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Sachin Tendulkar passes Allan Border's record of 11,174 runs

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Anil

Hall of Fame Member
Mister Wright said:
I've always picked him in my greatest teams, as there's no doubting his excellence as a cricketer, however as DCYE said, imo he's not that great to watch (I'm talking test cricket, love him in ODIs). Out of Indians in particular would much rather watch a Laxman, Ganguly or Dravid innings. He's just never captured my interest to be considered one of my favourite players.
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got it:)...it's just that you two are the only people i've heard who don't find it enjoyable to watch tendulkar in full flow...
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Anil said:
got it:)...it's just that you two are the only people i've heard who don't find it enjoyable to watch tendulkar in full flow...
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to be completely honest, while there is no doubting the fact that most of his strokes are absolutely beautiful to watch, his test innings often seem to be rather fits and starts kinda thing... And quite often, he seems to play in one mode... Either very defensively or very attackingly... I often felt that unlike a Lara or a Ponting, his innings didn't have the phases that one associates with good old traditional test batting... The slow start, the slight acceleration, then a bit of consolidation with the field being spread and then the top gear assault-finish...

Obviously, it is all highly subjective, but it is one feeling that I did get watching him in test cricket.... As others have said, in ODIs it is the opposite. His innings always seem to follow the phases quite strictly and they just SEEM to be better constructed than his test efforts. BCL is the opposite in ODIs... His innings seem to go in fits and starts mostly....


Note that what I have said are mainly about Sachin post 96... since when I have basically watched every innings of his...
 
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Anil

Hall of Fame Member
honestbharani said:
to be completely honest, while there is no doubting the fact that most of his strokes are absolutely beautiful to watch, his test innings often seem to be rather fits and starts kinda thing... And quite often, he seems to play in one mode... Either very defensively or very attackingly... I often felt that unlike a Lara or a Ponting, his innings didn't have the phases that one associates with good old traditional test batting... The slow start, the slight acceleration, then a bit of consolidation with the field being spread and then the top gear assault-finish...

Obviously, it is all highly subjective, but it is one feeling that I did get watching him in test cricket.... As others have said, in ODIs it is the opposite. His innings always seem to follow the phases quite strictly and they just SEEM to be better constructed than his test efforts. BCL is the opposite in ODIs... His innings seem to go in fits and starts mostly....


Note that what I have said are mainly about Sachin post 96... since when I have basically watched every innings of his...
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the recent tendulkar might fit that description, but the 90s one had all the gears and switched between them effortlessly...his two centuries on his first australian tour, his first century in england, his chennai century against australia in the series clincher in 2003-04, his chennai century against pakistan which almost won us the match, his 160+ in south africa in a losing cause etc etc...could go on and name a few more...and switching gears when you are in form and in control of the situation is not what i would term fits and starts, it is being able to play according to the needs of the situation....he has played a lot of defensive long innings when not in form(especially in the 2000s) and those i guess could be termed as one-dimensional innings....anyway that's the way i see it...:)
 
nightprowler10

nightprowler10

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Mister Wright said:
I've always picked him in my greatest teams, as there's no doubting his excellence as a cricketer, however as DCYE said, imo he's not that great to watch (I'm talking test cricket, love him in ODIs). Out of Indians in particular would much rather watch a Laxman, Ganguly or Dravid innings. He's just never captured my interest to be considered one of my favourite players.
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AWTA as far as Laxman goes. I'd rather watch SRT over the others though.

Anyway, congrats to the little man.
 
Perm

Perm

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I never used to think Sachin Tendulkar was up to much. Then I saw him bat in an ODI against South Africa. My god it was beautiful.
 
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