Continuing to miss Sachin Tendulkar

3 minute read Considering he’s been the highest profile player for pretty much the whole time we’ve been following cricket, we’ve missed an awful lot of Sachin Tendulkar’s career. We went to the match in which he scored his first Test century, but we didn’t see him bat. Then, for a long time

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We haven’t written about Sachin Tendulkar

< 1 minute read We’ve instead written about writing about Sachin Tendulkar over at Cricinfo. Within minutes of it being published, it had already attracted insightful comment: “Now finally great person retirement time will came But We expecting good support for younger with their experience. This Type of great person very low volume coming.”

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Sachin Tendulkar falling short

2 minute read Suppose we should write about at least one of the Boxing Day Tests. Australia v India is the more interesting one from an impartial perspective and so far India have the upper hand thanks to Zaheer Khan and some old bastard fifties. One of those was from Sachin Tendulkar, who

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Tendulkar has been better than Bradman

2 minute read Over at The Cricketer, John Emburey has made the point that Sachin Tendulkar has been tested in ways that Bradman wasn’t. It’s a fair point. Different eras In Ed Smith’s damn fine book, What Sport Tells Us About Life, there’s a whole chapter dedicated to Bradman’s average. Someone somewhere did

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