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am not yet ruled out of the 1st Test : Tendulkar |
September 29, 2004 (Mumbai):
Sachin Tendulkar is making sure that Australia
can't sleep easy. The 'Bombay Bomber' today
announced that he could play the first Test
which starts on October 6. Tendulkar however is
definitely not playing for Mumbai in the tour
game against the world champions that starts
tomorrow.
On his way to recovering from a tennis elbow
injury Sachin Tendulkar dropped by the nets to
wish his Bombay team good luck before their
three-day game with Australia which begins on
Thursday. The Bombay Bomber had some good news
for Indian cricket fans.
"It is much better. I've been consulting the
doctors concerned and I'm just going to do what
they ask me to do. And we've had a couple of
meetings where they found there has been
tremendous improvement," he said. "We've just
got to build it up gradually because I haven't
practiced for close to six weeks so there has
been a muscle loss so I need to build up a
little strength and take it up," Sachin added.
And the gradual strength building is exactly
what Sachin did at the nets. The Bombay Team
physiotherapist hit some balls to the batsman to
let him assess his arm and elbow strength.
Though it is too early for any decisions, Sachin
made it clear that he has not ruled himself out
of the first test.
"I'm not. I'm just waiting for the doctors to
give me a green signal and then let them know
how I feel and take it forward from there," he
said. Sachin has not played a single game since
the Asia Cup in July this year. The tennis elbow
injury kept him out of the Videocon Cup the
Natwest series and the Champions Trophy.
And though the batsman is itching to get out in
the middle again, he does not plan to take any
chances and rush his comeback. "It's never easy
but I don't have any option and I want to get
back to playing. But these kind of injuries are
such that it takes time to settle. And I'm just
consulting the doctors regularly. And whatever
they tell me I'm doing," he said.
Sachin Tendulkar has an excellent record against
the Australians. In fact, many of the Australian
team members have said that just not seeing the
name Sachin Tendulkar on the Indian batting line
up will be a psychological boost for them. But
Sachin is just concentrating on regaining his
strength to get fit in time for the first Test
on October 6 in Bangalore.
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