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007, in Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, Coach Lalchand Rajput requested Sachin Tendulkar to address the inexperienced boys of the under-19 India team that was shortly to leave for the New Zealand tour. As Sachin stressed the differences in the weather between India and New Zealand and the importance of adjusting to the seaming conditions, the boys looked on, awed by Sachin, hardly registering what he actually said.
And yet, yesterday, one of those star struck boys, Virat Kohli, with his blistering knock of 183 in 148 balls against arch rival Pakistan in Mirpur, Bangladesh, came within the sniffing distance of the ODI double hundred of Sachin Tendulkar. When Virat was asked by one of the newspapers if he was thinking about Sachin's 200 he said, "The thought had crossed my mind, but then I thought I was getting distracted from the job at hand."