Which is the best Indian batsman: Sunil Gavaskar or Sachin Tendulkar?

Question

You have to pick one, and one only. Who do you choose? And why?

Answer 1

Sachin Is Better....

Answer 2

sachin tendulkar can change his mode of play as required,

he could play aggressively when the run rate required is high and when india needs him to stay till the end he calms his cricket. AND sunil gavaskar who made a 174 ball 36 during the world cup match against england cannot be depended on . india required 336 off the 60 over match that day

Answer 3

Don't compare these great players of two different periods. Many things have changed in the mean time. rules of game are different today than what it was earlier . Even the approach towards the game is different .

Each one of them were the greatest during their time ....one is of "past" and another is of "present".

Answer 4

Sachin Tendulkar is the best batsman as the statistics and records prove

Answer 5

gavaskar was a gr8 test player but also a bit slow for today's t20 gen. & also was a slow odi player

sachin can play all forms of cricket very well.......

Answer 6

Sachin Tendulkar cos he's better and jas broken gavaskar's record

Answer 7

With Out a Shadow of doubt Sachin Tendulkar.

The 2nd greatest batsman of all times.

Answer 8

Sunil Gavaskar is a brilliant test player, and was an hopeless one day player.

Sachin is brilliant at both forms. This is why we cant compare DON BRADMEN TO SACHIN, because as amazing as bradmens stats were in test, who knows if he could do that in one dayers. Plus bradmen only played in either australia or england, and got 85% of his runs against england. Where as sachin has had success all over the world against all the sides.

Answer 9

Gavasker

Answer 10

Gavaskar

Answer 11

both are good. But sachin have somting more..

Answer 12

Chose Sachin T over Gavaskar as per Stats and his career and style.

Answer 13

Sachin Tendulkar-Hands down

In any form of cricket

Against any team

On any ground

Answer 14

i'hv not watched batting of sunil gavaskar. so i like sachin

Answer 15

In test cricket,Sunil Gavaskar is 'UNTOUCHABLE'.

He according to me is one of the 3 greatest test batsmen ever.The other two being Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar respectively.

Technically he was and still is the greatest batsman ever.

Don't misunderstand me here.Don Bradman is inarguably the greatest batsman ever but he was technically better in his era.His tehcnique may not have worked against bowlers of 80's but Gavaskar's technique will work right now in 2008 and in any era.

If you are technically as good as Gavaskar then you can survive in any era ever in cricket from 1880 to 2010.

But every time you are comparing any batsman with the only God of cricket (Tendulkar) you have to give grace marks to Sachin because he has been under more pressure than any other cricketer or even sportsman ever.

''When Sachin comes to bat,more than 1 billion people switch their tv sets on and their life off.''

No other man in the world is under more pressure of expectations than Sachin Tendulkar so he should get grace marks for that reason when compared with any batsman.

He is a better stroke maker but Gavaskar had better defense.

Since batting in test cricket is more about surviving for long period and less about strike rate hence Gavaskar has to be rated ahead of Tendulkar.

But helloo,there is another format in cricket called one day cricket and Gavaskar didn't do that well in it.

Sachin on the other hand has done much more in odi cricket than anyone else and better than anyone else.He is without any doubt much superior in odi cricket than Gavaskar.

So, Gavaskar > Tendulkar ( in tests)

and Tendulkar >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gavaskar (in odi cricket)

Overall, Sachin is the winner.

But i will finish my answer with the same line with which i started-

In test cricket,Gavaskar is untouchable.

Technically the greatest batsman ever.

Answer 16

Sunil Gavskar was good,nice,calm but people wouuld had ot bored up with the test cricket he played.His strike-rate wasn't good & one may not feel him as exciting.he was short & he couldn't hit big sixes but could drive the ball nicely into the boundary line.He has played many games for India & has won many matches for India.He has been a good cricketer & was performing well.

Sachin,he has scored ovr 10000 runs n both tests & ODIs,has hit maximum 100s in testes 7 ODIs,has been a biggest legend in cricket ever,have offered a lot to cricket,he has been a chief entertainer of cricket & he is the best of all time.He is little,he can play very beautiful shots,hit big big sixes & he is the best.No one can match his skills.The only one thing sachin is sad of should be he hasn't been able to lift the world cup even once despite all his achievements.But he always rock & he is the all time best of the game.