hips don't lie . probably you and I are watching different games. or probably you are ardent sachin fan. nobody is denying his talent. But as far as your statement of he is still scoring runs are concerned I doubt if there is any sort of conviction in his scoring. We are merely chosing who is best on our assumption.

See where he is in the ranking. He is 24th batsman in the world . he has been out of top 20 twice in last two years. except 2 series he has failed  in all the sereies in last 4 years. His recent series average in sri lanka was mere 15. He failed to score total of 100 runs in six innings in sri lanka.  in previous series of only test  against southafrica he had 0, against england in two series  the average  was around 22, and 38 , against sri lanka in the series before the current one average was against just about 30, in the seres against south AFrica a year before it was 27. Against Australia about two and half years ago his average again was below 20 and new zealand it dropped below 20 again.  To be honest he had one great series in Australia amidst of a lot of failure. He had couple of average series against pakistan . If this isnt playing for record than what is.