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| June 2, 2005 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 24, 1426 |
Tendulkar’s career will end this year: astrologer
LONDON, June 1: Indian star batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s cricket career will end this year due to injuries, a Pakistani astrologer, who has previously been correct in his predictions, said. “Tendulkar’s stars show his career will end this year and the latest operation may prove (to be) the cause,” Lahore-based Abdullah Shaukat Chowdhry has been quoted as saying by bbc.co.uk
The 32-year-old, who has just been ruled out of the game for 16 weeks following an elbow operation in London last week, is one of the world’s best batsman with many world records to his credit.
A former India captain, Tendulkar has scored 10,134 runs in 123 Tests and a world record 13,642 runs in 348 One-day Internationals, also a world record. He has also cracked 34 Test centuries — a joint world record with former India opener Sunil Gavaskar.
But his career has been threatened by a spate of injuries over the last years — back, toe and now elbow.
“I use astrology charts and as per position of stars on charts, a prediction is made. Tendulkar’s date of birth suggests positions of Jupiter and Mars are not good”’, 70-year-old Chowdhry, a cricket fan, told BBC Sport.
“I wish I am wrong but this is what stars tell”, he said.
Tendulkar’s elbow injury first surfaced in Amsterdam last year when India went there to play in a one-day triangular series with Pakistan and Australia.
It forced him to miss that tri-series, three-match NatWest Challenge with England that followed, Champions Trophy played in England and two home Tests against Australia late last year.
When he returned, Tendulkar struggled to regain form, though he has now become fourth-highest scorer in Test cricket and world’s most successful one-day batsman with record aggregate and 38 record centuries.
Among Chowdhry’s famous correct predictions were former Pakistan great Imran Khan to suffer a shin bone injury in 1980s, Pope John Paul to die because of ill health in 2005, an earthquake to hit South Asia in December 2004 and Tony Blair to win a third election, said BBC.
Chowdhry said he was inspired to learn the art as a nine-year-old from Pundit Sharma Raghunandan, when his parents lived in New Delhi, BBC site said.
Most of Chowdhry’s clients come in search of matrimonial matches and to solve their employment problems. But a number of them also come to find the outcome of a cricket match or a series, it wrote.
“I used to predict a lot on outcome of cricket matches but after some of predictions went wrong, mainly because of match-fixing, I now refuse to predict on cricket matches,” said Chowdhry, who correctly predicted India’s 2-1 win in Test series in Pakistan last year.
“Cricket is my area of interest and any cricketer needing fair help is welcome,” he said.—Agencies
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