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Enjoy the Diwali with Rockets and 1000 walas cracking! To all those who are overseas and those who want less noise and smoke pollution. Theer are more videos follwoing at the end.

I am bored with Sachin Tendulkar but when Brian Lara said Ricky Ponting will surpass Sachin’s recors of 12,000 runs in Test Cricket, I really wanted to dig at his stats. It is stunning!

 Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar
 
1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI’s
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI’s
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI’s
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket                World Cup
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI’s 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI’s 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
17. Most number of 100’s in test’s 39
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated  Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI’s 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI’s most by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the               match awards only 5 times India has lost.
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the “Greatest Sportsman” of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named “Sports person of the Year
34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening               partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. The only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks in ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
47.  The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
49. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51.  Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52.  On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar’s record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
55. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian               when captaining the side
56. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of   1000+ runs
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara’s (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane              Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
65.  First to 25,000 international runs
66.  Tendulkar’s 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI’s, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty-20 that India has played.
67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
68.  Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket

Sony rules the video games market which is huge than the computer sales. Recently the LittleBigPlanet game has been delayed as it contains offensive music to the Arabs and Quran.
Sony has close competeition by Microsoft XBox. The game is to be released on Diwali, October 27.  I am surprised why Flight Simulator is not very popular, the most realistic and wonderful game. You can choose a real airplane of your choice, the route and fly! May be too many controls and lack of the ‘child in you’ or ‘casino’ feeling to it.

Click for Launch of Game Video

Non-stop heavy showers in Madras! Though my Mumbai friend says it’s common to see rains there like this from June for three months. Rains to Chennai due to South west or North east winds are always weak. But every year during Diwali cyclones are a regular feature and rains in Chennai are different than the boring ones in Mumbai. It will rain when there is a test match or a political cause. India won the match in Mohali as there was no rain. The human chain for Tamils in Sri Lanka has been postponed due to rains.
We madrasis get damp and cold if there is a drizzle.  Think of the heavy pouring down! And my TV gone dead due to lightning!

Like the Tamil TV serials which does not solve the problems of Tamil women but only highlight and increase them, the Tamil magazines goes a step beyond. I had a chance to read them when I had nothing else to read. All the editors discuss in the editorials the problems of working women and their sacrifices. What is to be done with some Love is made into a mountain. And as usual the entire male population is viewed with the alien and intruder attitude. And the entire women of west portrayed as sinners. The politics inside the family due to women is not properly addressed. The short stories or long short stories (Kuru Novel) pamper to the negative traits like jealousy, protectiveness and justification and compromise. Like the sad flute and violin tones as BGM in TV serials, an improper and inappropriate quote from scripture is added.
There is always an additional pull-out with most ridiculous recipes, kolams and advice on using two-wheelers. I am one hundred percent sure no woman uses these advice and tips. All the advice is general and applies to men also! Like one of the two-wheel tip says “Read the manual well”.
The young women are capable, clever, positive and really do not need to read these Tamil magazines. The old are matured enough not to waste time reading nonsense, but enjoy life with more positive reading and viewing. The middle aged has lots of practical problems to attend to. I really pity the other women folk who read these.