I don't understand why people are criticizing Ian's comment on Sachin. It is quite abovious that because of injury (elbow, back etc) he has lost the power and timing. For the past few years he is clearly struggling to make runs. The big blunder the Indians made was to switch him to middle order batsman. When the spinners are introduced he does not have array of strokes, the only stroke he makes is backpeddle the ball behind wicketkeeper, he does not uses his feet like Lara to go on top of the spin bowler. It shows that his power has diminished considerably, perhaps because of injury or he is scared to use his feet. To be fair with him he has played non-stop cricket for more than 17 years and it has taken lot of toll on his bodies. I think he wants to quit cricket on high i.e. he wants to win some important matches for India so that people will remember him. There is so much pressure and expectations from him and thinking about it make him more nervous when he comes to the crease. If only we treat it as a game then our cricketers will perform very well. The people have negative thoughts about Indian cricket team, they feel that our team is only after money. It is the corporates who approaches them they want to brand their product, they take the risk and not the players. As far as Sachin is concerned there is a sense of regret in him that he is not accomplish much for Indian win consistently but as a batsman he has achieved all the records. Lastly, we believe he has only couple of years left in him, at the most he should try to be aggressive and dominant when he is batting so that the controversy created by Ian is fully settled as to who is the best batsmen in the world
