Brendon McCullum echoes Sachin Tendulkar on tackling COVID-19 Test cricket style

coronavirus crisis has sent entire world into a frenzy and has brought all activities to a halt. More than 1.5 lakh people have fallen prey to this disease globally. All sporting activities have been called off indefinitely.

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w, former New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum has seconded Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar's comparison of COVID-19 with Test cricket. Sachin Tendulkar had said peril of coronavirus should be tackled session by session like it's done in a Test match.

Brendon McCullum agrees with Sachin Tendulkar's way of combating coronavirus

While speaking on Knights Unplugged, Brendon McCullum said people need to just try and break this challenge down into gettable goals and try and look at it in isolation every time, just small steps like in a session by session (scenario) during a Test match. Brendon McCullum also asked people to deal with one day at a time and make sure  days are well planned and well structured, much on lines of Sachin Tendulkar's recent advice.

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Brendon McCullum said that's how y are doing it in his family as well. He added that every day y write a bit of a plan of what y’re going to try to tick off and what y’re going to try and achieve. Brendon McCullum furr said that y have done it around mealtimes, breakfast, lunch and n dinner toger.

Brendon McCullum also said that y just sort of tick off some jobs outside, wher it’s cleaning out ir wardrobes or wher it's cleaning roof or doing all gutters, re’s always something to be done. Brendon McCullum added like y were doing it just like Sachin Tendulkar said, playing it like a Test match and breaking it down into sessions.

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Sachin Tendulkar on combating coronavirus

Sachin Tendulkar had said Test cricket teaches you patience when you do t understand certain things. It rewards you when respect something that is dangerous and stay patient for some time. He said that pandemic is something he hasn’t ever seen before. He added that Test cricket is about staging comebacks. re is always a second innings if you’ve missed first one. Different countries are at different sts of ir fight against coronavirus. But with a positive mindset, all of m can overcome this pandemic in ir own ways

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