Mar 16, 2005 08:18 PM
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(Updated Mar 16, 2005 08:37 PM)
No. of innings Sachin has scored well in the 21st century : 26
On Tour : 18/84
Home : 8/29
Sachin has had a better run in India. He scores well (over 75 runs) in one out of 4 matches in India and 1 out of 5 matches outside.
No. of innings Sachin scored well and won the match for India : 16
On Tour : 11/18 good scores
Home : 5/8 good scores
This says that India has won more often than not when Sachin has scored both inside and outside India. This could be true for every other player.
India's winning percentage in ODI
On Tour : 47/84
Home : 14/29
Sachin has helped India to win 5 out of 14 times in India and 11 out of 47 times outside. This is to show that even though Sachin is not the match winner that he was, he is still a very important contributor.
Break-up of test centuries by country
Good ones : 10
Second rung : 3
This basically means that Sachin has loved to score against good oppositions. When Sachin has scored a century against a good opposition, we have won 8 out of 10 times. (The only two other occasions have been against Kenya and Namibia).
Key
Good ones : Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand,
Second Rung: Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Namibia, UAE, Kenya
The number of times when Sachin scored and India won the match and,
When only one other person made a significant contribution : 11
When no-one else made a significant contribution : &
nbsp; 5
Interestingly, when India won and Sachin had scored well, he was outscored by Sehwag twice, VVS Laxman once and Ganguly once. The rest of the times Sachin had been the top scorer.
The number of times when Sachin has failed and India won the match with the help of another person
Number of times Sachin has scored less than 20 : 45
Number of times India has won during those : 20
In India : &
nbsp; 1
On Tour : &
nbsp; 19
This shows that more often than not, when Sachin scores IN India, India has won.
Break-up of the highest scorers when India has won and Sachin has failed (20).
Ganguly......5
Dravid..........6
Sehwag......5
Kaif............3
Others......8
Total.........27
It looks as though Dravid is better than Sachin since he has contributed 6 times when Sachin has not and has won the match for India. We will have to now just compare how many times Dravid has won the match for India as opposed to 16 times that Sachin has won during the last 5 years. We have to bear in mind that when Sachin has failed, Dravid has had the help other also to make up.
No. of times Dravid has scored well and won the match for India : 13
No. of times Sachin has contributed with a score of over 50 to this : 4
It is significant to note that Sachin did not play in 4 matches that Dravid had scored and won the match for India.
You make up your mind about who the best player is. Also bear in mind that these statistics are only during the last 5 years when Sachin has been taunted to be a “gatherer of runs” and has been accused of not being a “team man”.
