Why Sachin never took strike on the first ball

Why Sachin never took strike on the first ball

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Sourav Ganguly, former Indian cricket team captain, reveals why Sachin Tendulkar never came first for the strike.

Yes, he always asked me to take the strike. He always had an answer to that, I used to tell him that sometimes you also face the first ball, always I take the strike,” Ganguly told opening batsman Mayank Agarwal in a video posted by the official Twitter handle of BCCI.

“He had two answers to that, one if his form was good, he believed that it should continue and he should be at the non-striker’s end, and if he was out of form, then he used to say that I should stay at the non-striker’s end because it takes the pressure,” he added.

Tendulkar stopped taking strikes after 1-2 two times because Ganguly himself used to stand at strike position.

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“He had an answer to both good and bad form, until and unless you went past him and stood at the non-striker’s end, and the match was already on TV and then he would be forced to take the strike, It did happen once or twice.” Ganguly said.

No other duo has ever crossed 6k runs together in ODI’s other than Sachin and Ganguly who scored 8,227 runs in 176 innings. Sachin Tendulkar has a record of 15,921 runs and 51 centuries in test formats.

Ganguly was awarded the Arjuna award and Padam Shri. He guided India in the World Cup of 2003. He played 113 tests and 311 ODIs. He became the president of BCCI in 2019.

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