Bowlers generally has one peak. Plus during marshall era lesser no. of tests were played per year. He played max of 10 tests in a single year. So even playing for like 12 years he could just manage 81 tests. For comparison Mcgrath played for 13 years but played 124 tests match.
He didn't. It's a myth.
Later stages of his career. Plus he's proved himself plenty in Eng. Struggling against one bowler is a very arbitrary measure to rate a batsmen.
Sachin legit scored a hundred at Perth as a teenager, that Richie Benaud called the best hundred he'd seen. Sachin had a magnificent innings at Melbourne vs peak Mcgrath. This is too much nitpicking
Home away record, longevity etc are all in Sachin's favour.
Marshall's peak was around 41 tests. Imran's was 48 tests, Ambrose around the same, Hadlee's was 69 tests, Steyn around 70 tests, and McGrath around 110 tests.
Valid criticism.
He's got a record at MCG, and a decent one at Perth as well.
But still has a hole in his great cv
Although this is the one reason, I very marginally rate Hobbs ahead of Sachin, in the best after Bradman race.
I mean to an extent, all players have some or the other hole in their CV's.
Marshall peak was for 54 test match which is 2-3 of his career. Plus his peak was quite astonishing.
He did tho.
Anderson was pretty green when he troubled Sachin. Would probably have destroyed Tendulkar in his prime.
This is pure speculation.
A minor one. It's not like he doesn't have series where he didn't dominate, like against Aus in 97/98 or in Aus in 2007/8. Just not the 500 plus output which is our own metric.
So no one's going to point out that sentence makes 0 sense?