Sachin Tendulkar had 2 answers, based on his form, for not taking first strike: Sourav Ganguly

Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly opened the batting for Team India 176 occasions in one-day worldwide cricket but it surely was the latter who principally took first strike for the staff.

Tendulkar averted dealing with the first ball in 50-overs cricket attributable to 2 specific superstitions, his former opening accomplice Sourav Ganguly revealed.

BCCI president Ganguly said that Tendulkar at all times had 2 solutions prepared for not taking the first strike, based on his present kind.

Current India Test opener Mayank Agarwal requested him whether or not it was true that Tendulkar compelled him to take first strike to which Ganguly replied: “Always he did. He had an answer to that and I used to tell him ‘yaar sometimes you also face the first ball’.

“He had 2 solutions to it – he believed when his kind was good it ought to proceed and that he ought to stay on the non-striker’s finish, after which when his kind wasn’t good he stated ‘I ought to stay on the non-striker’s finish as a result of it takes the strain off me’,” Ganguly said on Agarwal’s show Open Nets with Mayank on BCCI.tv.

Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly formed the most-successful opening partnership in ODI history with 8227 runs from 176 innings at an average of 47.55.

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The duo shared 26 hundred-run partnerships for the first wicket and 29 fifty-run stands collectively. Their highest opening stand of 258 got here towards Kenya in an ODI in Paarl in 2001.

Ganguly went on so as to add that he had to quietly sneak previous him and stand on the non-striker’s finish every time he did not need to face the first ball.

“He had an answer for both, good form and bad form. Until and unless somedays you walk past him, went and stood at the non-striker’s end and he was already on TV and he would be forced to be at the striker’s end. That has happened one or two times, I’ve just walked past him and stood at the non-striker’s end,” Ganguly revealed.