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Thursday, Apr 29, 2004

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Tendulkar's priceless possession

NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar may have received numerous accolades and awards from the day he started wielding his bat, but the ``priceless'' possession of them all is a card his daughter Sara made for him on his 31st birthday.

``Well, just this morning, I received a very, very special gift. I was still in bed. I think it was 7.10 in the morning. My daughter came to the room and started jumping on top of me. She said, `Papa, I've got a gift for you.' I asked, `what is it?' She had made this card for me which I think is the most precious gift.

``This is something that will always be with me. I think it's a very, very special card. She mentioned `this is Baba, this is Mamma, Arjun and Sara.' So that's very special. It's priceless,'' he told ESPN-STAR Sports, which spent Tendulkar's birthday with him and his family at their Bandra residence in Mumbai.

``I think she (Sara) is very good and very well disciplined and all credit goes to my wife. She's the one who's brought them up. She (Sara) is a good girl and I don't need to be strict with her.

"She realises how she has to behave and the upbringing is so important and whatever my parents taught me I want to pass on the same,'' Tendulkar said.

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