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Tendulkar gear auctioned

AFP, New Delhi
Indian batting star Sachin Tendulkar's cricket gear fetched a handsome 383,000 rupees (8,326 dollars) at a charity auction Friday to raise funds for the aged and mentally challenged.
A cricket fan bought one of Tendulkar's bats for 300,000 rupees while a pair of his batting gloves was sold for 55,000 rupees. The T-shirt he wore for a one-day international match went for another 28,000 rupees.
The organisers raised about 700,000 rupees (15,217 dollars) from the auction of used cricketing gear of Indian batsmen and bowlers.
Tendulkar, whose gear accounted for more than half the sum, holds a double world record in one-day internationals, having amassed 12,219 runs with 34 hundreds.
He has 31 Test centuries, surpassed only by compatriot Sunil Gavaskar (34) and Australian skipper Steve Waugh (32).
Tendulkar is also the sixth-highest scorer in Test cricket with 8,811 runs, behind Australians Allan Border (11,174) and Waugh (10,521), Gavaskar (10,122), England's Gra-ham Gooch (8,900) and Pakistan's Javed Miandad (8,832).
"It is great to see that under-privileged children benefit from this auction," Tendulkar told the news agency.
"I hope this auction is not the last and we will see more. I want more people to contribute to such causes through these auctions," the little master said.
An emotional touch to the auction came when the son of Tendulkar's marketing agent Mark Mascheranas, who died in an accident last year, bought his gloves.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, the first Indian to bowl a hattrick, was the next top earner when the ball that dismissed three Australians on home turf two years ago fetched 55,000 rupees. It went to former England captain Tony Greig.
Harbhajan has scalped 144 wickets in 33 Test matches.
"This is the best way to give back what you have earned from cricket fans," he said.
Among other items that were put under the hammer were V.V.S. Laxman's bat with which he scored a century and a double hundred against Australia in 2001.
Skipper Saurav Ganguly's cap fetched 18,500 rupees while Rahul Dravid's bat earned 40,000 rupees.
Ganguly also participated in the auction and took home a jacket leg-spinner Anil Kumble wore during the 1993 Sri Lanka series for 25,000 rupees.
"I am sure this is just the beginning and there will be more auctions," Kumble said.