Just read this on Cricinfo'
''Sachin Tendulkar has scored 13 hundreds with this bat, according to Sunil Gavaskar''
It is quite interesting to see how much Sachin cares about a bat. If you do a bit research you will notice that Sachin uses this same bats only in games not in nets. This is the same bat with which Sachin scored double century in ODI.
I am not sure but if Sachin believe so much in a bat then I would say this bat is really on its last leg. Even if Sachin gets a refurb the bat will not be same at all.
This bat doesn't have enough life to be used against New Zealand.
Pictures are here;
http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?t=109125