Posts Tagged ‘batting records’

18 Oct 2008: Quote of the day: 18/10/08

“A young kid of 15 stormed on to the international scene and completely took over the imagination of the millions of cricket-crazy people. This guy was Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. Now, every kid, including me, wanted to be like him. It holds true even now, without realising that geniuses like Sachin are not made but born” – Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra on teammate Sachin Tendulkar’s feat of setting a new record for the most runs scored by a batsman in Test cricket, finally beating Brian Lara’s total.

14 Oct 2008: Quote of the day: 14/10/08

“We were the only ones trying to take the game forward. I am not surprised by the way they played, the Indian team do play a lot of drawn games” – Ricky Ponting has to settle for a draw against India in the first test.