Five ways to show that Sachin is not that Great

[CSK Fan]

Five ways to show that Sachin is not that Great

You have made a career out of researching ways to get at Sachin. You spend countless hours late at night trying to find the one chink in his armor, you waste days of your life on Cricinfo’s stats page and finally you think you have nailed it. You have the perfect material to take Sachin and his fans down a notch or two. And then what happens? You run into someone like BossBhai who within two minutes tears you to shred and ruins all the effort you have put into your ‘research’. Well, you are using the wrong approach. Why settle for facts and figures when you can be more successful with obscurity and rants? Why don’t you leave all the researching to proven experts in the field who have already tasted some form of success? Here are 5 tips from experts on the right approach 1) Keep changing goal posts Don’t let the debater corner you into debating one statement or aspect of discussion. That’s when all the true facts will emerge and you will have to beat a hasty retreat onto another, more gullible forum. So if the discussion started using Sachin’s average, change it to strike rate as soon as possible. By the time the debater types an answer to that, change it to his getting out in the 90s. Also, when comparing other players with Sachin, it’s always good to find out what the other players strength are, rather than Sachin’s weakness. For example, Ponting is a good 3 inches taller than Sachin. Why not use that fact to make Sachin look smaller? Like, “Ponting is the best batsmen among all those who are over 5 ft 7 inches in height, can Sachin ever achieve this?†2) Always talk about team goals while comparing him to players from other team You have learnt in your basic math’s and science class that, while comparing two things, all other factors must be equal. Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth but if you make him run with 3 handicapped players in a relay race, he is bound to lose and hence it’s not fair to compare him with Tyson gay based on team strengths. But don’t let this fact come in your way while discussing Sachin. You can show that Sachin is a much inferior batsman than Miandad as the later has featured in more world cup and test wins! 3) Question his motive for scoring runs Sachin’s strength is that he scores tons of runs. Why not turn the enemy’s strength into his weakness? Why does he score so many runs? Ignore the fact that any run scored by him would add to the team’s tally. He must score those for his own gain. In fact he has a separate database in his computer which he updates everyday with his score. Why does he score so many centuries? Because he cares only for personal records unlike other batsmen like Afridi who make sure they are never in a danger of doing so even accidently 4) Rake up his captaincy issue You are discussing his batting. The opponent is gaining an upper hand. Bang, you pull up his captaincy stats. He sucked as a captain and therefore he cannot be great. Since he is not great, his batting cannot be great either. 5) Finally, use the ‘He is a choker’ argument This is the holy grail of anti-Sachins. This is their ‘Chewbacca’ defense. The opponents state that Sachin has the maximum runs, you say, “But he is a choker!â€They say that he has led us to more victories than others have played matches, you say “But he chokes when it mattersâ€. They say that he has won us more finals than anyone; you say “He choked in the world cup 2003 finalsâ€. They say that he is the best, you counter with “Best at chokingâ€. The opponents say that they are tired of arguing and want to go home now; you say “But Sachin is a chokerâ€. Keep in mind that this one statement is enough. The onus is not on you to provide stats, or to even be on topic. You can add lots of smileys along with your post and then watch the opponents trying to drag up stats and write paragraph stating that he is not. Then you end it all with, “no matter what anyone says, he is still a chokerâ€. Check-mate

[Sachinism]

Brilliant MTC summed upperfectly. :hatsoff:

[ravishingravi]

nailed it sir

[Texy]

stop hogging all the medals shala ICF er robi thakur

[Sir john]

:cantstop:

[Raghav_12]

Good post man.. it really sums up many of the arguments people use to find chinks in Sachin's armour. Over a period I have come across some really great arguments. Following one takes the cake - "Sachin may have hit many centuries and half centuries, but his average is not good for the innings in which he did not score at least half century. In all such innings, he averages only 18.24" Now, i don't understand what average that poster was expecting, may be his career average of 56

[Sachinism]

Good post man.. it really sums up many of the arguments people use to find chinks in Sachin's armour. Over a period I have come across some really great arguments. Following one takes the cake - "Sachin may have hit many centuries and half centuries, but his average is not good for the innings in which he did not score at least half century. In all such innings, he averages only 18.24" Now, i don't understand what average that poster was expecting, may be his career average of 56

Lol now that's a gem.

[The Outsider]

For example, Ponting is a good 3 inches taller than Sachin. Why not use that fact to make Sachin look smaller? Like, “Ponting is the best batsmen among all those who are over 5 ft 7 inches in height, can Sachin ever achieve this?”

:laugh: Reminded me of patriot!

[SachDan]

stop hogging all the medals shala ICF er robi thakur

haha.. Nah..MTC's not doing that. He could have posted this yesterday and walked with a hat-trick of medals instead he waited for POTW-3 to end so that our young aspiring writer Gaurav wins last week's award which definitely is gonna be a big motivation for him! @MTC :two_thumbs_up:

[ZodiaC]

There goes another medal.. Pi$$ off man MTC :finger: Great post.. :haha: Absolutely nailed it.

[ZodiaC]

Good post man.. it really sums up many of the arguments people use to find chinks in Sachin's armour. Over a period I have come across some really great arguments. Following one takes the cake - "Sachin may have hit many centuries and half centuries, but his average is not good for the innings in which he did not score at least half century. In all such innings, he averages only 18.24" Now, i don't understand what average that poster was expecting, may be his career average of 56

:hehe:

[Roshanrocks]

:hysterical: MTC ki Jai

[DomainK]

MTC keeps rocking as usual. Yeah, some of those anti-Sachin arguments are really annoying. Well summed up.:two_thumbs_up:

[b555]

perfectly done man :hatsoff:

[zen]

haha, good work MTC

[Zap_Brannigan]

haha.. Nah..MTC's not doing that. He could have posted this yesterday and walked with a hat-trick of medals instead he waited for POTW-3 to end so that our young aspiring writer Gaurav wins last week's award which definitely is gonna be a big motivation for him! @MTC :two_thumbs_up:

Actually , i made a mistake in the thread title. The POTW ends on 18th Sat/Sun (taking time differences into account). So this will go into POTW#3.:--D

[Gunner_Mania]

Actually ' date=' i made a mistake in the thread title. The POTW ends on 18th Sat/Sun (taking time differences into account). So this will go into POTW#3.:--D[/quote'] POTW is fixed :protest:

[Zap_Brannigan]

POTW is fixed :protest:

It is not. Even if it is, Its a conspiracy..maybe MTC is mossad and obama made me do it. Maybe India opened the dam and flooded .....oh wait, wrong direction.

[CSK Fan]

Actually ' date=' i made a mistake in the thread title. The POTW ends on 18th Sat/Sun (taking time differences into account). So this will go into POTW#3.:--D[/quote'] :omg: Can't this be considered next week?

[Zap_Brannigan]

:omg: Can't this be considered next week?

Wait, you were waiting to post this next week just to win POTW? Sorry. But i have always closed POTW on Sunday morning in India and Sat night in US.