When Sachin met Ricky and Brian
Ben Dorries attempts a look at the lives of Lara, Tendulkar and Ponting in The Courier-Mail .
Three cricketing worlds collided for a few precious moments in exotic Malaysia as modern-day greats Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar chewed the fat in a rare get-together. The private lives of the world's three top batsmen – with 30,766 Test runs between them – could not be more different away from their glossy magazine ads and rich endorsement deals.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo