Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday opened up about psychological well being, throughout which the batting maestero additionally spoke about battling nervousness throughout his cricketing profession. He went on to state that it’s pure for a cricketer to expertise the highs and lows throughout his profession and why it is very important settle for when one is feeling low.
He additionally emphasised that one can be taught from anybody, and went on to share an attention-grabbing story from his cricketing days, when a hotel staff’s recommendation helped him right his mistake.
“That person got me dosa in the room and after keeping it on the table, he offered an advice. He pointed out that my elbow guard was restricting my bat swing, which was actually the case. He helped me address that issue,” stated Tendulkar in an interplay organised by Unacademy.
So who was this hotel staff and what precisely occurred then?
The incident passed off throughout Australia’s tour of India in 2001, when Guruprasad, a resident of Chennai’s Perambur, observed a small change in Master Blaster was fortunate sufficient to level it out to him personally.
He was then a member of the safety staff in Taj Coromandel in Chennai and was working as a ground in-charge.
As narrated by Guruprasad himself in a report in The Indian Express again in 2019, the entire incident passed off when he tried to take an autograph after recognizing Tendulkar, who was about to take the carry.
“I saw Sachin Tendulkar when he was about to take the lift. I wanted his autograph, but I didn’t have any special book or paper, so I got his autograph on my beat book. I wanted to say something about his batting, not once did I have second thoughts about whether I should say something like that to a star because I always admired Sachin’s humanity and down-to-earth personality,” Guruprasad was quoted as saying within the report.
The hotel staff within the report added that the previous India batsman welcomed his suggestion and likewise requested him how he observed the error.
“I told him he was wearing an elbow-guard that was arresting his bat swing. He was surprised by my cricketing knowledge and asked me how I observed the game so deeply. I said I am his huge fan and watched all his innings repeatedly and that’s how I noticed this change in his batting technique. He said he would look into my suggestion,” he added.
This is not the primary time Sachin has remembered Guruprasad
Sachin in 2019 had took to Twitter asking his followers to assist him find the hotel staff, who shared this priceless recommendation relating to his elbow guard proscribing his bat swing.
The Master Blaster had then confirmed that he adopted up on the hotel staff’s recommendation and subsequently redesigned his elbow guard. He additionally talked about that it was solely Guruprasad who had noticed the fault in his elbow guard.
“Whenever you wear an arm guard, your bat swing changes,” the hotel staff had instructed him, Sachin had stated within the video.
“I had never spoken about this with anyone in the world before that. He was the only one who had noticed,” the previous cricketer additional stated within the video.
An opportunity encounter might be memorable!
I had met a staffer at Taj Coromandel, Chennai throughout a Test sequence with whom I had a dialogue about my elbow guard, after which I redesigned it.
I’m wondering the place he’s now & want to meet up with him.Hey netizens, are you able to assist me discover him? pic.twitter.com/BhRanrN5cm
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) December 14, 2019
In a profession, which spanned for over two decades, Tendulkar introduced many modifications in his sport earlier than he hung his boots from worldwide cricket in 2013. He holds the report of scoring essentially the most variety of worldwide runs and likewise has 100 worldwide tons below his title.
