In the third part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta compares the leading batsmen of Indian cricket by evaluating where they stood among their contemporaries. As expected Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar lead the charts by a long way.
In the second part of the statistics across eras series, Arunabha Sengupta looks at the top batsmen across the history of cricket by the decades, and finds that the career average actually does not quite lie.
The general conception is that the bowling quality is on the wane and batsmen in general have it much easier in the middle. However, how does this perception stand up against hard data? Arunabha Sengupta analyses.