According to the latest cricket updates, an economics researcher has recently states that in an answer in one of the biggest debates in international cricket by picking Indian master blaster Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest Test batsman ever over late Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman.
News report in The Australian said, “Griffith University researcher Dr Nicholas Rohde has used economic theory to compare batsmen from different eras, and says India’s Little Master, who will pad up against the Aussies at the MCG on Boxing Day, is history’s premier willow wielder.”
Meanwhile, master blaster from India, Sachin Tendulkar has a world-record 15,183 runs from 184 Tests at an average of 56.02 after he first appeared in his debut in 1989.
On the other hand, Don Bradman played 52 Tests from 1928 to 1948, scoring 6996 runs at an astonishing average of 99.94. Mr. Bradman died in 2001 aged 92.
Talking to media, Dr Rohde, a theoretical analysis puts Tendulkar above Bradman said, “The rankings are designed to allow for meaningful comparisons of players with careers of different lengths.”
He said, “It’s an emotional issue and there will always be debate between followers of Test cricket about the relative career performances of various batsmen.”
The ranking given to the players by the researcher have been created on the basis on their career aggregate runs, minus the total number of runs that an average player of that era would accumulate over the same number of innings.
Allan Border (7) and Steve Waugh (9) are the other Australian batsmen in the top 10. The great wall of Indian team, Rahul Dravid (fourth) and Sunil Gavaskar (eighth) are the other Indians in the list.
Dr Rohde’s further added in his speech it was possible that Sachin Tendulkar and Don Bradman could exchanged their places many times before the Indian retires as a dip in form would affect his standing.
