Congratulating Steve Waugh on scoring his 32nd Test hundred, Sachin Tendulkar played down the fact that he has been overtaken, saying he is not in a race with the Aussie skipper to score more centuries.

Waugh moved ahead of Tendulkar with his second consecutive hundred on Sunday and now trails only Sunil Gavaskar, who has 34 hundreds, in the number of Test centuries scored.

Waugh, who scored an unbeaten 156 in the second and final Test against Bangladesh, had said after his innings that the number of centuries he scored did not really matter because "Sachin is going to waltz past anyway".

However, Tendulkar said on Monday there is no race.

"There is no race to score centuries between the two of us. He himself is a great batsman," Tendulkar said.

Tendulkar, who has 31 Test hundreds, said though he would like to score more centuries, he feels more satisfied by contributing to India's victories.

Speaking about his total recovery from the finger surgery he underwent in the United States, Tendulkar, said: "I am feeling quite comfortable while working out in the gymnasium but have not had a net practice due to heavy rains.

"With the monsoon setting in, I think I will have to wait till the conditioning camp at Bangalore, starting on August 14, for a proper net practice," he said.