Each Tendulkar and Gavaskar are legends of Indian cricket, every having made vital contributions of their respective eras.
Whereas Gavaskar laid the muse for Indian cricket’s rise within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, Tendulkar carried ahead the legacy, changing into a world icon within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s. Their batting data, consistency, and the power to carry out beneath strain have impressed generations of cricketers in India and around the globe.
Gavaskar was the primary participant to attain 10,000 runs in Check cricket. He held the document for probably the most Check centuries (34) for nearly twenty years earlier than it was surpassed by Tendulkar.
It was within the first Check in opposition to Bangladesh on the Bangabandhu Nationwide Stadium in Dhaka within the 2004 sequence that Tendulkar equalled Gavaskar‘s document of Check centuries.
The primary Check of the two-match sequence noticed Anil Kumble breaking Kapil Dev‘s document of 434 wickets to change into India’s main Check wicket-taker and the rise of Irfan Pathan who registered his first ten-wicket haul in Exams on the third day on the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka in December 2004.
Pathan’s five-wicket haul within the first innings noticed Bangladesh being bundled out for 184. From then on, it was the Sachin Tendulkar present all the way in which.
Sachin accomplished his thirty fourth Check century to equal Sunil Gavaskar’s document of Check centuries and likewise went on to notch up his career-best Check rating (248*).
Tendulkar, who was dropped when he was on 28 and 47, struck 35 boundaries in his knock and added 164 runs with Ganguly (71) for the fourth wicket and put up a 133-run stand with Zaheer (75) for the final wicket as India amassed 526 runs.
Pathan then wrapped up the match early on Day 4 taking 6/51 within the Bangladesh second innings as India gained by an innings and 140 runs.
Tendulkar is extensively considered one of many biggest batsmen in cricket historical past and holds the document for probably the most runs in each Check and ODI cricket. He’s the one participant to have scored 100 worldwide centuries (51 in Exams and 49 in ODIs).
