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Tendulkar is the best, says Lee

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Melbourne: Australian pace ace Brett Lee rates Sachin Tendulkar as the best batsman in world cricket today. “As a bowler, you measure how good you are by bowling at a batsman like Sachin,” he said on Saturday.

Though he might have taken Tendulkar’s wicket on a regular basis during the present tour, Lee said he had a lot of respect for the master batsman.

While rating Tendulkar as the best, Lee said he had not bowled to Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist at the international level.

The fast bowler said Australia had the momentum going into Sunday’s match at the MCG. He felt the bowlers and the batsmen were doing their job. “The team is performing collectively,” he said.

Lee refused to be drawn into a controversy about the Australian players’ participation in the Indian Premier League. “It will be good for the players of all countries if it happens. I am sure Cricket Australia, the BCCI, and the Australian Cricketers Association will find a solution,” he said.

Better prepared

Virender Sehwag said the Indians were better prepared in terms of practice for Sunday’s contest. “Not many teams have beaten Australia in a Test and we have done that on this tour. We are capable of beating Australia in the ODIs. They are the world champions and we will give it our best shot,” he said.

He was non-committal about India playing more than one spinner in the game.

Sehwag said he had followed Australia’s domestic cricket at the MCG on television and felt there were a lot of runs in the surface even if scoring boundaries could be hard due to the size of the ground.

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