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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funn...me/1194879.stm
Friday, 2 March, 2001, 08:54 GMT
Clash of the Titans
Following the death of Sir Donald Bradman, BBC Sport Online's Thrasy Petropoulos considers how the great man would have fared if he had played in the same era as the best batsman in the modern game, Sachin Tendulkar.
"Jessie! Jessie! Come here," Don Bradman once called to his wife while watching television.
"Look! There! The batsman on the television. Don't you think he reminds you of me?"
The batsman was Sachin Tendulkar, diminutive, confident and complete in footwork, with an air of invincibility about him.
So, if Bradman saw in Tendulkar the nearest thing to his clone, we can ask ourselves a fascinating question.
How would India's little maestro have fared in the 1930s? Or, more pertinently, what would today's bowlers have made of the Don?
For those who think it sacrilege to compare a batsman who averaged 99.94 in Test cricket with one currently averaging 57, the answer lies not in statistics but in the batsman's style and his influence on the game.
Consider the words of Australian Test star Justin Langer in his diary on this very site.
Describing Tendulkar during the first Test in Bombay, Langer wrote: "His straight driving off both front and back foot was incredible.
Sachin Tendulkar
"How a man, who cannot be much more than five feet six inches, can dominate an attack like he does is beyond belief."
Bradman was five feet seven inches tall and seems to have dominated every attack that had the misfortune to bowl at him.
The only way to truly to assess Bradman v Tendulkar is to compare the many facets that made up their game.
Ability
In so far as it is possible to quantify ability, it would be tempting to give both batsmen a perfect 10.
But if Bradman was perfect he would not have been bowled for a duck in his final innings and would have ended on the magical average of 100.
And ability is not just about runs scored. Everything about the way Tendulkar goes about his batting, particularly his leg-side play, seems to tally with the Don's method.
Strokeplay
It is almost impossible for a modern-day fan to imagine the speed at which Bradman scored his runs. In January 1930, it took him only 415 minutes to make 452 not out, at the time the highest individual score in first-class cricket.
For that innings alone, Bradman must come out ahead on strokeplay.
But there are two factors which must not be forgotten.
Sir Donald Bradman
First and foremost, it was commonplace in the thirties and forties to maintain attacking fields throughout the innings (there is one famous picture of the Don with 300 on his name but with three slips and a gully still standing in position).
And secondly, over-rates were far better then than they are today.
Temperament
It would not be possible to score as Bradman did without a character of steel. But even though he has not scored as heavily as the Don, Tendulkar comes out on a par because of the maturity he showed in making a success of Test cricket at the age of 16.
Hunger/consistency
On almost any other comparison, Tendulkar would come out on top by having racked up 24 Test hundreds before his 28th birthday.
But consider this: of those scores only one has been over 200.
Bradman made ten Test double hundreds and two triple hundreds. In all he hit six triple and no less than 37 double hundreds in first-class cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
Tendulkar is unique among modern cricketers for never having gone through a bad patch with the bat in more than a decade of Test cricket.
But Bradman was simply phenomenal.
On his first tour of England in 1930 he had Test scores of (and think about this for a second) 131, 254, 334 and 232.
Tendulkar is excellent (6,416 runs in 79 matches). Bradman was more than that (6,996 in 52)
Conduct
It is here that Tendulkar has the advantage.
The memories of Bradman are of after the war when, in his farewell appearances for Australia, he revealed himself to be a diplomat, an eloquent speaker and an ambassador for both his country and the game.
Sir Donald Bradman
But it should not be overlooked that Bradman was not always popular with his team-mates who disliked his puritanical lifestyle and his near deification in Australia.
He was not one to court friendship.
Tendulkar is similar in many ways - unfailingly courteous and modest, clean-living and comfortable with his own company. But he has retained his popularity with both team-mates and opponents.
Adulation
This is perhaps the most relevant comparison.
The most important fact about both batsmen is not about the runs they have scored or the averages they have attained: it is about the impact they have had on people.
In Australia, particularly during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Bradman became a symbol of hope for the many unemployed, and a source of entertainment for the rest.
In all the great cities, scoreboards were erected in the streets where thousands would gather just to watch the runs by his name tick over.
If the same were to be done in Mumbai, Calcutta, Delhi, or any other Indian city for that matter, the reaction from the Indian public would be the same for Tendulkar.
Totals:
Bradman 58/60
Tendulkar 56/60
Wat happen to poll.... :confused2:
today is the day a legend entered the cricket field for the first time as a little boy before 19 years who later made all others look little in the cricket field.
NOV 15 will go down as one of the most important days in the cricket history with the birth of the genius on the cricket field.
:notworthy:
Watched a old India-England match on NEO.
Eng batted 1st and set 218 target.
India reached 218 in 29.4 overs :boo:
Idhula, sachin-oda game pakkumbodhu :cry2: (Aanandha kanner)... What a game...
Sachin Sehwag partnership was really good.
Sachin was not out till the end. 87 n.o :o
From 213, sachin hit a winning shot Six :bow:
A bit of IPL News
http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/indi...ry/378352.html
IPL
Pollock not to return to Mumbai Indians
Cricinfo staff
November 15, 2008
McGrath also in doubt?
* Glenn McGrath, whose wife Jane died recently because of cancer, also might not return to complete his three-year contract with the Delhi Daredevils. TA Sekhar, the Delhi Daredevils' cricket director, said that McGrath was not in Australia and they were trying to speak with him to ascertain if the rumours about his unavailability were true.
Bottom Curve
Mumbai Indians officials are hoping to persuade Shaun Pollock, the former South African allrounder, to extend his contract with the IPL franchise. Pollock, whose contract with Mumbai Indians was only for one year, said that he didn't want to play cricket anymore.
"I have reached a stage where I think I have played enough cricket," Pollock told Cricinfo. "My contract with the Mumbai Indians was for one year and I was very happy with the way things went. I enjoyed every bit of the IPL experience but I want to stop playing now. But I will come back in some capacity."
His franchise, however, had not given up hope of Pollock returning. "We are in talks with him. We understand his position but we are positive we will be able to convince him to reconsider, "a Mumbai Indians' spokesperson said.
During the first season of the IPL, Pollock had told Tendulkar that he might not return next year but the seniors, including Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya, convinced him to continue playing at the time.
Pollock was the captain of the franchise during the first half of the tournament after Tendulkar was injured and Harbhajan Singh was banned. He scored 147 runs in eight innings at a strike-rate of 132.43 and took 11 wickets in 13 matches at an economy-rate of 6.54.
© Cricinfo
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This one ??
That particular series was a 6 match affair and England tied the series 3-3 and Flintoff took his shirt off and ran through the ground. Later in the same year we won the series at Lords and you know who whizzled the shirt :lol:
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Adheydhaan :D
We lost all those three matches in a close manner :sigh2:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer