Don Bradman is not the only one who is deprived of four runs but our own master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was also deprived of exactly the same number of runs.
In the 1988 Harris Shield match when Tendulkar and Kambli created a world record partnership, the little master’s individual tally was deducted by four runs because of flawed scoring
MUMBAI: Don Bradman is not the only one who is deprived of four runs but our own master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was also deprived of exactly the same number of runs during his world record partnership with Vinod Kambli, according to Sachin’s close friend and BCCI umpire Marcus Couto.
“I and Mohandas Menon, the cricket statistician for sure deducted runs from Sachin’s school score in the world record partnership because the original score card was not tallying with the total score,” Marcus Couto said. However, the only difference is that while the four runs affected Don Bradman’s batting average reaching the magical figure of 100, in Sachin’s case, it may not have any significant bearing.
In February 1988, Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli went berserk in the semi-finals of the Harris Shield Tournament, an inter-school competition. The unbroken partnership of 664 runs was a world record in school cricket. Kambli scored 349 not out while Sachin’s contribution was 326 not out.
“We had to send the score-card to Wisden for the record to be included. We found out the mistake in the scoring. They were more then a dozen school boys who did the scoring and ultimately the score card needed to be tallied, Hence, hesitantly and sadly, we had to deduct four runs from Sachin’s score,” Marcus Couto added.
“Sachin smilingly says, ‘You had other options like the byes, leg byes, wides, no balls and so on, why did you deduct my hard earned runs?’,” Marcus informed of Sachin’s reaction to the decision.
On the same issue, Mohandas Menon said, “It is true that we had to deduct runs. I had checked the original scoresheet way back in 1988, and found that Sachin was wrongly credited with three extra runs. Therefore I had to reduce his score from 329 to 326.”
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