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SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION
Tendulkar targets 15,000 Test runs
August 15,
2009
Sachin Tendulkar has said he is not satisfied with his achievements and hopes to accumulate 15,000 runs and win the World Cup in
2011.
"I am not pleased yet with what I have done," Tendulkar, who has scored a record 12773 Test runs at an average of 54.58 from 159
matches, said in an interview with the Wisden Cricketer. "Sunil Gavaskar has
told me that I have to get to 15,000 runs. He said he would be angry with me
and would come and catch me if I didn't. I admire him so much and to score that
many would be a terrific achievement, but that is not the only aim." His other big
cricketing ambition is to "win the World Cup in 2011".
Tendulkar, 36, also spoke about how he has been consistently playing
with pain. "I always play in pain, all the time. I played with a broken finger for
the last three months, but you know when pain is manageable or not, and most
of the time I can do it," he said. "I can still do what I did when I was 25 but the
body is changing, so your thought process has to change too. I have had to
change how I think, which is about taking less risk."
Don Bradman had said Tendulkar reminded him of himself and the Indian
batsman was the only modern player in Bradman's all-time XI. Does Tendulkar
think the same way about anyone? "I would say Virender Sehwag comes closest
to my style."
Tendulkar said he was not thinking about retirement yet but he would know
when to quit cricket. "I will know when it is the right time, I won't have to be
dragged away. I am the person who will make the decision and I will know
whether I still belong."
He admitted life after cricket wouldn't be easy. "It's a scary thought. It has been
there for my whole adult life, it will be difficult, I have been around for a long
time, I can imagine when I finish I will long to face just 10 more balls but you
have to move."
Lets see , about Sachin’s Target , what Harsha Bhogle has to say
Meanwhile Sachin Tendulkar, as clean a cricketer as any you will meet, has come
public with the targets in his mind. I am intrigued because that is one thing he has
never done in all these years. Yes, winning the World Cup is an ambition that
everyone harbours and Tendulkar has made no secret of the fact that he yearns
for it, but the fact that he has announced this target of fifteen thousand test runs
is unlike him. He needs another 2227 runs to get there and even if he can retain
an average of 50, it means another 45 innings.
Over a long career he has averaged 1.64 innings per test so it would be pretty safe
to work with 27 tests as the number he needs to play. I see two things coming in
the way. First, his body needs to hold for that long and he has to maintain the
resolve to go through more sets of rehab, something that gets increasingly
difficult. Second, more critically, the BCCI needs to schedule 27 tests quickly
enough. My suspicion is that we are looking at a minimum of three years; three
injury free, good form years. It is a daunting target and one that I will be
overjoyed to see surpassed.
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