Sachin Tendulkar: Too much talent for a single person.

[sage]

Well, Sachin Tendulkar Often bamboozel us with his inhuman timing and precise shots but there are moments in his career where he forces us to think what if He was a pure bowler. The question here is that " Is Sachin Tendulkar way too talented and gifted for a single human???" We shall discuss bout this. Everyone knows bout his batting prowess so that should be out of discussion.

Well apart from batting, Sachin is a very good swing bowler, Off spin bowler and a leg spinner.

Swing Bowling: People might not agree but Sachin is one of the best swing bowlers in the India at the moment. I am talking bout the talent of swing bowling. He can bowl inswing,outswing,seamers,slower ones, you name it he has it in his armoury. He has perfect wrist position for in swing and outswing. His seam stay dead still when he releases the ball and he likes to keep the ball full when he bowls the swingers. It is only that he is small in physique thats why his swing bowling is not that effective. So Sachin could have been a very dangerous swing bowler had he got the physique of Lee or Bond. So thats second talent apart from batting he posseses. 

Off Spinner: He is not a very deadly offspinner but certainly better that most of run of the mill spin bowlers that England,New Zealand,Australia(Shane Warner,Macgill being exception) have produced over the years. He has every variation except dussra.

Leg Spinner: Well i am going to make a bold statement here. Sachin Tendulkar could have been a leg spinner of Warne's Caliber had he concentrated a little bit more on his bowling. This is one of the greatest regrets that i have. I am not questioning his love for the game, it is just that captains didnt used him enough and thus he never felt urgency to practise his art much. He himself has a lot of time accepted that he often get to bowl directly into a international match after months without practice. Sachin can bowl every bowl that a leg spinner can. There isnt a leg spinner in the world at the moment who extract the amount of turn that Sachin gets(Warne and Macgill are retired). Just ask Kiwis how they felt during Sachin's charismatic spell on the last day of recently concluded test. 
Yes it is true that he is not a very consistent bowler and he will bowls 1 or 2 full toss or loose deliveries in a over,but it is also truse that he will bowl 2 great balls per over which would be unplayable. Thats why he gets the breakthroughs more often that not. Just ask Aussies, i remember a ODI match in 2001 series in vishakhapatnam. Aussi were crusing for 161/1 in 30 overs chasing down 262. then came sachin, Took 5/32, all five were op order aussies and won the match for india. 
Thus Leg spin is the greates talent wasted in Sachin, if amit mishra or Piyush chawla had sachin's Leg spinning talent, well then india wouldn't worry bout replacing Anil Kumble. 

So Sachin could have been a Fast Swing bowler, Off Spinner and Leg spinner. Did i mention that Sachin is ambidextrous?? yep, He is Right handed batsman but can write with both hands and prefer to write with left hand. Thus he can attack the ball from any side without any worry. Next time watch the match closely, you will find sachin returning the ball with left hand and sometime with right hand.

 

Thoughts?

[Rightarmfast]

Too much of Sachin obsession. I personally felt that Sachin had problems against genuine fast bowlers.

[Asim]

Toooo much talent except whenever 'ball kept low'...

[Ironhide]

Troll thread, copy-pasted from another forum.

[sage]

Toooo much talent except whenever 'ball kept low'...

Nope, even when the ball was low he played fantastic shots. His stock reaction after getting out is meaningless to this discussion. Thank you

[maniac]

Did he ever hit 16 6s in a 50 over game ?

 

or has he ever taken a hat trick at the competitive IPL level ?

[kosingh]

Getting a bit carried away here

[rtmohanlal]

Yes... Sachin was a very talented bowler  too. Some balls he bowled in test cricket would have made even the best exponents of the particular art proud. For instance the Moin Khan dismissal in one test where he bowled him round his legs would have made  Shane warne satisfied. Sachin  could bowl medium pacers too. But the biggest problem i found with  Sachin being used  more regularly as a bowler  was that it could have affected his batting a lot. Had he bowled lot more , he would never have ended with the mammoth aggregates in both forms of the game. this was because i don't believe he possesed the body strength to cope with both batting and bowling. On the other hand, had Sachin  deceided to play only say 140 tests & some 300 one dayers in his entire career (by not playing some non important matches like  dead rubber tests, matches vs  lesser opponents etc) and used that extra  effort in bowling too, i am sure he would have reached Sir Gary Sobers level as all rounder.

it was all a matter of cutting short the no: of inns as batsman in both formats over his entire career, using his bowling cleverly like asking to bowl spin  in genuine turners, bowling swing in England like swing conditions etc etc. Unfortunately as i said, for that  he needed to compromise on his batting longevity which i think he would have never dispensed with.

He was that talented in bowling too.

Edited December 15, 2015 by rtmohanlal

[Anik Krishna]

Too much of Sachin obsession. I personally felt that Sachin had problems against genuine fast bowlers.

2nd to that. 

[maniac]

Sachin used to bowl a lot in the early 90s.... Infact at times all 10 overs in odis.

was always a decent 5th bowler at the max much better than binny or Patel or jadeja that's about it.

he was a thinking bowler and produced the occasional beauty which most 5th bowlers  do at time that's about it.

as a batsman yes he was the greatest but let's not over think it

[goose]

Kolkata 2001

Adelaide 2003

[Ankit_sharma03]

Did he ever hit 16 6s in a 50 over game ?

 

or has he ever taken a hat trick at the competitive IPL level ?

Tendulkar after 9 yrs of Int cricket featured in greatest cricketers list 

N guy ur Ref to is still considered A talent or by most a waste of talent 

 

Sachin use to Make runs abroad in their backyard against their best bowler

N our so called talent challenges Steyn to come to india n Den he ll score runs

 

Ipl Hat trick- Has he ever won a game At int level with his bowling like sachin

 

[kosingh]

I heard Sachin once solved the most complex mathematical problem ever known to man, and did that while rescuing dying puppies from a fire. 

A truly great guy.