Why you cant compare Sachin and Kohli?
Why Sachin is considered as the greatest batsman of all time?
It is quite an obvious thing in cricket, whenever a new player plays or bats well, people start comparing that particular player with the former players. Be it the batting style or bowling action or batting stance or anything,there always existed a comparison.But When it comes to Tendulkar and Kohli, What i want to say is comparison shouldn’t be only based on a match or a particular series. And also, it shouldn’t be only based on “stats”. Now a days, i see many people saying “Virat will break sachin’s records”. That shouldn’t be the criterion to compare and say who is a better cricketer. Sachin played with different bowling attacks, bigger grounds,different rules, different captains. His era was different from today’s. So, what i feel is we can compare both Sachin-Virat on certain grounds but definitely not with the stats. GOD is always a GOD and KING is always a KING.
Even if Virat Kohli breaks all the records of Sachin Tendulkar, he will not be able to be better than Sachin.Greatness is not defined by just statistics, there is a lot of difference between the times Of Sachin and Kohli.Think of the bowlers during Sachin's initial phase from Malcolm Marshall, wasim Akram, Waqar younis, Aquib Javed, Abdul Qader, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Craig Mcdermott, McGrath, Jason Gillesppie, Bret Lee, Shane Warne, Chaminda Vaas, M Muralitharan, Shaun Pollock, Alan Donald, Fannie Devillers, ian Bishop, heath Streak, Paul Strang, saqlain Mustaq, Shane Bond, Daniel Vettori, Mustaq Ahmed.....list will go on, all these bowlers are those who took more than 200 wickets in their international career.
Comparing the bowlers now, How many of them are even close to any of those in the list? Can u mention any spinner who is even close to Murali, Warne or Saqlain or Mustaq or Daniel?
Can u mention any Fast Bowler who are even close to mcgrath's , Ambrose, Fannie Devillers or Chaminda Vaas accuracy? Or Anyone close to White Lightning (Alan Donald) Or Brett lee? Any swing bowler available to compare with Waqar or Wasim, Dont even think about that.
Why Sachin is considered as the greatest batsman of all time?
It is quite an obvious thing in cricket, whenever a new player plays or bats well, people start comparing that particular player with the former players. Be it the batting style or bowling action or batting stance or anything,there always existed a comparison.But When it comes to Tendulkar and Kohli, What i want to say is comparison shouldn’t be only based on a match or a particular series. And also, it shouldn’t be only based on “stats”. Now a days, i see many people saying “Virat will break sachin’s records”. That shouldn’t be the criterion to compare and say who is a better cricketer. Sachin played with different bowling attacks, bigger grounds,different rules, different captains. His era was different from today’s. So, what i feel is we can compare both Sachin-Virat on certain grounds but definitely not with the stats. GOD is always a GOD and KING is always a KING.
Even if Virat Kohli breaks all the records of Sachin Tendulkar, he will not be able to be better than Sachin.Greatness is not defined by just statistics, there is a lot of difference between the times Of Sachin and Kohli.Think of the bowlers during Sachin's initial phase from Malcolm Marshall, wasim Akram, Waqar younis, Aquib Javed, Abdul Qader, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Craig Mcdermott, McGrath, Jason Gillesppie, Bret Lee, Shane Warne, Chaminda Vaas, M Muralitharan, Shaun Pollock, Alan Donald, Fannie Devillers, ian Bishop, heath Streak, Paul Strang, saqlain Mustaq, Shane Bond, Daniel Vettori, Mustaq Ahmed.....list will go on, all these bowlers are those who took more than 200 wickets in their international career.
Comparing the bowlers now, How many of them are even close to any of those in the list? Can u mention any spinner who is even close to Murali, Warne or Saqlain or Mustaq or Daniel?
Can u mention any Fast Bowler who are even close to mcgrath's , Ambrose, Fannie Devillers or Chaminda Vaas accuracy? Or Anyone close to White Lightning (Alan Donald) Or Brett lee? Any swing bowler available to compare with Waqar or Wasim, Dont even think about that.
Sachin has played from times where 250 was a huge total to 434 being chased.
From scoring a run a ball being a rarity to scoring at a strike rate of 200.
From fast-bouncy bowler favoring pitches to pitches that favor the batsmen.
For 24 years, by a 100 crore people, One man was being tested every single time, through injuries and changing the way of playing constantly according to the need of the team(He couldn't play some shots due to the injury).
From scoring a run a ball being a rarity to scoring at a strike rate of 200.
From fast-bouncy bowler favoring pitches to pitches that favor the batsmen.
For 24 years, by a 100 crore people, One man was being tested every single time, through injuries and changing the way of playing constantly according to the need of the team(He couldn't play some shots due to the injury).
Sachin was a one man army, and he thrived excellence in all of these conditions.
Today's Indian team and almost all the players trying to make a career in cricket are Inspired by this man(including Virat Kohli).
No matter, who brings these comparisons up or when it’s brought up, I think, its invariably Sachin, who will win the debate hands down!
In fact, I believe Sachin will go down as one of the greatest of the game, just for the reason I mentioned above!
It’s not the wisest of things, to compare Sachin and Kohli in any way.
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