Who’s better??? Lara or Tendulker

Originally posted by saadadvanced7 i jus like lara better cause he's left handed and i am too(no offfense to right handed people)

i like alra for the same reason.

 

Originally posted by paralad Lara is blatantly better he is inspiration to the world and most young batsman

Errrrrrrrrrrr no.

I have no problem with people having favourite players , but this kind of statement is simply stupid.

That Lara has the world record of 400 and many scintilating (and sometimes match winning ) innings cannot be denied , he is fantastic. But dismissing Tendulkar is sacrilege and deserves ridicule and a sharp response.

Go read the biographies of the top bowlers of the modern era , specifically Allan Donald and Shane Warne and see their comments. Both are full of praise for Lara's brilliance , but both bow to Tendulkar's sheer class.

When Warne admits to not knowing WHERE to bowl to the little fella , then that says it all.

Donald bowled Tendulkar with an absolutely beautiful ball that pitched a foot outside off and took the off stump at 90 mph , causing his aeroplane theatricals - that's what it meant to the man.

Simply put , both are superb players , don't dismiss either so easily , but Tendulkar at his sublime best was a top bowler's nightmare.

Tendulkar or Lara, I don't think any-one can really answer who is better. They are very different players, but both geniuses (i hope that is the plural for genius!)

Tendulkar has the most runs in World Cup history, will score the most runs in test matches, and one dayers, and shall also hold the record for the most hundreds. He has the best technique I have seen. Stands perfectly still, and his cover drive is more attractive than a beautiful sunset. On his day, especially when he was younger, he can destroy a bowling attack, all with wonderful orthodox shots. He scores consistently, yet has never scored a double hundred (if i am not mistaken.) The only batsmen that Warne fears, when fit, I imagine he is the first on any-one's team sheet. The only thing missing from Tendulkar's resume: a truly, monumental, match winning innings.

Brian Lara has the highest score in Test cricket, the highest score in First Class Cricket, and has single handedly destroyed teams in the past, Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, and Australia in the WIndies spring to mind. After having batted for 20minutes, he backs himself to score a run of each ball he faces. When he hits the ball, it stays hit, with his flamboyant back-lift, and a technique that at times brushes on the absurd. He either scores big, and fast, or fails, and is a bit of an enigma concerning his captaincy, and desire for the game.

Me personally, I prefer Tendulkar. His technique, the way he drives, everything about the little maestro, and his god like status, makes him my favourite batsman. Cricket is poorer for his abscene.


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Thanks JP for showing me my error! I should really have looked, and not made such a statement, without fact!

Although, he hasn't made a triple hundred....!


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Originally posted by Gantas Lara

Why?

No one's mentioned Tendulkar's oft underrated bowling! JP , get the ole stats out and tell us how many wickets he's taken - it might prove illuminating !

Now surely no-one's going to praise Lara's bowling - I've never seen it !!

I have never understood why people dismiss Tendulkar. Lara is exceptional, I agree, and when, at the age of 25, he had a test average of 67 and looked like being an all-time great, one probably would have stuck him ahead of Tendulkar. But he let personal problems and bad habits drag him down, and will end up with a career average in the low 50s rather than in the 60s. Tendulkar, on the other hand, has maintained a high 50s average throughout; not to mention a phenomenal ODI average of 44 at a strike rate of 86 with 38 ODI centuries, which is twice as many as the next best batsman! Tendulkar is head and shoulders above the rest. Yes, injuries have struck him down, but even the greatest have ended their careers to injury.

Westendies Team is weaker than Indian team on the other hand Lara is best left handed and Tendulkar is best right handed batsman.

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Originally posted by Rind Westendies Team is weaker than Indian team on the other hand Lara is best left handed and Tendulkar is best right handed batsman.

I wouldn't say that Tendulkar is the best right handed batsman...Don Bradman is. Lara is the best left-handed batsman and there is no doubt about it.

Oh wait. I forgot about him. I knew I was forgetting some great left-handed...He can also be called the best left-handed batsman but I would say there is some competition between him and Lara. If you look at Tendulkar and Bradman...Bradman is clearly better.

Graeme Pollock had a test average of 60 point something. That is amazing. He could have accomplished a lot more if it weren't for that problem when SA weren't allowed to play cricket. Lara is not much better than Tendulkar or Graeme Pollock...that's just your opinion because you have said nothing to support it.

Yea, Pollock was a great batter but sadly he didn't get to accomplish as much as he could've.

oh, yea, I forgot about him. He was a great batter as well.

Originally posted by Mebz they both sh*t inzys the best

Mebz ... pls get some common sense, I dont know how u get it but pls get it .

Everyone is sick and tired of seeing your mails directly or indirectly trying to stuff in everyone's mind that "Inzi is best "

I think u know the famous saying "A lie told 1000 times ,, dosent turn out to be the truth"

Once the Inzi's carrier will be over ,, there will be hardly anyone from the world cricket to remember him of any greatness.

He dosent came anywhere near Greatness. He will be just one more good player of pakistan ,, jsut like ur old warhorse Minadad or Salim Malik or Saeed anwar.

From ur country only one man of last decade will be remembered and that is Chaudhary Wasim Akram.

Inzi ---- B**LS**T [sorry to use this but fact].

He cant even run properly ,,, He is like a moose of Archies ,,, simply has power to hit ,, but no on cricketing brains.

Such hard words come coz u made me speak out these ... again and again ,, u are annoying everyone by saying "Inzi is best","Inzi is best","Inzi is best"...............

Grow up dude ,,,,, grow up

Dont tell me to grow up u pathetic pi**e of sh*t. INZY IS DA BEST  end of story.