India has produced great batsmen in Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.I still feel, Sunil was the best betweeen them.Sunil,without wearing any protection gears faced worlds deadliest fast bowlers and scored centuries.Today we dont find bowlers like Holding,Roberts,Snow,Marshall,Garner,Imran,Akram,Sarfraz,Lilee,Thompson. Still i feel,these two batsmen never played for winning cause of Indian Team.They were surrounded by the record books to creat records in every outings they had representing Indian team. I feel sorry for vishwanath,sardesai,mohinder,dravid,laxman,sehwag for not getting the recognition for their achievements.
RE:Sachin and Sunil
by Sandipan Gupta on Aug 12, 2008 05:47 PM Permalink
Absolutely correct, Mr. Sandyjohn.
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player ever to score 10000 runs in test cricket while opening for his team in batting but without wearing any helmet, that too against bowlers you have named.
He never had any fitness problems, like a tennis elbow, etc. He never missed a match for fitness related issues.
Of course in those days no. of matches were far less than what it is today. But at the same time we must admit that they never had these high profile coaches and the support staff appointed by BCCI.
RE:Sachin and Sunil
by jagdish shetty on Aug 12, 2008 05:46 PM Permalink
I fully agree with you, We have a tradition of making heroes of players who play for their own records and getting after the ones who keep teams interest before their own
