By Steve James Published: 7:46PM GMT twenty-seven February 2010
On fire: India"s Sachin Tendulkar (left) celebrates his stand in century as team-mate Mahendra Singh Dhoni Photo: REUTERS So 50-over cricket is dying, and usually muscle-bound, switch-hitting and reverse-sweeping batsmen can tarry in the complicated one-day jungle. Pah! Sachin Tendulkar positively blew those integrate of ludicrous and smart notions apart last week with his record-breaking one-day general stand in century opposite South Africa.
Its biggest excellence was that it was an innings with that any epoch could identify; one of overwhelming gathering and smashing simplicity, full of straight-blade shots from a bat that someway appears broader than any other.
Kieswetter in entrance dispersion Kieswetter to have entrance ECB has contend on IPL matches at Lord"s Onions reflects on Test repudiation Tendulkar: a indeed good diver Yuvraj Singh crushes England as India move 2-0 up in one-day arrayThere were cover-drives aplenty, all without delay from the content book, that was not bad for a man who was so endangered about the cadence that he not long ago done a Test century with hardly a singular drive.
The area at the back of the bowler was explored in cold blood and the leg-side range found continually with a late crack of the wrists. This indeed was a feat for chain over power.
I goal the astigmatic county chairmen who voted opposite 50-over cricket were watching. This is a form of the diversion that contingency prevail. And if scrupulously marketed and scheduled (is it any consternation that county 40-over matches are some-more renouned when played in high summer rather than the Arctic Apr afforded 50 overs?), it can do.
The Australians might be wearied of it, but they"ve only played 10 matches in a month.
The confused thousands in Gwalior offering a really opposite tale: Tendulkar"s innings will live regularly in the memory.
No Twenty20 or 40-over innings will ever be means to lay explain to that.
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