Himalayan News Service

New Delhi, May 31:

Sachin Tendulkar’s cricket career will end this year due to injuries, a Pakistani astrologer, who has previously been correct in his predictions, has said. “Tendulkar’s stars show his career will end this year and the latest operation may prove (to be) the cause,” Lahore-based Abdullah Shaukat Chowdhry has been quoted as saying by bbc.co.uk. Sachin, who has just been ruled out of the game for 16 weeks following an elbow operation in London last week, is one of the world’s best batsman with many world records to his credit. He has scored 10,134 runs in 123 Tests and a world record 13,642 runs in a record 348 ODIs. He has also cracked 34 Test centuries — a joint world record with former India opener Sunil Gavaskar.

“I use astrology charts and as per the position of the stars on the charts, a prediction is made. Tendulkar’s date of birth suggests positions of Jupiter and Mars are not good,” the 70-year-old Chowdhry, a cricket fan, told BBC Sport. “I wish I am wrong but this is what stars tell,” he said.

“Among Chowdhry’s famous correct predictions were former Pakistan great Imran Khan to suffer a shin bone injury in 1980s, Pope John Paul to die because of ill health in 2005, an earthquake to hit South Asia in December 2004 and Tony Blair to win a third election,” said BBC. Chowdhry said he was inspired to learn the art as a nine-year-old from Pundit Sharma Raghunandan, when his parents lived in New Delhi, the site said. “Most of his clients come in search of matrimonial matches and to solve their employment problems. But a number of them also come to find the outcome of a cricket match or series,” it wrote. “I used to predict a lot on the outcome of cricket matches but after some of the predictions went wrong, mainly because of match fixing, I now refuse to predict on cricket matches,” said Chowdhry, who correctly predicted India’s 2-1 win in the Test series in Pakistan last year.