U did the same mistake that the writer of article did i.e focussing on particular sentence than whole context.
1)First point: u already mentioned the answer. Not sufficient player at present.
2)second point, its subjective issue.
3)third I don't think team comes second for sachin. Out of 200 innings if he gave importance to his century in one inning, after feeling that team is well placed, I don't think it is too bad. I also watched the match and felt that sachin shud not have played so slow at the end. But u can't judge the man by just mistake of 30 minutes. Nobody in the world remains perfect all the time. If he gave preference to team in his entire career and gave preference to his inning in just one session of one match then I can't say he is selfish. ppl shud be judged by their average behaviour not by some exceptions. Suppose u r a nice child of ur parent. U always behave properly and once in a life u misbehave with them. That one incident of wrong behaviour cannot make u a bad child. Its general behavior that is important not the exceptions. I feel that in that inning sachin gave preference to himself but I see that as exception.
4) 4th point: whatever u said is right but I didn't denied that. Of course sachin did whatever team wanted him to do. But u can not stop sb desire. What sb desire or like is one thing and what sb actually do is other. Sachin is ok if he desire to open. But in reality he respected the team preference and bat down the order.
