What's the point?

Read this recent article by Makarand Waingankar in “The Hindu” on Sachin Tendulkar’s match winning ability! I wonder if anyone could write a more pointless article than this. I have never really liked his writing, so I don’t take him too seriously at the best of times, but on this occasion he seems to have surpassed himself.

Here he is comparing the match winning abilities of Inzamam and Ponting with Sachin but why leave out Lara – the man who’s figured in the most number of losing causes in history despite having a deadly bowling attack at his disposal in the first half of his career. And his argument that Inzamam also played for a weaker team like Sachin but he has a greater percentage of centuries scored in winning causes is just ridiculous. For a good part of Inzamam’s career they had the two W’s spitting venom on the cricket field and for India outside of Kumble (more so at home), did we have any consistent match winning bowlers at all? You win matches by taking 20 wickets, not by scoring triple hundreds…