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Indo-Pak matches cease to
remain cricket: Sachin
Fans in India and Pakistan react in the extreme and cricket
does not remain merely a sport when the arch-rivals lock
horns, said Sachin Tendulkar.
Indian players are either
garlanded like 'kings' or
treated like 'criminals',
depending on the outcome of
an Indo-Pak series, and the
feeling is not different on the
other side of the border,
Tendulkar said at the launch of
'Shadows Across the Playing
Field', a book authored by
Minister of State for External
Affairs Shashi Tharoor and
former Pakistan Cricket
Control Board chief Shaharyar
Khan.
"Both the nations react to our highs and lows. Sometime we
say that cricket is just a sport...but that does not happen. You
get different reactions on your performance and rather (on
the performance) in the last match," he said.
Referring to the 1997 ODI series in Canada, Tendulkar said,
"We beat Pakistan 4-1 and the reception we got in Delhi was
incredible. About 5000-7000 fans were there to receive us at
the airport at two in the morning. They threw garlands and
roses at us. We were treated like kings," he recalled.
The Mumbaikar then revealed the other side of the coin.
"We lost an ODI series 2-1 and the reaction was completely
different. People looked at us as if were criminals and we
have done something wrong. We lost 2-1 and because Ijaz
Ahmed played an outstanding innings.
"These experiences teach you and help you lead a balanced
life," he said.
SACHINISM INSIDE OUT- E MAGAZINE - AUGUST EDITION
Expect the Unexpected In Test Cricket
August 15,
2009
Sachin, other Test cricketers back
Wadekar for gymkhana post
Sachin Tendulkar and a number of former players have come
in support of former India captain Ajit Wadekar in his quest to
retain his seat as the President of the famous Shivaji Park
Gymkhana in Dadar here.
Supporting Wadekar, who led
India to historic back-to- back
series wins over the West
Indies and England overseas in
1971, Tendulkar, in a letter to
the former Test batsman, said
the gymkhana, where he
learnt his ropes as a young
boy, needed Wadekar&aposs
leadership qualities it its
centenary year.
"I am glad to learn that the Shivaji Park Gymkhana (SPG),
which has produced so many cricketers for the state and the
country, will be completing 100 years soon,"the champion
batsman has said in his letter to Wadekar.
"It is also heartening to see the tremendous progress made
by SPG not only in cricket but in other sports like tennis,
billiards and lots of indoor games too, especially in the last six
years.
"It requires sporting leadership and I hope that you continue
to lead SPG as President in the centenary year too",
Tendulkar has said in his letter to Wadekar.
Wadekar&aposs former Mumbai and India colleague Bapu
Nadkarni, ex- India skipper and selection panel chief Dilip
Vengsarkar and flamboyant ex- India batsman Sandeep Patil
have also written letters to Wadekar extending their support
Expect the unexpected when it comes to Test cricket says Indian batting ace Sachin Tendulkar, who
recalled how Wasim Akram peppered him with bouncers even as he expected yorkers in his maiden
Test series in Pakistan.
Tendulkar was speaking here yesterday at the launch of a book 'Shadows across the playing field,
authored by India's Minister of state for External Affiars Shashi Tharoor and former PCB Chairman and
diplomat Shaharyar Khan .
"I was included in the first Test (in 1989). On the first day we fielded and I was so tired after six
hours on the field that I slept after we returned to the hotel, woke up for my dinner and again went
back to sleep," Tendulkar said.
"The next day we batted and Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis were charging in. The first ball I faced
from Wasim was a bouncer.
Sachin Tendulkar - I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a
different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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