Monday, July 19, 2010

mood out after reading comments against Sachin

Well people, I write this blog imeediately after reading some senseless and freaky comments about Sachin Tendulkar. Iam sure the people who made the comments were in a state of trance or they haven't seen cricket as keenly as I have seen and digested, or followed. If they find it amusing writing off Sachin , then Iam sorry they don't deserve their bloody lives and they deserve seclusion from the society. These people are either Ponting supporters , Dravid supporters , etc and they write it from sheer frustration that Sachin is a better batsman than their favourite cricketer. Well Sachin is cricket's best batsman and it absolutely makes null sense when we say someone is better than Sachin. The simple reason being he has not only ruled the cricketing fraternity but also a billion hearts for more than 2 decades now.
1) Sachin isn't a better match-winner than Sir viv richards or ponting.
Well this is may seem very convincing for you. But its not so if you have followed cricket intensly.
When Viv Richards scored a century you had malcolm marshall , courtney walsh, andy roberts, joel Garner to bowl out the opposition or restrict the opposition to a decent total. Compare these bowlers to Javagal Srinath , Venkatapathy Raju , Ajith Agarkar etc. These bowlers didn't have the skill to bowl out the opposition or restrict them to a chasable total. So, many centuries of Sachin has gone in vain even though he has a whooping 93 centuries under his belt. The Indian line up in the early 90s had atleast 3 match fixers who could lose any game from a winning position. Psychologically playing with match fixers in your side may diminish your performance but that wasn't the case. His perfomance was always above par. A famous comment from one of the culprits of fixing went as "we fix a match only after Sachin gets out".
Coming to Ponting, he too had sensational bowlers in Mcgrath Warne and others. His fellow batsmen namely gilly , haydos, martin , the waugh brothers , bevan etc were way more consistent than azharuddin, jadega, etc. So every century of him would be a winning one with the help of his talented team mates. It wasn't the case with Sachin. We all know some famous matches where Sachin played a blinder and the rest of the team played blindly. Some of Sachin's great knocks have been in a losing cause and hence haven't been highlighted. So to sum it up Sachin was a one man army for India until some players like rahul saurav yuvi dhoni etc blossomed. This rubbishes the sentance Sachin is not a match winner.

2) Sachin doesn't perform in crucial matches
This is crazy people. Utter crap. This emotes laughter in me. Sachin has the best average in finals and has a better average than anyone in the world cup and is the highest run scorer in the world cup.

3) Sachin can't tolerate the pressures of captaincy and takes the pressure to his head.
He was the best player when he was the captain. His average was booming when he was leading the side. His bad win ratio as captain may be attributed to the facts such as match fixing , other team mates' averages below 20, etc. He was the only player who performed during his tenure as captain.

These were the most striking criticisms made and some more junk was written, not worth mentioning. So people when you compare cricketers please don't include Sachin in the discussion as you would be making a utter fool of yourself. Sachin by himself is a cricket bible. So learn from it.
Sachin is God
(just as we say JAI HIND)