Sachin Tendulkar - Partnerships, and percentage of team runs scored

With Ganguly, Tendulkar added 8227 partnership runs at 47.55, with 26 century stands - the runs scored and the hundred stands are the highest. Tendulkar also put together 4000-plus runs with Virender Sehwag (4387 runs at 39.16) and Rahul Dravid (4117 runs at 44.26). Tendulkar's thus the only batsman to put together 4000-plus runs with three different partners; Ganguly and Dravid are the only others to do so with two different partners.

Overall, Tendulkar scored 19.24% of the total bat runs that India scored in the matches he played in his entire ODI career (18,426 runs out of 95,765). After he first opened the batting on March 27, 1994, the percentage increased to 20.08 (16,668 out of 83,008). For Ganguly, that percentage was 17.61%, for Haynes 19.58, for Anwar 18.19, for Hayden 17.49 and for Gayle 18.41%.

Apart from his obvious batting exploits, there was also Tendulkar the bowler, who chipped in quite usefully more than once. His 154 ODI wickets puts him in 11th place among Indian bowlers, just one short of Ashish Nehra and three away from Manoj Prabhakar.

Sachin Tendulkar - The Matchwinner

It was often said about Tendulkar that his big scores didn't lead to team wins, but stats reveal something quite different: Tendulkar scored 33 of his 49 centuries in wins, and averaged more than 56 in team wins, at a strike rate of 90. Among those who scored at least 5000 runs in wins, only Lara and Richards have higher averages. In terms of hundreds scored in wins, Ponting is next with 25.

However, it's also true that Tendulkar's 14 centuries in defeats is a record too, five clear of Chris Gayle, who's next with nine. In defeats, though, Tendulkar's average dropped to 33.25 at a strike rate of 79.86. Clearly, in the overall context of his lengthy career, his runs led to wins more often that not. As mentioned earlier, no player has won as many Man-of-the-Match awards either - Tendulkar has 62, while the next-best is Jayasuriya with 48.

Highest averages in wins in ODIs (Qual: 5000 runs in wins)

Batsman	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike rate	100s/ 50s
Brian Lara	134	6553	61.82	86.32	16/ 42
Viv Richards	114	5129	56.98	93.01	11/ 32
Sachin Tendulkar	231	11,157	56.63	90.31	33/ 59
Mohammad Yousuf	151	6426	55.87	78.59	14/ 41
Sourav Ganguly	147	6938	55.06	77.87	18/ 41
Michael Clarke	134	5084	52.95	80.62	4/ 42

Sachin Tendulkar - World Cup superstar

In the biggest tournament in the format, Tendulkar was usually at his best. His overall World Cup tally of 2278 is the best, and he is also the only batsman to twice aggregate more than 500 in a World Cup tournament - he scored 673 in 2003, a record for a single World Cup, and 523 in 1996. Only four other batsmen have touched 500 even once in a World Cup. Tendulkar's nine Man-of-the-Match awards is also a World Cup record, three clear of the second-placed Glenn McGrath.

Apart from his World Cup heroics, Tendulkar also finished with a great record in tournament finals, though there was a period between 1999 and 2004 when he appeared to struggle in them. Overall he averaged more than 54 in tournament finals, with six hundreds in 39 innings.

Highest averages among batsmen with 1000+ runs in World Cups

Batsman	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike rate	100s/ 50s
Viv Richards	21	1013	63.31	85.05	3/ 5
Sachin Tendulkar	44	2278	56.95	88.98	6/ 15
Herschelle Gibbs	23	1067	56.15	87.38	2/ 8
Sourav Ganguly	21	1006	55.88	77.50	4/ 3
Mark Waugh	22	1004	52.84	83.73	4/ 4
Jacques Kallis	32	1148	45.92	74.40	1/ 9
Ricky Ponting	42	1743	45.86	79.95	5/ 6
Javed Miandad	30	1083	43.32	68.02	1/ 8
Brian Lara	33	1225	42.24	86.26	2/ 7

Sachin Tendulkar - Australia's tormentor

 Tendulkar was often at his best against the best team of his generation, Australia. He scored 3077 runs against them at 44.59, which is 36% more than the second-best aggregate against them. The highlights were obviously the 143 and 134 in Sharjah in 1998, a year which was his best in ODIs: he scored 1894 runs at 65.31, including nine centuries. Both, the runs scored and the hundreds remain a record for a calendar year.

