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T♔he comparisons between players in ♓cricket is not an odd thing. From fans to experts, cricket has always seen people drawing evaluations between players in order to assess who is the best in the business.
From Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan’s battle to the comparison between Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, the le𒆙gends had gone through several assessm꧋ents.
The similar pattern continues in modern-day cricket as well, and two players who are always on the radar are India skipper Virat Kohli and former Australia captain Steve Smith. The pair have been compared with each other numerous times. Some term 𓆉Kohli as the greatest batsman of the current time, while some rate Smith as the top-of꧃-the-line strokemaker.
More often than not, cricketers belonging to the same era gets compared. However, on Sunday, the official broadcaster of the ongoing two-match Test series between South Africa and Sri Lanka came up with perhap🍃s the weirdest comparison and were expe🔥ctedly trolled by the fans.
The broadcaster SuperSport compared Proteas batsman Rassie van der Dussen with India legend Tendulkar. The broadcaster highlighted record of van der Dussen as well as🍃 of Tendulka♌r after their first 6 Tests.
SuperSport comparing first 6 matches of Dussen and ꦰSachin Tendulkar.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Van der Dussen is playing his sixth Test, and so far he has scored 2ဣ89 runs with the help of three fifties. On the other hand, Tendulkar has scored 15,921 runs in 200 Tests with 51 centuries and 68 half-tons. No wonder, after seeing the comparison, the fans were not at all impressed as they hammered the broadcaster.
Here is how fans reacted:
Van der Dussen getting comparisons to Tendulkar and Kalis regarding his and their first 6 tests … 🤨😳 ja, no, well, fine …
— Morgan Bolton (@FreemanZAR)
Me ꦰand Sachin had the ﷽same batting average after 0 matches. 🤩
— Manya (@CSKian716)
//tw𒅌itter.com/DineshBija꧟rni17/status/1345912470016204803
When you read statistics a lot, but didn't saw cricket in the '90 – '00 s. 😬
— Uttaran Das (@das_uttaran)
They are high or smthing lyk dat!!?
— P@r@G (@im_parag14)
Shaw clearly ahead of those 2, averaging healthy 42 after 5 t🌺e𓆉sts.
— 🐺 (@stanRO45)
I just want to know what SuperSport is smoking. How can you💃 compare the God of Cricket to anybody.
— Shamak Layeeq (@shamak_layeeq)
//twitter.com/Doubledecacorn💛/status/1345777082060554241
Somebody on the broadcast must really like Rassie van der Dussen to be push⛎ing the narrative that he’s in the same sphere as Tendulkar and Kallis 😂
— The Googly Cricket (@officialgoogly)
Our number doesn't have a test century to his name but his being compared to Tendukar😅😅😅
— Saadiq Ashraff 🇵🇸 (@DisAgentPena)
😭😭😭
— 01010111000101 (@01010111000101O)
Such a waste 🤣🤣
— Ramos15 |தல (@ramos15T)
This is the most South African thing༒ I have ever seen😔
— LaurenDzaaaaarion (@GoliathLauren)
//twit♚ter.com/Mtha_Veekay/status/1345762271444807681
//twitter൲.com/indepthFandC/sta꧑tus/1345747142145699841
Oh Bhai Maaro Mujhe
— SG 👑 (@RCBSG30)
Binny
Wickets – 20
Bowling Avg – 21.95
Best – 6/4
VS
Akram
Wickets – 16
Bowling Avg – 23.52
Best – 5/15— cric.tweet (@Cutelittle07)
No offense to vd Dussen but comparing him with S♈achin Tendulkar after🌜 just 6 matches???🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolute lol
— ⚡AK⚡ (@ak10_amelia)
//twitter.com/🦹ChooozaBooza/status/1346042662437076993
Where are you going with this?? 😂😂😂
— Ketse, The Manelisi (@ManelisiKetse)
Where are you going with this?? 😂😂😂
— Ketse, The Manelisi (@ManelisiKetse)
Talk of totally random comparisons
— Ramesh (@rmshnt27)
//twitter.com/justkholii__/status🎃/1345737880300363777
Seriously 😭 You geꦡt taught to compare apples with apples in grade 1.
— Amir Jeena (@Jeenz7)
//twitter.com/Steve64182365🃏/status/134573🔯5908721651712
They have gone crazy 🤦♂️🤦♂️
— Ram Charan missed Oscar Award by a Whisker 😝😝 (@1010_a൩rjun)
