Real McCoy Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Switchblade, philcric, manu4411 and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Real McCoy 1 Link to comment
prudent_kreeda Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 ! zen and Real McCoy 2 Link to comment
raki05 Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Real McCoy and Stan AF 1 1 Link to comment
Straight Drive Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. zen 1 Link to comment
Nikhil_cric Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Link to comment
Nikhil_cric Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Sgattick10, Real McCoy, AuxiliA and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment
Number Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Rasgulla, raki05, Adi BB and 3 others 1 4 1 Link to comment
rkt.india Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) 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 Link to comment
Number Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Stan AF, Stradlater, raki05 and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment
zen Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 Link to comment
rkt.india Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Link to comment
zen Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 Real McCoy and King Tendulkar 2 Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 Real McCoy and zen 2 Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 Link to comment
Rasgulla Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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 Nikola, velu and Real McCoy 2 1 Link to comment
Rasgulla Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 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. Real McCoy and Nikola 1 1 Link to comment
anish2tweet Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 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.Sent from my CPH1819 using Tapatalk Link to comment
FischerTal Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 He was never the same batsman after tennis elbow. Link to comment
sandeep Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 10 hours ago, anish2tweet said: Why is this Australian so pro-India? Beats me. https://t.co/uETEjV02E7 Sent from my CPH1819 using Tapatalk 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. Real McCoy, Samcric and velu 3 Link to comment
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