ARTICLES BY Chandu Borde

‘It was difficult to take 16-year-old Sachin Tendulkar out of the cricket ground’

I was the Indian team’s manager on the tour to Pakistan in 1989 and a 16-and-a-half-year-old Sachin Tendulkar was making his international debut. Even then, it was difficult to take Sachin out of the ground after net practice. So the groundstaff used to come and say, "We have to get the wickets ready for the Test match. Please ask your boy to come in."