OMGSACHIN: Sachin the greatest, India the best : Usain Bolt

Bolt, in fact, revealed that he was a Sachin Tendulkar fan and that Sachin ‘was the greatest batsman’... He said he was ‘disappointed’ that Sachin had opted for a break and wasn’t in the Caribbean... Bolt also had praise for Mahendra (Singh) Dhoni’s captaincy and felt India had the ‘best team in the world’...

“Perhaps because of his own schedule, Bolt hasn’t really been following the tour, for he wanted to know just how long we’d been in the Caribbean and where our next stop would be (Barbados, as it turns out)...

When I asked about his preparations for the season, a year ahead of the Olympics, Bolt laughed and declared he’d been ‘training hard’... As his companion was waiting, our conversation ended on that note.”Dhoni and Co. didn’t ‘disappoint’ Bolt — in keeping with their No.1 ranking in Test cricket, they defeated the West Indies by 63 runs in the first match.

Choudhary, by the way, didn’t ask about Chris Gayle’s exclusion from the West Indies team. “It’s a very touchy issue here, so I steered clear,” he explained.

The president of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association, Choudhary is on his second assignment with Team India. His debut had been in Zimbabwe, in 2005-06, when the row between Sourav Ganguly and Greg Chappell took place.