Even apart from those two Sharjah classics, he had seven hundreds against Australia, the last one being 175 - his highest against Australia - three years ago in Hyderabad. Tendulkar's nine hundreds is also record for a batsman against one opposition. (Tendulkar also has eight hundreds against Sri Lanka, while no other batsman has more than seven against an opposition.)

The one glitch in Tendulkar's stats, though, are his ODI numbers in Australia: just one century in 46 innings, and a below-par average of 34.67. Unlike in Tests, where he averages more than 50 against Australia both home and away, in ODIs Tendulkar's best against them came in the subcontinent: in Asia he average 55.30 against them in 40 innings, with eight centuries, but outside Asia he averaged 29.82 against them, with one century in 30 innings. 

Highest run-scorers in ODIs against Australia

Batsman	ODIs	Runs	Average	Strike rate	100s/ 50s
Sachin Tendulkar	71	3077	44.59	84.74	9/ 15
Desmond Haynes	64	2262	40.39	65.14	6/ 13
Viv Richards	54	2187	50.86	84.63	3/ 20
Brian Lara	51	1858	39.53	76.58	3/ 15
Kumar Sangakkara	44	1706	42.65	77.02	1/ 12
Jacques Kallis	50	1660	34.58	72.87	1/ 13
Jonty Rhodes	55	1610	40.25	77.92	0/ 10
Richie Richardson	51	1498	32.56	63.26	0/ 15

Sachin Tendulkar - The opening act

Among all openers who scored 8000-plus ODI runs, Tendulkar's average is the highest; in fact, even with a 6000-run cut-off, no opener has an average of more than 42 - Gary Kirsten's 41.80 is the second-best. Apart from the high average and strike rate, the other stat that stands out for Tendulkar is his conversion rate of fifties into hundreds: he has 45 centuries and 75 half-centuries, a fifties to hundreds ratio of 1.67. Among openers with at least 6000 runs, the only ones with comparable ratios were Herschelle Gibbs (18 centuries and 24 fifties, ratio 1.33) and Saeed Anwar (20 hundreds and 37 fifties, ratio 1.85). All the others had ratios of more than two, with some of the top names (Haynes, Ganguly, Gilchrist) scoring three fifties per century. Thus, while it's true that Tendulkar was given the opportunity to make big scores thanks to his batting position, he also utilised that much better than most other openers.

Openers with more than 8000 runs in ODIs

Batsman	Innings	Runs	Average	Strike rate	100s/ 50s
Sachin Tendulkar	340	15,310	48.29	88.05	45/ 75
Sanath Jayasuriya	383	12,740	34.61	92.48	28/ 66
Adam Gilchrist	259	9200	36.50	98.02	16/ 53
Sourav Ganguly	236	9146	41.57	73.59	19/ 58
Desmond Haynes	237	8648	41.37	63.09	17/ 57
Chris Gayle	217	8184	40.71	84.83	20/ 44
Saeed Anwar	220	8156	39.98	79.93	20/ 37

Sachin Tendulkar - Way ahead of the pack

Sachin Tendulkar's numbers are staggering in both forms of the game, but the margin by which he is ahead of the pack in ODIs is truly mindboggling. Let alone equalling or surpassing some of his records, it's possible that no batsman will even come close to his stats. To start with, Tendulkar's overall ODI aggregate is 18,426, which is almost 35% more than the next-best, Ricky Ponting's 13,704. His 49 ODI centuries is 63% better than the second-highest, Ponting's 30. With Sourav Ganguly, he added 8227 partnership runs, 50% more than Marvan Atapattu and Sanath Jayasuriya's 5462. His 26 century stands with Ganguly is 62.5% better than the 16 that Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist managed

Tendulkar was able to create such a distance between him and the next-best by, obviously, playing over a long period - his is the longest career in ODI history - but also by doing so at a ridiculously high standard almost throughout that period. It helped also, that he opened the innings through most of his career as an ODI batsman, which gave him the best opportunity to score runs and rack up hundreds. His outstanding batsmanship, which combined tight defence with an ability to score freely all round the wicket with minimal risk against different bowling attacks in different conditions, ensured he maximised those opportunities to score runs. Along the way he also became the first batsman to score 200 in an ODI innings. 


