Who is the best?

So Tendulkar is not the best batsman in the world (link). I am not here to defend Tendulkar – his achievements speak better, and you would always have a Nirmal Shekar who can fill up the Sports page in the Hindu rubbishing this report. And anyways, who cares if the sun is not the biggest or the brightest stars, it’s only the absence of the sun that we aam earthlings would notice, a missing Alpha Centauri would hardly raise an aam admi’s eyebrows.


I am here to comment on this study, but from the authors’ point of view. Now, just for a moment, imagine you are the author of this study. You have spent a better part of one or two years doing this (useless?) study. And at the end of it, you realize hardly anyone is going to take notice if you state the obvious, that Tendulkar is a priceless gem of cricket. Just as I titled my last post as “Inception – a letdown” to persuade people to read it, so have the authors. Use the oldest sleight in the book, rubbish a venerated icon, set the tongues wagging. But you know what, their efforts seem to have been in vain – I hardly see any talk about this. Come on guys, lets have some jabber, some buzz around this too; poor authors, they must be squirming.

PS: I don’t mean to say that the study was fudged or anything but as my prof used to say, “Given the right input, the result cannot be wrong if the approach is right”. Wonder where the study goofed up.