Sachin Tendulkar vs Michael Jordan

[ma1978]

Jordan because of the rings

And Tendulkar is very obviously the second greatest bat of all time

 

[Johan]

Jordan because of the rings

And Tendulkar is very obviously the second greatest bat of all time

I wish I could state my opinions as facts with this much courage

 

[Coronis]

I wish I could state my opinions as facts with this much courage

Gretzky is very obviously the greatest ice hockey player of all time.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Europe + N. America = 73 countries = 130 crore people

Ind + Pak + Ban + SL + Afg = 187 crore people

Saying basketball is popular in more countries does not mean much when cricket is followed much more passionately by more people in our countries

Basketball is huge in China!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Which has more fans?

Basketball outside of the US or Cricket outside of India?

Not even close

 

[Coronis]

iirc Basketball itself isn’t even unpopular in India. Saw a list having it at 10th.

 

[Johan]

Basketball is huge in China!

wait, they have sports over in China!? damn

 

[Coronis]

iirc Basketball itself isn’t even unpopular in India. Saw a list having it at 10th.

Following up on this, apparently in the 22/23 NBA season, they had 100 million unique viewers from India.

 

[sayon basak]

I wish I could state my opinions as facts with this much courage

Sachin being a top 2 batter is an alright take.

 

[DrWolverine]

Rock is 100× better than Cena in wrestling, so if he was below, the wrestling fan in me would've been dissapointed.

John Cena had more great matches
The Rock is more entertaining and is a bigger star

 

[Sliferxxxx]

Jordan because of the rings

And Tendulkar is very obviously the second greatest bat of all time

Yes maybe but not the 2nd greatest cricketer. Besides Sobers, Imran and Hadlee are right up there with him tbh.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

The subcontinent has huge huge fan base. I doubt there is a single person who won’t know Sachin. India, Nepal, Pakistan everyone knows The name Sachin Tendulkar. For @Coronis saying Sachin isn’t viewed the same outside of India, well he is. In the subcontinent easily which probably had more people watching cricket than the entire basketball community when MJ played. When he retired that was like a God retiring more than MJ retired.

 

[Johan]

Sachin being a top 2 batter is an alright take.

Duh, but there's nothing obvious about it.

 

[Johan]

John Cena had more great matches
The Rock is more entertaining and is a bigger star

TBF, Rock was a main eventer from mid 1998 to just early 2003 and had long breaks in that time, Cena has a 20 year long career so Cena's raw number of great matches would always triumph, he also has more bad matches.

 

[Thala_0710]

Duh, but there's nothing obvious about it.

If we were to include ODIs too and give them an equalish weightage (only since we are comparing with Basketball), he has a good case to be the no 1 cricketer too (ofc Viv, Mcgrath, Hadlee, Imran , Murali etc are in contention too).

 

[Johan]

If we were to include ODIs too and give them an equalish weightage (only since we are comparing with Basketball), he has a good case to be the no 1 cricketer too

the comparison would become unfair at that point to people like Bradman, Sobers, Hobbs and so forth. Plus, I reckon Viv and McGrath would win cross format comparisons.

 

[Thala_0710]

the comparison would become unfair at that point to people like Bradman, Sobers, Hobbs and so forth.

It's only to put Basketball away

 

[Johan]

It's only to put Basketball away

fair enough

 

[Coronis]

It's only to put Basketball away

It puts the ball in the net or it gets the hose.