Sachin Tendulkar on Time’s most influential 100 list
thanks to Cooldude..
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In the history of cricket, only one man has scored a double century — 200 runs — in a One Day International match, and his name is Sachin Tendulkar. To millions of Indians and countless fans around the world, this act, which caps a career of record-breaking feats, arouses a sense of awe.
Cricket casts the tiniest shadow on the American sports scene, but globally it stokes the fire in people’s souls. Inherited from imperial England, the world’s second most watched team sport has become a symbol of beating the colonials at their own game. Sports heroes such as Tendulkar, 37, stand for national dignity in a way that perhaps only a postcolonial nation can understand. And feel grateful for.
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April 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM
He deserves it..
April 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Chetan Bhagat is in the list!
April 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM
yeah some of those other choices are bizarre! Of course this is also a ‘movers & shakers’ kind of deal. Otherwise we’d more or less have the same list every year.
April 29, 2010 at 11:43 AM
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984949_1985223,00.html
April 29, 2010 at 11:44 AM
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1985478,00.html
April 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM
happy to see SRT in d list..great guy..no two ways!! dont mind chetan bhagat in d list actually..find him 2 be an affable nd a genuine guy..nd u might love him or hate him..but you cant argue dat he has actually got a lot of young ppl hooked to BOOKS even if its chetan’s own books!!
p.s. where is SRK though..if i remember correctly..he toh voted for himself only when d poll was on?!!
April 29, 2010 at 12:24 PM
who’s SRT?
April 29, 2010 at 12:29 PM
duh..sachin ramesh tendulkar!!
April 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM
ah..
April 29, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Satyam saahab, aap ne har hadh paar kar dee! I suppose the only defense is that one thinks of him as “Sachin” rather than by any other name/initials…
April 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM
never thought of him with the middle name!
April 29, 2010 at 5:46 PM
Almost inexcusable.
Whats the penalty?
A ban for a day may be?
April 29, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Probably he thought mansi made a typo..SRT instead of SRK
April 29, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Sachin deserves it all. 200 in ODI, top scorer at IPL, he is still a great batsmen even at 37. Here is hoping his 38th year is the most memorable [with a WC win on home turf]
April 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM
Amen!
April 29, 2010 at 5:23 PM
That would be truly awesome. I’d sell my soul for that.
April 29, 2010 at 5:46 PM
Hmm, do you still have one??
April 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Qalandar:
PIGS DON’T FLY
- Why the IPL won’t reform itself
MUKUL KESAVAN
April 29, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Excellent piece, not surprisingly given it’s Kesavan. This passage is great:
“But once you define Twenty20 cricket and the IPL as a form of showbiz — the cheerleaders, the gold-trim uniforms, the filmstar owners, the mid-over commercials, the commercial crassness of the strategic time-out, the stadiums wall-papered with advertising — its main justification becomes the money that makes it a gilded marvel. When the buzz about a game becomes its success in monetizing everything from post-match parties (where guests pay 40,000 rupees a pop to mingle with tired players) to sponsored sixes, what you’re seeing is cricket’s transformation from one sort of heavenly body into another: from a sun that burns with its own fire to a planet that preens in the reflected glory of money.”
April 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM
I agree with main theme, that IPL is not cricket. But I am not sure I agree with all other criticisms. Take for example baskball, NBA is played in different format than World basketball (quarters instead of halves ). It has official timeouts apart from normal team timeouts.
And may be television coverage of football in Europe is different from India? With athletes pay in millions, there is no way you can support that by gate fee and stadium advertisement. It has to come from TV and other media sources.
April 29, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Here is financial criticism
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/biz/india-business/IPL-Franchisees-High-on-hype-low-on-returns/articleshow/5870722.cms
April 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Great article! Expresses very articulately what I’ve always tried to say wrt IPL. Satyam, does the following remind you of something?
“The difference between the establishments of tennis, football and golf on the one hand and the Indian cricket establishment on the other is that the first three have an understanding of their sports that transcends money while the BCCI doesn’t. They’re acutely aware of the fact that history and continuity are critical to a game’s sense of itself, that without them, in the long term, there’s no game left to sell.”
