Yea that's another way to look at it - do you choose to evaluate by career, or by the peaks reached? Wouldn't call someone silly if they believed in evaluating by the latter, even if I wouldn't do that.
Rahane has literally played like 2 matches at home.
Last update was in December.
If you're evaluating by peaks then Tendulkar is still better ffs.
Haha I was about to unleash on your use of the word 'literally' then I checked statsguru. How the **** has that happened?
AWTA. z
Dravid is under rated for tests by most. He has the best average for Indians outside Asia, even higher than Gavaskar and Tendulkar by a point or two. He wasn't bad in Asia either. He was a tremendous player whom we will appreciate more with time, I hope. Given we have had just three players of this level certainly since Hazare retired (I can't rate Hazare fairly), I wonder how many players of this calibre we will have in the next decade or two. I would have no issues with any one rating Dravid higher than Tendulkar in tests.
Our last home series was the Tendulkar farewell vs WI. After that it's been one brutal away series after another. We were finally scheduled to play a home series in late 2014 again vs westwest indies but that got scrapped after their farcical player revolt situation.
This (bolded part) is a good point over all. Batting is a technical thing. One cannot learn every thing in an instant. Kohli is just 27. Kohli is a terrific ODI player but in tests, he is still learning the ropes. What annoys me is when people start putting Kohli on a pedestal which he has not achieved yet. Technical issues in batting (I have highlighted a few in my previous post) don't get solved over night. You have yourself mentioned Ishant Sharma took 7 years to get some thing in bowling right. There is a reason he averages 44 in tests after 38 tests and not 50, say. He is still a batsman in the making as far as tests go. Whether he will end up in the bracket of Gavaskar etc or Vengsarkar etc, only time will tell.
How has Rahane not done much in tests lately? Tonned up in Lanka.
LOL nah, Kohli doesn't have any claim to being considered better than either Rahane or Pujara, especially Pujara. Kohli having gunned it in Australia was awesome, but Kohli was also most likely to gun it in Australia because he prefers pace and bounce more than any other Indian batsmen. Forget about overseas, Kohli has yet to truly dominate his home country, performing overseas doesn't mean you can put in average performances at home.
Yea it's a pretty dull discussion isn't it. Cricket chat clearly doesn't have the same swagger that it used to...
Yea you killed the swagger, go back to PC.
