Thursday, January 17, 2008

Taylor on sachin

taylor spoke about sachin yesterday.Sachin's 148 at Sydney was a bit of a warning. I saw Sachin and Sanjay Manjrekar at Lismore in the lead-up to first Test and we knew they had a couple of good youngsters. We knew Sachin had made a hundred in a Test match already, against England, and we thought this kid must be pretty special. And when he got a hundred at the SCG, we all thought this guy is a good player and his technique was compact. Sachin was only 19, but he was beyond his years. He came over with this reputation of a schoolboy wunderkind who'd scored a triple century at school, and who played for Bombay when he was 15. That Sydney innings confirmed his status. But we thought the extra pace and extra bounce would sort him out. You could expect an Indian player to make a century at the SCG where it's slower and lower, but at the WACA it takes a special player to pick up the bounce and pace of the wicket in such a short time and Sachin was able to do that.

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