PaulLennon
U19 Cricketer
Yup. Kumble etc were good in the 90s but teams used to draw series etc. It wasn't WIN EVERY series in more than a decade good.Sorry but this hasn't been the case historically. Regardless of the conditions stereotyping (which also involves basically ignoring all the times people average in excess of 60 in India for a substantial amount of time), India was never the sort of dominant home side they were until the likes of Ashwin and Jadeja came through. You can clearly see this in their records since. Ashwin is absolutely vital there as the leading wicket taker and handy batter down the order.
You absolutely can use that logic with the other batters apart from Tendulkar because they all contribute less in general compared to a bowling AR like Ashwin or a bowler like Bumrah per game, and their general performances when put in context doesn't paint them as that much superior of a player as people want to believe here. Most of them can be said to have had easier batting conditions in general (2000 to early 2010s/weak attacks), so do we just ignore it for no reason? Tendulkar is the one exception because of his general longevity and performance across multiple eras, which can't be applied to anyone else. Everyone else is debatable.
Even 80s Windies and 00s Australia never did that.