Man of the Match Award No. 7

NEW ZEALAND v INDIA 1993-94

Sachin's Score : 82 runs (49 Balls, 4's:15, 6's:2, SR: 167.34)

ODI no. 897 | 1993/94 season
Played at Eden Park, Auckland
27 March 1994 (50-over match)
India won by 7 wickets (with 160 balls remaining)

ScoreCard : http://www.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/match/64463.html

Video of this innings : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7833939604115210937

Almanack report :Tendulkar played a blazing innings of 82 from 49 balls, with 15 fours and two sixes, and India achieved a thumping victory in less than half their allocated 50 overs. Opening because of Sidhu's neck strain, Tendulkar put on 61 with Jadeja in nine overs, and 56 in six with Kambli. He smashed three fours and a six off Larsen's first over and Kambli was just as hard on Morrison.

Rutherford had chosen to bat but, on the same pitch on which Pakistan had won the First Test inside three days, half the side went for 34. Parore and Harris staged a minor recovery, with 52 for the sixth wicket, but off-spinner Chauhan destroyed the tail. As New Zealand limped to 142, Harris reached an unbeaten 50.

Man of the Match : S. R. Tendulkar.

Man of the Match Award No. 6

India v Zimbabwe 1991/92

Sachin's Score: 81 runs (77 Balls, 4's:8, 6's:1, SR: 105.19)
Sachin's Bowling Figures: 6 0 35 1 - 5.83(eco)


Date: 7 March 1992
Venue: Trust Bank Park, Hamilton
Toss: India won the toss & elects to Bat first.
Result: India won by 55 runs (revised target)
Series: Benson & Hedges World Cup - 19th match

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Overall Match Analysis: At Hamilton, March 7. India won by 55 runs, India's total having been revised to 158 and Zimbabwe's to 103 from their highest-scoring 19 overs. Another rain-affected match was decided by the controversial rule on shortened innings. This time India were the beneficiaries. But there was widespread sympathy for Zimbabwe, who were making good progress in pursuit of 204 from 32 overs.

Their 104 for one from 19.1 compared well with 106 for three at the same point of the Indian innings. With Flower, who had reached 200 runs in the tournament, still at the crease, another 100 from 13 was not impossible. In the morning, three hours had been lost to rain, and Tendulkar dominated the 32 overs allotted to India. He scored 81 from 77 balls (one six, eight fours), and with Manjrekar added 99 in 15 overs for the fourth wicket.


Sachin's Performance Analysis: This was Sachin Tendulkar's 36th One Day International Match and he won his 6th ODI MOM award in this match after excellent all round performance. He Played an excellent knock in the match by scoring 81 runs of 77 balls, eight fours and smashed a brilliant six. And in the Zimbabwe innings, when the Zimbabwe openers are going strong, Sachin was introduced as the 4th bowler. And soon Sachin broke the opening partnership by bowling out Omarshah with his medium pacer. And took the only wicket to fall in the zimbabwe innings. Definitely an all round performance par excellence & well deserved Man Of The Match Award.

Eye Witness Account: 1,520 Spectators in the Ground.

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Trivia: ╠►Playing his 36th match, Sachin Tendulkar had the highest overall average of 35.83 among the Indian playing 11. And stands second in the strike rate just below Kapil Dev.


╠►This innings of 81 runs was the Sachin's Highest One Day International score then.


╠►During this innings of 81 runs, When Sachin scored 6 runs, he brought up his 1000th runs in One Day Internationals in his 34th innings.


╠►Sachin’s 1st 1000 ODI runs in 34 innings was the 4th fastest by an Indian then. First 3 Fastest 1000 runs for India was from Sidhu(25 innings), Manjrekar(30),Srikkanth(34). Later Sachin was pushed to 9th place by Dravid(33),Kambli(33),Ganguly(32),Jadeja(31),Dhoni(29).

Man of the Match Award No. 5

INDIA v PAKISTAN

Sachin's Score : 54 from 62 ball's strike rate of 87.09 and 3 hits to the fence

Bowling : 10 overs 37 runs and a wkt

Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground

Result : India won by 43 runs

Score Card :http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65133.html

Overall Match Analysis:India won without much difficulty when Pakistan lost their last eight wickets for 68 runs, but the neighbours' first World Cup encounter was marred by a less palatable confrontation, between More and Javed Miandad. The wicket-keeper's over-optimistic appeal for a leg-side catch led to verbal exchanges, and later Miandad mockingly leapt up and down, in apparent imitation. After the umpires made their report (minus the dialogue, which they could not understand), match referee Ted Wykes asked the tour managers to sort matters out. More had the better of the cricketing contest, with two catches, a stumping and the run-out of Imran Khan, while Miandad took 34 overs to score 40, leaving his colleagues with a tall order. Though he added 88 for the third wicket with Aamir Sohail, it was Sohail who caught the eye. India had dropped Shastri and asked Jadeja, in his second international, to open. He acquitted himself well, but once again the finest innings came from Tendulkar, unbeaten on 54 from 62 deliveries. He put on 60 in eight overs with Kapil Dev.

