10 Strangest cricket stats you probably don't know
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7. Vinod Kambli’s Test batting average is higher than that of Sachin Tendulkar
Two boys from Mumbai, having loads of talent, smashed a mountain of runs, broke many records and stitched record-breaking partnerships. Both of them went on to represent the Indian team. While one of the two went on to be called the ‘God of Cricket’ the other’s career fizzled out after the initial burst of runs and records. Such is the story of Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli.
Sachin Tendulkar, in almost all of the departments on the stat sheet holds an upper hand over his childhood friend and former India teammate Vinod Kambli, but there is one department where Kambli remained ahead of Tendulkar. That is in terms of their Test match batting average. Kambli ended his runs in Test cricket with an average of 54.20 while Sachin had an average of 53.80.
This might be a hard thing to digest for Sachin’s fans but, it is true that he was trumped by Kambli in one thing. Kambli had the potential to make it big in international cricket, but as years went by, several things, mostly flaws popped up in Kambli’s method of operation and his run ended in international cricket in the year 2000 while Sachin went on to play for another decade and retired in 2013.
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