Sachin crosses 16000 runs...creates new record

A banner at Sydney Cricket Ground read "commit all your crimes while sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed, because, God is watching him bat......".

In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman, and the second greatest One-day international batsman behind Sir Vivian Richards. Then Sir Vivian Richards himself revised the ratings where Sachin was placed at no 1 and Vivian at 2.

The hero now crossed 16000 mark. If he plays until 40 he'll surely cross 20000 runs. Every run he scores in every match is a record. He's now the only batsman to score 20000 runs in international cricket. I'm sure that he'll cross 100 century mark in international cricket one day and that day is not ar away considering his current form.

Sir Sachin Tendulkar!!!!

Cricketing greats from the Commonwealth nations such as Sachin Tendulkar should be considered for traditional British honours like the knighthood, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

Considering his records, He should have been given the honor a long before.

Sachin will be the second Indian to receive this honor, Vizzy(Sir Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju) was the first cricketer to have been knighted on June 15, 1936. No other Asian figures in the list of 25 cricketers who have been honored with this distinction

Sachin Tendulkar, if chosen for the knighthood for his services to the game of cricket, can earliest be conferred with this honor on three days before he celebrates his 36th birthday on April 24 this year.

England's long cricketing feud with Australia clearly fuelled Brown's enthusiasm for India's historic win. Cricket has long been one of the great binders of Indo-British ties. And until some time ago Commonwealth cricketers were honored by the UK.