Definition of Sachin Tendulkar??

Tests

1)Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.

2)On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.

3)Career Average 54.95 - the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs.

4)Highest number of Test centuries (37).

5)Tendulkar's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.

6)Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[48] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten. The current list also includes Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Adam Gilchrist and Marvan Attapattu.

7)Sachin's 37th ton against Bangladesh during the 2007 series 2nd Test, made historyas the 1st time the top four batsman of any team had all scored centuries in asingle innings. Dinesh Karthik made 129, Wasim Jaffer 138 and Rahul Dravid 129 were the other centurions.





ODIs

1)Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds.

2)Most Runs: 15,703 Runs at just over 44 runs per innings (as of 5th November 2007),. He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 15,000 run mark.

3)First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000 and 15,000 ODI runs.

4)Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007

5)Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.

6)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

7)Most centuries: 41

8)Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 85 Fifties)(as of 15th Oct, 2007)

9)Fifties: 85. Tendulkar holds the record for the most ODI fifties,

10)Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

11)Most Man of the Match Awards: 55 Man of the Match Awards

12)Most Man of the Series Awards: 14 Man of the Series Awards

13)Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.

14)Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

15)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 that includes 20 century partnerships and 21 fifty run partnerships

16)20 century partnerships for opening pair is also a world record.

17)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 at the LBS, Hyderabad[54]

18)Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting.

19)Most runs (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20th Mar 2007) in World Cup Cricket History including 4 centuries & 13 fifties with a best score of 152* against Namibia in 2003 world cup.

20)673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup

21)Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in
international cricket. He has now scored 78 (37 in Tests, 41 in ODIs).

22)Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30th June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.

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Latest position of weak "sidr"

Here you can view the latest position of "sidr" , fairly weakened.
We are yet to get the full scale damage report of the impact.
As of now "AP" has reported only 2 casualities. More to come later...

Cyclone batters Bangladesh: REUTERS

DHAKA, Nov 16 (Reuters) - At least nine people died and dozens were missing as a super cyclone packing winds of 250 kph (155 mph) battered vast areas of the Bangladeshi coast overnight, early reports said on Friday.

"The cyclone has caused a havoc in all coastal districts and we will start getting details in few hours," one Satkhira official said.

Hundreds of fishing boats caught in Cyclone Sidr failed to return to shore, and trees and power poles were uprooted disrupting communication and electricity supplies, officials said.

"We have been virtually blacked out all over the country," said a disaster management official in southern Mongla, one of the worst affected areas.

Another official in Mongla said strong winds and heavy rains were still buffeting the area. "We are unable to give a loss estimate immediately."

Television news reports said more than 100 fishing boats in the Bay of Bengal had to failed to return to shore despite repeated storm warnings given over the radio.

"They are missing and we don't know if and when they will come back," said an official in Barguna coastal district.

Five people died in the town of Barisal, including four from one family, after buildings collapsed. Two others died in Bhola and two more in Satkhira districts, local officials said.

Sixteen Bangladeshi fishermen went missing after their fishing boat sank in Cox's Bazar, a resort town some 400 km (250 miles) southeast of Dhaka, a local fishing association said late on Thursday.

Rescued fishermen from Myanmar told Bangladeshi officials that 12 of their compatriots had drowned at sea. They were among a group of fishermen aboard four fishing boats which were smashed into shore by the cyclone, rescuers in Teknaf, a town 500 km (310 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka, said.

Cyclones can cause immense devastation in disaster-prone Bangladesh, a low-lying country of more than 140 million people. The latest cyclone triggered 5-metre (16 feet) high water surges in many of the affected districts.

It washed away hundreds of thatched homes, destroyed crops and killed livestock.

Storms batter the poor south Asian country every year. A severe cyclone killed more than half a million people in 1970, while one in 1991 killed 143,000 people. (Additional reporting by Reuters stringers in Barisal and Khulna; Editing by David Fox)

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"sidr" - Touch Down

BREAKING NEWS!
Here you can see the "touch-down" of cyclone sidr, over south-east of West-bengal and most of south Bangladesh.
Take a look at this latest satellite pic.

News report from Cox Bazaar - Bangladesh

Millions of people started leaving homes on the coastlines following Government advice yesterday evening, when the Met Office issued "great danger signal" No 10 for the southwestern Mongla Port and danger signal No 9 in a scale of 10 for the southeastern Chittagong and Cox's Bazar ports as the cylonic storm in the bay was moving fast towards the Bangladesh coast.

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers, aided by the local authorities and Bangladesh Red Crecsent Society, have been helping the people to go to safer places immediately after the Government ordered a massive evacuation.

As per the latest reports recived in the capital at 11:00 last night, the coastal areas were experinecing squally winds accompanied with drizzles from the evening, while panicky people were running for safer places.

Earlier, a senor official of the Ministry of Disaster Management said the deputy commissioners of 16 coastal districts were asked to take necessary steps, including evacuation in line with the previous standing orders for such a situation.Met Office said the cyclonic storm might hit land this morning.

Joint Secretary of Disaster Management Ministry Mohsina Ferdowsi told journalists that a central control room in Dhaka was in constant touch with local administrations in 16 coastal districts and the concerned agencies to monitor the situation while an emergency inter-ministerial meeting was convened for this morning to work out strategies for coordinating rescue and relief efforts.

