sachin tendulkar was not a match winner batsman. I would say that there are many cricket players who tend to be great. However, I would say that chris Gayle was the one whom I would rate the highest. The fact of the matter remains that chris Gayle was one if the most devastating batsman cricketing world has ever seen. 

[QUOTE="fdk1971,  post: 22896, member: 364"]
I'm not the biggest cricket fan, but I do know some things about it, and for me I can't look past Tendulkar. He broke almost every record there was to be broken in terms of a batsman and it's only the introduction of more frequently played cricket that will ever threaten his records. His talents were truly once-in-a-generation imo.
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