Inzamam, not Tendulkar close to Bradman

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Australian great Sir Don Bradman himself declared that Sachin Tendulkar reminded him of his own batting style but former English cricketer Tony Shillinglaw chooses to disagree. He has argued through a study that technique wise both the players are as different as chalk and cheese. Shillinglaw, who is a coach now, has conducted an extensive biomechanical study of Bradman’s technique and claims that actually it is Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul Haq, who comes close to Bradman’s batting style. Shillinglaw says that the only striking similarity between Bradman and Tendulkar is that both the players are good watchers of the ball but the Indian is actually confined by orthodoxy.
“It’s almost become a myth that if you’re watching Tendulkar, you’re watching Bradman. Well, there is very little comparison when you do so. Tendulkar is basically textbook, whereas Bradman used a rotary method in preparing to hit the ball,” Shillinglaw was quoted as saying in ‘Sydney Morning Herald’. “What you get with that is it becomes just a human instinct to react to the ball, and in the end that’s the basis of Bradman’s method. It’s a circular motion. He didn’t learn to bat, he learned to control the ball.” Bradman had said in an interview in 1996 that after being struck by Tendulkar’s technique, he had asked his wife to look at the Indian’s batting style and she also agreed that there were similarities. Shillinglaw, who analysed Bradman at length and had scientists at Liverpool’s John Moores University recreate his strokes, accepts there are some facets of Bradman’s batting that resonate in Tendulkar. But, technically, he says, they are very different.

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Only Sachin tendulkar is equal to Bradman…………..Inzamam will be unhappy if he listen this news!…………

  5. Bradman says his batting style matches sachin ! but pakistani people like to live in dis belief n conspiracy theories ! they just like to listen what makes them happy ! What a bunch of loosers !

  6. Pakistanis r not loosers!! just compare the matches they have won against India!! And of course Inzi has his own batting style different from others and he was the match winning player whereas when Tendulkar scores or makes century, India looses that game!! hhahhaa!!
    means he is not the match winning player!!

  9. Most of all…Inzi ..always played for His Country whereas..Sachin..has always played for himself…and the Media…of which He is just another Product !

  11. INZIMAM UL HAQ IS A MATCH WINNING PLAYER. AND TENDULAKR IS A PLAYER WITH WHOM CENTURY, HIS TEAM ALWAYS LOOSE.

  13. Sachin Tendulkar is undoubtedly a Legendary batsmen..but he is only good for his ownself not the team..Inzamam is the won whose helped the team everytime while with the bat…..while with sachin the problem is that when he is needed he doesnt work or probably gets out on 100 or so at the stage he`s needed the most

  14. Curious who had ever heard of Tony Shillinglaw before this?
    Both Tendulkar and Inzimam are/were class players.
    Who has a closer action to Bradman is totally irrelevant there was and always will be only one Bradman who was simply the greatest batsman ever. As an Englishman it hurts to say that 🙂

  16. Dear Pakistan, you will do good—-Pray to Allah.But allah is waiting for Pakistan to BE good which is not happening.Just by hating India , you wont get anything—In the process India has gone miles ahead of you.

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