India's top batsman, Sachin Tendulkar, is considered by no less a judge than the greatest of all batsmen, Sir Don Bradman, to be in the same class as himself.

ECONOMIST: Three of the best

Ganguly can at least console himself with the thought that he, like Sir Don Bradman, scored a duck in his final Test, and after 188 innings his final average was an impressive 42, although Bradman's, of course, was a remarkable 99.4.

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Tamim looked as though he was going to score a Test century before the lunch interval, becoming only the fifth batsman to do so, after Australians Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney and Don Bradman, and Pakistan's Majid Khan.

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