Warne tweeted that he ‘was glad not to be bowling to his good friend Sachin’ while Miandad renewed his membership to the Tendulkar fan club.
Saeed Anwar had no regrets in losing his record to Tendulkar. ‘If any person deserved to do better than me, it was Tendulkar,’ he said. Tendulkar’s appeal had cut across not just national boundaries, but also across the sporting spectrum.
The star batsman was a ‘role model’ for Shoaib Malik as well as ‘an inspiration’ for Pakistan’s hockey legend Sohail Abbas.