ARTICLES BY Amol Muzumdar

Sachin Tendulkar’s rare failure in schools cricket made headlines!

When 14-year-old Sachin Tendulkar (326 not out) and Vinod Kambli (349 not out) stitched together their famous of 664 runs — a then world record for any wicket in any form of cricket — for Shardashram Vidyamandir against St Xavier’s High School (Fort) in the 1988 Harris Shield semi-final, the man waiting patiently for his turn to bat in the pavilion was Amol Muzumdar, who has since emerged as a titan in India’s First-Class cricket history. In the following piece, Muzumdar recalls some interesting anecdotes from Tendulkar’s formative years in cricket.