You can very well se that Tendulkar is way ahead than Inzamam.
100s in India don't mean anything with your flat pitches
Besides, that shows absolutely nothing.
Yes, Sachin did average 5 more runs per innings. But most of Sachin's "top" innings came when it wasn't required.
When the team required a big innings, he almost always failed to deliver. That is the difference between Sachin and Inzamam.
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Fine I guess its more than enough already, This should have been stopped a long time back. Seems like many of us wasted so much time to make you understand what is right. Posts in all the pages shows one thing "You are just adament" for something which is not correct at all. Everyone who is not even Indian is telling the fact. Rather than accepting, you are providing some strange/non-relevant facts like who is MOM in most games.
You talking about bowling attack ? Except Kumble who is a bowler who provided consistent performance throughout?
Its been ages India looking for some good bowling attack.
Man of the match peagant doesn't decide who is being the best.
A guy who takes 10 wickets in a test match will get a MOM rather than a guy who scored 200 in that match.
Provide some reasonable fact mate.
And why I am asking to provide any fact anyways.
We Know U know what is actually correct. Only difference is you just don't accept
Are you a moderator to stop a conversation on this forum?
I didn't think so
I don't know why so many of you post in here without even reading the thread. I have shown that Sachin FAILS under pressure, has only won TWO man of the match awards.
If Sachin was such a fantastic player who could handle pressure like a cucumber (in the words of Ravi Shastri), wouldn't he have more top-class knocks that came when his team needed it?
You say its the Indian bowlers fault. There were times when the Indian bowlers set up the stage for a victory, (or a draw), and Sachin fails to live up to his expectations.
I have witnessed this SO MANY times in my years of watching Sachin, the choker.
If Sachin was a good enough match-winner, then he'd have more Man of the Match trophies to his name. Its no "masala", its fact.
Now if we had a debate about Dravid v Inzamam as far as helping your team and playing for the team is concerned, I may have to concede defeat on that.
But this is so bloody obvious....
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By the way, what do you say about Sachin running away from pressure?
I may refer to the full article in future posts, so the source is here :
http://www.ndtv.com/sports/cricket/showstory.asp?id=29372
Sanjay Manjrekar said:
I have found the scenes prior to his recent, long absences from the game quite strange.
After the series in Bangladesh in December 2004, in which he scored a double century, he followed that up with another innings of 36 and immediately ruled himself out of cricket for nearly three months with no warning signs of even discomfort during that series.
Even in the last instance, when he ruled himself unfit with the shoulder injury I found the timing of the announcement during that Mumbai Test quite strange.
Why would you want to make that declaration on the eve of your own and the team's very critical innings, when the Test match was at such a delicate stage?
There was another moment too: Tendulkar deciding to give the 2005 Super Series Test a miss. I thought that was a great opportunity not to be missed at any cost for someone like him. What a great stage that was to show off your individual brilliance.
Tendulkar said he had not fully recovered from the elbow injury. But just eight days later he was running down the pitch hitting Murali out of the ground in that knock of 93 against Sri Lanka in the ODI at Nagpur.
That Super Series actually was another evidence of how the two great men think. There was Lara, in Australia, hopelessly short of match practice, yet looking at every chance as an opportunity to play another memorable innings. Working on the principle that the more chances you give yourself, the more the chances of success. Tendulkar is not willing to take that chance.
The Tendulkar of today gives me the impression that his main focus is not to fail! And he wants to give himself the best shot at that. By competing only when he feel he is in his prime, physically and mentally.
In comparison, Lara's success has a lot to do with his failures. Lara is not in fear of failure. Lara knows that with advancing years, failures will mount. So while Lara is staying realistic, Tendulkar seems to be chasing a ghost.
He speaks some wise points, does Sanjay.
It's funny - it doesn't take much thought by even a mentally retarded person to conclude that Sachin knew in his heart that he wasn't going to deliver and was delivering excuses in advance.
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