SYDNEY: He won’t be here with the touring Indian team this summer but Sachin Tendulkar will be back at the SCG next month.

The retired maestro, dubbed the “Little Master”, will be inducted as a Bradman Honouree along with former Test captain Steve Waugh at a gala dinner at the SCG on October 29.

Once identified by Sir Donald Bradman as the batsman he most saw himself in, Tendulkar will be on hand to accept the honour at a ground he acknowledges was one of his favourites through his record-breaking career.

Waugh, too, joins the list of past honourees such as Dennis Lillee and Mark Taylor. The SCG has been the scene of some of his greatest triumphs, none more so than his unforgettable final-over century in his last Test against England in 2003.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2014