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Tendulkar v Lara (against pace)

Who is the better batsman against pace bowling?

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Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
Shri said:
nah sachin dominated warne with mcgrath, gillespie etc also playing. smashing the world's best leg spinner out of the rough repeatedly on the leg side was insane

btw as a lara fan i am happy about lara being better here in this argument but both were equally good in their own way imo

as an indian fan who watched sachin live more than lara in tests, this might just be my own ignorance
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Fair comment
 
Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
_00_deathscar said:
He had higher peaks vs pace bowling too though…
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Yeah but I can legitimately say for example McGrath and Donald owned Lara at various times ie over the course of a series. Neither Warne nor Murali did that. When Lara failed vs Australia, Warne wasn't the culprit that was Glenn. Fwiw, Lara only really failed in one series featuring Warne (96/97) and ditto Murali coincidentally also '97.
 
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
Slifer said:
Yeah but I can legitimately say for example McGrath and Donald owned Lara at various times ie over the course of a series. Neither Warne nor Murali did that. When Lara failed vs Australia, Warne wasn't the culprit that was Glenn. Fwiw, Lara only really failed in one series featuring Warne (96/97) and ditto Murali coincidentally also '97.
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Lara looked absolutely helpless against McGrath in 96, I have never seen an ATG bat so ruthlessly exposed. However, he made it up with 99.

Lara was also owned by the 2Ws in 97 and Donald in 98. In both series, he would continually get out flashing loosely after hitting some good strokes. Unlike Tendulkar who mixed caution with aggression, at that stage he would get ahead of himself and against high pace ATGs that doesn't work.
 
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
Gob said:
Tendulkar is the greatest batsman I've seen against spin
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The thing is that traditional defensive techniques actually tend to suffer against high quality spin, you need to be a bit daring and inventive. This is something Ian Chappell refered to as a weakness of his brother against spin. I also saw this with Dravid against Warne and Murali. Does anyone every recall Dravid using the sweep against them? Gavaskar might be the exception here though.

With Tendulkar, though he had a traditional technique, he didn't mind mixing it with aggressive shots including the sweep and slog across mid-on region against the spin.
 
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