With Sachin Tendulkar continuing to miss matches in the IPL - the Sunday game against Team Hyderabad was the fourth he missed - people are beginning to compare the Mumbai Indians with the Mumbai team in the ICL, Mumbai Champs.
The Mumbai Champs' skipper Brian Lara played just a few matches in the inaugural edition, but missed all in the next one. And he cost Rs four crore. Sachin's case may turn out to be similar but Mumbai fans are getting impatient because the team needs the charismatic Sachin to lift their drooping spirits after three losses.
So why is Sachin's recovery taking time? According to orthopaedic surgeon Dr Dilip Nadkarni, who has worked at international tennis and squash events, rest is the only cure for a groin injury. Said the doc,"There is no surgery for groin injury. It is the body's repair mechanism that has to work. If there has been an old injury, a tear, the latest tear will take more time."
Sachin had the groin problem in Australia and team doc John Gloster had advised rest but he played the first Test against SA. The moot point was whether Sachin took adequate rest as advised by Gloster.
