India’s World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev said that "human race would fall behind" if Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 international centuries record, says a report in The Indian Express.
Kapil Dev gave the example of legendary Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar saying that nobody thought that his record of 34Test hundred will be broken, but Sachin did that, Kapil Said, “But it happened, it's happening and it will happen for sure. Records are meant to be broken. Sachin has achieved such a big milestone, if nobody breaks it then the human race will fall behind. We are waiting for the day when somebody will come and break Sachin's record.”
Kapil added, “Sachin has played brilliantly throughout the career and has accumulated huge records but his records will also be broken one day because this is cricket.”
In a report in The Times of India, Dev was quoted saying, “During the end of my cricket career there was a lot of hype regarding two young talents: one was Sachin Tendulkar and the other one was Vinod Kambli. Both of them were very talented. But now look where Sachin has reached. Kambli couldn't make it big because of his lack of discipline.”
“Kambli did not have the roadmap for himself as to what he wanted to achieve. Sometimes, you have the talent but if you don't understand yourself, you can't become Sachin Tendulkar. You have to have a role model. But that is not the end as you have to go beyond your role models,” said Kapil.