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wiz compliment “Tendulkar has no weak area where you can bowl to,” says Muralitharan, “but human beings make mistakes and we sometimes hope he does that too.”
a great friend, teammate and someone Sachin
one of the best. He will always be the champion he
One-Day Internationals and set the trend that would
the adulation he is getting; it’s the right send-off for
played under. Ganguly and Tendulkar together
changed the dynamism of batting for openers in later be matched, if not bettered, by the likes of
Hayden and Adam Gilchrist or Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.
“For me it doesn’t matter whether he gets
a hundred or not in his final Test; he will still be
is. He has made the right decision, going out on a high at his home ground. He deserves every bit of a champion. While he would have been celebrating in South Africa, all of this that has happened in Kolkata and that will happen in Mumbai
wouldn’t have happened. I am happy he is going on ‡ his own terms.”
ISSUE 4, NOVEMBER 2013