It is hard to imagine that it will soon be a decade-and-a-half since Sir
Donald Bradman passed away. Interestingly, Ricky Ponting has recently stated
that Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman after The Don:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/top-stories/Sachin-Tendulkar-is-the-greatest-after-Don-Bradman-Ponting/articleshow/51058961.cms
I had written much the same thing in November 2009, four years before
Tendulkar retired:
http://indravikramsingh.blogspot.in/2009/11/after-bradman-its-got-to-be-tendulkar.html
Bradman himself had famously said that he thought Tendulkar’s batting
resembled his own.
This debate will rage as long as the game is played. New greats will
emerge, many more records will be broken, but will there be a more revered
cricketer than Bradman, or a more loved one than Tendulkar? Not likely.
The eyes of cricket fans will remain transfixed
at two lofty peaks, a Test average of 100, and a hundred centuries in
international cricket, until new superstars arrive to scale such dizzy heights
again.
(Indra Vikram Singh is author of the book ‘Don’s
Century’, ISBN 978-81-901668-5-0, which is a biography of Sir Donald
Bradman and a panorama of batting from the 1860s till present times).
