Doctors and Indian team physiotherapist Andrew Leipus have adviced Sachin Tendulkar not to bat for more than ten minutes at a stretch initially, the injured master batsman said in Mumbai on Friday.

"I have been advised to take gradual steps initially during practice as I have not played for six weeks and there's some muscle loss (in the left elbow). I can't just go bang bang. I have been advised to bat only for ten minutes at a stretch to begin with, and not for say two or three hours," Tendulkar told PTI.

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The ace batsman has been out of action since the Indian team went to Holland for the tri-series in the third week of August and there is a question mark whether he would be fit for the first Test against Australia commencing on October 6.