She said as the Met office at 8:00pm issued the "danger signals" for the three maritime ports as the severe cyclonic storm 'SIDR' with hurricane strong winds at its core roared over the Bay of Bengal and was moving towards the northern shoreline.

An earlier Met office bulletin issued at 6:00pm said the cyclone was packing winds of 165 kilometre per hour (kmph) at its core and was rising to 185 kmph in gusts or squalls. The storm was 755 km southwest of Chittagong, 675km south-south west of Cox's Bazar port and 705 km south of Mongla port. Meteorologists said the cyclone could hit the coastline with full strengthen late today while its "peripheral winds" could brush the coast from midnight last whipping up surges three to five feet above the "normal astronomical tides".

Red Crescent's Cyclone Preparedness Centre Director M Nasirullah said more than 40,000 red crescent volunteers were asked to launch the evacuation drives in the coastline where the number of vulnerable people are nearly 1.20 crore.

"The volunteers are using sirens, loudspeakers and whistles urging people to move out of their homes and move towards safety," including cyclone shelters, Patuakhali correspondent of BSS said by telephone.

Similar reports were received from 13 other coastal districts where the residents and officials said they witnessed gloomy weather featured by drizzles and strong winds while the sea appeared very rough.

Officials in the port city of Chittagong said they already identified the most vulnerable areas in the district, which was experiencing a gloomy weather coupled with drizzles and squally winds since last night.

Reports from the other coastal districts said several hundred fishing boats took shelter in the coast while the authorities ordered temporary suspension of launch or ferry services on internal routes.

But local officials and fishermen's groups said despite the earlier warning signals, several hundred boats were yet to return to the coast since the "sea was not that much rough earlier".

Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla ports' authorities asked the vessels at its berths to move away as soon as possible after completion of loading and unloading of cargo and suspended further sailing of vessels.

Our Chittagong Correspondent earlier reported that Chittagong Airport was closed and Chittagong Port stopped handling of cargo at outer anchorage of the Bay of Bengal from Wednesday morning.

At least 243 coaster vessels, which were waiting at the port navigation channel, were asked to leave for safer places, the report said quoting a port official.

from www.nation.ittefaq.com

"sidr" latest, tracking and forecast

-- From IMD
The very severe cyclonic storm “SIDR” over eastcentral and adjoining westcentral Bay of Bengal moved further northwards and lay centred at 0830 hours IST of today, the 15th November 2007 over eastcentral and adjoining westcentral and north Bay of Bengal near Lat. 18.00 N and Long 89.00 E, about 530 km south of Kolkata. It is likely to intensify further and move in a northerly direction. The system with maximum sustained wind speed of 200 kmph is likely to cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coast east of Sagar Island near Long. 89.00 E by today around midnight as the system has shown fast movement during past 3 hrs.
Heavy to very heavy falls at a few places and isolated extremely heavy falls (25 cm or more) likely over coastal districts of
West Bengal during next 48 hours causing floods in low lying areas. Gale winds speed reaching 90-120 kmph
are likely to commence by noon of today, the 15th November 2007 and as the system approaches towards the
coast, the gale wind speed reaching180-200 kmph
likely along and off the West Bengal coast.
Storm Surge warning:
Storm surge of height 6-7 metres above normal astronomical tide is likely over
coastal areas of south 24- Parganas and Midnapore districts at the time of landfall.
Sea condition will be phenomenal. Fishermen of the above areas are advised not to venture into the sea.
-- Latest tracking and forecast from JTWC

Cyclone "sidr" is near

Slow moving giant is getting very close to land, it's forecasted to make landfall during the next 36hrs over the border between India(west bengal) and Bangladesh.
Now "sidr" is moving straight North after all that small Zig-Zags.
JTWC have updated their earlier advisory giving the 1200 hrs, GMT, status for this Category 4 hurricane. The eye of Sidr was about 560 miles (900 kms) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Highest sustained winds about it were reckoned to be 130 knots, or 240 kmh, which is not far below the threshold to Category 5 hurricane status.
Sidr drifted northward at 7 knots, or 13 kmh.
I cannot overstate that this is a highly dangerous storm posing a major threat wherever it makes landfall. And latest numerical forecasts seem to have narrowed in on the western half of Bangladesh, a shore which is low-lying and riven with many openings and channels. And the western shore of Bangladesh is the forecast landfall of the JTWC. Timing is for sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon, local time.
Tidal flooding, far and away the greatest threat to life and limb stemming from SIdr, will hinge upon storm strength at the time of landfall. A Category 4 landfall could be catastrophic, although substantial weaken ahead of landfall seems likely. A Category 1 storm would be serious and damaging, but by orders of magnitude less that of a Category 3 or Category 4 storm.
Here is the latest Infrared pic from JTWC

In my next blog i'll try and post some news analysis from that part of the world.

Latest tracking of cyclone "sidr"

Take a look at the latest tracking and forecast of path for the Giant "sidr".
Current position is NEAR 15.0N 89.4E
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS - 120 KT(222.24 KM/hr), GUSTS 145 KT(268.54 KM/hr) ... oh....oh this is massive if this giant makes landfall.

The current forecast of path is towards...South-east West-bengal & South-west of Bangladesh.