Tendulkar ignored medical advice

Sachin Tendulkar would have missed the Champions Trophy had it been held in Pakistan on time.

Indian doctor Amod Harip, who first examined the master batsman for his latest elbow injury in Colombo's Apollo Hospital, said: "Sachin was brought to me after getting injured while fielding during the third Test between Sri Lanka and India. He has hemarthrosis of elbow (right hand)."

"Hemarthrosis is a bleeding into joint spaces. I wanted to insert a needle and remove the haematoma but team physio (Nitin Patel) didn't want this treatment to be performed over here," the Pune-born doctor, now settled in Sri Lanka, further said exclusively to Cricketnext.

A haematoma, is a collection of blood outside the blood vessels, generally the result of internal bleeding.

Sachin was also advised to take rest and not take the field later in the Test match but he still played the next day.

According to this orthopaedic surgeon, Sachin's surgery in 2005 (by England's Andrew Wallace) was not a 'tennis elbow' as it is widely believed. But it was a 'golfer's elbow'.

"I saw the scars on Sachin's elbow and it was not a surgery for tennis elbow but golfer's elbow."

The primary difference between the two is the location of the pain and the activity that leads to injury.

"Sachin may be able to play the series against Australia," Dr. Harip hoped.

India's master batsman Sachin Tendulkar is most likely to have had his recent elbow injury examined by an orthopaedic surgeon in Germany.