Legendary Indian batter Sachin Tendulkar recalled a humorous second from his early days of taking part in cricket, the place he pranked teammate Sourav Ganguly.
As the present BCCI president and former Indian skipper turned 50 on Friday (July 8), followers, pals, former teammates and opponents poured their needs for the ‘Prince of Kolkata’.
We crammed Sourav Ganguly’s room with water: Sachin Tendulkar
Tendulkar, who performed with and towards Ganguly since their U-15 days, is aware of him in numerous varieties – a infamous child, a participant, a captain, and now an administrator. Followers of the sport would pay attention to plentiful match-winning stands between Tendulkar and Ganguly on the sphere. However only a few would know their hilarious acts behind the screens.
Tendulkar, who holds probably the most runs in worldwide cricket (3,4357 runs from 664 video games), went down reminiscence lane and fondly remembered occurring his first abroad tour to the UK with Star Cricket Membership. Ganguly, Jatin Paranjpe and Kedar Godbole have been additionally a part of the crew.
“I keep in mind Sourav was sleeping throughout a day. Jatin Paranjpe, Kedar Godbole and I crammed his room with water. He awoke and was naturally clueless about what was taking place, his suitcases have been floating,” Tendulkar informed information company PTI.
“Lastly, he realised it was me, Jatin and Kedar who had performed it. Buddies maintain taking part in pranks on one another and our childhood was no totally different.
“We stayed in faculties that have been like previous castles and naturally it seemed a bit scary.
“To make issues worse, pals would get collectively and plan to scare the others much more. Years later, after I assume again, these are the moments of friendship that stand out and make me smile,” he added.
Sourav Ganguly was a terrific captain: Sachin Tendulkar
Ganguly led the Indian crew in 49 Checks and 146 ODI matches from 2000 to 2005, his period is deemed as a transition section of Indian cricket. Ganguly stays to be the one Indian captain to win a Check collection in Pakistan in 2003-04.
Ganguly’s different outstanding achievements as India captain are the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2000/01 in India and the 2002 NatWest (tri-nation) collection towards England and Sri Lanka.
Tendulkar talked about how Ganguly backed and groomed world-class gamers throughout his captaincy tenure and struck the stability within the crew.
“Sourav was a terrific captain. He knew the right way to keep a stability – between giving freedom to the gamers and giving them sure duties. When he took over, Indian cricket was in a transition section.
“We wanted the subsequent bunch of players who might set a platform for propelling India ahead,” Tendulkar talked about.
“At the moment, we discovered top-class gamers – Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, and Ashish Nehra to call a couple of. They have been gifted gamers, however even gifted gamers want help in the beginning of their careers, which Sourav supplied,” he added.
Ganguly retired from worldwide cricket in 2008 after representing India in 113 Checks and 311 ODIs and completed his illustrious profession with not solely 18,575 runs within the two codecs but additionally left with quite a few recollections of the sport.
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