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
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.”