Name the player

[goose]

Your first clue.... This test batsman has 6416 runs from 79 matches at an average of 57, including 24 100s and 24 50s.

[gaurav92]

We already have Guess the Player thread, you can post this question in that :nice:

[goose]

ok next time, this thread will end very quickly i promise.

[ganeshran]

Next clue?

[Sidhoni]

Viru

[goose]

your second clue... the year is 2001.

[Sidhoni]

Is Viru the right answer?

[gaurav92]

Are these Sachin's stats away from home :hmmm:

[goose]

Well done Sarcasm!

[goose]

Just for the record your third clue... A BBC article in the same year 2001 compared this player to Bradman. The latter just edged it on his 'hunger' score. See the article here.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/1194879.stm

[goose]

Since this article was written, this player scored another 8767 runs from 105 matches at an average of 55, including 27 100s and 39 50s. Think about that for a second. What was it about this player that had the world comparing him to Bradman less than half way through his career and with no batting records to speak of?

[gaurav92]

Since this article was written' date=' this player scored another 8767 runs from 105 matches at an average of 55, including 27 100s and 39 50s. Think about that for a second. What was it about this player that had the world comparing him to Bradman less than half way through his career and with no batting records to speak of?[/quote'] Absolutely. :hail::hail::hail:

[J P K]

most balls to score a century in a test matches ? any idea guys ?

[Vijay.Sharma]

From that article -

It is almost impossible for a modern-day fan to imagine the speed at which Bradman scored his runs. In January 1930, it took him only 415 minutes to make 452 not out, at the time the highest individual score in first-class cricket. For that innings alone, Bradman must come out ahead on strokeplay. But there are two factors which must not be forgotten. First and foremost, it was commonplace in the thirties and forties to maintain attacking fields throughout the innings (there is one famous picture of the Don with 300 on his name but with three slips and a gully still standing in position).

[The Outsider]

Since this article was written' date=' this player scored another 8767 runs from 105 matches at an average of 55, including 27 100s and 39 50s. Think about that for a second. What was it about this player that had the world comparing him to Bradman less than half way through his career and with no batting records to speak of?[/quote'] What had the world comparing Tendulkar to Bradman? Well for one, he has certainly been the most complete batsman I've seen at the batting crease in my lifetime and since we are about the same age, the same applies to you as well. Certain other common themes in their careers: 1. Both batted with a dominant bottom hand grip at times when such a grip was frowned upon because it would inhibit deftness. 2. Both had a bloody mindedness about them which is nothing short of amazing. Imagine spending a large part of your childhood hitting golf balls off a water tank, or shuttling from one "maidaan" to another just to get another bat in the mad traffic of Bombay - yeah it was pretty bad even 25 years back. 3. Both rose to great occasions with fierce determination. Like Tendulkar did in the 2003 World Cup in the midst of all the criticism and when he sent Pakistan packing saying how he had been focusing on that match for a year. Bradman did the same when he told a journalist after failing in the opening 3 tests of the 1934 series that he is going to score a double hundred at Headingly. He had already made a triple earlier at the same venue and the journalist said the law of average is going to catch up with him, all Bradman said was we'll see and scored another triple at the venue. 4. Both are superb innovators and thinkers of the game - to reach the level that they did you can't do it without it. Take the upper cut - in his young age Tendulkar used to play the hook quite well and quite frequently, but realizing the percentages and age switched to and perfected the upper cut. In the Bodyline series, when the rest of the Australian batsmen were trying to score runs off the hook and pull shots to short pitched bowling off a packed on side field, Bradman adopted the strategy of backing away and scoring through the vacant gully and slip cordon using the upper cut. 5. Both were extremely humble characters. Tendulkar had all the respect and admiration for Bradman, and Bradman loved watching Tendulkar bat.

[goose]

What had the world comparing Tendulkar to Bradman? Well for one, he has certainly been the most complete batsman I've seen at the batting crease in my lifetime and since we are about the same age, the same applies to you as well. Certain other common themes in their careers: 1. Both batted with a dominant bottom hand grip at times when such a grip was frowned upon because it would inhibit deftness. 2. Both had a bloody mindedness about them which is nothing short of amazing. Imagine spending a large part of your childhood hitting golf balls off a water tank, or shuttling from one "maidaan" to another just to get another bat in the mad traffic of Bombay - yeah it was pretty bad even 25 years back. 3. Both rose to great occasions with fierce determination. Like Tendulkar did in the 2003 World Cup in the midst of all the criticism and when he sent Pakistan packing saying how he had been focusing on that match for a year. Bradman did the same when he told a journalist after failing in the opening 3 tests of the 1934 series that he is going to score a double hundred at Headingly. He had already made a triple earlier at the same venue and the journalist said the law of average is going to catch up with him, all Bradman said was we'll see and scored another triple at the venue. 4. Both are superb innovators and thinkers of the game - to reach the level that they did you can't do it without it. Take the upper cut - in his young age Tendulkar used to play the hook quite well and quite frequently, but realizing the percentages and age switched to and perfected the upper cut. In the Bodyline series, when the rest of the Australian batsmen were trying to score runs off the hook and pull shots to short pitched bowling off a packed on side field, Bradman adopted the strategy of backing away and scoring through the vacant gully and slip cordon using the upper cut. 5. Both were extremely humble characters. Tendulkar had all the respect and admiration for Bradman, and Bradman loved watching Tendulkar bat.

All correct and valid but i do not think your bullet points capture the mood that compelled so many to speak of the two batsman in the same breadth. The early comparisons were not built on intricate comparisons between the two men. It was more a case of scarcely being able to imagine that anyone, past or present, could possibly bat better than Tendulkar whilst still maintaining Bradman's pre-eminence on account of his average.

[Jersey #10]

Since this article was written' date=' this player scored another 8767 runs from 105 matches at an average of 55, including 27 100s and 39 50s. Think about that for a second. What was it about this player that had the world comparing him to Bradman less than half way through his career and with no batting records to speak of?[/quote'] His first half alone would have made him an ATG. His second half has only made his case stronger.