da imperador bet： Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar who scored his 29th one-dayerton today, said as a batsman he would like to carry on the good work
05-Jul-2001Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar who scored his 29th one-dayerton today, said as a batsman he would like to carry on the good work.”I’d like to go on and on. It was good to score the 29th hundred butI’d like to score more runs,” Tendulkar said after winning the man-ofthe-match award for the third time in four matches in the tournament.Tendulkar’s 122 not out was the best by an Indian against West Indiesin one-day internationals eclipsing Navjot Singh Sidhu’s 114 at Vizagin 1994-95.”We have won four and now we should make it five,” he said lookingahead to Saturday’s final.Skipper Saurav Ganguly continued to lavish praise on the performanceof the bowlers on this tour but said the batsmen could have done alittle better.”They (bowlers) have done a fantastic job. It was a good effort torestrict them to 229 on a good batting wicket,” he said. Looking aheadto the final, Ganguly said “We hope to fire on all cylinders”.West Indies captain Carl Hooper said half the battle was lost with histeam’s lacklustre batting display that left them without enough todefend.”It would have been difficult even to defend 250,” he said. “We bowledpoorly,” He said the team badly missed Carmeron Cuffy who sat out witha neck injury. “We hope both Cuffy and Collymore would be fit for thefinal and to lift ourselves and give it (the final) a big shot. That’sthe one that really counts,” he said.