Tendulkar, who is test cricket's leading run-scorer with 14,509 in 175 matches, and the most prolific century-maker, had hit 13 fours, mostly through the off-side with classical strokes, and a six hammered straight back over left-arm spinner Paul Harris's head.
“Bradman, I believe, would have been proud to play today’s game as well as Tendulkar does, just as Tendulkar, like all of us, holds Bradman in awe. Let us just say that Tendulkar is the Bradman of today — less hypnotic but scarcely less phenomenal — and leave it at that,” Woodcock said.
“There is every chance that Tendulkar will make his 50th Test hundred this week, against New Zealand, in itself an amazing achievement. But if Bradman had played the same number of Test innings (Tendulkar has played 280 to Bradman’s 80), he would have finished with something like 100 hundred, given the rate at which he scored them,” the veteran columnist wrote.
Woodcock said physically, Tendulkar is the shorter and stockier of the two and with the sub-continent being the breeding ground of the world’s most natural batsmen, there could be a few more talented cricketers from that region in the future.
Some Important Records Sachin Holds
statistics of Tendulkar:
* He is the only batsman to aggregate 1,000 runs or more in a calendar year six times.
* His tally of 96 international hundreds, including 46 hundreds is a record.
* Apart from his record centuries in Tests as well as ODIs, his run-aggregate in both formats are world records - Tests - 14,508 (ave.56.89) in 175 Tests.
* Highest run-aggregate in ODIs - 17,598 in 442 ODIs at an average of 45.12.
* He has appeared in 175 Tests - the most played by any batsman.
* Most runs away from home - 7,961 (ave.56.86) in 96 Tests.
* Most centuries away from home - 28.
* The only player to appear in 600 international games - 618.
* The only player to post 20 innings of 150-plus.
* Holds an Indian record for top-scoring 47 times in a completed Indian innings.
