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Tendulkar GQ Interview

New Delhi, Jun 2 (PTI) Sachin Tendulkar, who had taken up the cudgels against criticism of senior players last year, has said that he hardly pays heed to criticism. “People will have opinions but that doesn’t mean they are correct.

They are only opinions and I have bigger things to deal with. Guys that have all the time in the world to discuss these things, discuss them.

I don’t,” Tendulkar told men’s fashion magazine ‘GQ’. Last year, Tendulkar had defended his senior teammates who were under attack during India’s home series against Australia.

Tendulkar said the senior players had made major contributions, which needed to be acknowledged and appreciated. Dwelling on his own career, Tendulkar said he had moments when he could have “got carried away” but hard work and resolve helped him reach the pinnacle of success.

“Given the things that have happened in my life it would have been easy to get carried away,” Tendulkar said. “There were times when I felt that, yeah, I should bunk practice and spend time with my friends and go out for a movie.

But my coach would turn up and make me sit on his bike and take me all the way to practice,” he recalled. Tendulkar, who holds umpteen cricketing records said success did not come automatically to him.

“I have made an effort. It doesn’t happen automatically,” he said.

Twenty20 cricket’s rising popularity notwithstanding, Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar feels the format should never be allowed to grow at the expense of Test cricket, which “requires more skills”.

“I don’t think that one should make that compromise (of Twenty20 spreading at the cost of Test cricket),” Tendulkar told the latest issue of ‘GQ’ magazine.

“Test cricket definitely requires more skills. In a Twenty20 match, if somebody has batted well for 45 minutes, he has done brilliantly. But that doesn’t happen in Test cricket, where you have to bat well for a couple of sessions (about four hours),” he added.

Tendulkar feels bowlers don’t concede an inch in Test cricket but would be more than happy to give away singles in Twenty20 as they know only big hits can work to a team’s advantage in the shortest format.

“In Twenty20 cricket, a bowler is happy giving you singles. In Test cricket, they are trying to get you out all the time,” explained the man who has played just one Twenty20 match for the national team.

The veteran right-hander said the current Indian team is a fabulous one and a unit that everyone would want to captain.

“I don’t think there is anybody in the Indian team who wouldn’t want to captain such a fantastic side. Not because they want to grab it or whatever, but because … It is a fabulous team,” he said.

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