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Australia's hard-hitting batsman said he would consider taking up a mega contract offer from a rebel cricket league, in line with the way many of Australia's greats defected to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in the late 1970s

Sunil Gavaskar was the first Indian Richie Benaud picked in his Greatest XI -- to open the batting with Sir Jack Hobbs; Benaud also praised Sachin Tendulkar's 1996 Test innings at Edgebaston