Accidents

Accidents

Textbook definition of accident may tell you that it is an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.

It is just something that happened, and nothing else. What about the people who say there is reason behind everything that happens. I don't usually believe in this thinking especially because many things cannot be justified by any reason. But lets go with this for a moment because Master Oogway from Kung Fu Panda said - "There are no accidents", Let's think that there must be a purpose behind anything that we normally feel is an accident.

There are no accidents

Typically, after an accident, you get lot of free time to think over it. In usual case - because you are hurt and are advised to take rest and you are not capable to go to office.

So, was thinking, why would an accident happen when someone is travelling? With no fatal injuries, luckily, touchwood - what could be the reason for the accident.

1. Was it to teach driving sense - may be not if there is no fault involved as such.
2. was it to remember God - I don't think this is how it works. Ya, this may be outcome but cannot be reason.
3. was it to give some rest - in this case, a common cold with mild fever would have been suffice.

Then what?

May be, it was just an accident and no reason for it. An in case there was any reason or lesson to be learnt, I request the One with Power to give more hints on this without injuries. Will try best to learn.

More to come, hopefully. Ouch..

Will miss you - God of Cricket

He is all what Cricket meant to me. There is just no cricket beyond Sachin Tendulkar. Records are just numbers, pure joy was to watch him play. Its not easy to describe the joy so just pasting some records of His. He wont be playing ODI now on is a really sad news Sachin Retirement was always going to be a sad news. He is the reason why Cricket became like a religion - hence He is like God (at least for me). Here is another article from me about Him - http://smallfunstory.blogspot.com/2012/08/cricket-and-sachin.html

Records are just numbers - watching Him is pure Joy

ODI

1. Matches Played: 463 ( Most )
2. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
3. Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
4. Inning appearances: 452 ( Most ). First to appear in 400 innings in ODI matches.

Sachin Tendulkar Most runs in an ODI Innings

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record most runs scored in one ODI innings. He is the one and only batsman to score 200 runs (147ball 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa

Runs scored:

1. Most runs in an ODI Innings: Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for being the first batsman to score 200 runs (147 balls 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa. It was the highest score by any batsman for a while, before Virender Sehwag scored 219 (149 balls, 25x4 7x6) against West Indies in the 4th ODI of the 2011 home series against them
2. Most runs: Sachin has scored 18426 runs in 452 innings of odi cricket at an astonishing average of 44.83 and blistering strike rate of 86.24.He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000-17,000 and 18,000 run marks.
3. Sachin Tendulkar First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16,000 and 17,000, 18,000 ODI runs.
4. Sachin Tendulkar has the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year.
5. He has done it seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007
6. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
7. Tendulkar is the only batsman to score over 3000 runs against any opponent (Australia). Tendulkar is also the only batsman to achieve the feat runs against two opponents - Sri Lanka is the other team.
8. After Sachin crossed the 10,000-run mark in ODIs, only seven other players have managed to cross the milestone: (Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Inzamam ul Haq, and Jacques Kallis).
9. 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
10. Tendulkar holds the record for the highest individual score in a one day international when he scored 200 not out breaking the previous record of 194 in the India vs South Africa ODI on 24 February 2010.
11. Tendulkar holds the record for the most fours ( boundaries ) in an innings. He hit 25 fours in the innings against South Africa on on 24 February 2010 when he scored double century.
12. Only player to score 5, 150+ (186*, 152, 163*, 175 and 200*)scores in ODI cricket, followed by Sanath Jayasuriya of Srilanka with 4, 150+ scores in ODI

Centuries and Fifties record:

1. Most centuries: 49
2. Only cricketer to ever score a double hundred in the ODI format - against South Africa at Gwalior, India.
3. Most centuries against an opponent - 9 vs. Australia.
4. Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
5. Most centuries in Final Matches 6 & India Win All Matches
6. Most centuries against One Team - Australia 20 (11 Test+9 ODI)
7. Most Fifties: 96.
8. Highest number of above fifty scores in ODIs - 141 (49 Centuries and 96 Fifties).
9. Most Fifties in World Cup Matches (21)

ODI awards:

1. Most Man of the Match Awards: 62 Man of the Match Awards
2. Most Man of the Series Awards: 15 Man of the Series Awards
    

• Calendar Year record:

1. Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.
2. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
    

Sachin Tendulkar Partnership Records in Cricket history

1. Sachin with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,609 runs in 136 matches that includes 21 century partnerships and 23 fifty run partnerships. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair is also a world record.Most century partnerships for opening pair in the cricket history- Ganguly and Sachin put together 20 century partnerships as opening pair.
2. Sachin 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
3. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.
4. Most runs (2,278 at an average of 56.95 as on 9 April 2011) in World Cup Cricket History including 6 centuries & 15 fifties with a best score of 152* against Namibia in 2003 world cup * 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup.
5. Player Of The World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
6. 5239 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16, making him the highest run scorer in the 1996 World Cup and setting the then record for the highest runs by any player in a single Cricket World Cup - subsequently bettered by himself in the 2003 World Cup
7. Of 462 matches Sachin Tendular has played, India has lost 200 matches.
8. He has opened Batting 340 times in ODI cricket which is a record.
9. He has 96 fifties to his credit. Most by any Batsman.
10. He has scored 50+ runs 145 times in ODI cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar World Cup Records

1. Most Runs. (2120 Runs)
2. Most Fifties. (13 Fifties)
3. Most Hundreds. (6 Hundreds)
4. Most runs in a series. (673 runs in 2003 World Cup)
5. Highest Partnership runs for 3rd wicket. (237 Runs with Rahul Dravid). Game Appearances:

Test

1. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (192).
2. On his Test debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y 205d). Mushtaq Mohammad (15y 124d) and Aaqib Javed (16y 189d) debuted in Test matches younger to Tendulkar. Since then, there have been 2 players who were younger than Sachin on their Test Cricket debut: Hasan Raza - Pakistan (14y 227d), the current youngest debutant, and Mohammad Sharif - Bangladesh (15y 128d).

