No one can deny the fact that Gilly, Hayden or even Warne could have played for Australia in 2011 and they would have fired too. The fact is,these cricketers left on a high.
This too is simple. If they retired when they were still good enough for the team (not agreeing that they did), they were the ones being selfish!
Agreed the Aussies sufferred defeats after their departure, but they managed to build a good team which can now challenge a good team like England for the number 1 Test spot.
What is that argument worth? Of course Australia have got or are going to get good again.
Tendulkar is not good enough for the ODI team. You have heard the captain MSd himself say that-with regards to his fielding. Secondly, I don't know if you of you observed, his body simply cant take the toll any longer. He sat out while fielding during each and every match of the Asia Cup.[one game he injued himself]. Finally, he is in the ODI team cause of his stature,not cause of his performances- he has simply walked out to bat, picks and chooses the ODIs he wants and does not bowl/field. What nonsense is this ?
Dhoni has a right to his opinion, in fact I believe he has some say over selection, but him saying it doesn't make it so.
I don't like players being allowed to not field if they don't feel like it, but there's no penalty for doing so, so it continues to happen. It's not just Sachin that does it, so let's open that can of worms somewhere else.
If players the likes of Ganguly and Dravid were given an extended run in ODIs, I have no doubts in saying that they would have done well at a point in their careers.
But the real question is: did they retire when they were still good enough to be picked? If they did, then that (if anything) is the selfish decision. I have no problem with players deciding for their own reasons when they retire. The problem I have is with players being called selfish for not doing the selectors' jobs for them.
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The Core thing is to getting retired at the right time gracefully plus giving opportunities to the younger lot.
This is completely wrong. The selectors retire you when there are six bats better than you. There will always be younger players, the question is whether they are better than [him] or not.
Calling the other players selfish in a hidden way is a rude and selfish statement in its own self in my view.
Well this is the pot calling the kettle black. You're fine with Sachin being called selfish unfairly and therefore rudely, but not with this? Anyway my main point is that staying on until the selectors tap you on the shoulder is not selfish.
There were problems recently when Tendulkar wasnt performing at all in Australia when all the three guys Manjerker, Gavaskar, Ganguly sat together and were thinking Oh.. BCCI cant drop Tendulkar because of his caliber we should talk to Srikaant who can convince Tendulkar. So that shows that issues were there.
Sick and pathetic of you to use that obscene version of Manjrekar's name.
This may or may not have happened. I'm not going there. What's your source? Their opinions, unless they're selectors, are not all that relevant anyway.
And on the other hand, Australian Cricket Selection Committee had the courage to drop their best batsman Ponting when he wasn't performing.
In Sub-continent we have the culture to keep ourselves tagged with cricket no matter what. Even Inzamam did the same, didnt give chance to players like Asim Kammal just to secure his spot at the twilight of his career.
Not relevant as Sachin
is performing.
You are a funny man Mark 
