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Sachin Tendulkar v Virat Kohli - who is better ODI batsman?


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12 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

Not tough tracks, but tougher conditions. It's not silly. 

 

It's not difficult to see that every single time there is little bit of help modern batsmen struggle to post 200 on similar pitches where same score was made in 90s and 2000s. 

What tougher conditions did Sachin excel care to show one example.If he was that great why would he scofe single hundred in all SENA countries and none in WI.

 

He scored 38 hundreds in Asia and rest of them are against Kenya ,Nambia an Zimboks.He has 4 100s in SENA so what great knock did he have , did I miss anything???

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8 minutes ago, Stan AF said:

Two new balls have made Spin virtually non-existent as well.  There isn't enough wear and tear on the ball to grip & turn. This is a good reason as to why finger spinners have become non-existent. If you check stats in this decade for spinners they would be few and far between.

  

  

 Wrist spin is the only consolation we have as of now. And they are very few and far between.

We had a time when part timer were very common because of this. They had spread field and old ball to work with. That luxury is completely gone now.

 

It's easy to keep playing through line when you know that you get value for strokes.

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4 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

Just in previous match, India scratched 250 on a easy to bat surface just because swung a bit in first hour.

 

@putrevus Do you think batsmen of 2000s would have folded below 200 at Sydney? 

Did India get bowled out for 54 that too in Sharjah when so called mighty Tendulkar leading India's chase of 299 that too against SL.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8537/scorecard/65900/india-vs-sri-lanka-final-coca-cola-champions-trophy-2000-01

 

Don't overestimate Tendulkar, he was not greater than Kohli in anyway.

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5 minutes ago, rtmohanlal said:

surprised not to see Lara in that list

Lara didn't open much post 1996, if ever in fact.

 

Just to complete the list of stats, pre & post inaugural WT20 avg+S/R of major openers.

 

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ML Hayden (AUS) 2003-2007 70 70 5 2998 181* 46.12 3751 79.92 8 13 4 310 43 investigate this query
SR Tendulkar (INDIA) 2003-2007 70 70 5 2893 141* 44.50 3569 81.05 6 18 3 376 24 investigate this query
CH Gayle (ICC/WI) 2003-2007 95 93 10 3437 153* 41.40 4145 82.91 10 15 10 419 58 investigate this query
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HM Amla (SA) 2008-2011 46 46 4 2437 140 58.02 2608 93.44 8 14 0 240 12 investigate this query
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6 minutes ago, putrevus said:

What tougher conditions did Sachin excel care to show one example.If he was that great why would he scofe single hundred in all SENA countries and none in WI.

  

He scored 38 hundreds in Asia and rest of them are against Kenya ,Nambia an Zimboks.He has 4 100s in SENAso what great knock did he have , did I miss anything???

Why do you want similar performances in tougher conditions? These are tougher conditions for a reason and reason for lower averages.

 

Can you find a single series in Kohli's career where highest score by any team was 216 or less?

 

You're saying that there were no tougher conditions. 

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/62289.html

 

Guess what was the average score in that series? Comparable series in Kohli's career is 2012 Ind v Pak where Junaid Khan was all over him.

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9 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

Why do you want similar performances in tougher conditions? These are tougher conditions for a reason and reason for lower averages.

 

Can you find a single series in Kohli's career where highest score by any team was 216 or less?

 

You're saying that there were no tougher conditions. 

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/62289.html

How were they tougher conditions, it was just inept batting in odis. Tests it is different story, 2018 was the year of bowlers and Kohli excelled in it.

 

Gavasker scored 36 runs in 60 overs, it does not mean they were tougher conditions.

 

Shastri won Audi car in 1985 where he scored 50 of 100 plus balls in most of his innings not because they were tougher conditions.Kapil scored 50 of 30 balls in same match too.

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12 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

We had a time when part timer were very common because of this. They had spread field and old ball to work with. That luxury is completely gone now.

 

It's easy to keep playing through line when you know that you get value for strokes.

Plus in your post you should have added the length of boundaries. Though it will be difficult to find real data to verify this claim. Many grounds have ridiculously smaller boundaries now.

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6 minutes ago, putrevus said:

How were they toughers conditions, it was just inept batting in odis. Tests it is different story, 2018 was the year of bowlers and Kohli excelled in it.

So, how do modern batsmen fail when there is slight support for bowlers?

 

What happens to them suddenly?

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Just now, Stan AF said:

Plus in your post you should have added the length of boundaries. Though it will be difficult to find real data to verify this claim. Many grounds have ridiculously smaller boundaries now.

Length of boundary is overrated issue.

 

There were enough short boundaries even earlier. 

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18 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Did India get bowled out for 54 that too in Sharjah when so called mighty Tendulkar leading India's chase of 299 that too against SL.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8537/scorecard/65900/india-vs-sri-lanka-final-coca-cola-champions-trophy-2000-01

 

Don't overestimate Tendulkar, he was not greater than Kohli in anyway.

