Tendulkar and Lara to play T20 in India
Marsh breaks hand
MUMBAI, Oct 15, (RTRS): Batting greats and Brian Lara are among former cricketers who will return to the field for the Road Safety World Series in India next year.
The World Series will be an annual Twenty20 tournament played between retired cricketers from five countries – Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and India.
Indian Tendulkar and West Indian Lara will be joined by former players including India’s Virender Sehwag, Australian Brett Lee, Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan and South Africa’s Jonty Rhodes for the tournament from Feb 2-16 across India.
Tendulkar, 46, is the world’s leading scorer in Tests and one-day internationals, amassing more than 34,000 runs and 100 centuries in a 24-year career that ended in 2013.
In 2008, Tendulkar surpassed Lara’s record for most Test runs with the West Indies left-hander having made 11,953 in the longest format of the game before retiring from international cricket in 2007.
Lara holds the record for the highest individual Test score, his 400 not out against England in Antigua in 2004.
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Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh broke his hand punching a dressing-room wall in frustration during a Sheffield Shield match and could be out of action for six weeks.
Western Australia captain Marsh took his anger out on the wall after he was dismissed for 53 on the final day of his team’s drawn game against Tasmania on Sunday.
Scans confirmed the 27-year-old had fractured his right hand and he faces a race to be fit for the first Test of Australia’s two-match series against Pakistan starting on Nov 21. “It certainly will be an isolated incident... it won’t be happening again. It’s a good lesson for me, hopefully it’s a good lesson for other people as well,” Marsh told reporters.
“At the end of the day it’s a game of cricket. Sometimes you get beaten, you get out, and you can’t be punching walls. As a captain, I’ve done a lot of work in setting a good example on and off the field over the last 18 months since I took over. This is a small hiccup for me.”