Only matches are mentioned where India and Pakistan have won.
Sachin has played 8 matches against Australia, scored 593 including his match winning knock of 155* with an average of 42.35 including 2 centuries and 5 half centuries.(He has taken 5 wickets also)
Inzi has played 2 matches against Australia, scored 165 with highest score of 59 with an average of 55.00.
So against Australia Inzi has higher average than Sachin but fact is that Inzi only has played 2 matches against Australia where Pakistan won and so He has higher average.
But in fact that 155 not out was match winning inning from Sachin.
So Sachin has played 3 Match winnings knock against world best Bowling side.
Sachin has played 7 Matches against England, scored 679 runs including his match winning innings of 193 with an average of 84.87 including 2 centuries.
Inzi has played 6 Matches against England, scored 682 runs including his match winning innings of 148 with an average of 68.20 including 2 centuries.
Sachin has played 4 Matches against South Africa, scored 256 runs including knock of 61 with an average of 36.57.
Inzi has played only 1 match against South Africa, scored 93 runs which include 92*and that makes his average 93.00.
So one innings doesn?t prove Inzi > Sachin but Stat does that is why you can?t rely on stat every time.
Sachin has played 2 Matches against New Zeland, scored 63 runs including crucial 44* with an average of 31.50.
Inzi has played 7 matches against New Zeland, scored 814 runs including unbelievable 329 with an average of 101.75 including 2 centuries.
Now again the point is that Despite of Awesome Inzi?s 329,S Akhtar and D Kaneria have set up victory for Pakistan including 14 wickets between them so in short Bowlers gave support to Inzi?s work where India has struggled lot with bowling in the time when Sachin was elected a Captain.
I know that is not Inzi?s fault and He is good against New Zeland.
Sachin has played 5 matches against Pakistan, scored 391 runs including match winning knock of 194* with an average of 65.16.
Inzi has played 3 matches against India, scored 394 runs including match winning knock of 184 with an average of 98.50.
Now in short there are many knocks of Sachin Tendulkar which have not helped India to win the match because of Poor Bowling.
I have used Bold words where I appreciate Inzi so much and that is where my point, I am not saying at all that Inzi is not a great, in fact he is. He might be greater than Sachin for Pakistan but every one has his own hero an like/dislike so you can?t destroy anyone heroes or believe.
I am out of this discussion now because I don?t think it is worth to post. I can understand your intention as lots of people here do understand same.
Vaiby, I understand that the comment that you have made orange you are attempting to stress.
I would just like to say Australia DOES NOT have the World's best bowling attack.
That honor would probably go to Pakistan (Waqar, Wasim, Akhtar) or South Africa, but definitely not Australia.
Without most of Inzamam's innings, Pakistan would be well under 200 in an innings on most occasions, and while Akhtar and Danish may bowl well, it would never be a good enough effort to win Pakistan a test match without Inzamam's work (on most occasions)
I am not destroying anyone's hero; but I would like to point out that it was
saisrini who started this Tendulkar v Inzamam thing. It is funny that he has decided not to post in here. Possibly scared of the suprising statistics.
It is difficult to say on the South Africa thing, because as you said, Inzamam had the 92* which was definitely a match-winning effort. I'm slightly suprised by the England stat, because he made 2 100s in a match if IIRC...
Also Inzamam has a 100 against Australia...
Eh, anyway, I guess as far as Pakistan and some other members are concerned, Inzamam is the better batsman and player as far as making match-winning innings goes, while Indians feel that their match-winner is Sachin.
Debate over?
zMario added 17 Minutes and 10 Seconds later...
How in the world has Tendulkar been at his best in his last 50 matches? If anything, he has been at his worst in his last 50 matches, fighting back from his elbow injury (which he has appeared to reaggrevate today
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manee added 3 Minutes and 6 Seconds later...
Keep in mind that Tendulkar's first series against Pakistan was in 1989 when he was 16 years old and so, hardly at the top of his game.
Fair enough manee.
I've taken Sachin Tendulkar from 1997 to 2002, where India played 50 test matches.
In that time he averages 69.54 in India wins in that time period.
Still lower than Inzamam
Also, as far as Tendulkar's first series against Pakistan is concerned, he would have had exposed to the international scene, and therefore know what to expect.
But the above statistic of 69.54 has nothing to do with him being 16.
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