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

so?

  • Ponting

    Votes: 49 68.1%
  • Tendulkar

    Votes: 23 31.9%

  • Total voters
    72

Laurrz

International Debutant
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

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its going to be close

(as of June 22)

Tendulkars age:
Current age 34 years 59 days

Pontings age:
Current age 32 years 185 days

about 1 and a half years difference, that surprised me, i thought the gap would be more

going to be an awesome contest between these two in the Border-Gavaskar series :D and this time Tendulkar doesn't have the disadvantage of playing against McGrath and Warne (particularly McGrath ;) )
 

Laurrz

International Debutant
oh yea, i picked Ponting ..

1) he's in unreal form and i hope it continues.. im confident it will.. also Aus play a truckload of tests

2) im a biased aussie :p
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Who'll win the battle of the 100s? Ponting I'm almost certain.

Whose career has been more notable? Tendulkar by quite a bit...
 
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Johnners

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Who'll win the battle of the 100s? Ponting I'm almost certain.

Who's the better batsman? Tendulkar by quite a bit...
I think it'd be fair to say that if Ponting ended with a significant gap between himself and Sachin in terms of centuries, that A) Ponting has continued his stunning form and his all time great stocks will have significantly increased, and B) You'd be able to rid of the "quite" for the aforementioned reason, or i'd even suggest they could be compared as equals.
 

Shaggy Alfresco

State Captain
The only thing that can stop Ponting winning is if he were to fall down a manhole and break both his legs.

Which isn't likely.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
I think it'd be fair to say that if Ponting ended with a significant gap between himself and Sachin in terms of centuries, that A) Ponting has continued his stunning form and his all time great stocks will have significantly increased, and B) You'd be able to rid of the "quite" for the aforementioned reason, or i'd even suggest they could be compared as equals.
Nah. Ponting was scoring well when Tendulkar was scoring stupendously - against generally better bowling attacks than of late. Ponting started scoring stupendously just when the quality of the bowling deteriorated. Sadly for Tendulkar, his skill declined not so long after that, so he was not able to cash-in the way Ponting (and a few others) have.

IMO, Tendulkar therefore was the better player, even if Ponting is now. But Tendulkar was sensational for 11 years, so it doesn't really matter too much to me if he's gone downhill afterwards.

PS, hope this doesn't attract C_C back. :unsure:
 

Johnners

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Nah. Ponting was scoring well when Tendulkar was scoring stupendously - against generally better bowling attacks than of late. Ponting started scoring stupendously just when the quality of the bowling deteriorated. Sadly for Tendulkar, his skill declined not so long after that, so he was not able to cash-in the way Ponting (and a few others) have.

IMO, Tendulkar therefore was the better player, even if Ponting is now. But Tendulkar was sensational for 11 years, so it doesn't really matter too much to me if he's gone downhill afterwards.

PS, hope this doesn't attract C_C back. :unsure:
One could argue though, that if Tendulkar was previously so vastly superior, that even with his decline, he still should've been closer to Pontings level of play since '03. Don't get me wrong, I agree that at this stage, in terms of what both have achieved in their careers, that Tendulkar > Ponting. However, i'll argue till death does me part, that the difference between Ponting & Sachin isn't as vast as some people make out, and it would be foolish imo, to rule out the possiblity, that when both their careers come to an end, they can be talked about on an even keel.
 

Fiery

Banned
One could argue though, that if Tendulkar was previously so vastly superior, that even with his decline, he still should've been closer to Pontings level of play since '03. Don't get me wrong, I agree that at this stage, in terms of what both have achieved in their careers, that Tendulkar > Ponting. However, i'll argue till death does me part, that the difference between Ponting & Sachin isn't as vast as some people make out, and it would be foolish imo, to rule out the possiblity, that when both their careers come to an end, they can be talked about on an even keel.
Yep, not much between the two of them imo
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
One could argue though, that if Tendulkar was previously so vastly superior, that even with his decline, he still should've been closer to Pontings level of play since '03. Don't get me wrong, I agree that at this stage, in terms of what both have achieved in their careers, that Tendulkar > Ponting. However, i'll argue till death does me part, that the difference between Ponting & Sachin isn't as vast as some people make out, and it would be foolish imo, to rule out the possiblity, that when both their careers come to an end, they can be talked about on an even keel.
Not neccessarily. Tendulkar has declined to such a level that he couldn't even be relied upon to score too heavily against popgun attacks on flat subcontinent wickets in 2004\05 and 2005\06. That tells me that, since 2003, he's not been a particularly notable batsman. Hence, I'm not inclined to read a great deal into his performances of the time.

Why he should have declined so much, so quickly, is not something that I can explain, but nothing will ever convince me that the 1990-2002 Tendulkar is not >>> the 2001-current-day Ponting.
 
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R_D

International Debutant
its the injuries that have slowed Tendulkar down so much.. don't think he's been able to stay fit for more than just couple of months in last 3 or 4 years. These little niggles he keeps on getting have slowed down his reaction heaps hence doesn't seem to pick the ball so early like he used to.
Ponting to get ahead of Sachin within this year i reckon.. fair few test matches for this coming up season so i can see him passing Tendulkar.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
its the injuries that have slowed Tendulkar down so much.. don't think he's been able to stay fit for more than just couple of months in last 3 or 4 years. These little niggles he keeps on getting have slowed down his reaction heaps hence doesn't seem to pick the ball so early like he used to.
Indeed - tennis-elbow which plagued him for a good 18 months or so IIRR is hardly helpful.
 

Johnners

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not neccessarily. Tendulkar has declined to such a level that he couldn't even be relied upon to score too heavily against popgun attacks on flat subcontinent wickets in 2004\05 and 2005\06. That tells me that, since 2003, he's not been a particularly notable batsman. Hence, I'm not inclined to read a great deal into his performances of the time.

Why he should have declined so much, so quickly, is not something that I can explain, but nothing will ever convince me that the 1990-2002 Tendulkar is not >>> the 2001-current-day Ponting.
As i said, at this stage the peak of Sachins career is more notable, but if Ponting continues on his merry way for another 3/4 years, it would be ignorant to not even consider the fact that Ponting = Sachin, especially if he continues at a rate that is vastly superior to his batting peers.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
As i said, at this stage the peak of Sachins career is more notable, but if Ponting continues on his merry way for another 3/4 years, it would be ignorant to not even consider the fact that Ponting = Sachin, especially if he continues at a rate that is vastly superior to his batting peers.
It's not just length of peak, though. It's quality of the bowling the runs are scored against. Not many people would deny, I presume, that the quality of the bowling between 1990 and 2002 (or 2001, to be exact, but it's hard to know for certain which point to choose - the end of Tendulkar's good period or the point the bowling declined) was better than that between 2001 and the current time.

In any case - Ponting will be 36 in 4 years' time. It'll be a hell of a player to be still doing the sort of thing he has most of the time since 2001 at that age.
 

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