To Sunil Gavaskar and other sachin suppoters:

Sachin Tendulkar Stats

1) Out of the 34 centuries, 11 have come in matches when India has won. So 23 centuries have been wasted.
2) So 11 centuries 1 by 1
a. 165 against England , India won by an innings. Score 560 on a batting wicket NS sidhu also got a century. Anil kumble and raju spun India to victory on a spinning wicket. No pressure on tendulkar, 1st innings century when India were already in a commanding position.
b. 104 vs sri lanka u r talking about. Kambli and sidhu had centuries in the same match. India had a 1st innings lead of 100 and India were ahead by 300 runs before sachin got his century. So I guess that’s no big deal.
c. 142 agst sri lanka. Sidha again had a century in the same match. India won by an innings and some 100 runs. Thanks to the bolwers. Sachin under no pressure…score 142 out of Indias total of 511.
d. 155 vs aus at Chennai…superb knock, saw that live. But ….India were 200 or so for 2 , with sidhu smashing and dravid in pretty decent form. India under no pressure…but yeah I must agree that this contributed to a victory. India might not have won without this knock. so I must say this contributed to a victory. But no pressure……not exactly a crunch situation.
e. 122 Vs Zimbabwe at delhi. Dravid got a 200 in the same match. India were in a brilliant position , no big deal.
f. 126 Vs aus at Chennai. Again saw this match. 126 out of 501. all the top order batsmen got 50s , but then we needed harbhajan singh to win the match for us in the 2nd innings. 126 out of 501, man is it a crunch situation?
g. 176 Vs Zimbabwe. SS DAS and S Bangar got centuries in the same match. 176 out of a total of 570. opposition is Zimbabwe, and make a note of the other century makers.
h. 117 Vs WI at Port of spain. 1st innings century. In the 2nd innings it was laxmans and gangulys 70s that won the match for India. Ofcourse srinath and nehra got the WI for less than 300.
i. 193 vs England at Leeds. 193 out of 670. ganguly and dravid got huge centuries too.bangar got a 67. 1st innings.
j. 194 vs Pak recently. Sehwags test match. Sehwag made 309, paki bolwers were tired and out before sachin even came out to bat. Started his innings at 160 for noloss, and shewag had a 100 more runs before sachin crosees 25 runs.
k. 248 n.o sachins highest in tests. Against Bangladesh. Pretty much signifies sachins contribution to victories against important opposition.

Summary
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1) out of the 11 centuries, one of them- the 155 n.o agast aus at Chennai was pretty high level.
The other 10 centuries satisfied one of the 3 points below
1) Mediocre opposition- Zimbabwe, weak sri lanka , west-indies, bangaladesh.
( 6 out of 10 have been agast weak opposition when India have piled out huge 1st innings totals, when ppl like das and bangar have also got centuries.)
2) two against England when India piled on huge 1st innings totals of 670 and 560 odd. Atleast a couple of other players made centuries. Bolwers spun the opposition out on a spinning track.
3) 1 agt pak when sehwag had already won the match for India.


So Indias highest run getter in tests has come close to contributing to Indias victory once agst Pak ( but only came close..we didn’t win, that’s it) and once agast aus in chennai when he got that 155( which is super, but not totally pressure situation, when u knw u have kumble waiting to spin India to victory).

All the other 10 have been agst
1) weak oppoisiton
2) on batting tracks
3) when some 2-3 other people have already taken the match away from the opposition.

I am a sachin fan too (??) , but when he doesnt contribute to victories no point blindly idolising him.

If you still think Sachin is the worlds best player, drop me a line.