The people who think Kohli is better than Sachin should look at the bowlers he faced. Bowlers like Wasim, Waqar, Shoib, Ambrose, Mcgrath and many more were not easy to bat against. Now look at the bowlers these days and the batting friendly pitches. Sachin was absolute genius...A fan from Pakistan.
Bowlers easy? Batting friendly pitches? Are you crazy? Do you even watch test cricket? Pitches since 2018 have been even tougher than 90s, definitely much much tougher than 00s. And bowlers like Rabada, Anderson, Cummins etc will all become legends when they retire and people will say "cricket was so good in the 10s and 20s". Having said that, Sachin is definitely better than Kohli in test cricket. Average of 48 is not good enough.
@@anweshchatterjee7595You cantcompare players from two different eras. Challenges are different. By the way Odis or tests, sachin was better than kohli. Even brian lara was better than kohli. Kohli is one of the greatest in this generation. But u cant compare players of two diff eras apple to apple. The era till 2005 was where money was less and the hardships more for the cricketers . Those days cricketers had to keep their jobs in govt or depend on other businesses in offseason because they were not paid heftily. Todays cricketer be a bowler or a batsman can make cricket his full time job. He can spend enormously on health and nutrition ,engage in highest level of fitness to raise the bar in his performance. All this costs money. I remember in 1989 srikkanth,azhar,kapil dev,amarnath, vengsarkar shastri formed a unit to appeal bcci to raise their match fees because they were poorly paid. Now those days are thankfully over. Even an average cricketer can create a networth far greater than greats like sunil gavaskar could create in a lifetime.
@Sam Johar i dont remember this match, but looking at dismisals, check where sidhu sir got bowl and ganguly azhar got bowl. Pitch was same but 4th inning make it unplayable.
@@seanwilson5516 How come you got the message India played better than WI from my comment!!!...I never said that... Looks like you are pretty fast on judging!!..... My point is back then in 1997 Barbados was a challenging place to bat especially day 4 and 5.... We named our courtyard same because you need a lot of skill to survive.
Was in standard 10 during those days...watched whole innings @ night hoping some miracle from indian batting ...was hopeful even when mongia and Kumble batting ...all in vein
Kumble was better wid the bat than Mongia brother. I don't recall a single match won by him for India. Those days we were carrying few bunch of shit wicket keepers till Dhoni arises.
This is one of the matches I don't tend to forget gave me many sleepless nights over the years till today also one of the best highlights it would have been if we had defeated the mighty west Indies pace bowling in their own den
Between 1997 and 2020 India might have hardly chased in away test matches more than 150 plus in 4th innings against quality teams . Sadly the story is never ending
These the matches I grew up watching as a little boy and these guys brought such a level of maturity and development to the sport that will forever make the sport amazing to watch
From this video I have watched first time Ian sir's bowling, Beautiful bowler. Now a days with IAN BISHOP commentary, cricket became more joyful. Thanks WEST INDIES FOR GIVING TWO MOST PRECIOUS GEMS - 1- MICHAEL HOLDING SIR 2- IAN BISHOP SIR
Yeah but he got carted all over the place in England in 2000. Cs him and Reon King couldn't support Walsh and Ambrose, england managed to finally beat the Windies... 5 years later they finally won the ashes..
Those days pitches at WI were sub par and prepared for their fast bowlers, but they were skillful bowlers. And Test matches were very intriguing to watch. Nowadays pitches in WI are dreadfully slow and low, with the exception of somewhat Sabina Park and Kensington Oval.
Sunil gavasker making excuses as usual. Rather then appreciating the bowlers just blaming the pitch. Admired kuruvila for his 5 wickets but blamed pitch for indian batsmen performance. Thats the mentality of gavaskar and shastri they just believe indians are better than everyone.
One of my worst memories as a cricket fan, though I must confess the pain has considerably lessened over time, helped by five consecutive series wins in the Caribbean.
We can also say that West Indies had the "Home advantage" & they were born and raised to play upon such conditions in which it was familiar to them and it suited them more than the visitors.