Sachin's Performance Analysis : Tendulkar won his First Man of the Match in the World Cups. He batted and No.5 and amazed a 62-ball 54 which included 3 hits to the fence. Sachin also added crucial partnership of 60 runs with Kapil Dev tat propelled India to a respectable total. Sachin didnt end up here, he bowled ten tidy overs and took the all important wicket of Aamer Sohail

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Man of the Match Award No. 4

INDIA v WEST INDIES 1991-92

Sachin's Score: 57 runs of 88 balls, which included 2 4s and at a strike rate of 64.77
Bowling Figures: 10 - 1 - 38 - 0

Date: 16 January 1992.
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground , Melbourne , Australia (neutral venue).
Toss: West Indies won the toss & elects to bat first.
Result: India won by 5 wickets (with 20 balls remaining).

Score Card:http://www.cricinfo.com/stats/engine/match/65490.html

Overall Match & Sachin's Performance Analysis: At Melbourne, January 16 (day/night). India won by five wickets. Toss: West Indies. The last round-robin match decided which of the two teams would make the final, and both opened nervously. West Indies slumped to 84 for four when Hirwani's leg-spin accounted for the fluent Lara and Richardson, who came into his own after a slow start. Hooper, at a run a ball, and Best began a revival. But there was another collapse before Ambrose, striking the ball firmly off his legs, inspired a rally.India also seemed subdued, and were 38 for two after 19 overs. Then Srikkanth launched a flurry of adventurous shots, and subsequently Tendulkar took charge. Though less belligerent than Srikkanth, he pierced the gaps skilfully and ran sharply between the wickets for his unbeaten 57. India won with 20 balls to spare.

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Man of the Match Award No. 3

INDIA v SOUTH AFRICA 1991-92

Sachin's Score: 62 runs (73 balls, 4s:8, 6s:1)

Sachin's Bowling Figures: 5 - 0 - 27 – 1

Donald’s Bowling Figures: 8.4 - 0 - 29 - 5

Date: 10 November 1991.
Venue: Eden Gardens, Calcutta (Kolkata).
Toss: India won the toss & elects to bowl first.
Result: India won by 3 wickets (with 38 balls remaining).
Man of the Match Award shared by Sachin Tendulkar & Allan Donald.

Score Card: http://www.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/match/64375.html

Overall Match & Sachin's Performance Analysis: South Africa's first officially blessed representative match in almost 22 years, first one-day international and first-ever game against India attracted a crowd widely claimed as beating the world record for a day's cricket of 90,800. However, Jagmohan Dalmiya, president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, said Eden Gardens now contained 90,452 seats and estimates putting the attendance higher included all the various officials, pressmen, policemen and peanut vendors.
This was Sachin Tendulkar’s 19th match and he got his 3rd Man of the Match award. South Africa playing their first match in 22 years got to a bad start losing 3 wickets for just 49 runs, before Keppler Wessels & Adrian Kuiper steadying the African ship with a 60 runs partnership. Just when the South Africans were finding their foot in the game, Sachin picked up the crucial wicket of Keppler Wessels for 50 thus slowing down their progress once again. The South African’s ended up scoring just 177 runs in their allotted 47 overs for the loss of 8 wickets. But the African lions were not going to take things lying down and came back with full vengeance. Allan “White Lightning” Donald who was making his international debut broke the back of the Indian top order with his deadly spell of first 4 overs reducing India to 20 for the loss of 3 wickets. Sachin Tendulkar who came when India was tottering at 3 for the loss of 2 wickets played a brilliant innings which included 8 boundaries and a six. He played sensibly along with Indian Captain Mohammed Azharuddin & debutant Pravin Amre adding crucial 40 and 56 runs for the 4th & 5th wicket respectively before Donald struck once again for the Proteas dismissing Tendulkar for an individual score of 62 runs from 73 balls. Donald was not finished yet and returned once again to remove Amre for 55 thus taking 5 wickets on debut but Sachin’s performance made sure that India won the match by 3 wickets remaining with 6.2 overs to spare.
Sachin Tendulkar & Allan Donald shared the Man of the Match award for the brilliant performance in a match which saw both teams fighting tooth & nail till the finish.Even in defeat, the South Africans were still overwhelmed by the occasion: I know how Neil Armstrong felt when he stood on the moon, said their captain Rice.

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Indian Captain Mohammad Azharuddin & South African Captain Clive Rice shaking hands before the toss.

