Graeme Swann picks only one Indian in his Playing XI and its neither Kohli nor MS Dhoni

Graeme Swann picked his playing XI recently and what was surprising is that only one Indian player found a place in his team and it does t include modern-day greats like Indian skipper Virat Kohli, 2011 World Cup-winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni or hard-hitting dynamic opener Rohit Sharma.

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Sachin Tendulkar: only player in Swann's playing XI

It so happened that governing body of world cricket International Cricket Council (ICC) had asked passionate cricket fans if y were to pick a team that y would watch for rest of ir lives, n what was it going to be? and while fans came forward with ir playing XI, even former English spinner participated in contest as well as he made a team which included likes of former English cricketer Colin Milburn, late New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe, Australian great Sir Donald Bradman, his countryman Mark Waugh, legendary English all-rounder Sir Ian Botham, Alan Ktt, Aussie spin legend Shane Warne, Harold Larwood, Pakistani pace legend Wasim Akram and veteran English pacer James Anderson.

However, what really stood out in this list was that cricketing legend, as well as Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, was only Indian cricketer who had made it to veteran spinner's playing XI. 

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Sachin Tendulkar contributes Rs. 50 Lakh to fight COVID-19

To come to aid of country in its battle against vel coronavirus, it was recently reported that Sachin Tendulkar made a donation of ₹50 lakh. Half of Sachin Tendulkar's donation amount was given to Prime Minister's Relief Fund while or half went to Chief Minister's Fund. Coming back to Tendulkar's illustrious cricketing career, Little Master till date remains highest run-scorer in Tests as well as One Day Internationals and is only batsman in world to have scored 100 international centuries. 

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