This was touching, but not a policy found in most textbooks on sporting governance

Tendulkar's 200th test should have been in Cape Town, but politics and money put paid to that: the BCCI wanted to bloody the nose of CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat, and there were broadcasters to sate. Besides, Tino Best and Darren Sammy were less likely than Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel to embarrass an ageing superstar. Most conveniently, perhaps, the setting allowed Tendulkar's mother to watch him play for the first time. This was touching, but not a policy found in most textbooks on sporting governance.

L. Booth, 'Notes by the Editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2014), 22

Two standing ovations: the first full of expectation, the second tinged invariably with regret

Tendulkar was also 38, and his fifth tour of England was widely assumed to be his last.. Each of his eight innings was accompanied by two standing ovations: the first full of expectation, the second tinged invariably with regret.

A. Miller, 'England v India 2011', L. Booth (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2012), 298