Had it been any other player, he could have chosen the opportunity to berate the ICC for according the recognition; Sir Richard Hadlee took no time in transferring the spotlight from him to Sachin Tendulkar and called him arguably as "greatest player in the history of the game".

Incidentally, Sachin Tendulkar had played against Sir Hadlee in the 1990 tour of India to New Zealand where he had scored 80-90 odd runs at the Mclean Park in St. Napier, reminisced Sir Hadlee.  Sir Hadlee opined that the spark of brilliance was evident then itself. He substantiated his argument by saying that a player who still continues to be in his prime form and has scored as many centuries and half centuries in both the forms of cricket, be it one-day or the test matches, he arguably has to be the greatest player ever in the history of the game of cricket.

He amplified his point further by comparing the achievements of Sachin with Donald Bradman, and argued that while Bradman played only one form of the game i.e. the test cricket, Sachin had played in al the forms of game into which cricket has evolved and had stamped his authority in all of them with equal force.

He was profuse in being accorded the honor and opined that it could not get much better than being included in the list of  55 best cricketers of all times in the game of cricket. He expressed the desire that he be remembered as somebody who played hard in a very successful era for New Zealand cricket. He had special word for Ishant Sharma as well, whom he forecasted as someone who would turn out to be very very special for India in the near future.

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