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Sachin given award by Wisden India

There is absolutely no need of explaining the credibility of Sachin Tendulkar and another feather was added on his hat by felicitating him with Wisden India Outstanding achievement award. This award ceremony was organized in Dubai. The place where this award ceremony was organized was not too far from the stadium where he made the excellent pacer Shane Warne literally spellbound in the year 1998. The trophy was a crystal one with a highly stylish look and was of high prestige.

According the cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar, he had a spent a memorable night of his life on that day as the ceremony was full of life with a plotted comedy, a trophy and of course which ended with dinner. He has received a number of trophies but this trophy was unparallel according to him. Sachin was honestly best part of the evening as it was made more wonderful by the questions asked by Alan Wilkins. Alan was a bowler from Glamorgan and no is a well known face in the Star Sports- ESPN in the Asian branch. His tricky questions were beautifully handled by master blaster who answered all the questions with a sixer.

This celebration includes a total of six dinners one of which was on this day and five will be celebrated later in the span of three years. This will help both the master cricketer and his fans to interact with each other. Sachin Tendulkar came closer to the fans as he answered questions based on his successful life. He talked, he smiled, he answered and he made the evening a memorable one to everyone who witnessed it.  The master blaster with 49 ODI 100s and 51 Test 100s showed his skill in this award ceremony with a usual attitude.

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IPL Shamed

The Indian Premier League might be one of the foremost and quite easily the richest domestic Twenty 20 competitions in the world with world class players thronging the Indian cricket grounds to get their share of the multimillion dollar cake that the IPL is but it is not exactly free from controversies as well, as we have seen in the previous four editions of the tournament. But the 2012 edition of the Indian Premier League seems to have surpassed all other previous editions of the cash rich tournament in terms of the controversies courted by it.

First there was the spot fixing scandal, followed by Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan being banned by the Mumbai Cricket Association from entering its cricket ground for disorderly conduct and now, the IPL has been shamed again by the news that Australian batsman Luke Pomersbach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore has molested an American lady and beat up her Indian fiancé at a hotel in Bangalore. When the news first broke, there was hardly any taker but now, it has been revealed that the Aussie cricketer has admitted to his deeds to the police.

Luke had been given an interim bail after his lawyers approached the bench on a surety of 60,000 INR and had to surrender his passport. But with the latest developments, it seems that he will need another surety with the constitution of India stating that the maximum punishment for molestation can range from anywhere between 3 and 7 years.

However, the American woman and her Indian fiancé are willing to withdraw the case against Pomersbach if he is willing to compensate them handsomely and apologizes publicly for maligning them. Now it all seems to hinge on whether Pomersbach wants a prison term or just escape from the country with his dignity, or what’s left of it still intact.