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Tendulkar casts a spell on Daniel Radcliffe

London: It was the boy wizard meeting the batting wizard as Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter on screen, queued for an autograph of Sachin Tendulkar at the end of India’s drawn cricket Test match against England.

Since the seventh and final volume of the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” hit the stands, the whole world seems under the grip of a “Pottermania” but Potter himself seemed a great fan of the Indian batting maestro as he turned up on the final day of the Lord’s Test match.

Michael Vaughan’s men, however, could not gift Daniel, who turned 18 on Monday, a birthday gift in the form of an England victory as rain denied the hosts a win that was just one wicket away.

Himself target of autograph hunters worldwide, the actor admitted he queued with other fans to get signatures from Tendulkar and also Andrew Strauss.

Interestingly, Daniel had recently spoken about a nightmare where he found himself stalked by the English opener. “I was telling people in a recent interview that I had a dream that Andrew Strauss was chasing me with a cricket bat. It was during the West Indies series when Andrew wasn’t doing too well and an Australian who was listening in piped up and said ‘I wouldn’t worry about Strauss, if he had a swing at you at the moment he’d probably miss.”’ — PTI

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