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Jacques Kallis vs Sachin Tendulkar

Kallis vs Tendulkar

  • Kallis

    Votes: 20 41.7%

  • Tendulkar

    Votes: 37 77.1%
  • Total voters
    48
J

Jack1

International Debutant
A recent thread had a top 50 list which put Kallis over Tendulkar. What is the consensus here between these two ATG test match bats? Test cricket batting only.
 
J

Jack1

International Debutant
TheJediBrah said:
As a batsman? No quite a few are
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No one averages 65+ apart from Bradman and Tendulkar averaged less than Kallis anyway so he was not easily better. I met Tendulkar once and have his autograph, no need to disrespect Kallis. Both ATG players with Bradman in no man’s land
 
J

Jack1

International Debutant
TheJediBrah said:
Oh you know their career averages? Wow I didn't realise my bad guess you must be right
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You might be new to cricket but the team with the most runs wins in test cricket unless time runs out. Regardless of any variables Tendulkar with his average is never easily better than Kallis with his. That’s a simple fact.
 
G

Godard

U19 Vice-Captain
The Tendulkar vs Kallis argument ends when one considers that the former played nearly first half of his career in the 90s, the best batsmen of that decade. Kallis batted in one of the easiest eras of batting. Also considering home and away averages, Tendulkar doesn’t have a hole in his record like Kallis does in England especially and Sri Lanka. Lowest Tendu averaged in a country was 40 in Pakistan, but that also takes in account when he played their as a 16 year old. Apart from that he averages 45+ in all major countries. Kallis has a very low SR(although this is a very minor issue in this comparison). Tendulkar doesn’t strike at 60+, but has a much healthier SR, in the mid 50s, and he had shown that he could score pretty fast on important occasions(155 vs Aus). About the average question: Tendulkar averaged 56(more than Kallis) with 14000+ runs(more than Kallis) at a point of time.
 
TheJediBrah

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Godard said:
The Tendulkar vs Kallis argument ends when one considers that the former played nearly first half of his career in the 90s, the best batsmen of that decade. Kallis batted in one of the easiest eras of batting. Also considering home and away averages, Tendulkar doesn’t have a hole in his record like Kallis does in England especially and Sri Lanka. Lowest Tendu averaged in a country was 40 in Pakistan, but that also takes in account when he played their as a 16 year old. Apart from that he averages 45+ in all major countries. Kallis has a very low SR(although this is a very minor issue in this comparison). Tendulkar doesn’t strike at 60+, but has a much healthier SR, in the mid 50s, and he had shown that he could score pretty fast on important occasions(155 vs Aus). About the average question: Tendulkar averaged 56(more than Kallis) with 14000+ runs(more than Kallis) at a point of time.
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Kallis' low SR is his biggest downfall, more so than lower averages in a couple countries
 
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