Ikki
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Sachin played 2 tests of 11 IIRC back in the 90s against Warne and McGrath. In fact, he averages 39 when you simply look at when he played McGrath which is 3 tests. Tendulkar took apart Warne at his worst, but whenever McGrath was there he had a poor record. His numbers are average at best, and at some points pretty poor. 'Sounding' good is not enough.i disagree. sachin played mcgrath and warne together in 1999-00, 2001-02 and in 2004-5. he was the man of the series in the first one. scored a century and two cracking fifties in the second one. sounds good enough to me.
Sachin's record vs:
McGrath+Warne: 7 matches @ 42.
McGrath: 9 matches @ 37.
Warne: 12 matches @ 60.
His runs are obviously heavily influenced by the period where Warne was injured/out of form and that's when he played Warne most from 98-01. When he played against McGrath, he was usually losing the battle. When he played both, he was good in Australia but averaged 39 in India.
He's played 29 matches against Australia and only 7 times against them both, so clearly, his record is not as successful as appears.
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I didn't want to get into a whole Tendulkar thing, but just showing why I think his 90s record is a bit overrated.