Runs Scored:

1. Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 15562 Test runs.
2. Career Average (1989–2012, 192 Tests, 15,562 runs) at 54.60
3. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. Lara took 213 innings, Sachin 223 and Border 259.
4. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
5. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.
6. Sachin Tendulkar (8145) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.
7. Sachin Tendulkar (29) world record of Centuries in Tests away from home.
8. First player to reach 12,000-13,000-14,000,15000 Test runs.
9. Holds the record for scoring most 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. He has done it Six times - 2010 (1600), 2008 (1063), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).
10. Sachin Tendulkar is the fourth highest run-getter in a single calendar year in Test History. He has scored 1562 runs in 2010 and is behind Mohammad Yousuf (1780 runs in 2006), Viv Richards (1710 runs in 1976) and Graeme Smith (1656 runs in 2008).
11. Sachin Tendulkar created yet another record on 8th November 2011 when he became the first cricketer to score 15,000 runs in Test cricket, during the opening Test match against the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.
12. Sachin Tendulkar created a world record" Sachin Tendulkar sets one more world record for aggregating most runs in Tests". Cricket Country. Retrieved 11 November 2011. for aggregating most runs in the fourth innings in Tests, going past Rahul Dravid's tally of 1507 runs during India's second innings of the first Test against West Indies.

Centuries:
 

1. Highest number of Test centuries(51), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record (34). On October 10, 2010 in Bengaluru (Bangalore) against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar trophy's second and final test match Sachin Tendulkar reached a milestone. With a single to third man, Tendulkar reached his 6th double century and his 49th test century.
2. Highest number of 150+ score in Test Cricket (20)
3. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century. Only Mushtaq Mohammad had scored a century at a younger age by 1990. Tendulkar's record was bettered by Mohammad Ashraful in 2001/02 season. The record for previous youngest Indian centurion was held by Kapil Dev.
4. Tendulkar's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.
5. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side. Gavaskar held the previous record (205 against West Indies in Bombay - 1978/79 season)
6. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all Test playing nations. 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 Atapattu.
7. Tendulkar's 37th century against Bangladesh during the 2nd Test , made history as the 1st time the top four batsmen of any team had all scored centuries in a single innings. Dinesh Karthik (129), Wasim Jaffer (138) and Rahul Dravid (129) were the other centurions in the innings.
    

Combined (ODI & Test & T20I) records

1. First batsman in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket. He now has 100 Centuries (51 in Tests and 49 in ODIs), which is the record for the highest number of centuries in international cricket.
2. First batsman in history to complete 33,000 runs in (ODIs+Tests). He has now scored 33969 runs [ODI(18426)+Test(15533)+T20(10)]
3. Most overall runs in international cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), with 33,000 + runs overall ( in Tests, in ODIs)
4. Record of getting out the maximum number of times in the 90s in international matches. He has been dismissed 27 times (17 in ODIs and 10 in Tests) on scores of 90-99. The 18 nineties (dismissed 17 times and not out once) in ODIs are an ODI record too.

More to come, hopefully.

My favorite movies

The most interesting topic of all for me. My most favorites of all time till time now. I am starting with movies, because its lot easier as well as generic for all. I am just going to write about few of the movies which I really really love or with which I had a great time watching.

First in the list is the movie which I have seen a million times - Andaz Apna Apna. I do not think this movie needs any introduction. 

Amar and Prem flees after fooling and robbing respective fathers Murli Manohar and Bankelal Bhopali. Meets Anand Akela on the way and enters contest to win over heart of Raveena. Ends up falling in love with Raveena and Karishma whose father Ram Gopal Bajaj is kidnapped by twin brother Shyam Gopal Bajaj aka Teja assissted by Robert and Bhalla. They are chased by Crime master Gogo. Special appearances by Juhi Chawla and Govinda and a chameo character Johnny from Wah-Wah Productions completes the amazing rollercoaster ride called Andaz Apna Apna.

The above synopsis works when you have seen the movie number of times, which I assume you have had already. If you have not yet watched it - find an excuse for yourself if you ever tell this to anyone and do it today and now.

You know what, I was going to write about other favorite movies of mine but I just cannot now. I cannot list any other movies like I can Andaz Apna Apna. This movie is simply a run away winner when it comes to a movie which you can watch again and again with same degree of entertainment. Add to it, good music too.

The best way to watch this movie again and again is to start the movie and let the fans do the rest. Guess the next scene, next dialogues. Say it loud when the movie is playing. This is how it is done!!

You will find huge collection of dialogues from this movie all over the internet. Some of my favorites are:

Bhalla: ye Vasko Da Gama ki gun hai.....
Teja: kiske mama ki gun ?

Happy birthday Robert

Mogambo ka batija hu. Gogo.. aaya ho kuch to loot k jao ga.. khandani chor ho ha.ha.ha.ha

ye teja teja kya hai...ye teja teja

Teja:Maine pachaas lakh mange the...ye pachaas lakh thaili me leke aaye hai
Robert:sir lakh lakh ke pachaas cheque honge sir.


I can go on and on and on. Let me stop here on Andaz Apna Apna. More to come, hopefully.