Long Rope Club

[Texan]

43 minutes ago, New guy said:

Which were the quite a few years Sachin had in ODIs? He averaged 54 in 2009, 208 in 2010 (including his iconic first 200), 46 in 2011 including crucial contribution to our world cup win (before that he averaged over 40 every single year since his injury in 2006)

 

Then he played half of 2012 and retired. So which were quite a few years in ODIs?

 

And what were these many tournaments and matches we gave away from Sachin? Last major tournament he played was world cup which we won.The only one he he is blamed for is the asia cup but we gave bangladesh a target of 290+ which they have never chased against a major team before that, kohli played slower than Sachin that innings. 

 

Dhoni PR conveniently put the blame of not being able to defend 290+ against Bangladesh on Sachin. In fact that's still the second highest score bangladesh has ever chased against a non minnow. 

 

In tests in the disastrous tour of Australia where we lost 4-0, he was still the second highest scorer for india just 13 runs behind kohli and had some crucial contributions even in last couple of years. 

 

Struggling to remember which were the many years and many cups we suffered because of Sachin? 

 

 

His scoring rates in last few years were not in line with scoring rates of those times. Asia Cup was a big one that ended up costing us a tournament that we had been very successful at and had a great team to win that time as well. It's a known fact that Sachin slowed down in 80s to ensure he gets his 100.