‘Money never a motivation to play the game’

“Right from the start, all I wanted was to play well and score as many runs as possible. That has been my motivation, not money,” Tendulkar said in an interview to CNN-Lokmat .

He also felt that IPL and Twenty20 cricket will be a huge boost for spreading the game to more audiences in other parts of the world. “There have been many changes in the game in the last 18-20 years. Twenty20 cricket is making the game like baseball and football. Crowds know the game will be over in three hours. This will help globalise cricket.”

Nearly two decades of cricket may have taken a toll on Sachin Tendulkar’s body, but the master batsman hopes to play in the 2011 World Cup and wants to realise his “unfulfilled dream” of winning the coveted trophy for the country.

“Winning the World Cup is certainly still an unfulfilled dream and I would love to play in it. But 2011 is still some way to go, and I don’t want to look that far and commit myself to anything,” said Tendulkar, who will appear for a record sixth time if he plays in the mega event to be co-hosted by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

WI win 2nd Test, Gayle fined

Port-of-Spain: West Indies captain Chris Gayle was fined 70 per cent of his match fee for failing to meet the minimum rate of overs in the second Test against Sri Lanka that they won by six wickets to square the two-match series. Each player was also fined 35 per cent of their match fees for the same offence.

Match referee Chris Broad ruled West Indies bowled six overs short, breaching the code of conduct. Ramnaresh Sarwan stroked a fluent 102 and Shivnarine Chanderpaul added an unbeaten 86. Vice-captain Sarwan and Chanderpaul added a record 157 for the fourth wicket to spur the home team to 254 for four on the fourth day.

Sarwan’s 10th Test century was decorated with 15 boundaries and spanned 172 deliveries .

Brief scores: Sri Lanka 278 & 268 lost to West Indies 294 & 254 for 4 (R Sarwan 102, S Chanderpaul 86 not out; C Vaas 2/52).