rubbish.... tendulkar never had a bad series in australia. in 92 he scored two cracking hundreds. and in 99-00 he was the man of the series. if you claim tendulkar did not score well against quality pacers based on his performances in australia that is equal to saying australia never had quality fast bowlers in the last twenty years.
Addendum : He'd averaged much better than the 46.33 he ended up had he not been victim of atleast 2 dubious decisions (the shoulder before wicket notwithstanding) and that he tried to hit out and get out while batting with the tailenders which was the norm.
There's definitely truth to what MrIncredible says.
not even an iota. tendulkar was successful in every series in australia, with or without any bowler they could select. prove me otherwise.
Look at the bowlers he faced; hardly the best we've had. So his point stands true. Pretty good attacks, certainly not great. Lara's record IMO is much better against Australia.
i said tendulkar never had a bad series in australia. do you have anything to disprove me?
Neither McIncredible nor I claimed so, for you to counter with that. We just mentioned the attacks he faced weren't the greatest.
thats a blatant lie ikki. mrincredible did claim that.
MrIncrdible says the 91-92 and 99-00 attacks had great pace bowlers and sachin failed against them. therefore, he infers, he is not good against pace. i say he did not fail against them. therefore he is good against good pace bowling. you agree sachin never failed in australia but claim they were not great attacks either.
yes, you have. so you are absolutely wrong. and I am right.
Show me the post that I have missed.
91-92 one certainly wasn't. The 99-00 one was much better but much of Tendulkar's runs came against a crap-out-of-form Warne, not McGrath.
He was brilliant against McGrath in 99 also and he was great in 2001 also. That makes it 2 out of 3 series. And in 2004, he was hardly fit.
2001 sure...but that was in India.
That is a lame excuse Ikki. Shane warne clearly struggled against Pakistan and India who were perhaps the best players of spin during the late 90s.
McGrath is a master bowler who succeeded in all conditions. His bowling style is suited to Indian conditions as he relies on seam movement and not swing. To have countered him successfully both in Australia and India makes Tendulkar the only Indian batsman to have dominated Australia in the 90s.
He didn't really do much against McGrath in 99/Australia. Even in 99 McGrath was comfortable; he went for barely any runs. Most of the runs came against the others, namely Warne. And no, India's conditions suited Tendulkar much more than it suited McGrath.
No, Warne didn't struggle against Pakistan. He struggled against India, but during the time where he pretty much had most his tests against him he suffered with multiple injuries.