I'm a big fan of Tendulkar, but I'm also a fan of cutting through the crap and looking at relevant/fair stats. So this article from Australia that claims to use stats to show why Tendulkar is over-rated interested me. You can make up your own mind on the relative merits of Tendulkar v the likes of Ponting, Dravid, Kallis, Jayawardene and Sangakkara.It does seem that India needs to look at their wickets if they want to make Test cricket more of a contest between bat and ball - as they pile on a huge score again v Sri Lanka (they're currently 600-4) it's interesting to note that all of India's top 4 average 50 or more. Sehwag averages 50, Dravid 53, Gambhir 54 and Tendulkar 55.
I think Tendulkar would make my world team.
That article really was rubbish. It said "Amongst the palaver and the hyperbole, the figures reveal the truth about how good a player is. The truth is, Tendulkar is overrated."
ReplyDeleteThat simply doesn't mean anything and "Truf Sayer" would appear to be a bit of a knob end.
Sachin would get in my world XI, just ahead of...er ...everyone else.
An additional Tendulkar stat is that he's played in 52 of India's 100 victorious Tests...
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