Hollies, an English leg-spinner was best known for having bowled Sir Don Bradman for a duck with a googly in latter's last ever Test match and Perth Scorchers coach Justin Langer is hoping that one among his spinners could pull off something similar when the Indian maestro comes out to bat.
"Well, I love watching Sachin bat and wish he never gets out. But tomorrow, I won't like him to score too many runs. Even at this age of 42 (40), he batted in the nets for two hours the other day. That was incredible," said Langer, who has played many times against Tendulkar, in Test matches in India and Down Under.
For Langer, "the toughest test for any Aussie cricketer is playing India in India."
"They have to face a trouble-maker like Harbhajan. Well, please don't make a controversy when I term Harbhajan as a trouble-maker. I mean he is a guy who would always like to have a competition or two with us over the years."
Not having a full strength side has been Scorchers' undoing during this season.
"We didn't have Marsh brothers -- Shaun and Mitch -- due to injury. We didn't have Pat Cummins while Nathan Coultier-Nile and Mitchell Johnson decided to play for Mumbai Indians. So we had a side that was very thin on experience. But that's no excuse. The first match was washed out due to heavy rains and we played poorly in the next two matches. If we hadn't dropped a couple of crucial catches, the matches could have swung in our favour."
"We packed our sides with four spinners and then found out that Jaipur track had a lot of pace and bounce. We didn't have Cummins and that became a factor," he concluded.
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