Tendulkar's ODI career changed when he moved from the middle order to open the innings. The first time he did so was in his fifth match of 1994, against New Zealand in Auckland. He scored 82 off 49 balls - a strike rate of 167.34 - in a match in which no other batsman who faced more than 12 balls managed a rate of 75. India won the match with 160 balls to spare - their eighth-largest victory margin in terms of balls remaining - and it was clear that India had unearthed an option which could be of immense value to them in limited-overs cricket. None could have imagined at the time, though, that Tendulkar would end with such staggering numbers.

From the moment he started opening, his ODI career graph swung upwards and stayed high almost throughout his career. From March 27, 1994, which was the first time he opened, he averaged 47.08 in 394 matches, at a strike rate of 87.71. During this period he didn't open the batting in 50 matches, and in those games his average fell to 36.70.

Sachin Tendulkar's ODI career

Period	ODIs	Runs	Average	Strike rate	100s/ 50s
Before 1994	65	1679	31.09	74.32	0/ 12
1994 to Dec 2000	198	8220	45.66	88.96	27/ 38
Jan 2001 onwards	200	8527	48.17	86.41	22/ 46
Career	463	18,426	44.83	86.23	49/ 96

Sachin Tendulkar's 10 most memorable knocks in ODIs

143 (131 balls, 9x4, 5x6) vs Australia in Sharjah (Coca Cola Cup, 1998)
This was a match not even the most die-hard Indian fan would have rued India's loss. Yes, India lost, but Sachin won millions of hearts with his incredible batting. There was joy even in the defeat.
India were confronted with the challenge of scoring 285 to win or 254 to pip New Zealand and qualify for the final on net run-rate.

The Indians initially appeared apprehensive to attack. Once Tendulkar opened up with a six off Michael Kasprowicz, the flow of runs improved. Tendulkar was batting with a plan in mind, but the task was becoming tougher as the pitch was slow. Mohammad Azharuddin was unable to get his timing right and inner-edged a harmless delivery.

Ajay Jadeja played away from the body to increase the misery, with Tendulkar aghast at the application at the other end.

VVS Laxman then joined Tendulkar with India staring defeat in the face as almost a run-a-ball was needed in the remaining overs. As if things were not bad enough, a dust storm then hit the stadium, halting the game for about half an hour. India's target was revised to 276 to win and 237 to qualify. 'I'll do it,' he promised Aunshuman Gaekwad, the coach, and did it in style.

When play resumed, India needed 94 runs in 15 overs. Soon Sachin tore into the Aussies, sending the spectators into ecstasy. With every man inside the stadium rooting for Sachin, the 11 men in the opposition just stood by and watched an epic performance by the little matser.

After ensuring that India qualified for the final, Sachin went for an outright win. He finally fell for 143. It was an innings unmatched in heroism at this venue with the exception of that great knock by Javed Miandad.
India lost the match by 25 runs in the end, but that did not matter. There was only one winner that day: Sachin Tendulkar!

Time for Kohli to replace Dhoni as India captain: Gavaskar

Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar feels young Virat Kohli is the future of Indian cricket and he is ready to take up the captaincy job from incumbent Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the aftermath of the series defeat against England.

England broke the 28-year-old jinx by defeating India 2-1 verdict in the Test series after the fourth and final match ended in a draw on Monday.

Gavaskar said it is time the selectors look to the future as Dhoni seemed out of sorts in this series.

