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FIFTH ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL, VADODARA

India v Australia, starts 0430 BST

Indian superstar Sachin Tendulkar will on Thursday become the second player after Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya to feature in 400 one-day internationals.

Tendulkar will open the batting in the fifth of seven ODIs against Australia, with the tourists leading 2-1.

Meanwhile, uncapped batsman Subramaniam Badrinath, 27, comes into the squad to replace the injured Gautam Gambhir.

He hit a double century for India A against South Africa and said of his chance: “It’s a dream come true.”

Badrinath added: “Playing for India has been a childhood dream for me and I am delighted that I am close to achieving that now.”

Gambhir will miss the rest of the series after sitting out Monday’s victory over the world champions.

The toss in Vadodara on Thursday could be absolutely crucial, with no team yet able to post a win when batting second.

Their batsmen had struggled until that triumph in Chandigarh, in which Tendulkar made a battling 79 and Sourav Ganguly weighed in with 41.

Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar warned last week that senior players’ places would come under threat from the likes of Badrinath unless their form improved.

He said of the Tamil Nadu right-hander: “Players like Badrinath are waiting for their chance and you cannot ignore them.

“It’s a professional set-up and nobody can take their place for granted.”

The squad for the remaining two matches will be decided after Thursday’s encounter.

Meanwhile, Sree Santh, India’s fast bowler, has admitted he taunted Andrew Symonds after the Australian batsman was dismissed on Monday.

Santh told reporters he used the words: “Hard luck, you’re going to lose now” to the Queensland all-rounder, but denied allegations that he had also clapped in his face.

The irony was that the hot-headed Santh had been rested for the encounter, but was in the vicinty of Australia’s batsmen as they walked back to the dressing-room.

India have lost just once in five matches in Vadodara, a city in the dry state of Gujarat, and racked up 341-3 in beating West Indies here in January.

The only other player to reach 400 caps in one-dayers, 38-year-old Jayasuriya, played his 402nd match in Colombo against England on Wednesday.

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Tendulkar may quit one-day cricket before Tests

Indian batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar said Tuesday he could stop playing taxing one-dayers first before quitting international cricket. “One-day cricket puts a lot of pressure and there are more chances of injury. So, one-day cricket is what I may stop playing before Tests,” Tendulkar said in an interview with NDTV. “

Test cricket is more challenging. One-day cricket puts a lot of load on the body, but if I make a decision I will let everyone know.

At this stage, I don’t know.” His comments came on the day the national selectors named Mahendra Singh Dhoni, 26, as India’s new captain for one-day internationals.

Tendulkar has been plagued with various injuries since making his international debut in 1989 at the age of 16. He was not amused when it was rumoured that he had played his last one-day international at Lord’s in England this month. “I don’t know where the rumours about me retiring after the Lord’s one-dayer started.

I didn’t say anything. I spoke to my wife Anjali and she told me this news had started back home. I never said anything,” he said. “I just had to focus on the game at hand. People were saying this is my last game in England.

Tmay be possible, but certainly not my last one-day international.” Tendulkar has so far scored 11,150 runs in 140 Tests with a world-record 37 centuries. He is the world’s leading scorer in one-day internationals, with 15,425 runs in 395 matches and a record 41 hundreds. He missed out on scoring six hundreds on the England tour, where India played three Tests and seven one-dayers, but

Tendulkar said winning always mattered more than runs. “The fact that I missed the opportunity to score six hundreds on the England tour is definitely there at the back of my mind, but what’s more important to me is that India won on those occasions,” he said. “(A) hundred is only important if India wins, and for me the excitement was there because we won.” Tendulkar, who opted out of the ongoing Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa, is gearing up for a busy international season.

India play 12 one-dayers at home in the coming months, seven against Australia and five against Pakistan. They then play three home Tests against Pakistan before touring Australia for a Test series.