Let Tendulkar decide about his retirement, urges Viv Richards – Cricket News Update
Sir Vivian Richards, the legendary http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 and expressed that no one is qualified enough to advise the batting-maestro about his retirement from the game.
The former Indian skipper is considered to be one of the best batsmen of the history of the game, with some of the sporting analysts comparing him with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, has more than 34 thousand runs at the ultimate level of the sport under his belt, with the help of 100 international centuries. He is matchless when it comes to stats, having surpassed almost all the major batting records.
The little-master however, has not been at the peak of his game over the last 18 months, having failed to register a single Test century since January 2011. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 announced their retirement from the game earlier this year.
There is an ever-increasing pressure on the great man as well but Richards feels that Tendulkar, being one of the greatest players of the history of the game, should have the right to choose the time when he wants to call it a day from the global level.
The former West Indies captain believes that quitting international cricket is not an easy decision for a player.
“Nobody is qualified enough to tell him when they think he should go,” said the legendary cricketer. “When you're retired, you're retired for a very, very long time. It's like being dead to some degree, so while you're alive and still up for it and still enjoying what you're doing, to me that's what it's all about.”
While talking about his own exit from the game in the early 1990s, Richards expressed, “I wanted to go out with a bang. To have gone to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Glamorgan-c784 at that time and to have helped to generate that spirit about what collective competition is all about and having success at the very end of it, it was a proper send-off.”
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