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I worry about runs, not contracts – Sachin
Even as quite a few players have sounded the impending
death-knell of Test cricket in the wake of the huge popularity
of Twenty20 , Sachin Tendulkar , one of the game's icons, has
said he does not fear for the health of the game's most
traditional form.
The master batsman likened Test cricket as the main
course in a meal and Twenty20 as its dessert and told
Wisden Cricketer magazine in an
interview that one cannot survive
on just the latter part of a meal.
Sachin Tendulkar "There is no way
Test cricket is dying. Twenty20 cricket
is the dessert and you can't survive
on that. Who wants to eat only
desserts? Test cricket is my main
course, with all the meat and
vegetables, and then it is nice to have
Twenty20 as a dessert," Tendulkar
said.
The master batsman, who has
earned crores in endorsement
deals over several years, said he
worries about the runs he would
get and not about signing of
lucrative contracts.
"I started playing cricket at six with a
tennis ball not because I wanted to be a millionaire but
because I loved cricket. Maybe in 10 years or even now
people will pick up cricket bats thinking only about the huge
money in Twenty20 cricket.
"Money should just be coincidental. The passion and the
desire are the most important thing. I worry about runs, not
contracts," he told the magazine.
August 15,
2009
Tendulkar also revealed that he had decided not to play
Twenty20 internationals in order to prolong his Test
and one-day career.
"I felt as though I would have been a loose link in the team, I
couldn't do that to them. I was not sure I would last, there
was something missing. If my body wasn't strong enough to
last through the tournament then I couldn't play," he said.
Tendulkar said the secret to his
batting lies in keeping the mind
clutter-free and his best efforts had
come when his mind thought of the
present and not of the future, which
was not an easy thing to do.
"The toughest thing is to clear your mind.
The mind always wants to be in the past or
the future, it rarely wants to be in the
present. My best batting comes when my
mind is in the present but it doesn't
happen naturally, you have to take
yourself there.
"I am not able to get in that zone as often
as I would like but, when you are there,
you don't see anything except the bowler
and the ball."
As he grows older, Tendulkar feels, he
has realised the importance of good
breathing and relaxing while batting.
"You have to allow your instincts to take over, trust me, your
instincts are 99 per cent right but, you know, the older I get
the more I realise how important your breathing is to good
batting. By that I mean, if you focus on breathing and
relaxing, you can force yourself into a comfortable place to
bat," he declared.
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