Lara tips Ponting to surpass Tendulkar
Posted on Oct 22, 2008 at 11:55 | Updated Oct 22, 2008 at 15:30
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Melbourne: Former West Indies skipper Brian Lara, whose Test aggregate (runs) was surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar at Mohali last week, has tipped Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting to eventually take the Test run-scoring record from the Indian batting maestro.
Tendulkar overtook Lara's record of 11,953 runs during the first day of the second Test match against Australia on Friday to which Lara said he was proud of passing on the mantle to the little master, who he said had been outstanding for so many years.
"I feel that Ponting still has a few years of Test cricket left in him and could play 30 or 40 Tests matches more. He has already 10,000 Test runs under his belt. So it is one of those records that if you play long enough and you score runs consistently, you are capable of doing it," Lara has been quoted as saying in the Australian media.
Lara had passed another former Aussie skipper Allan Border's record in the Adelaide Test in 2005. Tendulkar is nearly two years older than Ponting and has 2000 runs lead over him, but still Lara expects Ponting to be the next man to top the Test tally.
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Posted By srprev
buddy Since australia is going to play some of their remaining series in their home soil and bouncy tracks..he will
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Posted By raghav_986
Surely.Ponting would surpass the Master blaster's record.Records are made to break.Sachin's record is no exception.Ponting is the only player in
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Posted By ballsballs
well i do agree tendulkar gets the credit for his achievement but to say pointing had it easy is a
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Posted By indianmuslim
Pls dont compare Pointing with Tendulkar or Lara, Pointing played for australia in one of its glorious period where everybody
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Posted By mokkil
Ponting will have to score at the rate of 100 runs per test. Quite a difficult task. He has been
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