| Sachin Tendulkar has been on the cricket scene for | | | | wickets he was a veritable run machine and |
| nearly two decades and has piled up records galore. | | | | Tendulkar may not be able to match that. Bradman's |
| Bradman also had a career span of two decades | | | | record of hitting 300 runs in day is indeed difficult to |
| (though a portion was cut short by the war years) | | | | emulate. But then it is a matter of conjecture as to |
| and has the highest first class and test batting | | | | how the Don would have fared facing the likes of |
| average ever. But when you compare two greats | | | | Mankad and Ghulam Ahmed on rank turners in India. |
| from different eras comparisons can apt to get | | | | Would he have had the same effect? Also how |
| colored. Thus it is important to fix some parameters | | | | would the Don have fared in the West Indies and |
| while judging the greats. | | | | facing bowlers like Holding on fast and fiery wickets |
| As far as cricket is concerned the period when | | | | like at Kingston. |
| Bradman played his cricket, it was not a Global sport | | | | Tendulker with his recent 200 not out in a one day |
| and most of the Dons career centered on playing | | | | game against the South Africans has achieved the |
| fields in Australia and England. It was certainly not | | | | impossible. One day cricket is a different ball game |
| Bradmans fault,but then it has to be considered that | | | | but Bradmans 309 not out in a day in a test could be |
| Bradman made his records only in two countries and | | | | ranked as a similar effort. Over a period of time |
| never toured the sub continent or the West Indies. | | | | figures do not lie and it is here that Bradman scores. |
| Tendulkar on the other hand has played most of his | | | | His batting average of 99 just cannot be surpassed. |
| cricket in an era when the game is globalised and | | | | The greats like Hammond, Sutcliff, Sobers, Richards |
| thus he his has played cricket in venues as diverse as | | | | and Gavaskar all lag behind by at least 35 to 40 |
| Durban and Kingston to Lords and Auckland. He has | | | | percentage points. |
| batted on all types of wickets and his records stand | | | | To judge any cricketer from a different era is not |
| after his having batted at all cricketing venues around | | | | easy, but one can surmise that Tendulkar may be |
| the world and faced all types of bowling. | | | | close to Bradman and perhaps his equal. The Don |
| Bradman when faced with the infamous body line | | | | was a great player but he had limitations of his era |
| series of the early thirties was cut to size and | | | | and Tendulkar has done well in a different era and |
| returned an ordinary average. Harold Larwood played | | | | maybe he could be ranked close to the Don in |
| hell into the Australian team at that time. This series | | | | crickets hall of fame. |
| showed the Don as human. But on hard batting | | | | |