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"Tendulkar lives in Bandra, in the north of Mumbai, Bollywoodville. But he often goes south to Colaba with family and friends, to eat in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel or the Oberoi.

"The Mumbai attacks were close to home and affected him deeply. The England players remarked on his extra patience and intensity at the crease. This time he was doubly determined to lift his people out of their pit," the article said.

Tendulkar wields a heavy bat unusual for his small frame, but he says he would not be the same batsman without his willow.

"I like a bow in it. I can't bat with anything else. I would not feel right at the crease," the master batsman said.to leave the game in the fifth. That cut short what could have been an extremely impressive day from Gray, who had held the Rays scoreless on just four singles (and no walks), thrown just 67 pitches and gone eight batters without allowing a ball out of the infield.

Gray gets no extra credit here for what might have been, but he doesn’t need it. In his next two starts combined, he allowed just two runs on six hits over 16 innings; he has allowed three or more runs in a game just twice all season, and never more than four. The game in which he was hit in the ankle, meanwhile, was just one of two in which he has failed to complete six innings.

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