The greatest ever

The 175 run hurricane was the best ever ODI inningsI ever saw in the last 20 years I have been closely watching cricket.

In his 435th Match and 20th year of international cricet he looked as energetic as he was in his pre international debut games where he lofted abdul kadir for sixes in a benificial match.

With this knock, I believe all critics should shut there mouths and enjoy watching Tendulkar in apositive manner. They may get to watch a maximum of another 3 years of this genius and may be another 30-40 games.

Tendulkar may not make 20000 runs in ODIs but is sure to score another 5 centuries to take his tally beyond 50 ODI 100s.

We never had the opportnity to watch Kapil’s 175 but I guess even Kapil will agree that this is a better innings.

 Even I was amazed to see that Tendulkar has averaged 53+ in 15 innings he has played in 2009 at a strike rate of 93 and he has the best strike rate against Australia by any batsmen who has scored more than 1000 runs against Australia.

Tendulkar’s 17000 runs are almost 20% of the total runs scored by India in these matches. This is the 2nd best behind Desmond Haynes.

He has scored a 50+ score for every 2.8 matches he has played.

He has the highest average for any opener who has scored more than 3000 runs. The only other Indian in the list being Ganguly. Gordon Greenidge who is second in the list has 45+ almost 3 runs behind.

Sachin, you are the best.

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