Kohli you are the Hero of the Indian cricket team. Do not give any scope to the opponent team, judge the ball and hit beyond the fence for sixers mostly. Do not be nerve while you will do the batting. No doubt you have been recognised as one of the best fielder from Indian side. Good luck to you and the full time for clinching the series against WI at vizag.
Is a much better bat than Sachin on any day. He negotiated some of the best fast bowlers with no protection. And lent so much batting stability that India can never lose easily in test matches. Has saved a lot of test matches for India. more importantly only after Gavaskar came to scene, India was not whitewashed in a series. But when tendu was at his peak India had suffered two insulting and disgusting white washes in 2011. Does any one care about these before tomtoming about tendul?
Re: Sunil Manohar Gavasakar
by Intel Midfield on Nov 23, 2013 10:36 AM
Can't agree more . Gavaskar was prpbablly the best Test Batman worrld has ever witnessed. He had faced most fierced bowlers of all time. Form like word were more meanigful then because it's not so frequently played like now and Change used to be 180 degree...Facing Indian Bowler in Domestic cricket to fearsome fastest. In my view if Tendu was placed in similar condition with same teams ( No Kenya/ Jimbabe like ) ...He wouldn't have gone past Gavaskar even in 200 tests. Tendu in Test is probably the 3rd/4th best B'man from India.. Starting from SMG, Dravid, VVS and then comes Tendu
Viv Richards never got to face the West Indian bowlers... else his average would have been lower. Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin and Virat never got to play against Indian bowlers else their averages would have been higher.
Re: Viv not in the same league
by venkatachalam varadarajan on Nov 23, 2013 08:45 AM
viv never got to face westindian bowlers . but he also faced the great pace bowlers , Like dennis lilee, jeff thomson, bob willis len pascoe , Richard Hadlee.ane on medium side Ian botham, our great kapil dev Today we dont have that kind of pace bowlers
Viv scored at an avg of 47 with a strike rate of 90 when anything over 220 runs in 50 overs was considered a winning total. Is that the case nowadays ? having seen Viv's batting...he was indeed the Ultimate Master Blaster ever..!!!
Why are we comparing Virat with Sir Viv or Sachin. Where does the comparision lies. It is much easier to bat nowdays with Batting friendly wickets along with new set of One day rules such as Mandatory Powerplay, only 4 fielders in the slog over outside 30 yards, Free hits, One bouncer per over, White ball with replacement after 35 overs along with shorter boundary in most of the ground. Better protective gears, New weaker opposition like Bangladesh, Kenya, Zimbabwe etc who are no where in comparision to earlier teams.
considering all this it is much easier to score at brisk pace than those days.
Pls consider all these facts 1st before comparision.
he he he he, Sachin scores first ODI century in 79th match, he he he he, before his 79th match Kohli has already scored 8 centuries, he he he he, Sachin nowehere near Kohli, he he he he.
The comparison ends there. Thequalituy of bowling tnat Vi (or for that matter, Gavaskar) faced were notches above the current bowling standards in all cricket playing nations... don't make any comparison...they were class apart.
Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by LOL on Nov 22, 2013 03:18 PM
Agree. When people say Sachin was a better bat than Sunil Gavaskar my blood boils. Sunil negotiated the most fearsome fast bowlers without any protection. Who can forget the 1971 test series in WI when India won for the first time a test series in WI?
Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Indian Dreamer on Nov 22, 2013 04:40 PM
Yes, Sunil Gavaskar even batted through a full innings of 60 Overs to score 35 runs! He was simply fantabulous!!!!
Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Indian Dreamer on Nov 22, 2013 04:50 PM
It is foolish to compare batsmen (people in any walks of life, for that matter) from different eras, and make your blood boil! The environments, situations, motivational factors etc were vastly different then! Stop comparing Sachin to Richards and Gavaskar, et al, and check out how he fared in comparison to his contemporaries!
Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Indian Dreamer on Nov 22, 2013 05:00 PM
And for the benefit of those of you who were too young to understand/follow cricket during Sunil Gavaskar's playing days, please be aware that even he used to be dubbed as 'ver hyped' by many Indians ("Indians"!) in comparison to batsmen from earlier generations - like Sir Don Bradman, Hanif Mohammed, Victor Trumper, Graeme Pollock, Sir Len Hutton, Three 'W's' and many others!!!! It has always been a "fashion" amongst Indians, as it seems to be even now, to find weird reasons to dub anything "Indian" as worthless!!!!
Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Kathir Krishnamurthi on Nov 22, 2013 06:58 PM
I liked watching Sunil. Sachin is more attacking and harder hitting than Sunil. Sunil was never a succesful one day batsman. Sachin can take many great bowlers to the ropes at will.
Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Kathir Krishnamurthi on Nov 22, 2013 07:02 PM
Sachin is clearly a step above Sunil. Waqar, Wasim, Steyn, Hadlee, Merw Hughes and McGrath are not the lame bowlers you come across. He has belted them all over on his day. Sunil never attacked the bowlers like Sachin did.
Re: Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by LOL on Nov 23, 2013 06:59 AM
Guys, If you dont know Gavaskar adapted his game to shorter version after world cup win so well he overshadowed the over hyped srikkanth in a one dayer. Gavaskar was better than tendul. See no white washes when sunil played but 2 ww in 2011!!!
Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Sundar Balasubramani on Nov 22, 2013 05:36 PM
Answer my simple question? Did Gavaskar or Vivian Richards choose their bowlers? If yes, Kohli is very bad my dear friend. If not, think before writing some nonsen*e like this.
Re: Re: Kohli equals Viv's record
by Intel Midfield on Nov 26, 2013 11:59 AM
Very Wierd Logic. When you are comparing two things you have to look at the data, and it has to be naromalised as per conditions. These days when a b'man can score almost a doube century in 20 overs.While 120 used to be difficult enough to scroe in 60 over match. So by this logic if a B'man scores 100 runs these days should be considered as 20 runs.
