Best Sachin won't bat 3 moment for me was in the Mohali test vs Australia in 2013. Dhawan got injured, so Pujara had to open. When a wicket fell, everyone thought finally after 24 years, Sachin will come out at 3. Instead he trolled everyone by sending out Kohli
It could help stem collapses if he came out at 4 tbh. Has its cons too though, so I'm not 100% sure myself whether he should.
Eh?
So are you saying he should put himself ahead of the team?
RE thatFlintoff taking the piss
I don't know whether you would be correct to accuse him of that. But he's so, so much less guilty of it than basically every other West Indian batsman over the course of his career that it seems churlish to even be talking about it.
Nah I don't think he actually does put himself above the team. I think he feels he just won't make as many runs and be less useful to the team batting higher up and the team won't benefit from it, which is fair enough if that's the reason.
Unfortunately there are plenty of cricketers that only think about cricket from the time they can remember. In fact plenty of people in all walks of life.
What I find most impressive about Jimmey is that he has (nearly) 400 wickets at 30 a piece (indeed no comparrison with the true greats like McGrath, Ambrose, Marshall or whomever), whereas his average used to be what...... 37 or so halfway his career? He is possibly the most improving/improved fast bowler ever. It would be interesting to do the stats on the latter half of his career.
Averages around 26 since 2010.
Not an all-time-great. But credit to him. That's impressive!