In what aspects Kohli is better than Tendulkar in ODIs. Please list those. I will start with:

 

1. Lesser arrogance and less ariel shots - this is partly due to more desire to finish the game and knowing that scoring can be done easily without slogging in easy conditions.

 

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4 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

So, how do modern batsmen fail when there is slight support for bowlers?

 

What happens to them suddenly?

I just gave you an example 54 all out, and India with all their leading batsmen including Sachin were all out for 70 in 20 overs if I am not wrong against SA in 2008 that too in India.

 

Don't forget 66 all out and 100 all in Durban with same Fab 4.

 

Collapses happened in every era and will continue to happen in future too. Sachin was far batter batsman than Gavaskar.Kohli is similiarly far evolved and better batsman than Sachin.India is lucky to have back to back to back super stars in batting.I have seen Sachin all my life , I cannot agree with anyone who says he was better than Kohli.

 

Kohli is one batsman who puts his ego away when he bats, he showed that in ample measure both in Australia and England in tests.

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2 minutes ago, putrevus said:

I just gave you an example 54 all out, and India with all their leading batsmen including Sachin were all out for 70 in 20 overs if I am not wrong against SA in 2008 that too in India.

  

Don't forget 66 all out and 100 all in Durban with same Fab 4.

 

Collapses happened in every era and will continue to happen in future too. Sachin was far batter batsman than Gavaskar.Kohli is similiarly far evolved and better batsman than Sachin.India is lucky to have back to back to back super stars in batting.I have seen Sachin all my life , I cannot agree with anyone who says he was better than Kohli.

  

 Kohli is one batsman who puts his ego away when he bats, he showed that in ample measure both in Australia and England in tests.

Yes, but if you play 5 matches on flat decks and 5 on tough tracks, will you say that one scoring higher on flat decks batted better?

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2 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

In what aspects Kohli is better than Tendulkar in ODIs. Please list those. I will start with:

 

1. Lesser arrogance and less ariel shots - this is partly due to more desire to finish the game and knowing that scoring can be done easily without slogging in easy conditions.

 

That is what seperates Kohli with rest of the batsmen.I have never seen any batsmen other than Viv Richards who has so much confidence in himself.

 

He backs himself to chase anything because he knows he is that good and has self belief and ability to do it.Don't dilute with nonsense like easy conditions.

 

Sachin even on his best day and on flattest wickets couldn't do things which Kohli did  in his career.I repeat once again Sachin is not better than Kohli in any aspect of batting in odis.He can face any attack which Sachin faced and do better than him.

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The mental disintegration of some fans in this thread is hilarious, SRT is still the biggest big match player for India, especially in WC :om:

 

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4 hours ago, Number said:

In my opinion, Kohli has passed the stage where only lack of a world cup k.o. performance can be held against him. 

stilll .. would be very difficult to conclude when all factors are taken into account .Then it all comes to  one's own general perception after giving weightages to all these factors and taking all of them as a whole.For instance for me....Sachin played in  an era  when the general avg: team score was far lesser when  compared to that of  now a days. So naturally it comes down  to how much weightage it can be given to this factor of keeping out those comparatively very  high percentage of wkt: taking deliveries  that comes thru out an inns on the avg:  in general .Similarly the amount of pressure Sachin had to cope with and how much weightage one gives to that factor.For me I gives lots of weightage to these factors and  hence if could be still Sachin for me.On the other hand for some others who does not give that much weightage to these factors, it could be Kohli ....

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One more notion that Sachin somehow had more pressure is also ridiculous. Kohli plays in ERA where expections are so high for Indian team in all formats anything less than winning whole tournament or series anywhere in the world is considered a failure.

When did Sachin played under this sort of pressure to win everything,India won recently in Australia for first time in 71 years and yet people were finding faults.Sachin was presiding in test losses to Zimbabawe.

 

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2 hours ago, putrevus said:

One more notion that Sachin somehow had more pressure is also ridiculous. Kohli plays in ERA where expections are so high for Indian team in all formats anything less than winning whole tournament or series anywhere in the world is considered a failure.

When did Sachin played under this sort of pressure to win everything,India won recently in Australia for first time in 71 years and yet people were finding faults.Sachin was presiding in test losses to Zimbabawe.

 

Schedule these days is hectic. IPl, T20Is, Odis and Tests. Back in those days all they had was 2 formats. Sachin can never ever match Virat's fitness in first place. What are the chances of him passing YO YO test I wonder... 

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11 hours ago, Number said:

In my opinion, Kohli has passed the stage where only lack of a world cup k.o. performance can be held against him. 

to add to earlier said, looking forward eagerly to how Kohli fares in the next 2 world cups of his. Now that he has established as the  impact batsman   of this team , all eyes will be on him to perform  brilliantly  in  at least one of them.  So he would be facing the same pressure of expectations  from millions across the nation that Sachin had faced thru out  his career. I am eagerly looking forward to that.

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