{"id":13210,"date":"2013-02-18T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13210"},"modified":"2013-02-18T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:04:36","slug":"sachin-is-still-the-best-bet-in-team-india-shastri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13210","title":{"rendered":"Sachin is still the best bet in Team India: Shastri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3029\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sachin-tendulkar\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Former Indian captain and commentator Ravi Shastri is expecting Sachin Tendulkar to play couple of good knocks in the upcoming four-match Test series against Australia, starting in Chennai on February 22. According to Shastri, rolling money on Tendulkar is the safest bet and for sure he will come out with flying colors in this series against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be hungry, he\u2019ll be really hungry. If Australia allowed him to score in the first two Test matches this will be a very big series for Tendulkar,\u201d Shastri said. \u201cHe will come out a little nervous, there will be nerves in the first couple of innings but if he gets a 50, 60 or 70 in one of the first two innings then this could be a big series for him,\u201d Shastri was quoted as saying by the \u2018Sydney Morning Herald\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Batting Maestro, Sachin Tendulkar, is looking in good nick especially after scoring couple of centuries in the first-class matches. He has shown his hunger of scoring big hundreds in the Irani Trophy Match where he smashed bowlers like Pragyan Ojha and Harbhajan Singh who are going to be in playing eleven against Australia for the First Test.<\/p>\n<p>The batting legend is going rough patch in Test cricket where he hasn\u2019t scored a century in his last 31 Test innings, spanning 17 matches and more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>But Shastri feels that Tendulkar is still the best bet in the Indian batting line-up. \u201cEngland bowled extremely well, but I get the feeling that the break he\u2019s had for a couple of months, he\u2019s gone back to the kind of preparation he\u2019s used to. I want him to be positive and not get into a defending kind of mode. He has to play his natural game, if he does that we\u2019re in for some entertainment,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>When he was asked about the chances of Australia, he wrapped up by saying that, \u201cI think you need two quality spinners to keep things tight and do the job. In the sub-continent wickets you just can\u2019t go without two spinners and Ahmedabad Test that England played India is a prime example of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-3029\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sachin-tendulkar\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Former Indian captain and commentator Ravi Shastri is expecting Sachin Tendulkar to play couple of good knocks in the upcoming four-match Test series against Australia, starting in Chennai on February 22. According to Shastri, rolling money on Tendulkar is the safest bet and for sure he will come out with flying colors in this series against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be hungry, he\u2019ll be really hungry. If Australia allowed him to score in the first two Test matches this will be a very big series for Tendulkar,\u201d Shastri said. \u201cHe will come out a little nervous, there will be nerves in the first couple of innings but if he gets a 50, 60 or 70 in one of the first two innings then this could be a big series for him,\u201d Shastri was quoted as saying by the \u2018Sydney Morning Herald\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[876,6293,2215,921,556],"class_list":["post-13210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-harbhajan-singh","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-pragyan-ojha","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-sachin-tendulkar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sachin is still the best bet in Team India: Shastri - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13210\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sachin is still the best bet in Team India: Shastri - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Former Indian captain and commentator Ravi Shastri is expecting Sachin Tendulkar to play couple of good knocks in the upcoming four-match Test series against Australia, starting in Chennai on February 22. 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If Australia allowed him to score in the first two Test matches this will be a very big series for Tendulkar,\u201d Shastri said. \u201cHe will come out a little nervous, there will be nerves in the first couple of innings but if he gets a 50, 60 or 70 in one of the first two innings then this could be a big series for him,\u201d Shastri was quoted as saying by the \u2018Sydney Morning Herald\u2019.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13210\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-18T09:04:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sachin-tendulkar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"187\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8f51f3c66686ab3518464e9b8368646\"},\"headline\":\"Sachin is still the best bet in Team India: Shastri\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-18T09:04:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210\"},\"wordCount\":379,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/03\\\/sachin-tendulkar.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Harbhajan Singh\",\"Indian Sports News Network\",\"Pragyan Ojha\",\"Ravi Shastri\",\"Sachin Tendulkar\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cricket\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/indiansportsnews.co.in\\\/?p=13210\",\"name\":\"Sachin is still the best bet in Team India: Shastri - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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