Cricket and Indian Team

We were having a coffee table discussion on how much does Sachin Tendulkar suck in cricket. I thought that I should really figure out the truth in that. So here is some analysis of past performance of our batting stalwarts.

Â	Tendulkar	Dhoni	Dravid	Shehwag	Pathan	Yuvraj
	141	2	9	Â	1	24
	12	Â	26	9	8	12
	65	18	6	8	Â	93
	4	23	0	1	64	52
	35	7	7	10	0	26
	29	51	4	9	19	Â
	10	28	49	17	0	0
	35	14	52	65	10	0
	2	55	18	0	1	27
	1	26	63	18	47	27
 Total	334	224	234	137	150	261
10 Inns Avg	33.40	24.89	23.40	15.22	16.67	29.00
5 Inns Avg	15.40	34.80	37.20	21.80	15.40	10.80
5 Inns Avg next match 0	19.30	24.67	22.50	15.22	16.56	26.33
10 Inns Avg next match 0	9.60	24.60	36.40	20.00	11.60	10.80

If you look at the table, there is very little to choose from. Of course in last five matches Tendulkar has really been bad but the fact is that whole team is trying to out-underperform each other.

Let's compare the results as a chart. We will first compare the results of all these players in last 10 matches adn 5 matches.



As we can see, the point that Tendulkar's performance has been pathetic is true but so is everybody else's. When I brought this point in the discussion, I was told that it is all because of one century of tendulkar, so I thought that assume all these players would make zero in next match and then see their performance. Because that would eliminate one score of 141 from Tendulkar. Even with that the results are as follows.



Apart from Dravid standing out, it is still a really same pathetic story. So the point is dropping one or two players from the team is really not a solution. Something else needs to be done. We also do not have a great second line of players so that you drop all of them and have a good team at the end of it.

I would say that TV viewers need to vote with their wallets. Stop becoming a source of huge amounts of money for cricket board then only you would see a change.

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