Sachin scores 3 centuries in 3 tests. India wins one. Sachin's match winning century ratio is 1:3
Inzy scors 1 century in 3 tests. Pakistan wins one. Inzy's match winning century ratio is 1:1
So by looking at stats, Inzy seems to be a far better match winner, but in reality Sachin is equally good match winner. I bet if he played for Australia, then 90% of his centuries would become match winning centuries. Did you check Hayden, Ponting's "match winning century:total century" stats? It would surely look great.
And don't say "…Tendulkar the great player that he is unfortunately scores a lot of meaningless runs which hardly benefits his team", because big scores in losing matches are also important. In the first two ODI of last year's Ind vs. Pak ODI series, Inzy and Tendulkar's century couldn't win the match for their team, but these knocks kept the matches alive till the end and prevented the matches turning into one sided contests.
Edited on, April 16, 2005, 12:01 PM GMT, by Spitfire_x86.
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