5 cricketers whose reputation was bigger than their teams
These cricketers ruled their respective nation's cricket teams and influenced decision making significantly, regardless of them being the captains or not.
2. Sachin Tendulkar
Need I begin to explain the greatness of this man, who turned a cricket-loving country into a cricket-frenzy nation and eventually, thanks to a great contribution from Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, this sport became one of the religions. It could be next to impossible for any cricketer to replicate the impact of this legendary individual.
In a career that spanned 24 years, Tendulkar went on to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs and Test cricket and his record stands safe by a long margin from his nearest competitors. Whenever he was batting, the Indian fans would stick to the television sets with a hope that he would deliver a miracle and he did that quite a lot of times.
It was difficult for the Indian cricket team and the BCCI to keep him away from the game when he was reaching the fag end of his career, sheerly because the fans would revert in a bad way. He eventually did step out of the game in what turned out to be the most emotional farewell of all time and the TRP records of that game signify why he was bigger than the team on many occasions.
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