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For a person who is quite an astute commentator and a former match refferee, i would imagine that Gavaskar has quite a good grasp of what is involved in today's international cricket.What does Gavaskar know about today's cricket (in terms of playing and travelling) to make a remark like that ? It is much easier to talk crap and accuse current players of whinning about 'excessive Cricket' than actually doing it. And yes Standing in the slip for 3 days when you dont have a fast bowler isn't count much for fielding.
And yeah Sehwag has had a very long tough Gruelling Career what is that 5 years ? How many ODIs did Mark Taylor play ? Steve Waugh didn't play ODIs during last two years of his career and stopped bowling since god knows when. Inzi, doesn't do anything else apart from batting and involving himself in ugly runouts snd still gets injured a lot of times.
Regardless of Inzy's injury problems, the fact remains that he's had a very prolific career- 300+ ODIs and 100+ tests in a 15 year career span. That is pretty gruelling.
Steve Waugh played considerable cricket too- 150+ tests and 250-ish ODIs is no joke and he too lasted a long while ( cant really fault a man over 35 decieding to quit one version of cricket). Point is, tubby batsmen can still very much survive in today's 'gruelling' schedule and Gavaskar too, would probably have survived.
It is quite irrelevant as i didnt compare Gavaskar to tendulkar in the first place.I expected you to ignore the links about Tendulkar and Gavaskar and come up with the bullcrap you do every time. N gave you a count of no. of first class games played by Gavaskar and Tendulkar both premiere batsmen of their era
I said that too much cricket per se isnt the problem- too much travelling is. You'd notice that almost every single bonafide international player from the 70s and 80s who also plied their trade in English county cricket have more days/year on average in their careers than almost all players today. Which is precisely my point- too much cricket isnt the problem. Whether Gavaskar played a truckload of cricket in his day isnt the issue here. The issue is there are plenty of former international players who played far more cricket than what players do today.
I did note that it is too much travelling, not too much cricket.And that travelling is because of Cricket, something you fail to understand and continue with your load of ******** . Tendulkar has played 250 ODIs more than SunnyG and do you know how much travelling that involves.
And no, too much travelling isnt because of more cricket played.
If you have 5 3-test series a year instead of 3 five-test series, you end up travelling more. Simply because it is much more start-stop in nature. BCCI in the 90s for eg. used to spread their ODIs around less - it used to be Mumbai-Kolkata and a few cities within 500 miles of those centres that hosts the ODIs and switched around the major cities per tour. Now teams are flying from one end of the subcontinent to another.
Its more of a travelling circus today which it definately doesnt need to be.