Steve Smith vs Sachin Tendulkar

[Cricket Bliss]

The only thing iffy about Smith is that I feel his technique and style of play has not been sufficiently tested against high quality pace bowling.

I think he will score against Murali and Kumble if he faced them.

But against Ambrose, Donald and Akram? Not so sure. Part of me thinks he would have struggled.

Yes, Smith scored a ton against an off-color Steyn early in his career. But not much else to go on.

Granted, Tendulkar never really dominated any ATG bowler but scored sufficiently well against them and never particularly struggled against them either.

Overall, Smith really overtakes Tendulkar in scoring against low-medium range bowling which Tendulkar never quite dominated to the same extent.

Tendulkar dominated Warne

 

[OverratedSanity]

Tendulkar played Steyn better than almost anyone I've seen.

 

[Johan]

Tendulkar played Steyn better than almost anyone I've seen.

Warner?

 

[Thala_0710]

Warner?

Warner and Sachin are the standouts for me. Sachin just because of the 10/11 series just. I don't think anyone else reached that level vs Steyn at his absolute best

 

[OverratedSanity]

Warner?

Has a great record vs him but never rated how he played vs him as highly as others, some of his big tons felty very jammy and were on some real roads. Tendulkar/Clarke played much higher quality knocks.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Smith has declined consider ably since bowling era started in 2018. Doubt he averages 50 since 19 ashes. So tendulkar has off now

 

[subshakerz]

Smith has relatively small sample overseas. Another round in SA, NZ and SL can tell us better.

 

[Coronis]

Smith has relatively small sample overseas. Another round in SA, NZ and SL can tell us better.

Everyone has a relatively small sample compared to Tendulkar

 

[subshakerz]

Everyone has a relatively small sample compared to Tendulkar

Yeah but just a handful of tests in NZ, SL and SA don't make his away record as impressive.