Cricket writer Gideon Haigh hails Sachin Tendulkar

Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar is on the verge of becoming first cricketer in the history of the game to score hundred hundreds © Getty Images

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By CricketCountry Staff

Melbourne: Dec 25, 2011

Renowned Australian cricket writer Gideon Haigh hailed Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar as a great player capable of ‘inventing’ a record.

Haigh wrote in The Australian, “Great players have a habit of setting records. Only very, very special ones actually invent them.

” Nobody dreamed of one hundred first-class centuries becoming a landmark until W. G. Grace made it conceivable.

“Likewise the milestone of one hundred international centuries- that is, until Sachin Tendulkar. As Tendulkar set to scaling that summit, it seemed to shrink a little in proportion. That’s another quality of the very, very special.”