And then there's the three Ws...Barbados:
Marshall
Sobers
Garner
Sachin Tendulkar averaged 46.52 scoring 1,070 runs from 16 Championship matches and was second best in terms of average among yorkshire batsmen during that year, and third among highest run aggregators among the Yorkshiremen (the other 2 had played 18 and 22).He averaged barely 40 and had a terrible year for us and wasnt even our first choice.
haha, touch a nerve did I?Sachin Tendulkar averaged 46.52 scoring 1,070 runs from 16 Championship matches and was second best in terms of average among yorkshire batsmen during that year, and third among highest run aggregators among the Yorkshiremen (the other 2 had played 18 and 22).
So I don't think that was a terrible performance for a 19 year old.
Trust anything remotely "anti" about Sachin to touch not only one but all nerves of a self-confessed Tendulkar-addict!haha, touch a nerve did I?
19 or not, he was playing as an overseas pro and still had a massive reputation.
He scored 1 century in 16 games for Yorks (a score of exactly 100). That wasnt good enough for a high profile overseas pro (Yorkshires first ever).
He was a massive disappointment. There are no 2 ways about it.
Tendulkar was destined to be jinxed as far as gifted cars were concerned. The Ferrari fiasco was such a rubbish non-incident blown to indecent proportions by the media too.EDIT- A story about Tendulkar. He was living in Bradford whilst at Yorkshire and sharing an apartment with Kambli (I think or was it Jadeja?), who was playing local league cricket.
Yorkshire gave Tendulkar a sponsored car with "Sachin Tendulkar. Yorkshire and India". The car was then proceeded to be stoned everytime he drove it or parked it around Bradford by British Pakistanis. They had to take the stickers off in the end.
I agree that Sachin was not the greatest cricketer for Yorkshire. However all I was trying to prove was that while he didn't have the greatest year, he did not scrape the bottom as Goughy was ostensibly suggesting.Surely this all further explains why Goughy wouldn't pick him as one of Yorkshire's best cricketers though?
He does. However, Sachin simply didn't have time for any FC cricket once ODI cricket caught fancy of the public and BCCI, and even lean seasons meant travelling to places like Sharjak, Morocco, Toronto etc for imo useless ODI binges.Doesn't Tendulkar average like 60+ for Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket? I'm sure he could have dominated County Cricket too, but if he'd done that then perhaps we would have been robbed of his batting these last few years.
Boycs was a particularly phenomenal runscorer in First Class cricket. I believe that of all the batsmen with more than 100 FC centuries, Boycott's average (56.83 or something close to it off the top of my head) is second only to Bradman's.The best Yorkshire players (ie, best for the county rather than best players who at one point represented the county) irrefutably played a loooooooong time ago, in the likes of Hirst, Rhodes, Sutcliffe, Hutton, Trueman, Boycott.
What's odd is that while Herbert Sutcliffe was almost certainly a better batsman than Geoffrey Boycott, Boycott's Yorkshire average was actually higher.