When A Legend Retires

[Lions]

For those of you living under a rock or in the United States, you may not know that one of the world's most famous athletes decided to call it quits this week. Sanchin Tendulkar is kind of the Hank Aaron/Pete Rose of cricket. He's got the most runs scored by a mile and has posted the most centuries (scoring 100 runs or more in a match). Given that cricket is a bat and ball game similar to baseball, it's no surprise that they are also big fans of statistics. Tendulkar's retirement is giving rise to that classic baseball question of how he really compares to the all time greats of his sport. Comparing across generations is hard, particularly because the number of games played is much higher now.

Here's a BBC look that evaluates his status among the games best using counting stats, rate stats, and even stats that attempt to take relative value into account.

Don't understand how cricket works? Try reading this blog post or Cricket for Baseball Fans for a very brief primer.

[Leones]

Cricket. I played that once with some Australians in Hawaii. I still don't know what I did. Hit the ball and run back and forth a lot as I recall. Fun to learn more about it after all these years. Thanks for the heads up!