Port Elizabeth:  Legendary Pakistan bowler Wasim Akram has suggested Sachin Tendulkar to show the same aggressive approach to his batting as West Indies' great Brian Lara.

The former left-arm speedster said now that Tendulkar had nothing to prove, he should take bowlers to task by his attacking strokeplay.

"I have been watching Sachin. He has achieved everything. Now he should be toying around the bowling like Lara does. People say he has responsibility but so has Lara," he said after India's massive defeat in the third cricket one-dayer in which Tendulkar scored 2.

"Sachin should come out and play his shots, especially in one-day cricket. When he goes back in his shell, leaving deliveries outside the off stump, then the bowler gets to him. When Lara comes, it is totally opposite. He looks for two or three balls and he then starts playing everywhere." Akram, here as part of the TV commentary team, said he had noticed that Tendulkar had lately become conscious about adopting the correct technique.

"Tendulkar, I have noticed in the last year or two, that he is very conscious when he comes out to bat. He wants to be proper, leaves the ball around," Akram said.

Akram compared Tendulkar's aggressive batting in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa to his present form to drive home his contention about a certain tentativeness in the approach of the Mumbai batsman.