Aussie media bows to Tendulkar’s masterpiece

MELBOURNE, DEC 29: In a country where Don Bradman is held next only to God, Sachin Tendulkar was on Wednesday being equated to the Austral...

MELBOURNE, DEC 29: In a country where Don Bradman is held next only to God, Sachin Tendulkar was on Wednesday being equated to the Australian batting legend. “It was clear now what Bradman had meant when he said Tendulkar was the batsman who reminded him most of himself,” The Age columnist Greg Baum, wrote about Tendulkar’s masterly knock of 116 in the second Test at the MCG yesterday.

There is little doubt that Sir Donald, the Indian skipper’s most famous admirer would have watched the innings on television at the Kensington Park house in Adelaide, wrote another columnist.

The lyrical encomium in The Age led the rich praise lavished today by the Australian media in describing the Indian batting genius’ superb knock.

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“…That was his 22nd century, his fifth against Australia but really, it didn’t matter, for in the face of such beauty, numbers hardly matter.

“…For a rare hour, Australia was the subservient team,” Baum further wrote.

All newspapers equated Tendulkar to Bradman, focussing inparticular on his domination over leg-spinner Shane Warne and new pace sensation Brett Lee, who otherwise ripped through the Indian innings to finish with 5 for 47.

“The MCG does not keep hour-by-hour crowd statistics, but soon there came reports of crowds flocking to Yarra Park as they once did here when the word went around town Bradman is in. There was energy and magic in the ground. Soon he began to rough out what became a masterpiece,” Baum added.

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The Herald Sun wrote: “Again he mastered Shane Warne and again he frustrated Australia as it pushed to enforce the follow on. It was a stunning performance.”

In The Age, Peter Roebuck said, “Tendulkar stood firm like St Pauls cathedral in the blitz. Any fool can score runs against tame bowling. Anyone can impress in easy circumstances. Like a true champion, Tendulkar rises in the tightest corners."

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