Five players who can try to replace Sachin Tendulkar in Tests

Subramaniam Badrinath

This may exactly be the right choice for Sachin’s spot in the Test team, though at 33, the veteran Tamil Nadu batsman might have only a few years of cricket left in him.

Since the mid-2000s, Badri has hardly made a wrong move. In domestic cricket, he is Goliath incarnate, wielding his bat like a submachine gun as he blasts away at the opposition bowlers. And when the situation is dire, he slips into the role of a predator, watchful and precise in his movements.

Consistent performances have gone unnoticed by the selectors many times, and only on the 2011 West Indies tour did he break into the ODI side. Just two Test matches – in the first, he was pitchforked into the side due to injuries to other members – do not define the calibre this man possesses.

If experience is all that is mandatory, then Badri is the ideal candidate to play at No.4.