Sachin’s records not invincible, feels http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234 – Cricket News Update
Legendary Indian all-rounder, Kapil Dev, reckons that the formidable records set by the batting prodigy, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar, are not forever, and will be broken in the future.
"Sachin has played brilliantly throughout the career and has accumulated huge records but his records will also be broken one day because this is cricket,” said Kapil Dev, while speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a promotional
event.
Citing batting veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 said that a player might be a great during his era but he is rarely invincible because no one is greater than the game of cricket.
"When we were playing we used to think that whether the future will see any greater batsman than Sunil Gavaskar," said Dev, who played 225 One Day Internationals and 131 Tests for India during an international career span over 16 years.
"But we were wrong. There have been greater players than Gavaskar. Because the game of cricket is bigger than any player," he added further.
Sunil Gavaskar, who played 125 Tests and 108 One Day Internationals for the men in blue between 1971 and 1987, is widely regarded as one of the greatest openers the game has ever seen. The 63-year-old Maharashtra born was the batting prodigy
of his era and held many batting records in that time, including most Test runs and the most Test hundreds scored by any batsman.
Gavaskar’s record of 34 Test centuries remained invincible for almost two decades, before little maestro, also from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Maharashtra-c811, broke it in December 2005.
On the other hand, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, the 39-year-old top order batsman, holds almost every batting record in contemporary cricket. He has played the maximum number of international matches and is the leading run getter in both Test and
ODI formats of the game with 15470 and 18426 runs respectively.
The unique record the maestro has recently set is his hundred international tons (49 ODI and 51 Test), and it is being presumed that whilst all other records set by Sachin might be broken in the long run, it would be very difficult for
a batsman to break this record, as it not only needs consistency but also Sachin’s longevity to reach somewhere around hundred hundreds.
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