Bradman is the greatest, Sachin comes only second: Waugh, Benaud

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have answered most of them in that thread I linked in post # 105. Bodyline lasted for exactly 5 tests ... if facts are allowed :P

I read that. But all of them are speculative Boss. You cannot transport someone to that era and test that or you cannot bring Don back life and transport back him to 1930 and again transport a 30 year old bradman to 2000 and test that. Cricket has evolved over the years. Scoring 250 in a ODI was a good score in the 80s. Look at now. They score 350 at will. Tendulkar and all the other current batsmen benefitted immensely from that evolvement of cricket. When Tendulkar made debut India already had about 56 years of strong cricketing culture. India started fully evolving in the 1970s. There are lot of intangible factors we conveniently overlook just to prove a point.

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Because the entire career of DGB was one big cherry picking .... against trundlers who would find it hard to get into the lower ranked teams these days. So you wanted to know what SRT could do against weak teams and I gave you evidence of that ... why dont like the bitter truth.

There are a few of things there: 1) Did you pick the entire games against those sides or chose periods 2) how do others like Lara, etc fare when compared with Tendulkar against those criteria

that is because you dont understand the difference between facing a McGrath and say a Larwood or Bowes ... ones you figure that out everything will fall in place ... Iam here to help you out ... will take time but ...thats time well spent for a good cause :--D

Similar argument can be used by Gavaskar and he can say that 'I am much better because I opened the batting and faced some of the deadlist bowler of my time so I am better' Richards can say, 'Hey wait, I smashed Eng like hell too and I have faced likes of Hadlee, Botham, Kapil, Imran, Lillee, Thomson'. So how am I not like Don? Lara can say 'Dudes I have two 300+ scores against Eng. I have faced McGrath too' :--D

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There are a few of things there: 1) Did you pick the entire games against those sides or chose periods 2) how do others like Lara, etc fare when compared with Tendulkar against those criteria Similar argument can be used by Gavaskar and he can say that 'I am much better because I opened the batting and faced some of the deadlist bowler of my time so I am better' Richards can say, 'Hey wait, I smashed Eng like hell too and I have faced likes of Hadlee, Botham, Kapil, Imran, Lillee, Thomson'. So how am I not like Don? Lara can say 'Dudes I have two 300+ scores against Eng. I have faced McGrath too' :--D

So can Salman Butt say who also scored a 100 against Mcgrath :hysterical:

[zen]

So can Salman Butt say who also scored a 100 against Mcgrath :hysterical:

And that 100 > any 100 Don got against anyone :hysterical:

[vvvslaxman]

1990s were not really this bad. But 2000s have become worse. Look at Ian Bell. He averages 350 against Bangladesh. That is humongous.

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Btw, since 1 Jan 2005, Viru and Gambhir have been our best test batsman!

Overall figures 

Player Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s  
V Sehwag 2005-2010 44 78 4 4073 319 55.04 4678 87.06 11 12 6 563 47  
R Dravid 2005-2010 52 92 10 4009 177 48.89 9241 43.38 11 23 2 513 7  
SR Tendulkar 2005-2010 46 78 8 3568 160 50.97 6596 54.09 13 16 2 437 15  
VVS Laxman 2005-2010 49 83 18 3341 200* 51.40 6906 48.37 8 23 6 426 1  
G Gambhir 2005-2010 26 48 4 2491 206 56.61 4623 53.88 8 10 1 300 6 

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Let me know if you want to take the discussion down the path of hurling one-liner inanities ... I most certainly can play that game ....

Noa. i don't want to be involved in an elaborat discussion as neither of us can convince each other for the rest of our lives. So no point :winky:.

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And ?

Rameez Raja > Hammond :hysterical:

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[zen]

"Sir" GOB Allen >>>>>> Donald And before I forget ... heres the smilie : :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

Based on your theory :hysterical:

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[zen]

Yours :winky:

My theory is 100 > 50 :orderorder:

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Good so lets continue throwing one liners ... thats sounds very mature :two_thumbs_up:

Naa.. i don't take this discussion seriously. Hence one liners. It is like patriot's other thread where he was coming up with stats to prove Veeru is better than Sachin.

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