Cabinet96
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Things that will happen before Sachin's 100th 100
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Mr. Glass
Viscount Tom
International Debutant
And even at that age, he'll still play the short ball better than Raina.
G.I.Joe
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The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Love this piece, agree with pretty much every word.
Mukul Kesavan: Why Tendulkar's 100th hundred doesn't matter | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
Comments section typically lolworthy, and would be even moreso if they weren't so deadly serious. And so numerous.
Mukul Kesavan: Why Tendulkar's 100th hundred doesn't matter | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
Comments section typically lolworthy, and would be even moreso if they weren't so deadly serious. And so numerous.
NasserFan207
International Vice-Captain
If you want comments for your blog, mention Tendulkar. These guys have amazing googling skills.
ankitj
Hall of Fame Member
meh article if you ask me. Many people seem to be finding it an easy way to appear one level higher intellectually by pointing out that you cannot add test and ODI stats. Everyone knows that !! Shocked? All "landmarks" are artificial anyways, we still talk about them just for an effect. What's the big deal about scoring a test 100, if you want to ask an even more basic question? If humans were born with 8 fingers instead of 10, we would be counting number of 64s.
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The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Really? There are about a million stories, blogs, posts and commentaries at the moment that suggest otherwise.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
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NasserFan207
International Vice-Captain
Well personally records mean **** all to me. Whether we're talking Tendulkar's number of runs, Bradman's average, Murali's wickets or hell Federer's grandslams. I've never found them interesting
Having said that, the writer is talking **** when he says ODI hundreds are easier than test hundreds. It depends on the situation. There are easy ODI hundreds, hard ODI hundreds, and vice versa in tests. Don't get his point at all. Yeah they require different skills, but one isn't easier than the other
Having said that, the writer is talking **** when he says ODI hundreds are easier than test hundreds. It depends on the situation. There are easy ODI hundreds, hard ODI hundreds, and vice versa in tests. Don't get his point at all. Yeah they require different skills, but one isn't easier than the other
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Howe_zat
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It's an exciting record because no-one's done it before, no one's got close and it's hard to imagine anyone matching it for decades to come. We generally don't add international hundreds, but that's because no one else has given us such a reason to.
And yes, ODI tons matter too, because they matter to him and to his fans. To use a PEWSian, it's his job to score not just Test hundreds, but international hundreds. And he's done it massively more so than the next guy.
Besides anomalies like Ramprakash, nobody counts the most First Class hundreds any more, because the game has changed to the point where domestic cricket is less relevant. But the enduring record of Jack Hobbs' career is his 199 FC tons, not his Test figures. We make an exception in Hobbs' case, because that number shows that he was just that good. We can do the same for Tendulkar.
I don't especially care about the specific mark of the hundredth hundred (and I'll certainly be hiding from Cricinfo for a while when he gets it - everything he does is a record these days, we don't need a bunch of new articles every time) but long after he has retired it's his international hundreds that should be the figure he'll be most proud of, and the one people should rave about, if they must.
It's his thing. It's what makes him special.
And yes, ODI tons matter too, because they matter to him and to his fans. To use a PEWSian, it's his job to score not just Test hundreds, but international hundreds. And he's done it massively more so than the next guy.
Besides anomalies like Ramprakash, nobody counts the most First Class hundreds any more, because the game has changed to the point where domestic cricket is less relevant. But the enduring record of Jack Hobbs' career is his 199 FC tons, not his Test figures. We make an exception in Hobbs' case, because that number shows that he was just that good. We can do the same for Tendulkar.
I don't especially care about the specific mark of the hundredth hundred (and I'll certainly be hiding from Cricinfo for a while when he gets it - everything he does is a record these days, we don't need a bunch of new articles every time) but long after he has retired it's his international hundreds that should be the figure he'll be most proud of, and the one people should rave about, if they must.
It's his thing. It's what makes him special.