Apart from the massive amount of runs they plundered, another aspect of their partnership that was note-worthy was that Sachin Tendulkar rarely took strike first up.
In a chat with Mayank Agarwal on his latest special episode of ‘Open Nets with Mayank’, Sourav Ganguly revealed why Sachin Tendulkar always wanted him to face the first ball when they opened the innings in ODIs.
Mayank Agarwal asked the current BCCI chief if Sachin Tendulkar forced the former to take strike. To the question, Sourav Ganguly replied that the Master Blaster usually had his answers ready to convince the left-hander to face the first delivery of the innings.
Ganguly tricked Sachin Tendulkar into playing the first delivery
In the same chat, Sourav Ganguly further revealed a trick that he used a couple of times to ‘force’ Sachin Tendulkar into taking strike.
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