Sachin Tendulkar

Is sachin greatest batsman of all time ...this is the most talked about topic after his great knock of200.Nasir Hussain recently said that tendulkar is greatest ..greater than lara ,ponting, Richards,gavaskar,border and greater than don bradman...tendulkar is one of the greatest batsman of all time and no one can deny that he is the greatest batsman after sir Donald bradman.but now the question is that is sachin even greater than bradman.

If most of us is telling that sachin is the best ..there should be some logic behind that ..we cannot always say bradman is greatest .gavaskar  always says that sachin has perfected the art of batsmanship.now we all have to know what is art of  batsmanship. Gavaskar is simply saying that sachin's batting is perfect but bradman was also perfect .tendulkar's balance in crease is great ..every other great batsman has this quality ,then why should we term tendulkar as  greatest.

According to me there is one thing in which even bradman is behind the little genius .tendulkar has carried  the expectations of 1 billion people for almost 20 years .no player in the cricketing history has always played under such pressure .

Everyone will now say tendulkar played with protective gears and on  the pitches that helped batsman.that's true but tendulkar played against warne and murali ...two of the greatest spinners of all times .bradman was never against such kinds of bowling. ...and ask them they will say tendulkar is greatest.once warne said if bradman is considered better than tendulkar it is good that he is an Australian.tendulkar played against the greatest team of all time ..the mighty Australian team (2000-2005) and see his records against them.the bowling attack of this team was greatest of all time ...many will argue that the best bowling attack was the bowling attack of west indies in seventies but according to me that bowling attack was unidimensional and they do not have a spinner like shane warne.tendulkar played for a country which for many years depended upon him for their success,bradman played for a country which was best at that time and which many will consider the greatest team of all time.

There is one aspect in which tendulkar is behind bradman and even lara ...they won more matches for their country.but tendulkar nowadays is doing same for india .if I would have written this article 2 years ago I myself should have written that bradman is way ahead of sachin but considering the fact what sachin has done in recent years I should say that tendulkar is as great as bradman if not more and tendulkar wil considered as greatest batsman if he could do that last thing what we all expect him to do ..win a world cup for india and if he will be able to do so ..I will consider him the greatest batsman of all times but for now he is tied with sir donald bradman as the greatest batsman of all time.