The wonder which is not counted among the seven wonder through out the world is Sachin. It is very hard and tough word to imagine that such a great legendry of cricket is being retired. cricket means sachin. Sachin means cricket. we cannot imagine or watch cricket without sachin
India has won only 19 ODIs against australia during sachin's career and he has 12 MoMs in those victories and very significant contribution in other 5. This is a champion !!! Let the best team come come and the best batsman always stood out! Dravid was always below par against them and against SA. And what did these 2 teams have ...Quality..And so dravid could never do well against them
Re: Sachin vs austrailia
by siba mohanty on Jul 28, 2012 04:46 PM
ODIs???? This is what you understood from the story of Bhaskar? No wonder, you are a Tendulkar fan.
No cricket expert or great bowler ranks him even in the top 3 batsman of our era and you people compare him to the best of the lot....What pity! He quietly kept doing his slow business when all the eyes were on the genius sachin. Dravid was not sachin. That's all. Dravid is not even a complete batsman.
Re: IS dravid even in top 3??
by siba mohanty on Jul 28, 2012 04:50 PM
Sand Mr Saini, your greatest Sachin did not have the guts to open batting against England in 2011 series when Gambhir was injured. How great is the greatest batsman who hides behind the Greatest No 3 of our time. Huh!
If all the batsman in out team were dravid, we would only score 227 runs in a day of a test match. I have never seen such kind of stat where if a great batsman's ability is distributed to the whole team, the team actually becomes worse....Awesome!!! Is this sportsmanly. All matches will be drawn ..... Just accept that he has done well because his team members were their to increase the strike rate of innings . Anyone who batted with dravid was under pressure because they knew the responsibilty to score quick runs is theirs.
Don't just blame the master.SEE what the remaining people were doing when sachin scored those glorious tons. He was not lucky like dravid. Dravid always performed when team played well. It's perfectly shown by his absence of tons in losing causes. And check out his test victories, you will probably find, he was either in a supporting act or had a wnderful supportind act himself. Sachin has played many a lone battles like a true champ!!!
For your kind info, sachin has more tons in winning causes . And he was the lone warrior for india dozens of times unlike dravid whose test tons never used to come when india needed them. That's why he has so few tons in losing causes. A ton in losing cause means only you scored but rest of the team failed. And dravid never did that. HE was always a batsman who used to play when everything was rossy around him. Give me a single innings of his against the best bowlers , toughest pitches of our era. He was an utter failure against the likes of Austrlia and SA. His tests averages against them are below average. Sehwag has better averages than him against better bowling attacks. And guess what sehwag doean't play by just saving huis wicket for his runs like dravid. Dravid was dropped from india ODI squad in 1998 season because his strike rate was a pathetic 53 . He was actually helping the other teams that way. Again dropped in later part of 2000s. I just can't believe that these people think that a great batsman will be great only in one format of the game. TRUE GREATS will be great in any format. Dravid was lucky to play for indian ODI team because we didn't have anyone apart from sachin and ganguly in those days. IF we had people like sehwag,yuvraj,dhoni,kohli in those days, dravid would have never played in ODIs.
