Cook can still go past Tendulkar

[PSB_Zone]

He has just celebrated his 33rd birthday and knowing the amount cricket England Play,  Cook can play abt 50+ test matches in the next 4 years.. 

 

37 years still is not an over stretch. He is about 12000 runs and,  I am sure with the amount of test matches as an opener he can score 4000 more runs and go past Tendulkar and eventually  becoming the first player to 16k runs in abt the same amount of matches as Tendulkar ie 200 tests

Edited December 28, 2017 by PSB_Zone

[Temujin Khaghan]

let him... 

 

Indian fans are grown up mentally from the 90s era... where we craved for personal records of our heroes.

 

I just want us to win WC19, T20 WC2020, SA tour and Eng tour ... Let Cook cross SRT run aggregate if he can.. no harm.

[Gollum]

All records are meant to be broken, more than Sachin's tally it was the joy he gave me in the 90s and 2007-11 that I cherish the most.

[Number]

4000 runs in 4 years means 1000 runs a year on an avg.

Possible but not many players have done that in the past.

Edited December 28, 2017 by Number

[Ankit_sharma03]

There is always the last purple patch thats left in many....who knws. He is fit, only 33 , mentally tough.......

even though i still feel beating tendulkar wud be tough for him

 

One thing that wud be in his favour is teams around the world arent that tough now, so series will be absolute halwa puri for him

[rtmohanlal]

50-50 chance. If he is fit and more or less in descent form thru out the rest of his career he can, because then he could play for another 5 years and England plays more than 10tests/year on the avg: . On the other hand if he becomes paltry in his next Ashes series in AUS(keep in mind he would mostly have been on the verge of dropped from the team had he not played this 244 inns), then I think that would be curtains for him.

[sourab10forever]

1400 Runs more to go past current #2 ponting and then another 2000 to go past Sachin.

[zen]

Most number of runs, wkts, catches are not records but merely numbers that one could achieve by playing more games 

 

the record would be most runs/ wkts after 100 / 200 / .... innings, etc  

 

Say X played 100 tests and has 8001 runs, Y played 80 tests and has 8000 runs. X’s 8001 should not be seen as a record

 

Same is the case with number of 100s, 5-ers, etc

 

 

PS

 

In the context of this thread, the record(s) would be: 

 

Fastest to 5K runs: Bradman (56 inngs). For Ind, Gavaskar (95 innings)

 

Fastest to 10K runs: Lara, Ten and Sanga in 195 inngs. Ponting did it in 196th

 

Fastest to 15K runs: Ten (300 innings). For Cook, 300 innings to 15K runs is the number to beat

 

 

PPS http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/STATS/TESTS/BATTING/FASTEST_CAREER_TEST_RUNS/

 

 

Edited December 28, 2017 by zen

[goose]

Ironically all this chat about Cook moving up that list is merely cementing Tendulkar's achievement. 

[AmreekanDesi]

Not happening.

 

hell be out before 2019 Summer 

[AmreekanDesi]

5 minutes ago, goose said:

Ironically all this chat about Cook moving up that list is merely cementing Tendulkar's achievement. 

Don't think one but that it will happen but if it does it would be really disappointing

[AmreekanDesi]

Smith could have gotten there if his career had started earlier

[goose]

if i had a pound for every England fan that said Tendulkar went on too long....i'm looking forward to the schadenfreude

[Cricketics]

If he does, good for him. He has been top player for his country just like Tendulkar has been for us.

 

Won’t make him better batsman than Tendulkar, just like it won’t make Ishant Sharma better than anyone else around the world if he reaches 300 wickets.

 

[rtmohanlal]

In reality Sachin's record is not the mere test  aggregate of his, but test & one dayers combined.This because Sachin played convincingly  lesser tests/year when compared to some one like Cook.On the other hand, all the while he has been playing comparatively vast no: of one dayers/year.So, to start at a very young age and then gather so much runs in both versions  of the game combined  is the record Sachin posses which would not at all be easier to break.

[rkt.india]

Cook cam never go past Tendulkar. Tendulkar was not just about runs he made.

[PSB_Zone]

46 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Cook cam never go past Tendulkar. Tendulkar was not just about runs he made.

Its amazing how one dimension approach can lead ppl.. Why be biased. There are many things that cook have and tendulkar didn't.  Tendulkar was a weak captain, but it is not his fault as leaders are only born.. Cook was superior in plotting and planning. 

[goose]

Cook interview after today's play

 

https://twitter.com/btsportcricket/status/946285945522757632

[SUMO]

To go past tendu you need to be ATG in both test n odi

[kira]

He won't go past Tendulkar, bookmark it