Laundry provides the sheen in Tendulkar's batting

Sachin Tendulkar: leading run-scorer, most hundreds in Test and One-Day International cricket; the only batsman to score a double century in the history of ODIs… the game's greatest batsman.

So what is the secret of his success?

Perhaps, Big Hitter, the magazine for British Asian cricket fans, has the answer.

It is his laundry!

Yes. In an interview with the magazine, Tendulkar reveals how he prepares and executes his plans for a match.

'The shirts ironed and packed, the kit spruce and ready the previous night,' he says.

'That's the beginning of preparation for me; I hate doing things at the last moment.

'If something is not ready, if my laundry hasn't come in, I get restless, I make phone calls to the laundry and ask for my stuff to be sent to me as quickly as possible.'

Sure, the master blaster, who completed 37 years of age last month, goes by the old proverb 'Cleanliness is next to godliness'.