Legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar believes that he is "madly in love" with the game and that has helped him to play for more than two decades.
Tendulkar when asked about the pressure and the injuries that are associated with the game was quoted by The Times of India saying, “I can answer from a cricketer's point of view. You have got to be madly in love with cricket. Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that."
Sachin also explained the reason why he opted out of the one-day series against Sri Lanka, he said, “I requested BCCI that I wanted to spend time with my family. This is the time for school holidays. If I had decided to go to Sri Lanka, I would have started my preparation by now. But I wanted to spend some quality time with my children since after this I would be playing continuously for next 10 months.”
Meanwhile, a report in The Hindustan Times that ICC will send a delegation to India to show the research on ball-tracking by Dr Ed Rosten, an expert in computer vision technology. BCCI recently objected the use of DRS to be made mandatory at the executive board meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
Edward said, "ICC had got some independent research done on the accuracy and all those issues. Now unfortunately they didn't present that information to the board.”
He added, “India are willing to look at it, but they're skeptical, and others are too - it's not just India. I think it is part of the game for the future, but it's a good time to review. Unfortunately if that presentation, or whatever it is they had, had been presented to the board it might have changed things.”
Meanwhile, veteran South African wicket-keeper Mark Boucher has announced retirement from international cricket following an eye injury. Boucher got injured while keeping wickets against Somerset when a flying bail hit him in the eye, says a report in The Telegraph.