Sachin Tendulkar: The “Little Master”
There have been quite a few batsmen who can be categorized as the one of the best batsman to have played the gentleman’s game.
The debate will go on and on especially when the world has witnessed and cherished the likes of Don Bradman, Gary Sobers, Sunil Gavaskar, Allan Border, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Inzamam-ul-Haq-c64383.
Focusing on the recent crop of players, who stand out for their majestic batting displays are Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Mohammed Yousuf, and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Dravid.
When you think about the greatest batsman in history of cricket instantly, the name of Sir Don Bradman immediately comes to mind for his phenomenal average of 99.94 which remains miles ahead of others. He needed only 4 runs in
his last inning to achieve the feat of having an average of exactly 100 but emotions got the better of him and he got out on a duck, which kept him at bay from reaching the milestone. Realistically it looks to stand forever as the best average by a batsman
in Test cricket.
With all respect to the Aussie little master there is another man who perhaps can be touted as the best batsman of all time Sachin Tendulkar, who has overhauled almost all the batting records.
Regarded as the cricketing God in India, Sachin holds the record of scoring most centuries, 48 in Test and 46 in One-day Internationals. He also became the first batsman to score 50 international centuries. Not only this, he now
heads the list of cricketers who have played the most Test matches in history surpassing Steve Waugh’s haul of 168 matches when he played his 169th Test match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
Even legendary Shane Warne went on to say that the batting maestro from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 is the greatest batsman he has ever seen. Not only this when Sir Don Bradman was alive he listed his all time eleven and from the present generation
only Sachin’s name was present which is some achievement when you look at players who have been there with amazing performances.
The batting phenomenon from India is the first player to score 10,000 ODI runs and 12,000 Test runs. He has also amassed over 30,000 runs combining all form of International cricket which in itself is an astounding record. He became
the only second batsman to score 10 centuries against the mighty http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, a mountainous feat which was first achieved by Sir Jack Hobbs.
When he equalled the record of Bradman’s 29 Test centuries the formula one team Ferrari and its world champion presented him a Ferrari Modena.
For his outstanding contribution to the game of cricket, Tendulkar was nominated as the second best all time Test and One day batsman by Wisden only to be behind Bradman and Viv Richards respectively. But now comparatively Sachin
seems to be better than the two greats particularly, when there are bowlers that are much harder to play than those of previous time. He has faced and succeeded against the likes of Wasim and Waqar, Walsh and Ambrose, the greatest spinners in history Shane
Warne, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn, Shaun Tait and Shane Bond.
Sachin definitely is the greatest batsman of all time, no matter what people say his performances and statistics can never be neglected and his greatness can never be undermined by the cricketing experts and fans.
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