Talisman has one of Tendulkars bats and i'd pay alot of money for that bit of art- it's flippin impressive and looks identical to the profile on the picture shown above - Yash, why do you presume by the bowing on these blades that they are not newbery? With regard to making a bat like this out of a cleft, i doubt the cleft was any larger than usual, just light clefts - just very little to come off the back of it when shaping, easier almost!
I wonder why he has so much taping around the edges, a laminate perhaps?