tendulkar had always been modeling for TV advertisements but he refused to endorse a liquor brand. It is also known that this company offered him as much as 20 billion rupees per year for the endorsement. Sachin Tendulkar said that for him, money does not have value; rather respectable fame is everything for him. While on the other side Mahendra Singh Dhoni recently signed for a three-year deal with Vijay Mallya’s UB Group, which is worth 26 billion rupees.

Sachin Tendulkar insists on making time for special date with Bollywood

After scoring his 49th century last week Sachin Tendulkar made a call to his buddy filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a request. Sachin and his wife wanted to watch the recently released highly-acclaimed working-class comedy Do Dooni Chaar which brought the Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh pair together again after 30 years.

Sachin didn’t know the film’s makers and therefore asked Chopra with whom he has lately been in touch, about watching Do Dooni Chaar. As luck would have it, Vinod Chopra himself loved this little film about a mathematics professor in Delhi trying to buy a car for his family, and immediately got in touch with the film’s team

Sachin Tendulkar, his wife and their close friends watched Do Dooni Chaar at the Ketnav dubbing studio in Bandra recently.

Sachin was overwhelmed.

Says the film’s director Habib Faizal, “Sachin did express a wish to relax with my film after his triumph last week Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a good friend of Tendulkar’s. And luckily for us, Vinod too loved Do Dooni Chaar. Sachin Tendulkar seemed to really connect with the film. It could be because Sachin has himself come up the hard way. And though today is a super-icon he knows the middleclass milieu of my film. I think he remains a man rooted to basics.”

A Marathi by birth Sachim seemed to enjoy the Punjabi milieu and jokes in Do Dooni Chaar.

Says Habib, “After the match at Bangalore where Sachin scored his 49th century he expressed a wish to relax by watching Do Dooni Chaar. I think he’s a fan of Rishi Kapoor and Neetuji. Unfortunately, they couldn’t attend the screening at Ketnav.”

Though cricket and Bollywood are never far apart cricket’s biggest icon Sachin Tendulkar, a self-confessed movie buff, hardly gets time to watch movies, let alone act in one. Recently, he turned down Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Ferrari Ki Sawari. But after watching Do Dooni Chaar, he has expressed a desire to work with Habib Faizal.

Iran says to strike Israel nuclear site if attacked

TEHRAN: Iran would retaliate by striking Israel’s nuclear facility if Israel attacked its nuclear activities, armed forces chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi said on Friday.

“Our developed weapons can hit any part of the Zionist regime (Israel) … We hope not to be forced to attack their nuclear facility,” Firouzabadi told the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Iran does not recognise Israel, which it calls the “Zionist regime.” Israel regards Iran’s nuclear programme as a threat to its existence.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a live broadcast at Tehran University marking the annual Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day, told Israel to leave Iran alone.

“I want to say that not only the Zionists, but even their masters are smaller than to lay a finger on the Iranian nation and its rights,” he said.

Israel, believed to be the only nuclear-armed

India’s air force honours Tendulkar

NEW DELHI: India’s batting great Sachin Tendulkar was on Friday awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for his contribution to cricket.

Tendulkar, 37, was conferred the honour by Air Chief Marshall Pradeep Naik, amid loud applause from fellow officers at a ceremony in the Indian capital.

“It was wishful thinking (that I would be part of the armed forces) and it has come true today. I’m extremely proud to be a part of the IAF. So dream, because dreams do come true,” Tendulkar said after being inducted.

Naik said he hoped Tendulkar’s induction would inspire India’s youth to join its armed forces.

“Sachin’s association will help in spreading awareness about our force,” he said.

Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred a rank by the IAF and the first personality without an aviation

Sri Lanka seize control against India in rain-hit Test

GALLE: Retiring spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan dismissed Sachin Tendulkar cheaply as Sri Lanka seized control of the rain-ravaged first Test against India on Tuesday.

The world”s most successful bowler, who was eight short of the 800-wicket mark in his final appearance, trapped batting record holder Tendulkar leg-before for eight before stumps on the third day.

