Print

[Cover_Drive]

Obviously Sachin will make his 100th century in this match, that guy plays for record. I don't know who but I read on PP they will be giving 100 Gold Coins to Sachin if he makes it in Mumbai so that is no brainer and obviously he will make it. Guy plays for record and money lol

I rate Rahul Dravid as a better player to be honest.

[The_Bird]

Rahul Dravid has always impressed me with his class and stubbornness to not give his wicked away, although he has never amazed me like sachin does, his 200* against SA was the greatest one day innings ever and will take some beating. If you start your career at 16 and play til your 36+ your going to have quite a few all time run records.

[PedalsMcgrew]

Rahul Dravid has always impressed me with his class and stubbornness to not give his wicked away, although he has never amazed me like sachin does, his 200* against SA was the greatest one day innings ever and will take some beating. If you start your career at 16 and play til your 36+ your going to have quite a few all time run records.

Especially if the majority of your games are on sub continent strips that are about as threatening as Graham Norton....

I do appreciate the obvious talents of guys like Sachin, Dravid, Laxman etc. They are wonderful players but I do wonder what their career stats would have been if they had played the majority of their games on different wickets. Fact is, the Indian fans like watching India bat so they prepare pitches to suit them and always have done. Most Indian fans don't even bother turning up if India are in the field.....

[Cover_Drive]

Especially if the majority of your games are on sub continent strips that are about as threatening as Graham Norton....

I do appreciate the obvious talents of guys like Sachin, Dravid, Laxman etc. They are wonderful players but I do wonder what their career stats would have been if they had played the majority of their games on different wickets. Fact is, the Indian fans like watching India bat so they prepare pitches to suit them and always have done. Most Indian fans don't even bother turning up if India are in the field.....

Top post.

I would love to see Indian batsman scoring as many runs on English, Australian or even South African pitches. In my opinion a player is who is able to score each and every part of the world not just Asia where pitches are batsman friendly.

[ppccopener]

interesting posts here.Perhaps not SRT fans.

I'm not an Indian fan,Sachin actually averages more in here in England than his overall test average

[The_Bird]

I think you can say Tendulkar (on test match debut!) and Dravid (every time he bats in Eng) have performed on foreign pitches but not many others, the latest crop look like they've never seen a swinging or bouncing ball. Suresh Raina looks a world beater in the IPL, out of India he's a joke. Sehwag, Laxman etc would have half the stats if they played in Eng/Aus or SA Permanantly that's a cert lol

[Mr Cricket]

how many young indians grow up wanting to be fast bowlers watching this?

destroying test cricket single handedly, 600 plays 600

imagine jonathan trott on a road like that, he'd bat all five days for 1000*

shame, really enjoyed sa vs aus on a sporting wicket, cant stand watching generic spinners such as ashwin or ojha bowl a million overs, taking 5-99999999999 and being praised as if theyre the next shane warne when the other team make 500, two of the top teams on those wickets would draw every test, who wants to watch that?!

[ajm90]

The australia vs south africa test matches were some of the most entertaining test matchhes ive seen on T.V for a while because there was a contest between bat and ball instead of one dimensional 400+ an innings cricket.

[Cover_Drive]

I agree

how many young indians grow up wanting to be fast bowlers watching this?

destroying test cricket single handedly, 600 plays 600

imagine jonathan trott on a road like that, he'd bat all five days for 1000*

shame, really enjoyed sa vs aus on a sporting wicket, cant stand watching generic spinners such as ashwin or ojha bowl a million overs, taking 5-99999999999 and being praised as if theyre the next shane warne when the other team make 500, two of the top teams on those wickets would draw every test, who wants to watch that?!

Bang on the target mate! Lovely post!

I don't even call SRT a great player, Indians call him 'God' but I call him 'God' of Flat Tracks )

[Joe]

Sachin's in...

[jw17]

You cant say SRT isn't a great player because you don't get a record like that without preforming the highest standard all round the world.

[Manormanic]

I don't really know why SRT attracts so many outright haters, I really don't.  Look, I'm not going to tell you that he doesn't have a slightly padded record on the basis of years playing on sub-continental dust bowls, but you really can't argue with that weight of runs.  If 99 international centuries, 33'000 international runs, an ODI double century etc were so straightforward, why don't we all go out and acheive the same...oh, sorry, we're not actually that good.

Some people refer to the idolatry that SRT obviously attracts in India and point tot hat as a factor buoying his average - I say thats crap.  Sure, it probably has its moment, but the guy has to go out in disguise and has his effegy burnt when he fails.  Thats pressure - and you have to admire some of the innings he has played under that pressure.  My favourites?  Well, aside from the most terrifying century I've ever seen in a Roses One Dayer (it was so brutal that Lancashite greeted him with seven men on the ropes in the Championship game the next day) at 17, it has to be that double ton in Australia - the one with no front of the wicket offside shots.  Thats not greed for runs, its talent - talent that led The Don to describe him as the nearest batsmen he had ever seen to his own level, talent that had Shane Warne call him the most impossible batsman to bowl at...

[petehosk]

No matter what anyone says, I still rate the little fella one of the best ever!!

[Rik]

Regarding some of the earlier comments, I'm fairly sure Virat Kohli is in the starting XI. Yuvraj was dropped.

[Tumo]

He's one of the best ever, but I'm bored of seeing him play at home, scoring runs. England made him look more than human. Always had talented batsmen around him if he failed (Dravid, VVS, Sourav, etc) so if he didn't do the business someone else normally did. He's good to watch, but I rate Lara's runs as better than his, simply because Lara carried that side's batting. He dragged it through the s**t, and managed to win them games.