Spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan says he didn't fear bowling to the great Sachin Tendulkar as the Indian maestro wouldn't hurt him like a Virender Sehwag or a Brian Lara. Among current players, international cricket's highest wicket-taker said India's Virat Kohli and Pakistan's Babar Azam would have played him well. "For Sachin, there was no fear to bowl because he won't hurt you.

Unlike Sehwag who can hurt you. Because he (Sachin) will protect his wicket, he is a good reader of the ball and he knows the technique," Muralitharan said during a chat with Aakash Chopra on ESPNcricinfo. Muralitharan, the only bowler to have taken 800 Test wickets, added, "I felt in my career, Sachin had a small weakness against off-spin. With leg-spin he smashes but off-spin somehow he had the difficulty because I got him out so many times. And lots of off-spinners also got him so many times, I have seen it.