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Vaidya, a promising pacer from Nagpur, recalls another incident involving the great man. “I along with Sanjay Manjrekar & Sachin Tendulkar went out for dinner. We saw Aquib Javed, Waquar Younis & Wasim Akram alongwith other Pakistani players. When he passed them, Sachin greeted them all. Aquib grabbed his hand, looked him in the eye & said ‘You make us toil all day on the field, atleast now you can afford to smile!’ Sachin smiled at them from ear to ear. Such was the fear & respect that he commanded that has brought relief to the bowlers”, Vaidya recalls with a big smile. Vaidya also said that he & Tendulkar had a peace-pact for when they met on a cricket field. “We had this peace-pact in place whenever I bowled to him in domestic cricket. Once in a Challenger Trophy match he was clobbering all the bowlers around the park but I somehow managed to fare better against him than other bowlers. Perhaps I was bowling well to him or he was taking me too seriously. When I stood at the top of my run-up I jokingly waved the peace sign at him. That brought a smile to his face & we got on with the game. Jokes apart, bowling to him was ...Read further @ drivecricket/index.php/when-a-bowler-gave-tendulkar-sleepless-nights/
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:26:56 +0000

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