Jimmy Cook and Andrew Hudson walk out to open the innings

Allan Donald bowls Pravin Amre

South African players acknowledge the crowd on their return to international cricket at the end of the match.

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Trivia:

╠►South Africa was making a comeback into international cricket after 22 years of ban over its apartheid regime.

╠►11 players made their ODI debut in this match. PK Amre (India); SJ Cook, AA Donald, AC Hudson, PN Kirsten, AP Kuiper, BM McMillan, CEB Rice, DJ Richardson, TG Shaw and RP Snell (South Africa). The only South African player who had played international cricket before was Keppler Wessels. Interestingly he didn’t play those matches for South Africa but for Australia. Wessels who is South African by birth made in international debut with Australia in 1982 (Test against England) and 1983 (ODI against New Zealand) when South African was serving the ban from international cricket.

╠►Allan Donald took 5 wickets on his debut and shared the MoM award with Sachin Tendulkar.

╠► Sachin Tendulkar’s score of 62 was his 4th 50 in the 19 matches he played at that time and his highest score at that point.

Originally Posted by Srinivasan

Man of the Match Award No. 2

INDIA v WEST INDIES 1991-92

Sachin's Score: 11 runs ( 27 balls, 1 four )
Sachin's Bowling Figures: 10-1-34-4


Date: 22 October 1991
Venue: Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium
Result: India won by 7 wickets (with 75 balls remaining)
Series: India 2, West Indies 0

Score Card: Click Here!

Overall Match Analysis: At Sharjah, October 22. India won by seven wickets. Toss: India. India had never beaten West Indies batting second in a one-day international, but when Azharuddin asked his opponents to bat they stumbled to 145 all out, and a third successive win put India through to the final. Though India lost Raman with one run on the board, Sidhu and Manjrekar put them on the right track with 107 for the second wicket.

Sachin's Performance Analysis: This was Sachin Tendulkar’s 16th match and he got his 2nd Man of the Match award. The unlikely instrument of West Indies' downfall was Tendulkar's gentle medium pace. Sachin picked up the wickets of Windies opener CB Lambert and also their captain RB Richardson. When both Sidhu and Manjrekar were dismissed in quick succession, Tendulkar and Azharuddin raced to victory with more than 12 overs to spare.


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╠►The 4-wicket haul was Sachin’s 1st in Limited over internationals.

╠►Kapil Dev became the first bowler to collect 200 wickets in limited-overs internationals when he had Benjamin lbw.

Originally Posted by Kimi

Man of the Match Award No. 1

INDIA v SRI LANKA 1990-91

Sachin's Score: 53
Sachin's Bowling Figures: 9 0 39 2 - 4.33(eco)

Date: 5 December 1990
Venue: Nehru Stadium, Pune, India
Result: India won by 6 wickets (with 21 balls remaining)
Series: Sri Lanka in India ODI Series - India led the 3-match series 2-0

ScoreCard: http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64362.html

Overall Match Analysis: At Pune, December 5. India won by six wickets. Toss: India. The Indians changed their strategy, putting their visitors in to exploit the early damp conditions, and Sri Lanka's slow progress seemed to vindicate the decision, until the left-handers, Gurusinha and Arjuna Ranatunga, pushed the score along in a stand of 97. The turning-point was Tendulkar's misfield and subsequent throw from long-on to run out Ranatunga. India's reply began with well-paced stand of 76, but when the openers went, Manjrekar and Azharuddin were pegged down by spin. Again it was Tendulkar who tilted the scales: he hit 53 from 40 balls, with seven fours and a six. Azharuddin had the satisfaction of striking the winning runs as India registered their second one-day series triumph under his captaincy.


Sachin's Performance Analysis: This was Sachin Tendulkar's 9th One Day International Match and he won his 1st ODI MOM award in this match after excellent all round performance. He Played a crucial role in the match , as the turning-point of the match was his misfield and subsequent throw from long-on to run out Ranatunga. He had already dismissed the two openers with his gentle medium pace, and he added two catches. During India's reply to Sri Lanka's total , Again it was Tendulkar who tilted the scales: he hit 53 from 40 balls, with seven fours and smashed a brilliant six. Definately an all round performance par excellence & deserved Man Of The Match Award.

Achievements: 1st Man Of the Match Award for Little Master!

Eye Witness Account: I was only 1 year old to witness it! :D

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Trivia: India registered its second one-day series triumph under Azhar's captaincy. Also, this is Sachin's first wicket in one day internationals. This is the second time that sachin bowled in an international match. The last time, he bowled 1 over against England conceding 10 run.This 8.5 econ of Kumble is his second worst economy rate in a match, the worst being in a match against england (econ 9)

Originally posted by Deepak Khurana

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