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India needs Sachin for 2-3 years: Srikkanth

Sachin Tendulkar still has a lot of cricket left in him and India will need him for the next 2-3 years to guide the youngsters in the team which is “in the transitional phase”, chairman of selectors Krishnamachari Srikkanth said on Friday.

“He should play cricket for another 2-3 years. We need him as the team is going through a transition phase. He is a fantastic team man, very involved cricketer and we need him so that he is able to guide cricketers of future,” Srikkanth said after Tendulkar became the highest run getter in Test cricket.

The master batsman surpassed Brian Lara’s earlier record of 11953 runs in the second Test against Australia at PCA Ground.

Heaping praise on Tendulkar, Srikkanth said when youngsters make it to the team in near future “we would need somebody like Sachin to be there to guide them”.

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