Originally Posted by steveaustin
For both of your questions, my answer is certainly a big 'NO'.
He is definitely not a man of crisis. When it comes to crisis, in my memory, no one is nearer to the legend KAPIL DEV.
For your second question, in the current generation of players, Rahul Dravid is the only person can face the likes of Holding, Marshal, Roberts, Lilee, Thomson.
But definitely, Sachin can face the likes of Chatfield, Bruce Reid, Michael Witney, Derek Pringle, Winston Benjamin, Labrooy, Ravi Ratnayake and few other good bowlers but not the great bowlers that you have mentioned.
Rest of the Present Indian cricket team cannot survive even the second line good bowlers that I have mentioned above.
Had Gavaskar played today, I think most probably he will be dismissed after every 10 or 15 tests and I think there won't be any different in runscoring speed.
Geoffrey Boycott will be dismissed after every 25 tests and run scroing speed will remain same.