Sir Sachin Tendulkar 4

[Rangarajan nambi]

Mr. Nambi nobody here is saying Sachin should play forever or saying he is doing well. There are other problems in the team that are not being talked about because Sachin is not performing.
Sachin was the best test player last year but that doesn't mean or guarantee his place. Here is the average over the last three years.
Sachin - 78,47,25( for 2010,2011,2012)
Sehwag- 61,29,33
Gambir- 32,31,31

The openers have been consitently underperforming and putting pressure on the middle order, if anything its because of Sachin, Dravid and Laxman we had some sense of what test cricket is, now that Dravid and Laxman are not there and Sachin is not doing well we are losing very badly.

If there is someone whose place should be questioned its Gambir, then Sehwag and then comes Sachin. Sachin was one of the few players who was confortable playing the Aus bowlers in Aus this year.
When Australia comes here its better to have him than a rookie or these openers who even refuse to acknowledge there is problem (have you seen a statement about their forms considering they are averaging in the lower 30's for over two years?) The only statements they give are we are the best and thats how I play.

Scoring fast 60-70 as a pair in 15 overs and keeping an avergae of 30 is useless and detrimental if you keep exposing the middle order within 15 overs everytime.
FYI, Sehwag averages less than Harbhajan outside the sub-continent. (not for the past few series, but in the past 3 years) and the less we talk about Gambir better. Maybe they should only be selected for matches in India?
There is nothing to defend about Sachin, everyone knows even if he scores in the next match he is not a long term prospect, but this hatred of Sachin is blinding the glaring truth for most people that the root of the problem lies elsewhere. The truth is there are players there are players in the team who haven't performed for well over 2 years and this is being overlooked because of 1 bad year from Sachin.

You are actually downgrading Sachin by comparing the stats with mortals like Gambhir ! Scale him with likes of Ponting, Brian, Kallis and assess. Again, these average business has no sense actually . I will give you one classic example. When India toured Aus in2003-04 under Sourav, Sachin was a flop in the entire series compared to his standards but came good in Sydney and ended unbeaten with 250 plus ?? So, by virtue of scoring a big one at the end with not out, the average for that series will show everyone that he did very well unless someone goes indepth to see what he had actually performed on crucial occasions.

And dont ever compare Sachin with Viru. Sehwag is in a league of his own. He had redefined or had given new dimension to the job of an opening batsman. But, for him may be another 2-3 years of cricket left out I think.