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Originally Posted by Ste
India - The incredibly popular old guard are all on the verge of retiring. The country will probably go into mourning when Sachin hangs up his bat. Noone new is coming through who will ever be as popular as Dravid, Laxman, Ganguly and Tendulkar.
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this isn't true, the youth components of their team has generated far more excitement than any player since sehwag, and if the team continues delivering success i don't see why dhoni won't be as "popular" as all the names, if not more, bar tendulkar of course but tendulkar is an exception to everything in cricket.
oh, gambhir is also another young top quality (from what we've seen so far, at least) batsman to come out as well.
as far as the original debate goes, cricket's administrators (icc) are imbeciles and that's the main reason for everything going downhill. i'd agree that 20/20 isn't 'really cricket', but it soon will be (10 years tops).