Rob Eastaway
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More or Less · More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego · 30 Nov 2012
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And there is a huge element of luck that you're a perfectly good player, but due to some outrageous decision by the guy you're batting with, you might get yourself run out or there might be a brilliant catch and so on.
And these things can, you know, they will terminate your innings and make you look like you failed when you scored, when it wasn't your fault.
Very good.
I would pick another captain, Michael Clarke of Australia, who's in absolutely stupendous form and coming to this country next year.
And of any player in history?
Donald Bradman.
He was stupendous.
He scored 100 every fourth innings or less.
He was an incredible batsman.
The case for Sachin Tendulkar is certainly strong.
His international career has spanned an astonishing 22 years, during which time he's never been dropped from the Indian test side.
He's scored more runs and notched up more international hundreds than anyone else in the history of the game.
And it's not just that he's scored more, it's the huge margin by which he tops the table.
Longevity and the accumulation of trophies is certainly an important factor in making greatness, but it's surely not the only one.
After all, if you're only looking at durability at the top, then Tendulkar is outstripped by Tom Watson, who's been a serious challenger in the British Golf Open since 1975.
The trouble is, there are so many statistical ways to measure greatness.
One is to pick out those sportsmen and women who, for a period of time, are in a different class from their peers.
The goalscoring feats of Lionel Messi make him a candidate, but statistical measurements of footballers are always tricky, not least because it can be hard to disentangle one player's performance from the contributions of his teammates.
Or you can take a look at a sport's world rankings.
Every sport uses a different system for ranking its members, but all of them are based on some form of objective mathematical model.
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