The previous few weeks have been unimaginable for Team India because the Rohit Sharma-led facet has remained unbeaten within the ongoing World Cup, profitable its first six video games.
Sachin Tendulkar, a part of India’s 2011 World Cup-winning squad, has loved the way in which the Men in Blue have dominated opponents. “Our team has been playing a different brand of cricket and I really enjoy this brand of cricket. It was a joy to watch them play and I am extremely proud and happy to see the way they have played,” Tendulkar mentioned on Wednesday, on the sidelines of his statue unveiling ceremony.
With 12 factors in its kitty and three extra league video games to go – the following towards Sri Lanka on the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday – India is sort of by way of to the semifinals. “I won’t talk beyond this and nazar nahi lagaunga (to cast an evil eye). They know what to do and what the whole country is expecting from them. I won’t put pressure on them either. I know people have this tendency of talking things and then saying, ‘ koi pressure mat le na’ (Don’t take any pressure). It does not work that way,” he mentioned.
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At a packed MCA Lounge, Tendulkar shared anecdotes from his enjoying days, and revealed that his preparation for the 2011 World Cup began in 2007. “I have heard that nothing happens ‘right now’. You can either have it right or you can have it now, so it does take time. My preparation for the 2011 World Cup started in 2007.”
Tendulkar thanked all his ‘non-striking partners’ and team-mates for backing him all through his profession. Reminiscing about his early years, Tendulkar mentioned: “I was selected as a ball boy for the 1987 World Cup and Sunil Gavaskar invited me to the dressing room and meet a few players. I was 14 then and it was a huge thing.”
“After that, the very next year, I made my debut for Mumbai here in the Ranji Trophy. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to meet Gavaskar at that time, but I remember that there was only one seat available in the dressing room. There were seven or eight India players in the playing XI, so when I walked into the Bombay (now Mumbai) dressing room, I placed my kitbag on a seat, which was vacant, in a far corner of the dressing room. I realised that it was SMG’s seat. So, I went out to bat and scored a hundred, and I wasn’t surprised, because that seat was used to not being occupied, while the crease was! So, I had no choice but to follow my hero,” Tendulkar reminisced.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah shared some attention-grabbing trivia concerning the Master Blaster. According to him, Tendulkar has batted in 364 days of a calendar, with May 1 as the one exception whereas the one scores (from 0-100) lacking in his profession have been 75 and 58.
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Tendulkar additionally remembered his final recreation on the Wankhede Stadium in 2013. As the cameras panned on his mom that afternoon, it was troublesome for Tendulkar, enjoying his final worldwide match, to regulate his feelings and anticipate the sport to complete.
The iconic venue has been integral a part of his profession, and Tendulkar paid a becoming tribute to the Wankhede Stadium, saying: “The happiest day of my life was in 2011, when we lifted that (World Cup) Trophy.”
On April 2, 2011, India clinched its second World Cup title – after 1983 – and the Virat Kohli and Yusuf Pathan carried Tendulkar on his shoulders, making it probably the most memorable moments of Indian cricket.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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