By CricketCountry Staff
Former Australian cricketer Ian Chappell said Sachin Tendulkar tends to get bogged down by pressure as he approaches his ton.
Published: Jan 08, 2012, 02:50 PM (IST)
Edited: Jan 08, 2012, 02:50 PM (IST)
Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed on 80 during India’s second innings against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday © Getty Images
By CricketCountry Staff
Sydney: Jan 8, 2012
Former Australian cricketer Ian Chappell, said, Sachin Tendulkar tends to get bogged down by pressure as he approaches his ton.
Tendulkar was dismissed on 80 during India’s second innings against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.
The dismissal triggered a collapse of wickets to deliver Australia a crushing innings and 68-run victory inside four days in the 100th Sydney Test, after they won the four-match series’ opening Test in Melbourne by 122 runs.
The 38-year-old scored his 99th at the World Cup in March and after a lean summer in England he has been getting closer and closer.
“Tendulkar tends to go “from fifth gear to first” as he approaches an interval in play or a century,” Chappell was quoted saying in the Independent.
Even commentator Mark Nicholas had a go at the master-blaster.
“He reminds me of a golfer who gets older and forgets how to putt. It’s like a fear of failure.”
