Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
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He's way ahead, but he's also way ahead in terms of the number of games played.
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He's played 200 times.
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That's more test matches played than anyone ever.
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Yes, what the aggregate figures show indisputably is that Tendulkar has been a great batsman for a long time.
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But perhaps a fairer way of comparing cricketers is by looking at their averages.
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Tendulkar scored on average just shy of 54 runs per innings.
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No, the best average belongs to the Australian batsman Donald Bradman, whose career started in the 1920s.
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Incredibly, he ended his career in 1948 with an average of 99.94 runs per innings.
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If we look at the performances of all batsmen ever who've played a minimum of 20 test matches, Tendulkar is in 17th place, with two of his contemporaries ahead of him, South Africa's Jack Callis, who scored an average of about 55 runs per innings, and Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, who scores at about 57.
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No.
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Another way to judge him is to look at the ratings the International Cricket Council have given him during his career.
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Yes.
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They judge your performances over your career, taking into account various factors such as the strength of the opposition and how you performed in relation to other batsmen.
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Tendulkar's highest rating was in 2002.
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He was awarded a rating of 898 when playing against Zimbabwe, but that rating is only the 29th highest of all time.
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Well, you could say that.
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His rating there is just short of 900.
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And that's the score which the ICC says is an indication of world class form.
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Now, Sangakara, Callis, Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting all hit that benchmark.
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That's right.
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