da bwin： It is something the world has known all these years
Staff Reporter14-Sep-2001It is something the world has known all these years. The Board ofControl for Cricket in India (BCCI) and its inimitable secretaryJaywant Lele though still feel that it needs to be tabled during theBoard’s 72nd Annual General Meeting in Chennai on September 29.We are talking about what we shall hence call the ‘Lele findings’ onSachin Tendulkar, resulting purely from the industrious researchundertaken by the man after whom the findings have been so named.”The sky is the limit for the 28-year-old master batsman who hasalready collected 25 Test centuries and 29 one-day internationalhundreds by June 30, 2001. He has been the most consistent run-getterin both forms of the game and is already a demi-god in the Indianpantheon,” the BCCI secretary observes.After noting that Tendulkar wrote his name “in golden letters inrecord books” by becoming the first batsman to cross the 10,000-runmark in one-dayers, Lele goes on to add, “Having taken his 100thwicket in one-dayers in the course of the series against Australia,Tendulkar gets into a select list of one-day batting all-rounders likeViv Richards.”Sachin was the only current player to be included in Don Bradman’sDream Team that was released after his death, a great honour indeed toan Indian cricketer.”The Press Trust of India which carried excerpts of the ‘findings’ adds that Lele “also praises captain Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Shiv SundarDas, Harbhajan Singh and a few others for their performances fromApril 2000 to March 2001.”What all these profound observations prove is that even with a stylusin hand, Lele can still be Lele. Here then is to certainties…