Ponting: Sachin technically the best batter
Tendulkar, Ponting
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has bestowed the honor upon legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, rating him as the epitome of batting prowess.
“I've said forever, Sachin's technically the best batter that I've ever seen, and played with or against,” Ponting said on 'ICC Review' on the eve of Tendulkar's 50th birthday.
"Whatever plan that we came up with as a bowling group, he found a way to combat it, whether it was in India or Australia," he said.
In addition, he stated that he would wait for Virat Kohli to end his international career before drawing a "fair comparison" between the two Indian cricketing giants.
"There's different rules, for instance, around 50-over cricket, with less fielders outside the circle, two new balls, it makes it a lot easier now for batting than probably ever before,"
"It's hard to rank and judge players as everyone is different and everyone plays the game differently. But certainly through the generation that I played, he was technically the best player that I saw," he added.
