Robelinda
International Coach
Cant argue there, that list of 3 will most likely never change, ever.
Sachin Tendulkar - Back To His Best?
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AkshayS
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who's from the modern cricket era.
Bublu Bhuyan
School Cricketer
Tendulkar and Warne.
AkshayS
Chairman of Selectors
^yeap I areewith you.
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pcfan123
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You could aruge that Murali has had a huge impact on the modern game. They basically changed the rulebook for him.
Cricketdude
Chairman of Selectors
Thats going down to my sig.
TumTum
International Cricketer
Didn't they change the arm-bend thing from 5 degrees to 15?
Cricketdude
Chairman of Selectors
Well done.
King Pietersen
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Not quite it's amount of straightening not bending and was changed because 99% of bowlers straightened their arm more than 5 degrees, not just Muttiah Muralitharan.
Jeez, why are people so ignorant these days? The ICC had altered the rule not to aid Murali, it was simply because many of the bowlers straightened their arm after the 5 degree angle.Anyway why can't we just move on rather than having debates on this topic.
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Kshitiz_Indian
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What's so amazing is that while he has picked up his one of the best forms, he has seamlessly changed his style of play, and done well at that. You never noticed him changing until now when you can finally see a change in his approach to the game, which he has changed keeping in mind what his body allows him.
Robelinda
International Coach
I know its a no-no to bring Ponting into a Sachin thread, but reading the above post makes me think that Ponting deserves even more credit for playing the same through his whole career and always attacking, through bad form and good form he always has a positive mindset and plays all the same shots he used to, and having the honour of being compared statistically to Sachin over the years, which is fantastic. Scoring that many tons in both forms when only one other player has done better is amazing for Ricky. Keep on hooking and being aggressive Ricky, and keep on getting those runs Sachin. 
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I know its a no-no to bring Ponting into a Sachin thread, but reading the above post makes me think that Ponting deserves even more credit for playing the same through his whole career and always attacking, through bad form and good form he always has a positive mindset and plays all the same shots he used to, and having the honour of being compared statistically to Sachin over the years, which is fantastic. Scoring that many tons in both forms when only one other player has done better is amazing for Ricky. Keep on hooking and being aggressive Ricky, and keep on getting those runs Sachin.
Yeah, Ponting deserves that credit for sticking to his game and not changing it. But for Sachin, consistency has been more important and for Ponting, the impact of his game on the opposition has been important. Thats why we always see Sachin staying a decent distance ahead of Ponting in the stats, and Ponting being more impactful on the opposition when he gets going than Sachin. Now which one is more better, let people decide. I guess it works for the respective teams really well.
Also for Ponting, he is more fitter because of the country that he comes from where fitness is engrained into their personality. But for Sachin, its only now that India have started giving more importance to fitness. When Sachin came, fitness wasnt that highly rated by us. So as Sachin's body got older, he couldnt easily continue with his old attacking game.
TumTum
International Cricketer
Sachin was always a precision batsmen. I think the older he gets the more he loses that part of his game.
Ponting on the other hand has the olden style of "put the bad ball away" method and doesn't try to play any hard fancy shots. But the thing is he has all the "bad ball" areas covered. (pull shot, cut shot, drives, glances etc)
And that is the part of the his game that Sachin has changed. He got the "fancy" shots such as the back-foot drives or drives against good length deliveries or lofting the spinners or late cuts to 3rd man not really out of his game, but he is just playing them less.
And now Sachin has reached the point where he knows his new style of play best and is performing really well.
Ponting on the other hand has the olden style of "put the bad ball away" method and doesn't try to play any hard fancy shots. But the thing is he has all the "bad ball" areas covered. (pull shot, cut shot, drives, glances etc)
And that is the part of the his game that Sachin has changed. He got the "fancy" shots such as the back-foot drives or drives against good length deliveries or lofting the spinners or late cuts to 3rd man not really out of his game, but he is just playing them less.
And now Sachin has reached the point where he knows his new style of play best and is performing really well.
sohum
Executive member
Sachin wasn't an overtly attacking batsman even back in his previous patch of great form. Even now, his strike rate over the last two seasons is higher than his career strike rate (or something like that). So while he may not be playing as many aggressive strokes, he is still scoring quicker than he has, on average.
He was never a batsman who was super-aggressive; same with Ponting. They were aggressive in an era that run-scoring was slow--imo they scored their runs quicker than the others just because they were better, and there were more contextually bad balls to put away.
He was never a batsman who was super-aggressive; same with Ponting. They were aggressive in an era that run-scoring was slow--imo they scored their runs quicker than the others just because they were better, and there were more contextually bad balls to put away.
