%u2022 In terms of technique and compactness, Tendulkar is the best: Desmond Haynes.
%u2022 I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best: Sir Garfield Sobers.
%u2022 He is 99.5 per cent perfect. I'd pay to see him: Viv Richards.
%u2022 I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel: Sir Donald Bradman.
%u2022 Technically he stands out as the best because of his ability to increase the pace at will: David Boon.
%u2022 There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don: Steve Waugh.
%u2022 Sachin is cricket's God: Barry Richards.
%u2022 India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing: Sunil Gavaskar.
%u2022 A complete batsman ? he's the best in the business: Mohinder Amarnath.
%u2022 Sachin is an attacker. He has much more power than Sunny. He wants to be the one to set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the buzz about him: Jeff Thompson.
%u2022 If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard: Dennis Lillee.
%u2022 You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon: Steve Waugh.
%u2022 I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player: Shane Warne.
%u2022 When it comes to judging the best among these fabulous band of batsmen, my vote goes to Tendulkar. He has an uncanny ability to come out on top under different circumstances and under different conditions, whether it is Test cricket or one-day internationals. And more importantly, he has done this so young: Shane Warne.
%u2022 Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours: Michael Kasprowicz.
%u2022 Hell, if he had stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it: Allan Border (after India won the Coca-Cola cup in Sharjah).
%u2022 He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease: Greg Chappell.
%u2022 It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him: Allan Border. Yeah mate, but that's with all great players: Ian Chappell. Imagine what he'll be like when he's 28: Allan Border. I'd like to
