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Why Dravid is better than Tendulkar

Posted on 07/18/2007 in Indian Cricket

Patrick Kidd writes in The Times his view that Rahul Dravid is better than Sachin Tendulkar.

Tomorrow, Dravid will walk out for the toss as captain and, blasphemous though it may be to the ears of Sachin Tendulkar’s millions of fans, the most valuable batsman in the team. In fact, although the howls of protest from Bombay will be deafening, Dravid has regularly proved to be Tendulkar’s better, in Test cricket anyway.

For all that he has achieved in the game,Tendulkar has yet to put his name on the honour's board at Lord's. Will he manage to overcome the ageing process, various niggles and questions about his ability to play the short ball and his form generally, and right that wrong this time? See what Mike Selvey has to say about it in The Guardian.

Yet for all his stellar status there have always been question marks attached to Tendulkar, anomalies of a kind that ought not to dog a batsman of this calibre. His big innings, it is said, all too often count for little in a team context, mostly coming in matches that are ultimately drawn or lost.

Meanwhile, Simon Hughes at The Daily Telegraph duly looks back at a stupendous career, but asks questions of Tendulkar's future here.

Now 34, and in his 19th season on the international stage, can he quell the rumblings of general decline and steer India to their first Test series win in England for 20 years, or will this be the Little Master's quiet swansong?


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