Tendulkar vs Ponting - who will win the battle of 100's?

[Spark]

Ah, 2007 Ponting. Those were the days.

 

[Jono]

Look not saying its impossible for Ponting to keep going like he has been doing in the past 2 years, but this is exactly what people were saying about Tendulkar in 1996-98. "If he keeps this up, he'll have every batting record in world cricket"

Age catches up to everyone.

Very happy with that one.

Unfortunately for us all, it's hard to be as awesome as Ponting was forever.

 

[Bun]

Heh @ some of the old posts.

 

[biased indian]

June 2007

Tendulkar* 137 tests
37 hundreds
avg. 55.44

Lara 131 tests
34 hundreds
avg. 52.89

Gavaskar 125 tests
34 hundreds
avg. 51.12

Ponting 110 tests
33 hundreds
avg. 59.29

April 2011

Tendulkar* 177 tests
51 hundreds
avg. 56.94

Kallis 145 tests
40 hundreds
avg. 57.43

Ponting 152 tests
39 hundreds
avg. 53.51

Gavaskar 125 tests
34 hundreds
avg. 51.12

 

[pskov]

Ponting has only scored 6 test hundreds in nearly 4 years. Pretty astonishing really.

 

[Jono]

Average dropped almost 6 points, which is the bigger point IMO.

I reckon if you compared Dravid's average from 2007 to now it'd be a very similar story.

 

[Dasa]

Average dropped almost 6 points, which is the bigger point IMO.

I reckon if you compared Dravid's average from 2007 to now it'd be a very similar story.

Dravid 2007
Average: 57.46
100s: 24
50s: 47

Dravid 2011
Average: 52.44
100s: 31
50s: 59

 

[Jono]

Yep, as I expected.

Ponting and Dravid's fall almost correspond in time as well. Around mid-to-late 2007.

Dravid basically since India's tour of England in 07.

 

[Dissector]

Yeah it's uncanny how similar the test careers of Ponting and Dravid have been. Both their peak periods and their declines. Giving up the captaincy didn't really help Dravid's batting and it will be interesting to see if it helps Ponting.

 

[vcs]

Dravid has done his fair share of minnow-bashing as well.

 

[hang on]

in terms of the 100s race:

tendulkar
a clean pair of heels (otherwise known as daylight)
kallis
ponting
sangakkara
jayawardene
dravid