Tendulkar recollects his first four balls in Test cricket
Sachin Tendulkar once said that he remembers all his dismissals. Add this one to the list of accurate recollections: He even remembers what time he went to sleep after his first day of Test cricket (November 15, 1989). The batting magician was at the Taj yesterday to release Shadows Across the Playing Field 60 years of India-Pakistan Cricket, a book written by Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor and Shaharyar Khan, a former Pakistan Foreign Secretary and cricket board president at a function hosted by Nita and Mukesh Ambani.
Debut tour
It was interesting to hear Tendulkar say that he was very keen to play the first tour game and "put some pressure on the tour selectors" to pick him for the first Test of that 1989-90 tour. His first day of Test cricket turned out to be overly exhausting. He emphasised how the standard of play was so different than domestic cricket.u00a0 "I was very tired. Normally, you to come to the hotel and have a cup of tea but I just dozed off at 6 pm and got up at 9 pm. Had my dinner and slept again to wake up on a day when I was going to bat," he told the audience.
When it came to facing swing exponent Wasim Akram, he expected a yorker each ball, a delivery he had watched Akram on television use with amazing effectiveness. But all four deliveries turned out to be bouncers.
"Welcome to Test cricket," he told himself.
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