austerlitz
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excellent post
tendulkar does not have "high impact" records such as highest score in a test innings,triple hundreds,most runs in a calender year,most runs in a series,hundreds in fourth innings etc etc which a player of his caliber should have achieved.
i think kohli is going to surpass him when it comes to these high impact records.
Actually he was top scorer in an year 5 times.He was also the top rated batsman of the world more times than anyone else,even viv,lara or ponting.He is the only batsman in history to average 40 plus against all test sides home and away.(except bradman)No one else has that.
Tendulkar in the 90s was the greatest batsman i ever saw.He declined after the back and elbow injuries in the mid 2000s.For someone to be the best batsman in the world and top scorer in today's ultra competitive sport at the age of 40 in 2010-11 was insane.No other batsman can do that at age 40.
Tendulkar in 1990s faced the best bowlers in the world,simply incomparable to the FTB generation post 2000s.The only one comparable was lara,and he played for records even more.Ponting didn't face a single ATG bowler in his peak in early 2000s,not mcgrath or warne and not steyn.Sangakkara scored like 3k-4k runs against bangladesh lol.
Tendulkar's main weakness was susceptibility to pressure ,he was the player in the history of the game who had to handle this most and sometimes was vulnerable to it.Other weakness was his awareness of records.He was not a selfish player by any means but cared about records a bit more than necessary which was a hangover from the indian cricket culture of 1980s when he came into the side.