ARTICLES BY Anshuman Gaekwad

‘Sachin Tendulkar was weeping… He didn’t leave the dressing room to even collect his man-of-the-match award’

My first memory of meeting a little Sachin Tendulkar was in 1988 when I was leading Baroda in the Ranji Trophy game. We were playing Bombay at Thane’s Dadoji Kondev Stadium. One of the Bombay players introduced me to him. Tendulkar asked me tips about batting. When I was telling him the nuances of batting, he was completely attentive. He wanted to learn the intricacies of batting.