A comparison of Sachin Tendulkar with Brian Lara

New Delhi: Prior to the God of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar's retirement, he had always been compared with cricket greats. Some even compared him with Sir Don Bradman.The most interesting comparison has been Sachin versus Lara. Last year, a news appeared in which the former Australian captain has reportedly said: "Sachin and Lara were the two stand-out batsmen for me. Lara won more games for his team than Sachin probably has. I'd lose more sleep as captain knowing Lara was coming in to bat next day than I would with Sachin,".There must be some basis behind Ponting comparing Sachin with Lara - both legends in their own right.So, lets have a look at the career graph of both of them briefly. We all know that Sachin started his career at an early age and he is playing the gentlemen's game still now, while Brian Lara retired from all sorts of cricket in 2007.Sachin debuted with the test match against Pakistan in 1989 whereas Lara started his cricketing career in 1990 against the same opponent. During their career, both the legends were made skipper of their respective teams but Sachin's record is poor as compared to that of Brian Lara. Sachin was made captain of Indian cricket team only once for four years but Brian Lara was reappointed three times as skipper of West Indies team in his 17-year-long career.Indeed Brian Lara debuted a year after Sachin but he was the first to make 10,000 runs in 2005 in international Test Cricket becoming the all time leading run scorer, Sachin overtook him in 2008. Sachin has a record of 100/100's in international cricket with 200 not out in One day internationals but soon Virender Sehwag broke his record by hitting 219 against West Indies.Sachin has no triple hundred in his Test match career whereas Brian Lara made five double hundreds in which two are triples and a wobbling 400 not out against England is an unbroken record till now. Sachin has got praises from all over the world and so has Brain Lara. The feisty West Indies batsman got inducted in the ICC's Hall of Fame in 2012-13 in Sri Lanka.Brian Lara was also a great feilder, He has a feat of 164 catches standing at 4th rank whereas Tendulkar is not in the top ten list.