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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Hypotheses

Null Hypothesis:

  • Andrew Symonds gets subjected to monkey chant
  • Leaves IPL with the intervention of ICC
  • Foregoes $1.5 Million
  • Feels like a shmuck

I am going to presume this would be true until proven otherwise.

posted by tt_giant at 4:28 AM

6 Comments:

  • Is that right? Did not know he'd left IPL..neways Laxman's generosity was Symonds gain..I dont understand the logic for his high price tag..wat was HJyderabad thinking!

    By Blogger Maverick, at February 22, 2008 12:41 AM  

  • Maverick: He has not left; very much still going to earn 1.5 mill, until this hypothesis comes true!

    hehe

    By Blogger tt_giant, at February 22, 2008 6:34 AM  

  • Interesting -although according to the contract of CA we will have to wait for at least two years before we can verify that

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 24, 2008 9:15 PM  

  • Oops skipped reading Null hypothesis heading..wouldnt have mattered if id read anyways..been a while since ive thought geek ;-)

    btw, this should never happen to good old symmo..hes the kind of person who congratulates bowlers who have ripped his stumps apart!!!

    By Blogger Maverick, at February 26, 2008 9:28 PM  

  • Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar


    1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
    2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 42
    3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
    4. Most number of man of the matches(58) in the ODI's
    5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
    6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
    7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
    8. First Cricketer to pass 16000 run in the ODI
    9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
    10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
    11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 CricketWorld Cup at an average of 87.16
    12. Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single

    Cricket World Cup
    13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
    14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 89
    15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 417
    16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
    17. Most number of 100's in test's 39
    18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
    19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
    20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as the No.1 and Richards at No.2 in all time Greatest ODI player
    21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
    22. He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod

    Kambli,

    23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy

    debuts
    24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
    25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Shri and Padma Wibhushan by Indian

    government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
    26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
    27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
    28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
    29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 59 man of

    the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
    30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(12) against Australia
    31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport

    personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
    32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
    33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
    34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to

    the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
    35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
    36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:81 centuries
    37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 4 March 2008 he had accumulated almost

    28,153 runs overall.
    38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
    39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening

    partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
    40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
    41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they

    scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
    42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at March 05, 2008 8:39 AM  

  • Slash: Looks like they may not even play this year

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    Maverick: :-)

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    Anon: point well taken.

    By Blogger tt_giant, at March 14, 2008 8:58 AM  

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