Late in his life, Sir Donald Bradman identified the batsman who played most like him. “I was very, very struck by his technique,” Bradman said in 1996. “I asked my wife to come and have a look at him. Because, I said, ‘I never saw myself play. But I feel this fellow is playing much the same as I used to.’
“It was just his compactness, his stroke production, his technique. It all seemed to gel.”
The player’s name was Sachin Tendulkar.
Bradman later invited Tendulkar to his 90th birthday. “We discussed batting,” Tendulkar recalls.