Tendulkar thrilled

NEW DELHI, AUG. 14. A thrilled Sachin Tendulkar today described his inclusion in the `Dream team' of cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman as the ``greatest thing to happen.''

``It is a great honour. The greatest thing to happen. It is important when Sir Don speaks anything and especially when he selects me in his team, there cannot be a better thing than that,'' a beaming Tendulkar said in his first reaction after receiving the news of his inclusion in the team envisioned by Bradman.

In an interview to STAR News, the batting maestro said, ``I am very thrilled about it and very excited. There are some great names missing and to see my name in it, I am more than thrilled.

``After Sir Don bats and before Sir Gary Sobers. What else can you ask for. All I can say is that it's a great honour.''

Tendulkar is the only cricketer still playing and the only one from the Indian sub-continent who has been able to find a place in Bradman's World XI - the all-time ideal team to beat the rest, according to a book, Bradman's Best, chronicled by Roland Perry.

Tendulkar is expected to be fit for India's tour of South Africa, starting October 1, the doctor, who is treating the maestro's foot injury, said today.

``He (Sachin) should recover from his foot injury by the end of September. I am hopeful that he will be ready to go to South Africa,'' Dr. Anant Joshi said.

``We will take another CT scan after three to four weeks to see how the healing is progressing,'' Dr. Joshi said, adding they would also work on protected footwear so that when he gets back there were no chances of his again getting injured.

Normally any injury of a lower limb takes four to six weeks to join or gum up and another four to six weeks to really consolidate and become strong enough to take pressure, Dr. Joshi said while describing Tendulkar's injury as `fracture of great toe of the right foot.'

However, he said in case of players like Tendulkar, who are optimistic, the recovery was fast.

- PTI

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