AFP/New DelhiIndia will not lose focus amid the hype over Sachin Tendulkar’s eagerly awaited 100th hundred in the three-Test series against the West Indies starting today, said skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Tendulkar’s bid for an unprecedented century of centuries has been the talking point ever since he cracked his 99th international hundred against South Africa at the World Cup in March. “What we try to do is to be there in the present and not too much in the future. It’s important to prepare ourselves as individuals,” Dhoni told reporters yesterday. “Of course, it is a milestone Sachin will achieve in this game or some other game. Let him get the ton and then we will talk about it. We are thinking about how we are preparing for this series. “Of course when he gets it, we will celebrate with him. Hopefully, he gets it here and then we will speak about it.” The brilliant Tendulkar already holds four batting world records—most runs in Tests (14,965) and one-day internationals (18,111) and most hundreds in Tests (51) and one-dayers (48). India go into the opening Test in New Delhi with an inexperienced bowling attack in the absence of injured paceman Zaheer Khan and axed off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, but Dhoni said he was confident the newcomers would deliver. Paceman Ishant Sharma and left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha are the only bowlers with Test experience, while spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Rahul Sharma and seamers Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav have yet to play a Test. “Some of these (newcomers) have played one-day cricket, so they have gained a fair amount of exposure. We are expecting at least two bowlers to make their Test debuts,” revealed Dhoni. Off-spinner Ashwin and Yadav are likely to get the nod. India won both the Test and one-day series on their tour of the West Indies in May-July, but Dhoni said his team would not underestimate the tourists, who recently completed a double in Bangladesh. “They (West Indies) have some good fast bowlers and Devendra Bishoo, being a leg-spinner, gets bounce. They are a good side and we will not take them lightly. We are expecting a good series,” said Dhoni. West Indies skipper Darren Sammy said his team, which won both one-day and Test series in Bangladesh, would play “fearless” cricket on the tour which also features five one-day internationals. “Playing in India is big. It’s the biggest test for us and for me as captain as well. We have to be fearless. It’s a prestigious series as so many good players are involved in it,” said Sammy. The West Indies won their first away Test series since 2003 when they beat Bangladesh in the second and final match in Dhaka on Wednesday, with fast bowler Fidel Edwards and Bishoo playing key roles. Edwards took five wickets in the first innings and Bishoo as many wickets in the second. “Our bowling attack has bowled out the opposition twice in Test cricket in recent past and we hope our bowlers do well against India,” said the West Indies captain. “Bishoo is a quick learner and I think he will play a crucial part in the series.” When asked about Tendulkar’s 100th international hundred, Sammy said: “We will try to make it difficult for him.”