On topic of best test players currently

1. Sachin is better than Rahul. Period.
coz...coz he has scored runs in all conditions against all attacks. Lets not judge players based on 1 or 2 yrs, have to take their whole careers in perspective. We take Sachin for granted, but he always contributes one way or another in India's victories, its used to be more like India fails when Sachin fails, though that no longer is the case.
U know wht happened to Matthew Hayden when he played his initial test in 92-93 s against windies, south africa( with donald, and much a younger and potent pollock)...he had his hand broken, didnt score more than 20 runs...and never played again for next 7 yrs...its so easy to always plant ur foot down when u r facing guys bowling at 75-85 mph..try doin it with marshall, holding, hadlee, garner..or even ambrose, donald. This is the golden age for batsmen because the bowlers are in the stone age. do ya remember sachins' innings (113 i thnk) at Perth against mcdermott, hughes, reiffel and whitney on the rampage...the best innings against raw pace on a pitch which was the fastest and bounciest in the world. No man can win cricket test matches on his own, sachin could not in the period 1989-1996 coz dravid, laxman were not there, the openers were pathetic , ...laxman& dravid could win test matches coz of the start the openers provided, and because of the sheer presence of sachin. (out or not out in the dressing room). We belittle sachin coz he seems to be in such scratchy form..but the grtness of the man lies in the fact that he scores runs even when he is not in best of forms..how many playesr can claim to score 241 n.o when they r sufferin frm poor form ?

2. abt Gavaskar, hmm..letz see..13 of his 34 hundreds came against windies..but out of the 13 only 3 came when windies had full atatcke of roberts, garner, marshall, holding. When windies had thier full complement, in 82-83 series in west indies..gavaskar flopped miserably..it was amarnath who carried the batting on his shoulders. U shld remember that when sunny made his deam debut in west indies (1971), scoring 774 runs in 4 tests, the westidnies bolwing attack was composed off spinners and medium pacers..none of the grt fast bowlers had yet made theie entrance, in 1974 when the windies came to india with their full battery..gavaskar was battered out of the batting and it required the genius of the vishy to win two tests against them.