Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag in ICC’s poll list for all-time greatest ODI team
Dubai, Dec 22 : Indian batting stalwarts Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag have been shortlisted in an ICC online poll to pick the all-time greatest team to mark one-day cricket’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

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Tendulkar greatest batsman of all time: Zaheer Abbas
Karachi, Nov 7 : Pakistan’s famous Test batsman Zaheer Abbas rates Sachin Tendulkar higher than Don Bradman and believes that the Indian master is the greatest batsman of all time.

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Is sachin greatest batsman of all time …this is the most talked about topic after his great knock of200.Nasir Hussain recently said that tendulkar is greatest ..greater than lara ,ponting, Richards,gavaskar,border and greater than don bradman…tendulkar is one of the greatest batsman of all time and no one can deny that he is the greatest batsman after sir Donald bradman.but now the question is that is sachin even greater than bradman.

If most of us is telling that sachin is the best ..there should be some logic behind that ..we cannot always say bradman is greatest .gavaskar  always says that sachin has perfected the art of batsmanship.now we all have to know what is art of  batsmanship. Gavaskar is simply saying that sachin’s batting is perfect but bradman was also perfect .tendulkar’s balance in crease is great ..every other great batsman has this quality ,then why should we term tendulkar as  greatest.

According to me there is one thing in which even bradman is behind the little genius .tendulkar has carried  the expectations of 1 billion people for almost 20 years .no player in the cricketing history has always played under such pressure .

Everyone will now say tendulkar played with protective gears and on  the pitches that helped batsman.that’s true but tendulkar played against warne and murali …two of the greatest spinners of all times .bradman was never against such kinds of bowling. …and ask them they will say tendulkar is greatest.once warne said if bradman is considered better than tendulkar it is good that he is an Australian.tendulkar played against the greatest team of all time ..the mighty Australian team (2000-2005) and see his records against them.the bowling attack of this team was greatest of all time …many will argue that the best bowling attack was the bowling attack of west indies in seventies but according to me that bowling attack was unidimensional and they do not have a spinner like shane warne.tendulkar played for a country which for many years depended upon him for their success,bradman played for a country which was best at that time and which many will consider the greatest team of all time.

There is one aspect in which tendulkar is behind bradman and even lara …they won more matches for their country.but tendulkar nowadays is doing same for india .if I would have written this article 2 years ago I myself should have written that bradman is way ahead of sachin but considering the fact what sachin has done in recent years I should say that tendulkar is as great as bradman if not more and tendulkar wil considered as greatest batsman if he could do that last thing what we all expect him to do ..win a world cup for india and if he will be able to do so ..I will consider him the greatest batsman of all times but for now he is tied with sir donald bradman as the greatest batsman of all time.

Playing for few years and remaining on top form is something and playing for almost 20 years and remaining on top is something extra ordinery and so is Sachin.

I have posted this question immediately after reading the sunday morning newspaper where i saw in the sports page that ”Sachin is Warne’s greatest”. Yes, this has been published in ‘The Times’ in UK i believe. He ranks Brian Lara at 2 & Curtly Ambrose at 3.

Now the reason why i have posted it is to tell some of you which say a lot of bad things about Sachin (like old player, not a big match player, selfish for records) that this is the truth.

This is called respect. Shane Warne perhaps the greatest bowler ever says that the reason he puts Tendulkar at number 1 is his ability to cope with pressure. He said he handles pressure of billions better than anyone else which is the toughest thing in any game.
That’s exactly why not only in Spin King – Warne’s eyes but in my eyes too he ( Sachin) will always remain the greatest batsman after Sir Don of course.
What are your thoughts on that?
Here is the list of Shane Warne’s 10 greatest players-
1) Sachin Tendulkar
2) Brian Lara
3) Curtly Ambrose
4) Alan Border
5) Glenn McGrath
6) Wasim Akram
7) Muralitharna Ricky Ponting
9) Mark Taylor
10) Ricky Ponting

Intresting thing here- Warne rates Murali below McGrath & Wasim Akram & Ambrose.
Lankan people don’t mind. I am just typing what is there in front of me in the newspaper. No bad feelings here.
Sorry no. 10 is Ian Healy & not Ponting
To Mr.Raja A – Sachin has 50+ man of the match awards & u get a man of the match for contributing in your teams win. Get your stats right. He is one of the biggest match winners ever. Most importantly, he is consistant. If u take a look at his career graph u’ll find that it is an ideal graph which shows consistency. Lara’s graph has a lot of gaps in it followed by huge manhattans. This is inconsistency. No hard feelings.
Exactly why i have posted this question. This was what i wanted to say. That is the difference between you & Shane Warne.
Only a great man himself can understand another great man. What Warny has said about Sachin is all respect. Pure respect. Shane Warne knows what Sachin is all about. not those which say wrong things about him. He is way ahead of other players.

It can be news website archives also.