Their very good players any neutral fan would love these players your comment makes me think your worried about Joe Root...possibly doing something special and passing a certain records.
The point is , Pakistanis have been dearly waiting for someone to be able to overhaul Tendulkar's record.
I think most neutrals would like to see the record broke and records do get broken eventually. If it was a Pakistani who had the most test runs, Indians would be dearly waiting for someone to overhaul his record as well.
Sports lovers love the mountains being climbed yes, and we are partisan lovers of our own players and teams.
he is fit enough to prolong his career but i dont think so ECB will allow him to play that long
More than the what you have posted, there is thing called Bazball that will get in his way from getting to Tendulkar.
Its about number of innings and not number of matches.
Too big an ask for him, poor chap got hospitalized for that before as a captain
The England side under him was a far different side than the one it is right now under Stokes. And leaving captaincy has actually allowed him to rediscover who he is as a batter. The next Ashes is his best chance to etch his name in history.
Well that depends on what you consider to be the mark of a great batter. For me it's not just averages and runs. Impact matters more to me.
Joe Root has become the leading run scorer on England soil
Pakistan has given root the golden opportunity to stat pad.Here’s a comparison of Joe Root’s Test record with Sachin Tendulkar’s after the same number of innings
Could he surpass the records for most Test runs and centuries?
So there isn’t daylight between the two as some insecure Indians would claim. Now they will give us cap about different on bowling standards.Here’s a comparison of Joe Root’s Test record with Sachin Tendulkar’s after the same number of innings
Could he surpass the records for most Test runs and centuries?
The only thing that stop Root is this bazball approach where he sometimes throws his wicket away on cheap trick shots but he does it for the benefit of the team.Here’s a comparison of Joe Root’s Test record with Sachin Tendulkar’s after the same number of innings
Could he surpass the records for most Test runs and centuries?
Thanks for posting this.Here’s a comparison of Joe Root’s Test record with Sachin Tendulkar’s after the same number of innings
Could he surpass the records for most Test runs and centuries?
True . Root bats like a selfless Pakistani batsman . His record in Australia reflects that. Very admirable.
Jokes aside root is a fantastic Test batter.
Sachin has done very well in Sydney and that inflates his record. Back then Sydney was closest to a SC pitch and Sachin cashed in with some hundreds in drawn matches while occasionally covering up for racist abuse.
Lara > Sanga > Sachin > Root in test.
That's your opinion and it's ok to have it. I would have some other batsmen between Sanga and Sachin too. But everyone is entitled to your opinion. The problem is Indians will lynch you for it and give you abuse based on your ethnicity.
I don't think SRT is the greatest Test batter and he's certainly not the God of cricket for me.
Their are various other batters between Sachin and sanga. I can't list all of them, I was mostly trying to illustrate tiers.
114 in Perth in 1992
They are good knocks but his overall record is inflated by Sydney.
Sachin has tons at Perth , Melbourne and Adelaide as well.
The comparison is with a batsman who has not scored a single ton anywhere in Australia
His protection of racist bhajji also in the end contributed to the end of Symonds life according to many experts.Sachin has tons at Perth , Melbourne and Adelaide as well.
In fact, Root is the one who doesn't have a great record against on pitches with pace and bounce.
A solitary 110 at the Wanderers against a depleted attack which didn't have Steyn or Philander.
Tendulkar has tons at Wanderers, Supersport, Newlands and and the aforementioned Australian venues.
And he protected Bhajji from that foul mouthed bully that ileas Symonds and pretty much ended Symonds' career. A real hero
Moral of the story - Never, ever take the opinion of random nobodies from Pakistan about anything related to India seriously, whether it be admiration or contempt.Sachin has tons at Perth , Melbourne and Adelaide as well.
In fact, Root is the one who doesn't have a great record against on pitches with pace and bounce.
A solitary 110 at the Wanderers against a depleted attack which didn't have Steyn or Philander.
Tendulkar has tons at Wanderers, Supersport, Newlands and and the aforementioned Australian venues.
And he protected Bhajji from that foul mouthed bully that ileas Symonds and pretty much ended Symonds' career. A real hero
Btw just to add in this case it doesn't matter how many came in wins.
Next 2 years are crucial for Root but I suspect he will continue the bazball way so may not be able to cash in too much.
I was listing his centuries in Australia outside of Sydney.
Andrew Symonds got everything that he deserved . He was abusing our players non stop. Death does not sanctify him or elevate him to sainthood.
It doesn't matter. But the comparison was already being made on this thread.
Nobody deserves to be racially abused.
Harbhajan is not an Anglophile to know the connotations of the word "monkey " and that's assuming he even called him that
What evidence exists that Bhajji racially abused Symonds except that the Aussies claimed it?
I agree with your first line. That would have been a good way to defuse the situation. accept fault but show that the word may not have the same meaning in India.
Sorry. But you are taking the word of the Aussies as gospel. I'm not sure why their word is honest and not Sachin's.
As in most of thesde cases cases we have to take the word of the victim and the match referee. If a mafia then tries to exert pressure on the proceedings to force a result in their way it shows something dodgy is going on.
Sanath Jayasuriya and the Sri Lankans accused Glenn McGrath of calling him a black monkey. Except they had no proof and McGrath walked free.
he has 49 centuries and 96 50's batting in a much harder batting era and without the advent of t20. Was the first batter to ever score a 200 in odi
Quality > quantity.
Wait off topic why does this not apply to fakhar zaman vs Babar azam? Babar azam having more quantity but fakhar having superior quality being the one responsible for ct 2017, getting pak no 1 in t20 rank due to his 91 of 46 in tri series final? Getting pakistan to beat nz via drs, as well as his 193 and 210's?
That is the privilege that players pre 2020 and 2010 enjoyed, I did a thread on this as well.
