We are going to do complete coverage of the South Africa Tour of India from a different perspective. A perspective that was not possible before.
Now, since the Indian team has finally come out of the tall shadow of now retired from all formats of the game, Sachin Tendulkar, it will be interesting to watch and observe how they perform. It does not in any way an effort to diminish the achievements and contributions of Sachin Tendulkar to the team. Only that the probable outcome of a match if Sachin was there in the team would no more be discussed, hopefully. Although he was not on the Indian ODI side for quite some time, his name still used to crop up now and then if the team did not perform well. That I think was more due to the glimmer of hope that many of his hard core fans had about his probable return to the team. That is finally gone, for good or for worse only time can tell.
Much has been said about many players on the current ODI side. Some of them have even been compared to all time greats of cricket. It will be great to see them in a different light. It will be interesting to see if they are really as great and comparable to the all time greats as they critics have commented in recent times. Expecially, comparing some batsmen to Sachin Tendulkar has become a fashion of sorts. So, taking that forward, we will compare the performances of the batsmen without Sachin being on the side.