Well well... when Pakistan comes at 3rd then rankings are nothing. With the likes of Misbah and Younis, Pakistan is one of the World best test sides. Even if you leave the rankings, you can check out the test record of us for the past many years.
To be honest the test rankings have always been absurd. We have seen India take the #1 spot in the past, and while that was great, but come on, India have never been consistent enough to be a real #1 test side, largely because of almost never winning away (though there was a good run where India won away in WI, Eng and NZ). So while its good to be ranked high,one has to accept that the ranking more often than not are absurd.
@PokerAce Scoring runs is something else and playing an innings and cruising your team towards victory is the other thing. As far as Sachin goes, He was a legend no doubt but we should not over-hype things.
I think you guys over analyse things with Sachin. Now there is a difference between scoring runs and cruising an innings, whatever that means. Its funny that these weird, tests are never applied to any other cricketer. I have never heard anyone say something similar about anyone else.
You guyz put too much pressure on your players.
Ofcourse, putting pressure on players is what India and Pakistan fans are famous for.
Need to relax Viraat these days, Don't make him the next Sachin so early.
Virat is not and will not be the next Sachin. He will though be a hell of a player and do win India many more matches.
Everyone is entitled to his view, In my view Sachin wasn't the Match Winner.
As you said, everyone is entitled to thier view, and your view is your own. Mark Taylor, Shane Warne etc., and those stats I posted in the earlier post above disagree with your opinion. So no pressure.
Anyway, I just had an eye on the scorecard of India vs Zim, Its looking horrible trust me for Team India. Better check out what's happening there.
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Yeah Ind don;t seem to doing too well right now, but what of it.
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