honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Well, that always in Pratyush's posts was kinda unwarranted.. But I still don't think Sachin has done something I won't expect from him.. The real reason I believe Lara is slightly better is because I tend to view making big scores when in form as an important aspect of batsmanship in tests and it is an aspect where I think Lara is better than Sachin by a wee bit... In other areas, they are basically neck and neck.. Sachin is perhaps more likely to make a 30 than Lara at their worst, but as I said, my personal opinion is that there is a bigger difference between 100 and 130 than 0 and 30, given the stage of the game and the type of batsmanship you would see and what it does to the guy at the other end and to the guys still in the dressing room... You can't always explain it but it is something you learn when you play....Sachin could average 70 for three more years and you'll always rate Lara better than him?
Can only truly judge when both careers are over. It's not as if Sachin's career stopped when Lara retired. You compare career vs. career.
At the end of Sachin's career one can say Lara was the better player. You may think that at this point in time Lara is. But saying "I'll never rate" just points out that its an unchangeable opinion based on bias.
Obviously, if we include ODIs, I would say Sachin > Lara... And in ODIs alone, Sachin is easily better than Lara... But I am talking about tests here.