IS SACHIN TENDULKAR A MATCH WINNER ?

What do u mean by a match winner...? Hitting 6s and 4s towards the end of the innings and scoring over 7 runs per over and chasing a target? Surely it is match winning. If a batsman does well in the first innings and set a huge target.. or Creating a strong platform in the second innings... isn't it a match winning effort...? Isn't he a match winner...? Yea!! to some extent...! Right...?! So Sachin is not a good match winner... right? Chasing the target is match winning... am i correct?! now, lets talk about ODIs. Please check these statistics... (as of March 2010). Some comparisons with two 'matchwinning legends'.

WON CHASING TARGET PLAYER Match RUN HS AVG 100 50 Sachin 116 5033 134 56.55 14 28 Dravid 81 2268 109* 46.28 2 20 Ponting 92 3360 124* 57.90 4 17

IN TOURNAMENT FINALS PLAYER Match RUN HS AVG 100 50 Sachin 39 1833 138 55.54 6 10 Dravid 24 729 103* 34.71 1 3 Ponting 40 1344 140* 39.52 2 7

Highest number of Man of the Match awards... 61 Is it the award for the worst player in a match?!! No it is for the best player... right...?! Then tell me the definition of best player in a match...?!!

Sachin Tendulkar's scores in some tournament finals

Season Tournament Vs Venue Runs Balls SR 1997-98 Coca Cola Cup Aus Sharjah 134 131 102.29 1997-98 Singer-Akai Cup SL Colombo 128 131 97.71 1998-99 Champions Trophy Zim Sharjah 124* 92 134.78 2007-08 CB tri-series Aus Sydney 117* 120 97.50 1997-98 Coca Cola Cup Kenya Kolkata 100* 103 97.09 2007-08 CB tri-series Aus Aus 91 120 76.3 2008-10 Compaq Cup SL Colombo 138 133 103.75 1997-98 Independence Cup Pak Dhaka 95 78 121.79 1996-97 Titan Cup SA Mumbai 67 88 76.14 1994-95 Wills World Series WI Kolkata 66 68 97.06 1990-91 Asia Cup SL Kolkata 53 70 75.71

Leading run getter in Oneday Internationals Hit maximum number of Centuries in Oneday Internationals Sachin is the leading run getter in TWO world cups, 1996 and 2003 Out of his 46 tons in ODI, 17 were while chasing and and 29 were in 1st inn. He is the only batsman in the history of Oneday Internations to hit a double century. He is the only batsman in the world to complete 10000 runs in the matches in which the team have won. The most interesting fact is that Sachin has scored 46 hundreds, and out of these tons, 33 hundreds came as matchwinning hundreds. 14 came while batting second... 19 while batting first. which is more than the total no of hundreds scored by the batsman in the second position in the century list.