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Even before Injury, you could sense Sachin has lost some of his savage-ness (Is it a word?) while Inzimam and Lara are scoring runs way more consistently and authoritatively
About tendulkar winning matches for his team well hes got seventy two centuies> im sure quite a number of them wouldve won india the match
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tendulkar does NOT have 72 centuries! wtf. Lara isn't in form, and niether seems kallis. Shoaib akhtar made more then both in the first game...
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r u alright dude? he has 72 centuries.
34 in tests
38 in ODIs
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*In crunch situations, he has probably got one or two to be honest 
. *
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only 8 of his 72 100s were in a losing match. that means 26 of his 100s resuled in his team’s victory.
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You are doing a basic mistake by combining the TEST and ODI 100s…dude both games are class apart. BTW, following is the analysis of top 3 batsmen of current era and the format is:
100s in winning cause (total 100s) = win cause percentage
TEST:
Inzi: 17 (22) = 77%
Tendulkar: 11 (34) = 32%
Lara: 8 (30) = 26%
ODI:
Lara: 16 (19) = 84%
Inzi: 7 (10) = 70%
tendulkar: 28 (38) = 73%
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And this includes all the “match-winning” innings he played against garbage attacks of Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka in the 90’s! The only century I remember from him is against Australia in a Sharjah Cup Final in one dayers, and a few centuries against the Aussies in test matches (where Indian bowling played a huge part as well in winning the tests). Everytime the situation has got out of hand, he has choked.
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Inzi has scored 22 100’s in test matches out of which Pakistan have lost only once!
i think captincy was also not upto the mark by pollock...
Best ODI ave as captain ODIs Average
Inzamam-ul-Haq 56 48.85
Ricky Ponting 91 43.65
Javed Miandad 61 40.58
Clive Lloyd 84 39.91
Sourav Ganguly 142 39.58
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Let me ask you something. If he retired next week, would you describe and recall him as the greatest batsmen to play the game, apart from bradman.
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*No way in hell would I do that! There have been many other batsmen who have performed when needed the most. Tendulkar does not stand out in that aspect at all. I will only remember him as an overrated semi-God manufactured by the Indian media. This is just my opinion ofcourse, and I have nothing against the Indian players. *
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Speaking of World XI selection, dont you guys think Gavaskar (beside other blunders) has done another blunder/favor by including Mark Boucher instead of Kumara Sangakara in the Test squard?
Here are the 3 obvious reasons (at least obvious to me)
What do you guys say?
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Agreed 110%. I am sick and tired of people NOT using their own judgements and knowledge of the game and instead relying on the media to determine the greatest player who played the game.
Its all about the hype which players like tendi, gangu, sehwag gets from their media. Ever imagined inzi or afridi as indian players? People in India would have worshipped them as Bhagwan Bablo and Bhagwan Boom Boom.
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Well I guess you have read Gilchrist’s commets in detail about the inclusion of Boucher and sangakara’s exclusion . Apparently the reasons obvious to you seemed obvious to Gilchrist as well :D. Gilchrist however, came up with them a day earlier.
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/superseries/content/story/221521.html
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two great minds (me and ghilchrist) think alike 
nah …seriously , arent these reasons (either by me or ghilchrist) too obvious for experienced guy like Gavaskar?
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Shoaib Akhter has been dropped of the world XI and decision has nothing to do with fitness or his weight (will he be selected for Pakistan now???)
Inzi is the player most in danger if pollock is picked (of course idiot Smith will pick pollock) :mad:
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By the way don't you think, its better not be part of loosing world X1?
We can see the world from different point of view..............
Poor Shoaib, no one heard his plea for a charity match, today he is been omitted from the team!!!!!!
