Sachin Tendulkar

AND THEN achieve even ONE-TENTH of what King Vivian etc achieved then we can think of comparing him with them. Till then he is echelons below that league. Tell how as a 'great ODI batsman" he has the staggering averages of 26 to 28 against Aus, SA, Eng etc away, and how his ONLY centuries outside the subcontinent have come against the deadly attacks of Zim, Ken and Nam. King Vivian has avgs around 50 and sr of 90+ everywhere in an era when a sr of 70 was outstanding.

He said he would "pay his last dollar" to watch King Vivian bat. Once again, let T'kar do the following as I said in my last post - Play 1)with zero protective gear, 2)on the fastest bounciest uncovered pitches, 3)with no batsman-protecting rules, 4)with poorer bats, 5)on much larger groounds, 6)against the 100 mph demons and much higher quality bowlers of the 70s and 80s and earlier eras.

Either your knowledge or your intelligence or your humour has to be outrageously pathetic. ALL Bradman said was that T'kar's technique was similar to his, his compactness and his style. He NEVER annointed himself the best ever or that scumbag T'kar the second best ever. Bradman reserved his "greatest innings I have ever seen" for McCabe's 232 against End's Larwood-Voce in 1938, and his "best ever innings in Aus" for Sobers' 254 against Aus's Lillee-McEnzie etc in '72.

ARKN06, you are a moron. Sir Donald Bradman compared him to himself and rated him second to himself. I think that's proof enough that Sachin is the second best ever, but in my eyes as the best ever because I have never seen Bradman bat.

On top of all that we have given him he shamelessly even evades taxes and hurts the same nation. In all these years, all he has done is on a VERY good batting track beat up past their primes Akram and Younis, and only a in-form Akhtar in WC'03. Please don't even mention his beating up Kasperowicz and Feliming like club bowlers on the best batting track ever at Sharjah'98. In the 90s itself, Lara was better than him, what of 'ever' tags. Please..