Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar will go down in historical past as top-of-the-line opening partnerships to ever grace the game. The left-right mixture was a nightmare for a lot of new-ball bowlers. Ganguly although, revealed that he was “all the time” the primary to face the music as Tendulkar wouldn’t take strike. In a chat with Mayank Agarwal on bcci.television, Sourav Ganguly revealed that he would generally ask Tendulkar to take the strike however would all the time get two solutions in return.
“At all times he did,” stated Ganguly when requested by Mayank Agarwal if Sachin compelled him to take strike in ODIs.
“He had a solution to that. I take advantage of to inform him, ‘yaar generally you additionally face the primary ball’. He had two solutions to it, one — he believed that if his kind was good, he ought to proceed and stay on the non-striker’s finish after which if his kind wasn’t good, he stated I (Sachin) ought to stay on the non-striker’s finish as a result of it takes the stress off.
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“So, he had a solution for each — good kind and unhealthy kind. Till and except somebody walked previous him and went and stood on the non-striker’s finish and he was already on TV and he can be compelled to take the strike. That has occurred one or two instances. I’ve simply walked previous him and stood on the non-striker’s finish,” the previous India captain added.
Tendulkar and Ganguly opened for India in 136 innings, amassing 6,609 runs — most by a gap batting pair on the planet in ODIs. Their highest partnership was 258 runs, coming towards Kenya in a 2001 ODI in Paarl.
The 2 India greats additionally high the checklist of highest total partnership runs by a pair. Collectively they’ve scored eight,227 runs in 176 innings at a median of 47.55 with a complete of 26 100-run partnerships.
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