Kolkata: Sachin Tendulkar’s feat of 100 international centuries might seem impossible to scale, but former India skipper Kapil Dev today said the “human race would fall behind” if the record is not broken in the future.
Recalling Sunil Gavaskar’s “seemingly unconquerable” 34 Test centuries before that was eclipsed by Tendulkar, Kapil said, “In our time we used to think, can anybody ever go past Sunil Gavaskar?”
Addressing a gathering of students, Kapil said being talented is not enough and it’s important to plan one’s career.
Citing the example of Vinod Kambli, Kapil “When I was about to stop playing cricket, two players came into the limelight, one was Sachin Tendulkar and the other was Vinod Kambli. Media heralded them as the best to have played for the country.”
“Kambli did not have discipline. He did not have the roadmap for himself as to what he wanted to achieve. Sometimes, you have the talent but if you don’t understand yourself, you can’t become Sachin Tendulkar. You have to have a role model. But that is not the end as you have to go beyond your role models,” Kapil said.
He also urged parents to support their kids in their endeavours and hailed the partnership between the children and parents as an important one. (PTI )