"Technically no one is better than Sachin Tendulkar, not even Sir Don Bradman." - @MClarke23

[Real McCoy]

SRT is technically good but how do you evaluate everyone else. I'm pretty sure that Clarke has never seen Bradman batting even in batting footage. Many would argue that Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Len Hutton, Don Bradman, Sunil Gavaskar, Geoff Boycott and even SRT's temporary Rahul Dravid had a better technique. Clarke is clearly sucking up to India because there is huge money to be made in cricket in India. Clarke is already commentating in IPL and giving promo to Sony/Star coverage of Tennis, Kabaddi, etc. All of a sudden Matt Hardy would say Tendulkar is a great cricketer and his fans would jerk off to his twitter account.

[vvvslaxman]

42 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Clarke is right, Sachin with his talent should have scored like Bradman and racked up huge scores, I still feel one more year of Ranji's would have made him a far better player than he became. He had everything except racking up those huge scores.

Concentration lapse. Also had this minor weakness against incoming delivery. Getting out to guys like Gavin larsen, Hansie Cronje with those deliveries. 

[prudent_kreeda]

1 hour ago, zen said:

Being technically great and the greatest batsman are two different things .... can’t argue against an avg of 100

      Yes. Ultimately its runs , domination over bowlers and wins that should be looked at. 

       Only for technical aspect , we too had our Sanu- Manju , who was obsessed with techincal stuff !     

[raki05]

3 minutes ago, Real McCoy said:

Jack Hobbs,

Have you seen their Technique. Cricket in his days was immature sports even during Bradman era where they Played against same opponent entire life. Nonetheless Clark knows more about technique than you. BTW have you seen Rahul technique Dravid avg in sa, aus and sl.

[Straight Drive]

2 hours ago, zen said:

That could be true as technically it is hard to find fault with Sachin's batting .... Don was more like Sehwag in a sense that he was not text book perfect. Lara, for e.g., too is technically not as good as Sachin .... Gavaskar is also technically great if i m not wrong 

 

 

Sunny was technically the  best. There is nothing wrong about that. 

[Nikhil_cric]

1 hour ago, rkt.india said:

yes his tennis elbow injury issue has been overblown.  it is not such an injury that would have had a huge impact on his batting.

Stress fracture of the back affected his batting more than tennis elbow.

[Nikhil_cric]

Technically he was close to perfect. As perfect as a batsman could be. Nothing wrong with what Clarke said. He never had the exceptional boundary hitting ability of a Lara(hand eye was not as quick), had poor physical fitness( was downright fat in 1999), was mentally not that tough and did not have exceptional powers of concentration that an Amla/dravid type player would have had. Mcgrath rated Tendulkar as having the most water tight technique at one point. Also i think he played far too much cricket over a short period of time. Something like a ridiculous 100 ODIS in 3 years(performing at a very high output in that format) between 96-99 along with tests. The Laras, Clarkes,Amlas and others who have massive hundreds and doubles in tests didn't really have that kind of workload in ODI's anyway. 

[Number]

SRT had great record against all types of bowling against every opposition in all conditions. For every other batsman you could find a bogey country. 

Thats why SRT is regarded as the best ever when it comes to pure batsmanship.

[rkt.india]

2 hours ago, nevada said:

He had trouble with the incoming delivery, fell lbw quite a few times. And after getting out, he would bend his knees as if to indicate the ball kept low due to vagaries of the pitch. For all his perfect technique and immense success as a ODI opener, he never opened in tests. Bradman may not have had the technique but numbers don't lie. He is head and shoulders above his peers in average. Sachin isn't.

You misunderstood, Clark did not say SRT had perfect technique.  No one can have perfect technique.  he said SRT had better technique than any other batsman.  He was close to perfect, not perfect but close to perfect.

 

TBH, peers mean ****.  if your peers are **** and you are head and shoulders above your **** peers that does not make your greatest ever.  Milind Kumar averaging 126 is head and shoulders above his peers in his group but those peers are ****.  

Edited January 5, 2019 by rkt.india

[Number]

Some pathetic low self esteem people can only see monetary reasons whenever an Indian is praised

Abe IPL ki aulaad Sachin Dravid etc were praised by many greats of the game when we had no IPeeL and were a poor cricket country. 

[zen]

17 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

TBH, peers mean ****.  if your peers are **** and you are head and shoulders above your **** peers that does not make your greatest ever.  Milind Kumar averaging 126 is head and shoulders above his peers in his group but those peers are ****.  

that is not apples to apples .... as we are taking about test cricket and cricketers from the best test playing nations of their time  

 

[rkt.india]

56 minutes ago, zen said:

that is not apples to apples .... as we are taking about test cricket and cricketers from the best test playing nations of their time  

 

you are talking about best amateur cricketer of his time.

[zen]

4 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

you are talking about best amateur cricketer of his time.

Well guys like Vijay Merchant, Vinod Mankad, Vijay Hazare, etc., are considered legends .... in fact Vinod Mankad used to sleep outside stadiums iirc

 

One should not get carried away in trying to show something good about Tendulkar 

[King Tendulkar]

31 minutes ago, zen said:

Well guys like Vijay Merchant, Vinod Mankad, Vijay Hazare, etc., are considered legends .... in fact Vinod Mankad used to sleep outside stadiums iirc

 

One should not get carried away in trying to show something good about Tendulkar 

Annoys me how we neglect our past legends

 

Vijay Hazare, Merchant batting legends who started the great batting tradition

 

Mankad for me is our best spinng all rounder EVER and absolute legend.  Kapil best seaming all rounder

[King Tendulkar]

On SRT technically perfect. 

 

But came from era and past of failures.  So mental baggage there.  He broke free but still at times it was too much being in weak team often and so much expcation and so much past failures of India team.  He stood up but often found it tough for reasons outlined. 

 

He was not perfect but dammn good and won us too many games.  Just couldnt do it all the time and support cast in his pomp (90s) was non exisitent.  Kohli is rulthelss winner in odis, no doubt, suppassed kohli in odis in terms of seeing team home but then Kohli surpassed all in odis is fearless machine

[Rasgulla]

5 hours ago, Audiophile said:

K L Rahul >>>>>>>> Sachin

He took less innings to score a 100 than sachin. Why is this even a question lol 

[Rasgulla]

3 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

You can't match this technique. One was not out. One was out lol

 

Sachin can't stretch that much because he is tiny tiny man. 

 

 

[anish2tweet]

Being technically great and the greatest batsman are two different things .... can’t argue against an avg of 100

Bradman mostly played against England. I don't know how he would have handled our spin quartret.

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[FischerTal]

He was never the same batsman after tennis elbow. 

[sandeep]

10 hours ago, anish2tweet said:

 

Why is this Australian so pro-India? Beats me.

https://t.co/uETEjV02E7

 

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An ambitious bloke who's been pushing a consistently pro-India line ever since he became a commentator.  He was among the few Aussies who publicly said that there is some fire to the DRS brainfade smoke.