{"id":9481,"date":"2007-09-07T15:40:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/tendulkar-dismisses-retirement-reports\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:22:17","slug":"tendulkar-dismisses-retirement-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/tendulkar-dismisses-retirement-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendulkar dismisses retirement reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u201cI want to play for as long as I can\u201d, says star<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"272\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SachinTendulkarOne-day.jpg\"\/>INDIAN batsman Sachin Tendulkar has denied reports he is set to retire from one-day cricket.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Reports had suggested the 34-year-old would call an end to his illustrious one-day career after the current series against England.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But the said the thought \u201chad not crossed his mind\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The thought of retirement has not crossed my mind,&#8221; Tendulkar told <em>PTI<\/em>. &#8220;I am still enjoying the game very much and want to play for as long as I can. Cricket means a lot to me.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking to the Times Newspaper, Tendulkar did admit one-day cricket was pushing the limits of his fitness.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I enjoy every moment I have on a cricket field, but the recovery times between games these days are difficult, especially for one-day internationals, and that&#8217;s my major obstacle,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It does take its toll on the body. When you are 22 or 23, you recover a lot more quickly. But at 34, it&#8217;s not so easy.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Tendulkar will return to Lords tomorrow aiming to beat England and take the one-day series 4-3. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His performances in both the Test and one-day series has been sublime. He narrowly missed three centuries scoring 99, 94 and 91. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI want to play for as long as I can\u201d, says star INDIAN batsman Sachin Tendulkar has denied reports he is set to retire from one-day cricket. &#13; Reports had suggested the 34-year-old would call an end to his illustrious one-day career after the current series against England. &#13; But the said the thought \u201chad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}