Sachin Tendulkar Retires

[Nige]

74 :( caught at first slip

hope India declare so he has another chance for one last century

:'(

[Bill Manspeaker]

alright well one last century is a bit of a stretch... but hopefully he can hit the winning run!

[CrowsFan]

[Grazz]

3 of my favourites were Lara, Sachin and Viv Richards. Always sad to see the greats retire. Goodluck to him in his future endeavours. :)

[JBs-Hawks]

Gold!

[Jay]

Hahaha love it CF! ;D

[CrowsFan]

Yeah I had a good chuckle when I saw it :D

[elephants]

Top-draw CF 8)

[Bill Manspeaker]

hahaha gold ;D Dizzy you legend

careful though, god himself(Sachin) will strike you down!

[Dudge]

Classic CF :)

Must agree, the greatest batsman I've seen live, remembering I never saw the GREAT Don live. I'm old, but not that old lol

[me]

sachin's been a good player, but gotta say, im absolutely sick of people trying to compare him to bradman... he's definitely not the best cricketer of all time and you'd struggle to mount an argument that he's even the best cricketer of the last 10 - 15 years (i'd take someone like warne or kallis over him every day), in the context of history there are a good number of players ahead of him in my books and there is absolutely no comparison of him to bradman... bradman is on a completely different level that sachin could only dream of.

just because he's idolized by a billion starry eyed fans doesn't actually make him any better than he is ... if you extrapolated other players careers to 200 tests, he'd be a fair way back in comparison. pity dravid didn't get the same fanfare as sachin when he retired, as he was the absolute rock of the indian team and probably my favorite indian batsman in recent memory

having said that, all the best to him, and congrats on a great career (don't think he'll get another chance to bat mateys lol terrible windies)

[nrich102]

sachin's been a good player, but gotta say, im absolutely sick of people trying to compare him to bradman... he's definitely not the best cricketer of all time and you'd struggle to mount an argument that he's even the best cricketer of the last 10 - 15 years (i'd take someone like warne or kallis over him every day), in the context of history there are a good number of players ahead of him in my books and there is absolutely no comparison of him to bradman... bradman is on a completely different level that sachin could only dream of.

I disagree with this. Don even compared Sachin to himself when he was alive. I actully think Sachin is better than Don. Bradman played Against England, and that was about it. Tendulkar played against almost every country who playes cricket and dominated against them all, not just one country.

[elephants]

Don = God.

Your argument is invalid.

[BB67th]

Don = God.

Your argument is invalid.

[me]

sachin's been a good player, but gotta say, im absolutely sick of people trying to compare him to bradman... he's definitely not the best cricketer of all time and you'd struggle to mount an argument that he's even the best cricketer of the last 10 - 15 years (i'd take someone like warne or kallis over him every day), in the context of history there are a good number of players ahead of him in my books and there is absolutely no comparison of him to bradman... bradman is on a completely different level that sachin could only dream of.

I disagree with this. Don even compared Sachin to himself when he was alive. I actully think Sachin is better than Don. Bradman played Against England, and that was about it. Tendulkar played against almost every country who playes cricket and dominated against them all, not just one country.

didn't dominate even nearly as much as bradman did and although i haven't bothered to break down the stats and everything, tendulkar was pretty average on pitches that weren't tailored to batting (ie outside the subcontinent) - i remember he did pretty well down here when we rolled out some ultra flat decks (loved the scg/adelaide i think in particular - wonder why) ... however don't think tendulkar had to cope with uncovered pitches, bodyline, and a 7/8 year break thanks to ww2

~7k runs from ~50 matches - imagine if he had played 200! if you look at the statistics, there's just nothing to debate at all

also just because tendulkar played more countries doesn't really mean much, most teams in world cricket are absolutely shower, and hence in theory should actually serve to increase his average not reduce it (great fun playing bangladesh, west indies, nz etc!)