Who played the most without playing Tendulkar?

The most surprising names are Imran- Gooch along with Laxman- Jayasuriya. It's really difficult to believe that these players, all legends in their own right, never played against each other in tests!

Posted by   on (December 8, 2011, 7:37 GMT)

What sort of useless article is this?

I had a look at the link from the first test in 1877 to teh present day, using just Enaland players and the shortest link I can find is 10 players: George Ulyett Test 1 to 33 W.G Grace Test 33 to 60 Wilf Rhodes Test 60 to 193 Bill Voce Test 193 to 281 Godfrey Evans Test 281 to 475 Colin Cowdrey Test 475 to 755 Chris Old Test 755 to 906 Graham Gooch Test 906 to 1287 Graham Thorpe Test 1287 to 1753 Andrew Strauss Test 1753 to present day. Obvioulsy to link to test number 1 it has to cover England or Australia - I wonder how Australia compares? Mike Rolls

@ Andrew Ward. Look at the last column of the table. It states that Walsh played 39 of his tests during Mahela's career. For every pair, you need to look at the last column to find the number of tests that overlapped.

Posted by   on (December 8, 2011, 6:25 GMT)

This article is a classic example of finding work for yourself...

Very nice article. The aurthor chose Sachin in the title as he was the most capped player. Please leave SRT alone !!!!!!!!!!!! He is once in a generation player. If some people have an issue about this, please take your arguments elsewhere.

What kind of a meaningless article is this? If you have a database of cricket, anyone can come up with various permutations such as these that make no real statistical. How about - how many left arm bowlers who've played against the WI having 2 seamers and one left handed batsman that's never bowled consecutive no balls after the lunch interval on day 2 of a test?

I'm getting tired of the one's that are out there just because it can be and not for any meaningful reading. I'd like the author to also let the readers know why this article is worth reading.

In my opinion this kind of statistics analysis doesn't make any sense whatsoever ! player like tendulkar has been around for 22 years ! its quite obvious he played with many players! We expect cricinfo will write more interesting stuff.

Jaycee71, Thanks for the correction. However, the point I want to make is that NO MATCH THAT INVOLVES A TEAM OF INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS COMBINED, AGAINST A FULL NATIONAL SQUAD SHOULD BE GIVEN TEST MATCH STATUS. Othewise all similar matches in the past and of the future should be treated similarly. The players in that 2005 match did not know it was an official test. That was later decided. We are talking about international sports and international standards, not the feeling of a handful of priveleged guys who decide to do things that just suite 'their' whims and fancies. The whole psyche of players in internationally combined teams playing a test match (to fulfill whose pride?) is very much disoriented, wrongfully conceptualised and completely different from a match where the natural sentiments of the players are attached to playing 'FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY'. I really don't know how so called intelligent people can keep on addressing world related matters in this rather haphazard manner!

@dms1972, I like the stats you show, and agree with your sentiment, in general. But you are the one bringing up sachin here, even though you conveniently forgot to add that ponting did not play the great australian attack (not even once, trust me) in accumulating those run mountains. When you demean the bowling prowess of zim and BD players, you forget that no team in the world had bowlers like Aus did for the majority of sachin's playing years.