669 runs at an average of 68 in 10 matches.Strike rate around 90
With scores like
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152,50,98,97,83,81,35,15,5,52**
No matter if India wins worldcup or not,I think this worldcup will be known as tendulkar’s worldcup.Not any single player has dominated any worldcup they way he dominated this one.
Salute to great batsman. 
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Yes Allah ka banda you are quite right. He has certainly dominated the world cup and this world cup will be remembered as tendulkars world cup. The good thing for india is tendulkar has many many years left and some people believe we are still yet to see the best of tendulkar, afterall he is constantly improving his own game.
I've got a feeling he won't make too many runs in the final but his best batsman in the world status has been confirmed here in the tournament where it matters most. You can't ask for more than that.
Oh man… what a great man this guy is (for indians not for me)… i wish that this world cup is his last but he will play the next world cup…
No matter how i hate indians but we all have 2 agree that he’s a great batsman:k:…
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I've got a feeling he won't make too many runs in the final but his best batsman in the world status has been confirmed here in the tournament where it matters most. You can't ask for more than that.
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yes... i think everybody noticed that tendulkar cannot score big runs in the final... and u can see his record... as far as i think he only scored one 50 or something...
He is the best batsmen in the world at the moment. All this comparisons with Lara should cease, Lara hasn't delivered recently and could well be on his way out. Tendulkar is something else. I think he is wihout a doubt the best batsmen the subcontinent has produced.
Sachin R Tendulkar is indeed one of the finest batsman in recent times. His consistency in this World Cup speaks volumes of his mental toughness and attacking style. There is no need to compare him with any other batsman. He is a class in his own.
Mr Broken Sky....
why do you wish Sachin not to play in the next world cup ?
Dont be so shallow, the world cup would never be the same without players like Sachin....
If you have a anti indian stance, dont spread it... We pakistani's should see past that...
Indeed a great batsman :k:
Even if he does not score in final, he is the one who has brought India to this stage :k:. No doubt, this WC belongs to Tendulkar.
He is not the best, but he is one of the best. let's see what happens in the final.
98,97
he sure is a great batsman but in those two matches i felt really bad..
do aur centuries hojaty :(
anwayy.. Indian team is lucky to have a batsman like Tendulker in their team..who always score when they need it..
Agreed.He has done enough to bring India to final. :k:
But India’s chances on final depend too much on him so he will be under extra pressure to deliver. He also knows he may be his closes shot on worldcup.
Tendulkar is clearly the best batsman today in the world and certainly one of the greatest ever. While his knock is always inspiring let's not forget the great depth provided by the others. Sehwag, Dravid, Ganguly, Yuvraj & Khaif have all done their bits with the bat when needed. Tendulkar, Ganguly, and Dravid can get to their hundred (or near hundred) on any given day; Yuvraj Khaif and Sehwag can get to their 50+ on any given day in the process helping the masters. Then you have Mongia who isn't too shabby either.
Ofcourse Brett Lee's strategy needs to handled and overcome.
AravaMudhan, Stop this Badbolapan . Indian batting is good but it is sheer exaggeration that Ganguly,Dravid can score 100s any day or the likes of Sehwag,kaif and yuvraj can score 50s any day, If that was the case why they didn't do so in the match against Australia ? How many 50s has Sehwag made ? There is no need to exaggerate Indian batting just because we have reached the finals.
It's a fact that Australian team is better than this Indian team, Their batting line up is tested under pressure more than 3 times, Indian bating line up is yet to be tested in this tournament. To win against this Australian team we will need more than brilliant performance, We will need luck and prayers too.
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Tendulkar is clearly the best batsman today in the world and certainly one of the greatest ever. While his knock is always inspiring let's not forget the great depth provided by the others. Sehwag, Dravid, Ganguly, Yuvraj & Khaif have all done their bits with the bat when needed. Tendulkar, Ganguly, and Dravid can get to their hundred (or near hundred) on any given day; Yuvraj Khaif and Sehwag can get to their 50+ on any given day in the process helping the masters. Then you have Mongia who isn't too shabby either.
Ofcourse Brett Lee's strategy needs to handled and overcome.
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yes ..listen to Asif.
Article on Rahul Dravid from UK Journal.
http://131.103.215.6/sjbhs/body_rahul_dravid.html
Mihir Bose
Stylish batsmen Rahul Dravid, a picture of consistency and tall batting deeds, was rewarded the prestigious Castrol Cricketer of the Year award for 1998-99.
The 25-year old batsman from Karnataka was voted the best performer by past and present Indian players after being nominated for the accolade along with Sachin Tendulkar, winner last year. Dravid collected a handsome purse of Rs five lakh and an imaginatively crafted trophy.
Thirty-one players were in the fray for the award and performance in seven Tests and 46 one-dayers were the basis for selection. All former and current Test players and those who had played atleast five one-dayers formed the electorate.
