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Tendulkar Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has expressed his views that cricket rivalry between India and Australia is bigger than the traditional rivalry between India and Pakistan. Australia is the number one cricket team of the world and India has over the last eight years always challenged its supremacy. It is because of the competitiveness shown by both the teams that people prefer to watch Indo-Australia cricket matches as compared to India-Pakistan matches. All the series played between India and Australia in last eight years have been fought very closely.

Competition It is only the Indian team that has defeated the Australian team in their home country. It is only the Indian team that has challenged the Australian supremacy and have defeated them many times in their home country. Commenting on Symonds’ absence in the Australian team in the forthcoming series, Tendulkar said that such things have happened in the past and will not affect the results of the matches much. It must be noted that Symonds is an integral part of the Australian team and has won many matches for his side. Spat between Harbhajan Singh and Symonds had grabbed the headlines of most of the International news papers during the last test series played  between both of the countries in Australia. Symonds has not been selected for the Australian team for the forthcoming series on disciplinary grounds.

Rashid Latif Same views have been expressed by former Pakistani captain Rashid Latif. He has supported Tendulkar’s views and has said that Pakistan’s deteriorating bowling attack is also responsible for the situation. Because of it India has always dominated during the last some series played between his country and India. In fact most of the matches were one sided. He has even said that some top Indian players don’t enjoy the competition because of lack of competitiveness. While Australians have the world class bowlers and India’s world class batsmen enjoy the competition with them. But he has said Indians will surely benefit from the absence of Andrew Symonds because he has played some of his best innings against India.