"Till the fourth day of this Test I said there is no alternative to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but now that Virat (Kohli) has come up with a 100 under trying circumstances I think he has discovered a good part about himself. I think he is ready to take on the mantle," the former India skipper said.

"I think this is something to be looked at in a positive manner because that's where the future is," Gavaskar told a television news channel.

He also criticised the Indian team for the humiliating defeat but Dhoni's name came up for special mention for his ordinary and unaggressive captaincy in this series.

"If India were looking for a win they should have shown the intent by declaring at the overnight score. England batted exceedingly well but our bowlers were ineffective and our batters didn't do as much as they were expected to do. It was a team failure," he said.

"You don't put a forward short-leg and a silly point to just get wickets. You also put them to pressurise the batsmen and get his wicket somwehere else. When you crowd a batsmen with fielders in his peripheral vision pressure automatically come on him and that's what he (Dhoni) didn't do," Gavaskar said about Dhoni's reluntance to deploy a more attacking field during England's second innings.

"I don't think England necessarily played better than us but they were more determined. They didn't lose heart after the defeat in the first Test in Ahmedabad and instead put in extra effort," he observed.

The cricketer-turned-commentator also said that it is time Sachin Tendulkar should make a decision on his career as he felt the senior batsman was no longer enjoying his time on the field.

"The important thing is how much you are enjoying the game. If you are not enjoying the game, enjoying to be on the field and doing things other than your speciality I feel that's the time to move on. May be that's happening to him (Tendulkar) and may be he will know that the time is right to go," Gavaskar said.

"Quite clearly this series wasn't good for him. In this Test he looked just a bit lost in (England's) second innings, at least that is what I have gathered from his body language. May be that's the sign.

"As he said I think he will reassess his future before the Australia series," he added.

The former opener said complacency also had a big role to play in India's embarrassing defeat.

"Complacency is a part of Indian psyche and you can't do much about it. Everytime an Indian tries to be ambitious he is pulled down and that's one of the reason why Indians don't have the killer mentality," Gavaskar observed.

"Having won the first Test in Ahmedabad that complacency factor came in. I don't think India wanted to win (the series) as badly as England wanted. I didn't look helpless out here, they looked capable but the instinct was missing," Gavaskar added.

Gujarat 2012 Exit Poll Surveys

Exit Poll Results : Gujarat Assembly Election 2012

Exit and opinion polls carried out by various TV channels suggest that in Gujarat BJP to perform a hat-trick in the state while Congress is predicted to have an edge in BJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh.

Cvoter exit poll survey predics a landslide victory for the BJP, saying that it will get a 46 percent voteshare and getting 119 - 124 seats. It also suggest that the Congress could win 54 seats with a 38 percent voteshare.

Cvoter poll survey  which took responses from 3,276 voters after polling on 4 November, shows both BJP and Congress are palced neck to neck with 44 percent of the popular vote each – a gain of 5 percent for the Congress from 39 percent in 2007, but a static figure for the BJP.

News 24 showed that BJP is likely to get 140 against 117 seats it had won in 2007 assembly polls as the party is expected to get 46 per cent of the total vote share. The poll carried out by Chanakya for the channel projected Congress to get 40 seats, 19 short of 59 it won in 2007 polls.

Headlines Today projected BJP to get between 118 and 128 seats while Congress is likely to win in 50 to 56 seats with 37 per cent vote share.

The ABP News predicted BJP to win in 116 seats and Congress in 60 constituencies. According to ABP - AC Nielsen exit poll predictions, BJP’s has edge in South Gujarat and Congress has an edge in Central Gujarat. The survey prdicts in South Gujarat: BJP (27), Congress (6), GPP (01) and Others (01). Central Gujarat: Congress (22), BJP (15) and Others (03). It has also predicted a massive victory for the BJP in the Saurashtra-Kutch region. According to the exit poll, BJP will win 42 seats, the Congress will win 11, and the GPP will win only one seat in the region.

According to latest ABP-Nielsen survey following are the stats

Party Name	2012
BJP	124
INC	51
Others	7
Total	182