Dravid was adjudged the best after emerging the highest run-getter in the World Cup in England with a huge tally of 461 runs, including two centuries, and struck hundreds in both innings of the third and final test in New Zealand this January and the scores of runs that have continued to flow from his bat.
RAHUL DRAVID - Indian Cricket Team
Cricket, a game of subtle ironies, can rarely have provided a more curious one than this. The batting star of the tournament was not considered really suitable for one-day cricket even as late as this January and it was not until he scored a century in Taupo, New Zealand, that he became a regular for his national side.
Mention this to Rahul Dravid, who leads the batting averages in this World cup, and he smiles softly, saying: “Yes, for a long time a lot of people said I could not play one-day cricket. There were so many theories about what was wrong with my one-day game- I did not rotate the strike, I always hit the ball to fielders, I should bowl more off-spin to became a true one-day player-that I even stopped reading newspapers.”
Dravid, who made 95 on his debut a Lord’s in 1996, has not missed a Test since but the Indian selectors quickly labelled him as a specialist Test player and last year he appeared in less than half of the nearly 50 one day internationals India played. Even on the New Zealand tour, he only established himself as a one-day player having scored a doubble century and a century in a Test match. After that, he just could not be dropped.
Yet, with a mixture of self-analysis and modesty that would be revolutionary for an English cricketer, Dravid admits that while he did not like being labelled unsuitable for one day cricket, it made him go back to the nets to seek further improvement, particularly shot selection on the off-side.
If this suggests Dravid is a man of singular character and temperament, then that hardly comes as a surprise. In a country that is more a continent and whose cricket team is a collection of tribes, as the former captain Nawab of Pataudi once said, Dravid can claim to be the true cosmopolitan Indian.
Born in Indore in central India from the same stock as Sachin Tendulkar (they often speak in Marathi, their mother tongue, when batting together) he grew up in the south but was educated by Catholic priests. It is this mixture of Hindu Brahmanical ancestry leavened by western Jesuit teaching that explains much about Dravid.
This was well illustrated on that memorable occasion in Durban when, in a final of a one day tournament, Dravid clashed with Allan Donald, Dravid hit Donald for six back over his head and the south African fast bowler came down the wicket and, using four-lettered words, warned the upstart that cricket was not that easy. A less controlled person might have reacted badly, but as Dravid told me yesterday; “I picked up his slower ball. Donald was not happy but I did not react. I find if you do that it detracts from your game..”
Such singularity explains why, until recently, he combined playing Test cricket with trying to get a master degree in business administration to add to his bachelor’s degree in commerce and why, when the Indian went to Toronto play meaningless one day matches, he took time off to go to the theatre. On this tour, he has been catching up on his cricket, reading about Neil Harvey besides an enthralling study of Michael Jordan by David Hallberstam.
In Indian, where cricketers are either gods like Tendulkar or brawny Hindi film heroes, Dravid is the level-headed guy who takes everything in his stride. However, his name might be written in as the future Indian captain. He has led cricket teams ever since he started playing for St. Joseph’s School in Bangalore and, should his batting improve, he could be a successor to the captaincy
By Mihir Bose
Courtesy Cary Thomas, Editor UK Journal
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Article on Rahul Dravid from UK Journal.
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OH MY GOD,
did durango write all that on his own???
bravo my friend, you're a magician with words.
Wisden overview
When he became the first batsman to score 50 hundreds in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar established himself as the greatest of all Indian cricketers. Recognised by Sir Donald Bradman as his modern incarnation, Tendulkar has a skill – a genius – which only a handful have possessed. It was not a skill that he was simply born with, but one which was developed by his intelligence and an infinite capacity for taking pains. If there is a secret, it is that Tendulkar has the keenest of cricket minds. At times in a Test series he looks mortal. But he learns every lesson, picks up every cue, dominates the opposing attack sooner or later, and nearly always makes a hundred. His bravery was proved after he was hit on the head on his Test debut in Pakistan, when he was only 16; and his commitment to the Indian cause has never been in doubt. If captaincy – or rather the off-field management of men less skilled than himself – was beyond him at his first attempt, his reading of the game, and his manifold varieties of bowling, have shown the same acute intelligence. His cricket has been played in the right way too, always attacking, and because he knew that was the right way rather than because he was a child of the one-day age, as he himself modestly said. Scyld Berry*The awe of opponents was as great as that of crowds. But the finest compliment must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds – or a game – until Tendulkar was out. *
152,50,98,97,83,81,35,15,5,52
Holy crap 
… He is without doubt, the best batsman the world has ever seen. I just wish Pakistan had an amazing, talented batsman like him.
we do have
Saeed Anwar:jhanda:
Inzamam:jhanda:
Youhana:jhanda:
not in the world cup but they are the :k: batsman…