The blow left India on an uneasy 140-3 at close after a superb rearguard action by Sri Lanka”s tailenders helped the hosts pile up 520-8 declared in their first innings by tea.

Virender Sehwag hit a typically robust 85 not out to keep India afloat following the cheap dismissals of opener Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid and Tendulkar in the final session of play.

Sehwag hit 14 boundaries and a six before play was called off 10.2 overs early due to bad light at the Galle International Stadium.

The sun broke for the first time in two days to allow play to begin after the entire second day had been washed out and 22 overs were lost on the first day due to heavy rain.

India”s seamers had grabbed four important wickets, three of them to the lanky Ishant Sharma, as Sri Lanka slipped from Sunday”s total of 256-2 to 344-6 before lunch.

But Rangana Herath and Lasith Malinga proved unlikely saviours with career-best scores during a rousing stand of 115 for the eighth wicket.

Herath, who had put on 49 for the seventh wicket with Prasanna Jayawardene, remained unbeaten on 80 with 10 fours and a six.

Malinga smashed nine boundaries and two sixes in a breezy 64 off 75 balls before his dismissal, which signalled the entry of Muralitharan to the crease.

Muralitharan, who retires after this Test, was welcomed to the crease by fireworks in the stands as the Indian fielders lined up to applaud him with a guard of honour.

The off-spinner, who led his team onto the field when India batted, came on to bowl the 17th over and removed Tendulkar with his 16th delivery as the batsman missed a sweep shot.

Muralitharan now has two days to add to his record 793 Test wickets as Sri Lanka attempt to push home the advantage.

Sachin Tendulkar Joins Twitter

Cricket Maestro Sachin Tendulkar has Joined Twitter. Many Actors went all out to welcome the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar on the Micro Blogging site.

One of Sachin’s early tweets were : “By the way this time its real me. No more wrong information.”

Given Below Many Actors Posted messages on their Twitter site welcoming him

Deepika Padukone Posted: “The only record left for him to break, the maximum number of followers. Welcome the one and my favorite Sachin Tendulkar.”
Shilpa Shetty Posted: “Finally, on Twitter, the god of cricket himself. A big welcome shout about Sachin Tendulkar himself. Spread the word.”
Arjun Rampal Posted: “The original rock star is here. Sachin Tendulkar Welcome. He’s here. Give him all the love he deserves,”
Karan Johar Posted : “A big welcome shout for Sachin Tendulkar himself. Enjoy!”
Ritesh Deshmukh Posted: “Sachin Tendulkar is on Twitter. We want him to beat Ashton Kutcher cavity. Spread the word. Follow Sachin.”
Rahul Bose Posted: “Welcome Sachin. What a delight!”
Arbaaz Khan Posted : “Sachin Tendulkar Amcha aala re (Sachin Tendulkar, we have come).Welcome India’s favorite son on Twitter!”
Sameera Reddy Posted: “Twitter was great. Let us welcome the undisputed king of cricket! We Love u Sachin: Sachin Tendulkar.”
Internationally acclaimed Indian movie maker Shekhar Kapur Posted: “Welcome Sachin.”
Atul Kasbekar Posted: “Ladies and gentlemen, it is my proud privilege to introduce to the end of Twitter, Sachin Tendulkar follows the king now, go go go, let’s get Sachin on top of Twitter verses in world record time, how cool to have an Indian displace Ashton Kutcher. ”

Magic Spinner Shane Warne Posted: Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar congratulated for its Double Century World record in ODI’s. Shane Warne has started tweeting a few days back. He responded to a successor to say “I joined Twitter to inform my poker fans about how I go into my 888 played on! Hooked now lol.
Shane Warne was so happy, while Sachin Tendulkar was on his way to make 200 Running is a great milestone for the batsman in the world. Warne tweeted “come on my friend Sachin get 200! Record to please! You deserve it!” Nervous for my good friend Sachin everything crossed for you mate! ps glad I am not bowling to him today hahaha ”

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