Wining the cup was best part of my career: Sachin Tendulkar
Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar feels the best moment of his cricketing career was to lift the ICC World Cup 2011.
?As a young boy I started dreaming of winning the World Cup and to have now won it, I am still speechless. It is by far the best moment of my career, I?ve been dreaming of this moment for 21 odd years and its worth every minute, its been really special,? Tendulkar said on this week?s 30-minute special ICC Cricket World Radio Show.
?Its my sixth World Cup and you can well imagine having played one of them where we lost in the semis and one where we lost in the finals it was really heartbreaking but one should never give up, continue to work hard and not lose hope. My biggest dream was this and I continued to chase it and it came true,? Indian batting maestro said.
India cricket team captain MS Dhoni feels that his players were in good form and played exceptionally well to protect moderate totals.
?Cricket is a popular sport here, we were expected to win every game in this event and people knew we were talented it was an opportunity for us to fulfill. The players were in good nick for the whole tournament and although we struggled on occasion the bowlers did well and we defended modest totals to win the event,? Dhoni said.
?I don?t think we felt burdened to win the World Cup since India?s last victory in 1983, it was an achievement by our country back then,? he added.
?I never pictured winning the World Cup, we said over two years ago we wanted to win the World Cup and until the event happened, and only then, did I think from day to day about how we could go about reaching that goal rather than long term planning for the success,? former Indian coach Kirsten said.
Kirsten under whose coaching India won the World Cup said: ?Every individual I worked with, alongside Paddy Upton and later Eric Simons, we needed to get to know in a meaningful and authentic way and what was required to get the best out of him as a player.?
He also said that the coaching team worked hard with individual players and also set the goal as a team that helped in the building up of the side.
India defeated Sri Lanka at Mumbai to life the ICC World Cup 2011 on Apr 2.
It is feeling good that we won the world cup.i was not born when india won the worl cup in1983. so win is special for me. after australia and west indes we won it 2nd time. i love see india win world cup as 20 times or more.