ORDER OF AUSTRALIA-A RARE HONOUR FOR SACHIN TENDULKAR

The Australian Prime Minister ,who is visiting India ,has announced  a very rare Honour"Order of Australia"

to the Master Blaster Of IndiaSachin Tendulkar.According to the PM,Sacin is a rare Brilliant cricketer.

According to Australian convention  this Honour afford is being coferred  upon Australian Citizen/National al

alone.But very rarely outsiders are also being considered for the Honour..There are no Indian cricketer or

sportsmen  honoured by Australia so far.Sachin is the first to be honoured .Earlier former Attorney  General

ofIndia was honoured with the membership of "Order of Australia"

All the Captains including Ricky Ponting got this honour starting with Sir Donald Bradman.(Incidently Sachin

is the only cricketer who had oportunity to get an interview with Sir Bradman,who invited him to his

residencein Australia).Shri Sohrabji was honoured in 2006.


While making the announcement the Aus PM said it was the "rare brilliance in cricket" that persuaded them

to grant the rare honour to Sachin,The total number of matches he had played against her country in the three versions of cricket too was a contributing factor towads awarding this honour.

Earlier three other legends of Cricketers outside Australia  who were honoured were Clive Lloyd,Gary Soberse& Brian Lara , all from WI

But Sobers was Aus national by marriage.

The Australian PM  also said it was not only their pleasure to  honour the  brilliant cricketer but adds towards  srengthen the strong relationship between India&Australia as well!

Sachin has scored 15533 runs from 190 Test matches&18426runs from 463 One day internationals apart from scoring one Hundred Centuries from International Cricket.These features are likely to remain intact
for a long time to come.

               The following is my personal opinion purely or poorly! when is British Govt going to honour him with "Sir?"

Another personal feeling.! why Australian Government skipped their greatest achiever living, the Great Shane Warne even inspite of honouring the less popular Mathew Haiden?!!!

        SreedharanMundanat
17th Oct2012
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