The Lele findings are here

It is something the world has known all these years. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and its inimitable secretary Jaywant Lele though still feel that it needs to be tabled during the Board's 72nd Annual General Meeting in Chennai on September 29.

We are talking about what we shall hence call the 'Lele findings' on Sachin Tendulkar, resulting purely from the industrious research undertaken by the man after whom the findings have been so named.

"The sky is the limit for the 28-year-old master batsman who has already collected 25 Test centuries and 29 one-day international hundreds by June 30, 2001. He has been the most consistent run-getter in both forms of the game and is already a demi-god in the Indian pantheon," the BCCI secretary observes.

After noting that Tendulkar wrote his name "in golden letters in record books" by becoming the first batsman to cross the 10,000-run mark in one-dayers, Lele goes on to add, "Having taken his 100th wicket in one-dayers in the course of the series against Australia, Tendulkar gets into a select list of one-day batting all-rounders like Viv Richards.

"Sachin was the only current player to be included in Don Bradman's Dream Team that was released after his death, a great honour indeed to an Indian cricketer."

The Press Trust of India which carried excerpts of the 'findings' adds that Lele "also praises captain Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Shiv Sundar Das, Harbhajan Singh and a few others for their performances from April 2000 to March 2001."

What all these profound observations prove is that even with a stylus in hand, Lele can still be Lele. Here then is to certainties...