Tendulkar and Dravid make an interesting comparison study in another aspect.Think of all the adjustments (some would say sacrifices) Dravid made throughout his career, both in ODIs and Tests, and the story gets even more interesting. Dravid agreed to keep wickets in one-dayers to give his side a better balance. He went down to number 6 in tests, and even opened several times, to lend his side flexibility. Tendulkar? He never even considered opening in tests for India, despite being India's regular one-day opener, and despite there being a severe need for his kind of solid technique at the top of the order in Tests. He never even gave it a shot even once. In fact, just this fact makes one wonder why Sunil Gavaskar is not rated higher than Tendulkar :Gavaskar opened the batting against far more ferocious bowling attacks than Tendulkar has succeeded against at no. 4. Gavaskar saved, and even won, more test matches for India than Tendulkar ever did. And this, despite the fact that the Indian team was not such a big all-round force in most of Gavaskar's career. In fact, with the pressure of being the all-important player off Tendulkar (post-2000), it gave him the space to take his game to a different level, but he could not do that.