Except Sunil Gavaskar none of the Indians ever played well against Windies on their soil. Only Sunny did it like a man facing the fierce pace battery of West Indies in the 70's & 80's....!!
Dramatic magic, no one expected like this. It's always interesting and excited cricket if AZHAR in team. His presence is enthusiasm for opposite team also...which results in a competitive play which in turn results to enthusiasm of all world people
Never seen Sachin make any runs in the Caribbean against quality fast bowling, although this was obviously a difficult wicket to bats on, but if he was such a God of Cricket, as the Indian s keep saying, these are the time he should shine. I've seen Lara made a difference on a similar difficult wicket in South Africa, he was the only one that didn't look vulnerable.
This is how kensington oval behaves after 3 innings....which is why the highest total successfully chased is 308 in which one man scored 153 of those runs. Teams chasing at kensington dont usually win
Refreshing to see after 20 yrs... clueless India against a legendary bowling attack... Franklin Rose take show...felt sorry for team India as a child team blue fan
One of the match in the same series Franklyn Rose took Sachin wicket in a unusual way, Sachin assumed it’s a bouncer and tucked down but the ball travelled all the way to dismantle the stump, it was captured and published in times of India sports page.
Gone are the glory days of fast bowling. Sadly now a days balanced tipped off. Most of the pitches,grounds and rules favor battsman not to mention IPL. Additional note Its funny how Azar got bowled. Devil Ambrose....the legend.
India beared Worst keepers like Mongia, Dahiya, Saba Karim, Ajay Ratra those days n luckily we got Dhoni in last decade who rescued us in many crucial matches with Yuvi, Raina and few tail enders too. And still few fools blame him for no reason when his reflexes with the bat got a bit slower. Amazing crickets fans we have in our country when foreign players praise him like a legend.
Dhongi Baba and his Young team would have been taken to the cleaners against this West Indies team comfortably. In addition, his Money greedy teammates would have fixed the matches, or quit the National team for the sake of money and IPL like the current West Indies team members have done.
@@PrakashChandra766 wo sahi bol rha hai dhongi ke srinivas aur meiyappan se gehre rishte hai. Wo Amrapali buiders jaise farzi logo ka brand ambassador rha tha. Test matches me whitewash karwaya aur zero overseas century hai dhongi ki. Na moving ball khelne ki technique
This match was in Barbados.That morning the India team refused to bat. The out field was water logged,no rain had fallen.The ICC instruced India they had to bat,the ball kept low and they lost.
I believe that I saw or read somewhere that the West Indies had used Black Magic to Win this match over Team India in the 1990's and they had shown this on TV when some spectators were seen throwing some yellow liquid like Alcohol from the bottles and hurling curses and abuses towards the Indian team.
FEW YEARS BACK ON 11 OCT 2002 SHARJAH I SAW A TEST MATCH FINSHED IN JUST TWO DAYS IT WAS AGAINST AUSSIES, SO CAN U BOTH GUYS TELL ME THE NAME OF OTHER, DON'T WORRY GOOGLE IT, WAITING FOR U'R REPLY, CHEEEERS TEA WAS FANTASTIC
Sidhu out is misfortune, Dravid out is , his stupidness, Laxman out is, his mistake, Sachin out is , hunt. Ganguly out is pathetic Azhar out is very very pathetic.
People who are class act at pull and hook shots are struggling here... Bro You are speaking about someone who is not good with anything against genuine bowling... But this match had a very horrible pitch ... reason for India loss
Ball bowled to sidhu was unplayable. Even don bradman bradman would have got out on that. Sachin played a shot which showed that captaincy pressure was on him. Saurav and Azhar got a delivery which was so low that even ambrose would have been surprised of the height .....Even the best wouldhave crumbled under such attack and such uneven bounce pitch.
That time WI bowlers assured lara that indian team will not cross 100..they done what they say.. Pitch is very important that time... We see only heilights.. In the morning..
Now all vvs dravid sachin azharuddin kumble Prasad ganguli are legend... unfortunately only one fast bowler.. and Ambrose Walsh bishop Lara holdings Rose viv Richard all are legend..
