NEW DELHI, Sept 18: 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.

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 ODIs, with 15,425 runs in 395 matches and a record 41 hundreds. He missed out on scoring six hundreds on the England tour.—AFP