Why Sachin must surpass Lara in Bangalore
Posted on Oct 06, 2008 at 20:22 | Updated Oct 07, 2008 at 12:07
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Mumbai: Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants to ensure Sachin Tendulkar does not break Brian Lara's world record of highest Test runs against his team and he would do everything possible to prevent him from reaching the milestone.
However, Tendulkar is determined to achieve this feat in the first Test in Bangalore itself, according to the sources close to the master batsman.
"He will score those 77 required runs and more to be on the top of the world in the first Test itself to put additional pressure on Ponting's side. He could dedicate the world record to either late BCCI official Anthony de Mello, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan or statistician Mohandas Menon," the source said.
Interestingly, all these three personalities were born on October 11. De Mello was a pioneer for cricket in India as a founder member of the BCCI. He was also the BCCI president (1946-47 to 1950-51).
Tendulkar is also a great fan of Amitabh Bachchan and would be eager to break the record on October 11 as a birthday present.
He is also not likely to forget statistician Mohandas Menon on this day. Menon has been preserving all of Tendulkar's records carefully. It was Menon who sent Tendulkar's then world record partnership (with Vinod Kambli) to Wisden.
If he does it on October 12 then it's surely going to be exclusively for his daughter Sara as a birthday gift. Earlier, Tendulkar had dedicated his knocks to Sir Don Bradman, his brother Ajit and wife Anjali, while now it may be time for his daughter or the above three.
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Posted By Fernando_torres
Rahul Dravid said he expected Sachin to break Lara\''s record in the first day of the first test against Sri
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Posted By sivaji
sachin will break the lara\''s record in indians first innings it\''s true and it\''s important one in indians... congratulation sachin
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Posted By V.S. Amarnath Sury
Wishing Sachin the best of luck to become numero uno batsman of Test Cricket in the world in the first
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Posted By SK
Defeenetly dude.....Master is there to do that...but he should be carefull this time as Aus is always tries new stratergys
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Posted By Santosh
Definetly dude Master is there to do that.....but need to wait for it as you know Aus will always tried
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