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who has been the worse person to play in a team with Sachin Tendulkar

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
The last line of his Cricinfo profile is pretty damning

"But he could never really make it big in the international arena what with the lack of penetration and his tendency to spray the ball all over being obvious shortcomings."
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
This would be a lot more fun if you hadn't have limited us to Test cricket.

In fact, how about playing "Six degrees of Sachin Tendulkar?"

You need to find the shortest route between any current cricketer and Sachin, through matches where players have played on the same side. In fact, I think this deserves its own thread. I wonder how many connections I'll have to make between me and Sachin...?
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
I can manage:

Tendulkar played with Pollock for the Mumbai Indians
Pollock played with Amla for South Africa
Amla played with Mark Sanders for KwazuluNatal
I played with Sanders once in an Exeter Evening League match

That gives me a Sachin number of 4.

(EDIT - Not three. Can't count.)
 
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Cruxdude

International Debutant
A friend of mine bowled one ball to Sachin during practice (courtesy well connected father). I have played many a school game with the said friend. Gives me a Sachin number of 2. :ph34r:
 

Chubb

International Regular
Ravindra Pushpakumara played against Sachin for Sri Lanka.
I played against Pushpakumara in a friendly match in Norfolk when I was at uni.
I have a Sachin Number of 2.
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
Ravindra Pushpakumara played against Sachin for Sri Lanka.
I played against Pushpakumara in a friendly match in Norfolk when I was at uni.
I have a Sachin Number of 2.
Against doesn't count - against is too easy.

Has to be with!
 

Chubb

International Regular
Can't get that close with. Nowhere near that close.

OT, by this criteria I have one degree of seperation with Osama Bin Laden!
I met and interviewed Peter Arnett, who met and interviewed Bin Laden! Crazy.
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
I played in a school team.
One of my teammates played reps with the Randwick-Petersham grade wicketkeeper.
That wicketkeeper has played with Simon Katich.
Katich played with Irfan Pathan.
Pathan played with Tendulkar.
 

Chubb

International Regular
Worked out my "with" number, just because.

I played with CJ Johnstone
He played for Southland with Jacob Duffy
Duffy played for Otago with Ryan ten Doeschate
Tendo played IPL with Gautam Gambhir
And then obviously Gambhir played with Sachin.

4. Said it would be much higher than "against" :(
 

uvelocity

International Coach
Another good game is how many people you've played with until you get to chix that raufy has played with
 

palemantle

Cricket Spectator
I'm going to skip the six degrees business and nominate poor Devang Gandhi FTW.

The Indian team for the 1999-2000 triseries in Aus had some real gems. At one point, their middle order comprised of Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Jacob Martin, Devang Gandhi, Robin Singh and Samir Dighe.
 

Spikey

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you guys can pick domestic players I guess, I just figured we'd get more good anecdotes by limiting it to international cricket
 

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