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From Cricinfo Please, please behave Before the first ball was bowled, once the toss was done and play was about to begin, the PA system was given its first run. Professor Ratnakar Shetty, the chief administrative officer of the BCCI and treasurer of the Mumbai Cricket Association, was put to the multi-lingual test. First in English, then Marathi and finally in Hindi, he exhorted the crowd to not "indulge in racist or abusive" behaviour towards the players. It temporarily silenced the chants of "Aussies suck", a disturbing slogan that Mumbai has adopted, but soon enough the 35,000-plus crowd was at it again. And worse. Last hurrah Tendulkar is always received with reverence here at the Wankhede Stadium - although even he cops a fair share of abuse from the infamous North Stand - but today was special in many ways. Not only was it likely to be Tendulkar's last international at the ground - it's set to be refurbished and will only be used for an international next in 2011 for the final of the World Cup - but it was exactly twenty years ago to the day when Tendulkar did duty here as a ball boy, returning the ball to the players from the ropes in an India-Zimbabwe match. Only 26,863 international runs have flowed from his bat since. Not bad, for a ball boy. I thought the new stadium at vashi was gonna be used for the final????:alberteinstein:

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