I don't know. I feel the standard of cricket has gone down specially after 2000. The pitches have become slow. Now Perth is not as fast as it used to be. Remember Sachin hitting 114 in Perth (WACA), the fastest pitch in the world and to date he believes was his finest test hundred. There are no great bowlers like Wasim Akram, Allan Donald, Walsh, Ambrose, Waqar , Shane Warne and so on. Pitches are flat, conditions favour batsmen most and that's why we see these high averages these days of players and the word GREAT has been used so senselessly.

I agree he hit 195 in a day and all those big scores. I am not denigrating his feats. But I still believe u got to listen to the best bowlers what they say who was the toughest batsman to bowl to. Listen to Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Walsh, McGrath, Warne, Muralitharan and so on and not these Zaheer Khans and Dwayne Bravos and the current fast bowlers from Pak ( The fast bowlers from Pak are nowhere close to what they were in 90s)..they will all say either Sachin, Lara, Viv. Steve Waugh, Mike Atherton (toughest to dislodge)