Desmond Haynes
In terms of technique and compactness, Tendulkar is the best
Viv Richards
He is 99.5 per cent perfect. I'd pay to see him
David Boon
Technically he stands out as the best because of his ability to increase
the pace at will
Steve Waugh
There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps
only next to the Don.
Barry Richards
Sachin is cricket's God
Sunil Gavaskar
India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores.
There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.
Mohinder Amarnath
A complete batsman ? he's the best in the business.
Jeff Thompson
Sachin is an attacker. He has much more power than Sunny. He wants to be
the one to set the pace. He has to be on top. That's the buzz about him.
Dennis Lillee
If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball
so hard.
Steve Waugh
You take Don Bradman away and he is next up I reckon.
Shane Warne
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the
wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I
don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as
Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.
Shane Warne
When it comes to judging the best among these fabulous band of batsmen,
my vote goes to Tendulkar. He has an uncanny ability to come out on top
under different circumstances and under different conditions, whether it
is Test cricket or one-day internationals. And more importantly, he has
done this so young.
Michael Kasprowicz
Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours.
Allan Border
Hell, if he had stayed, even at 11 an over he would have got it(after
India won the Coca-Cola cup in Sharjah).
Greg Chappell
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to
attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability
to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any
attack with utmost ease.
Mark Waugh
It's scary, where the hell do we bowl to him: Allan Border. Yeah mate,
but that's with all great players
Ian Chappell.
Sachin's better; Lara is more risky outside the off stump.
Mark Taylor
He's a phenomenon. We have to be switched on when he plays allow him no
boundries, for then he doesn't stop.
Ian Healy
Tendulkar is the most complete batsman I have stood behind. I saw the
hundred in Perth on a bouncy pitch with Hughes, McDermott and Whitney
gunning for him ? he only had 60-odd when No 11 came in. I've seen him
against Warne too.
Ian Chappell
Harder he works, the luckier he gets.
Richie Benaud
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to
batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
Mike Coward
Sachin's the best. I've had this view since I saw him score that hundred
in Sydney in 1992. He's the most composed batsman I've ever seen.
Mark Waugh
The pressure on me is nothing as compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin,
like God, must never fail. The crowd always expects him to succeed and
it is too much pressure on him.
Glenn McGrath
I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve
Waugh and Lara.
Sir Gary Sobers
He is currently the best batsman in the world.
Tony Grieg
There's no doubt about it. He is the best.
Geoffrey Boycott
Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow ?
nothing is a problem.
Peter Roebuck
Sometime back I had written a piece that said that Sachin's the master
and Lara a genius with his head high up somewhere. That's it.
Kieth Fletcher
A little genius. Reminds me of Sunny Gavaskar.
Eddie Barlow
He is Sachin Tendulkar. I hope he stays Sachin Tendulkar. We need a new
player, a player in his own way. He has a technique which is the
hallmark of a great player. Everything indicates that he will be a great
player and I am sure he will prove me right. Reminds me of Barry
Richards.
Barry Richards
Destined to be a great.
Paul Strang
What we (Zimbabwe) need is 10 Tendulkars.
Gavaskar
The original little master, Sunil Gavaskar, had said that the champion
cricketer was an example of the perfect batsman.Gavaskar praised
Tendulkar for the stillness of his head, his straight back-lift, the
ease with which he played his shots and their wide range.
Greg Chappell
I'm impressed with Sachin. The hype and expectations on him is greater
than even Bradman faced in his day.
Indian coach
Sachin carries a weight of collective expectation to the crease that few
can comprehend. Bradman would not have had the weight of expectation
that Sachin has on him every time he went out to bat.
Wasim Akram
"Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he
played in my time"
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar was a peerless batsman with a lot more to offer. Lara,
Test cricket's leading scorer with 11,294 runs, regarded Tendulkar the
best batsman he ever watched despite the prolific success of Australian
captain Ricky Ponting and South African Jacques Kallis. Lara said: "For
me, the best batsman in the world is Sachin Tendulkar. I admire Jacques
Kallis' consistency and Ricky Ponting, with the purple patch he's going
though. Everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. But if there's one person
I've admired over a 15-year period, it's definitely Sachin."
Steve Waugh
"we won with ten , but lost to one" told after the sharjah cup finals
Sir Donald Bradman
I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I
asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I
feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and
she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity
between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it
all seemed to gel.
Greg Chappell
I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you he'd
do okay.
