Moon-Crane wrote:Agreed. I can't see Bradman's average ever being surpassed. Nobody is anywhere near it in the whole of Test Cricket history. I can see Tendulkar's total number of centuries being surpassed. Quantity of games in all formats will see another great player do it.
Exactly right with Tendulkar, particularly if 20/20 centuries come into play (although they're obiously pretty rare in themselves) but the amount of cricket being played now is so much more than even a decade ago.
I just think it's a dangerous thing to predict that any record will never be beaten. Most competetive sports have only been properly organised and statistised for the last century and a half or so, which could be the merest fraction of the entire time for which these sports will endure.
Without a full knowledge of all world sports I'm probably not qualified to say this, but for all the sports I've watched I'd say Bradman's Test average is probably the greatest record of them all, and will probably last the longest period of time.