Tendulkar will be retiring from international cricket at the end of his 200th Test, which is currently being played in his home city of Mumbai against the West Indies. Paying tribute to the 40-year-old, who has been an international cricketer for 24 years, Clarke said he can’t really believe that the Indian veteran has grown old.
‘It is going to be strange looking at an Indian Test side without the name Sachin Tendulkar sitting proudly in the middle order. He has been the greatest constant in world cricket for a generation,’Clarke wrote in a his column for ‘Daily Telegraph’.
‘I was still at primary school when he began his Test career and later scored two centuries on his first tour of Australia as an 18-year-old. I played my first Test series against him almost a decade ago and through my whole career have never really thought about him as an ageing player. I can’t believe he is 40,’ he said.