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These are career avgs of few batting legends from sachin era

Jayasuriya - 32

De silva - 34

Anwar - 39

Steve waugh - 33

Mark waugh - 39

Gibbs - 36

Dilshan - 39

Inzimam - 39

Sangakkara also 38 avg in ball 1 era

As you see, so many legendary batters in sachin era had career batting avg around 34—39 and still they were considered legends of Odi with such averages which proves how much difficult Sachin era was for batting.

Also Eng and Nz were very ordinary Odi teams in Sachin era, it's like judging a batter on his performances vs Pak, Sl and Wi in mid 2010s — current era who are very mediocre Odi teams

So Sachin averaging 37—38 in SENA was very good for that era given so many batting legends in that era had their career batting averages in mid 30s.

Sachin era was very very tough for batting unlike the current road era since 2 new ball which has become very easy for batting and it's very easy to have high 45+ averages. Someone like Babar Azam is having 50+ avg in SENA in current era shows how easy batting has become now.