The Greatest Cricketer Ever? - Page 4

I think sachin is the most thinking bowler !!!

The GOD of cricket SACHIN TENDULKAR all the way! ⭐️👏😛😃😍😎🤓

Theres no doubt sachin tendulkar is a great cricketer, but i have admired Imran khan for as long as i have been breathing. Edited by -Sajjal- - 13 years ago

LOL Tendulkar worshipping is getting predictable, tbh. He's a good batsman by all measures of the yardstick but best cricketer ever? Um probably not. I honestly doubt half the people rating him so highly have actually watched him through 2002-2007 or when he was going through a slump. And no, a criticism against him isn't a personal slight against anyone.

On topic:
Donald Bradman from the stats I have read.

Ponting and Dravid from what I have seen (and that's limited to 2002-07). Ponting (loathe him) was pretty amazing in ODIs then. Dravid used to rectify shit starts and carried the team more times than I care to count. More of a game changer than most have been, easily. It will be a shit day for the team when he decides to retire.

This is just batsman, mind.
Edited by ShadowKisses - 13 years ago

Stats won't tell ya true story .. Go back in your room and watch CD's of Bradman Batting .. No doubt he was a great batsman .. But one series of rib bowling ended his target .. It was against England I think ..Whereas, Sachin's whole career been responded to body line bowling... moreover, C'mon , Technology was not so advanced when Don played and I assure ya if Tendulkar would have played in that time, He would have averaged 150 or 200 .. Moreover he just played 52 test .. Whereas check statics how many sachin did played ..  He has played around 180 test matches and averaging almost 60 .. His One day record and bowling having edges over don as well ... Bradman was a great batsman but cricketer I don't think so.. well at the end of day, You can't compare greats of different era's ..

Dravid been wall of india .. He is just superb batsman and one of my favorites ..but he being best cricketer NO .. Whereas Tendulkar played 3 format of games successfully .. Dravid been great in tests and In one dayers, only in last couple of years of his career ....  So yeah, No comparison here as well ... 

Edited by bhinder.thind - 13 years ago

Originally posted by: ShadowKisses

LOL Tendulkar worshipping is getting predictable, tbh. He's a good batsman by all measures of the yardstick but best cricketer ever? Um probably not. I honestly doubt half the people rating him so highly have actually watched him through 2002-2007 or when he was going through a slump. And no, a criticism against him isn't a personal slight against anyone.

 

Edited by tomnjerry2 - 13 years ago

the god of cricket one n only SACHIN TENDULKAR...........
luv Virat kohli too😳...

uh sachin tendulkar hands down. no question!

"if cricket is a religion, sachin is the God."
Edited by Cutiepie Rani - 13 years ago

Originally posted by: Cutiepie Rani

uh sachin tendulkar hands down. no question!

"if cricket is a religion, sachin is the God."

I COMPLETEY AGREE!!!

For the sake of human existence people please just get over this ' Sachin cant bowl or feild ' bhoot and stick it in your brain that HE IS THE BEST!!

@bhinder.thind: You are contradicting yourself by saying stats don't tell the true story and simultaneously citing several of Tendulkar's statistics (for me to infer from, I would assume). Bradman was, as I understand it, the true Colossus of the game as he averaged 45 more runs that the players of his era. I don't think even Sachin has ever managed that over the entireity of his career.

Fact of matter is quite simple - when *I* was passionate about it and watched it, Tendulkar ranked behind Dravid + Ponting for me. It may be that he played well before and after I watched but I haven't watched enough to praise or condemn him for it. I thought I outlined that clearly.

Don't particularly find your argument regarding Tendulkar and Dravid convincing, either. SRT has the edge in ODIs (limited overs) no two ways about it but I'd easily give Dravid the edge in Test matches. I don't know how Dravid has done in the Twenty20 limited overs format as I haven't been following cricket piously so I can't comment on that. However, I have seen enough of him prior to that to know he was a rock in Test series - especially the away ones and this wasn't just towards the supposed end of his career. He'd walk in at shit scores like 3-2 and 6-2 and attempt to save face. I do view him as (slighlty more) invaluable to the team as Tendulkar and it will be a sad day when these two, along with Laxman, decide to retire.

Oh come on, Sachin has no weaknesses? That's bull, tbh. I'm willing to listen/read to what you have to say and have a healthy debate but overstatements like that are getting old, fast.

@tom-jerry: I'm sorry but posting stats out of context doesn't really argue much. Tendulkar averaged 17.25 in Tests back in 2003. That was his worst year by far. I don't really get where you are pulling an average of 57 from. If I had to guess, it would probably have been the WC ODIs that boosted his average. Same with 2006. He had an average of 24-25 in Tests and ODIs make it look better. Ironically, 2005 when he didn't flop so badly in Tests is weighed down by poor ODI performances. While it is nothing short of amazing that he has managed to turn his career around after the debacle of 2007 WC campaign, statements like oh, he's always played well aren't necessarily true IMO.

Off to watch more footie  :D
Edited by ShadowKisses - 13 years ago