Can Yuvraj overtake Tendulkar and others as India's all time best ODI batsman?

[Master Blaster]

What a soft dismissal. Worthless fat****

[f.b.m]

What a soft dismissal. Worthless fat****

Whatever he did today, ODI batting is a completely different thing.

[PotterManiac]

Er, its a bit weird talking like this...but there might be a small probability for that to haooen :D But Little Master will remain the Little Master..what a player! :adore:

[Ram]

I was wrong, spectacularly wrong. Ever since this thread has opened, Sachin has played 3 of the most remarkable ODI innings you could ever hope to see; The 163* against the Kiwis, the 175 against Australia and the now, the EPIC 200. Most player would do well to have one such innings through their ODI career. Sachin now has THREE within the last one year, a good 20 years after he made his international debut. The unbridled Genius, the Little Master shows why he's beyond any comparisons. Staggering, simply staggering! :hatsoff:

[SRT PWNS]

Lol @ people who thought Yuvi could overtake him... like seriously WTF?! lolz

[Mr. Wicket]

Not often you see people willing to admit they're wrong; kudos Sriram. Wish a lot of others on this board had your perspective and humility. :hatsoff: And yes, bloody legend indeed. We are indeed fortunate to be able to watch Tendulkar in this form. With the way the game is evolving, I doubt we will ever see anyone close to being such a complete cricketer and a pretty much perfect batsman ever again.

[Guest BossBhai]

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[Ram]

Seeing Sachin go through some of his struggles post the WC '07 disaster (to the extent that he was actually dropped for the ODI series in B'desh that just followed the WC, even the official reason given was the seniors were being 'rested'), who would have thought there would be such a spectacular turnaround? Then came his 100 and 90 odd in the VB series finals, the 163* against NZ (when he actually retired hurt, much before the end of the innings), the 138 in the finals against Lanka, the 175 against Australia and now, THIS. And we havent started talking about his test exploits. (Twelve 100s, in the 31 tests since WC '07, a 100 in each of the last six test series he has played, 4 100s in the last 4 matches) All I can say is, thank 'God' I am in Indian, else it would have been such a crushing experience watching this man on his relentless march towards cricketing perfection.

[Online]

Not often you see people willing to admit they're wrong; kudos Sriram. Wish a lot of others on this board had your perspective and humility. :hatsoff:

yes :hatsoff: but the only other choice he had was to seek asylum with Bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora.

[Online]

Irrespective' date=' maybe we should have a separate thread for this debate.[/quote'] debate over, thread closed?

[Shehezaada]

Seeing Sachin go through some of his struggles post the WC '07 disaster (to the extent that he was actually dropped for the ODI series in B'desh that just followed the WC, even the official reason given was the seniors were being 'rested'), who would have thought there would be such a spectacular turnaround? Then came his 100 and 90 odd in the VB series finals, the 163* against NZ (when he actually retired hurt, much before the end of the innings), the 138 in the finals against Lanka, the 175 against Australia and now, THIS. And we havent started talking about his test exploits. (Twelve 100s, in the 31 tests since WC '07, a 100 in each of the last six test series he has played, 4 100s in the last 4 matches) All I can say is, thank 'God' I am in Indian, else it would have been such a crushing experience watching this man on his relentless march towards cricketing perfection.

I don't think he was dropped...seemed like a logical thing to do. Anyways, champions are champions when they reach the top, fall hard, and then come back and do it all over again. 2004-2007 was a hard time for Tendulkar and a hard time for his fans as well. The runs were coming...not consistently, but they weren't "him". The tennis elbow was a nasty, nasty injury. But he started slowly after the WC. A net session against Bangledesh where he picked up back to back hundreds, and then a gritty series against England in which he held the fort together.He started to get it going in the PAK series, a great 50* in the 4th innings against a rampaging Akhtar, and then had a great tour in AUS. He had a lean patch against AUS, but played well against the Aussies and NZL. Now he's in the top 10 again. Won't be surprised to see him #1 again soon. My two heroes are Tendulkar and Jordan. It's funny how their physically so different and mentally so alike. One is 6 6, 215 pounds, one is 5 5, maybe 135 pounds. But both are proud men, competitors that'll do anything to win. Jordan had the same issue when he came back in 95, but worked and worked and walked out the greatest that's ever played. So will Tendulkar (hopefully not for a long long time)

[Sachinism]

^^ Hey even Afridi would do anything to win

[Lord]

^^ Hey even Afridi would do anything to win

:giggle:

[satyam1729]

Is Yuvraj India's second best ODI player ever ? http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=awards_match;qualmin1=10;qualval1=awards_match;team=6;template=results;type=allround;view=awards Considering that he is a middle order batsman this is a very good record .

[Ram]

Whoever could even imagine anybody overtaking Sachin? :giggle: P.S; I know exactly who merged the new thread with the old one. :--D

[b555]

and who would it be ram ? :hmmm:

[Roshanrocks]

:blink:

[Sooda]

ODI PLAYER maybe; not batsman of course thats Ganguly...in the top 5 with those two and Kapil and Dhoni....

[Ranjha]

At this pt of time, yuvi is definately second best indian odi bat off all time with 7 man of the series which includes 1 man of the worldcup,25 man of the matches while batting in the Middle Order with Many MANY more to come. Add his bowling and fielding, it leaves no doubt. Tendulkar is number 1 for me. In t20s, yuvraj is indias all time best. Hoping for all the beat for yuvi in tests...hopefully he can be in top 10-15 all time indian test bats.

[punjabi_khota]

UV will surely surpass Ganguly's ODI batting achievements by the time he is done.