This brilliant point reminds me of your perennial complaint about BW in the 90s: Yashrajification, flight from history and all that stuff. What is happening to cricket post IPL imo is Yashrajification of it gone wild….BW in 90s is nothing compared to Cricket post IPL!
April 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Matrix, that is quite right. These are similar trends and the disease in one word is ‘consumption’. Today movies whether in Bollywood or Hollywood can be divided into two groups. Those designed for consumption and those that are authentic. Of course no filmmaker ignores the box office totally. This has always been a reality for this art/entertainment form. And yet there is a difference between make commercial films with certain sorts of subjects and designing every facet of a film with an eye towards consumption. This is what leads to disposable cinema. But yeah what’s happened with the IPL makes Bollywood look sober!
April 29, 2010 at 4:57 PM
one is definintely free to enjoy these “feats” ie be included in the top x list of x magazine etc.
similarly, there was another such list of top x of asian actors.
these lists do have their own place, but imho they are an exercise of futility–the “ranking” on the list is not based on any calculations,valid method or even good database.
admit-time magaine is a much better/ respected to compile this short of “list”. but personally dont like this craving for the ultimate recognition from the west
April 29, 2010 at 6:01 PM
Munna: that’s exactly what I thought (SRK)!
April 29, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Aishwarya Rai was chosen for the Alumnae list.
April 30, 2010 at 3:09 AM
Congrats SRT..You desreve more than anybody from India…Congrats Chetan Bhagat as well..
April 30, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Aishwarya Rai topped the alumnae list ahead of the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin, Alicia Keys, Serena Williams and Steve Jobs (the founder of Apple). I think it’s a great achievement for India.
Sachin, Ash, Amitabh, Rahman, Amartya Sen are all legends!
May 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM
“Aishwarya Rai topped the alumnae list ahead of the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin, Alicia Keys, Serena Williams and Steve Jobs (the founder of Apple). ‘
If so, Congrats to ash-well done. A REAL achiever.
Her undisputed gr8 looks usually distract people from her v real achivements…
As for SRT- I think coming on these lists is obviously good but no big deal for him. hes in a different strata ..
May 1, 2010 at 3:46 PM
Read about the Time list in today’s paper and discussed it with a couple of friends. And this is what we felt–that all such lists need to be taken with a huge bucket of salt, that any survey can never really be comprehensive, that it may be some sort of an acheivement to appear on such a list–but does it really mean that so and so is influential?
What’s that they say about statistics and lies? Could say the same thing about polls–esp ones in which interrnet forums play a fair part.
May 1, 2010 at 6:17 PM
http://www.hindustantimes.com/A-mango-tribute-to-Sachin-Tendulkar/H1-Article1-537510.aspx
May 2, 2010 at 3:37 AM
wow!
May 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Lata ‘trounces’ Sachin on Maharashtra Day!
May 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM
interesting that Sachin went to bat for the MNS so to speak..
May 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Given that the Shiv Sena criticized him for putting India “ahead” of Maharashtra, it has basically driven him into the arms of the MNS. On a different note, was no-one except for these two parties marking the state’s golden jubilee? i.e. were there non-Sena celebrations?
May 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM
sachin’s on twitter:
http://twitter.com/sachin_rt
May 6, 2010 at 12:10 AM
ya..satyam….
He already having 1lack followers within 1.5 days of joining…WOW……
May 6, 2010 at 1:58 AM
twitter crashed………lol…
sachin was online & was replying 2 lucky fans…….
oh boy……first it was cricinfo & now twitter…
May 6, 2010 at 2:06 AM
twitter indeed has crashed..Not able to browse it since last one hour
May 6, 2010 at 2:18 AM
I can access it just fine.
May 6, 2010 at 2:27 AM
ya it is working now..but it was crashed 30mins or so…
July 27, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Pak fast bowler Asif in Malayalam film
July 27, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Bizarre!
July 27, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Yeah, this might be the oddest news story ever.