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Sachin Tendulkar in finals
Mon, September 01 2014
Sachin Tendulkar: Busting the myths ignorant fans held against the greatest batsman in ODI history
As Sachin Tendulkar moves away from the scene of One-Day Internationals, he leaves in his wake mountains of runs and centuries that will perhaps never be scaled again. However, there are many who keep their eyes stubbornly shut to statistics and repeat the nonsensical urban legend – 'he was not a match winner.’ Arunabha Sengupta looks at numbers to conclude that actually there has seldom been a greater match-winning batsman than the little champion.