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Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar’s troublesome hamstring is no hindrance to his sixth World Cup participation
Sachin Tendulkar, who returned home from South Africa after the first one-day international in Durban is well and all set to play his sixth World Cup.
Sources close to the batting master told MiD DAY last evening that the hamstring injury sustained in South Africa is not so serious to put question marks of him being totally fit for the cricket’s showpiece event which will kick off on February 19.
“It was just a strain and nothing more than that. The team physio reckoned it would only take a few days to set right and his non-participation in the remainder of the series was just a precautionary measure,” the source said.
The BCCI has not provided any update on Tendulkar’s injury apart from a press release on January 16 which said: “Sachin Tendulkar will not take further part in the ongoing ODI series against South Africa due to a hamstring injury. Parthiv Patel is being flown to South Africa as his replacement.”
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