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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.

Analysts are not fools to use a "useless" stat like average as a measure, average is useless if you consider 4 or 5 matches but over a period of a year or over 3 years it is a very good indicator of what is happening.

When we are talking about the failure of a team you need to compare with people who you have....are we having the same conversation?

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.

You are the one who is under estimating Viru, based on his "form" in the last 2 years he is fit to play for 10 more years but not at international level.

IMO, Sehwag should be dropped for 1 or 2 series so he can think about what is wrong, the new ball is not a problem for him he gets out even after 20 overs, its the attitude, he is a better test player than what his stats show. He can be tried in the middle order but as I said new ball is not the problem so I am not sure it will make a difference, He needs a warning.

Sachins year has been nothings hort of horrendous, I have a problem when people call for his head without thinking. It was this knee jerk reaction that pushed VVS out. We haven't got a replacement for Ganguly yet, Kohli and Pujara have been good only in small patches (not making any judgements here, there is a lack of experience and these guys should be given more time), and we have fragile top order. I would rather see Saching play against Aus to have someone more experienced. After the Aus series team needs a long term plan and Sachin is defenitely not in it.