In the hi💜story of white-ball cricket, there has never been a greater opening pair than Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.
ཧIn 136 innings, the two have clubbed 6,609 runs at an average of 49.32, which is the most✅ successful for India.
The Tendulkar-Ganguly partnership stormed the limelight in the late 90s and early 2000s. Then, to accommodate Virender Sehwag, the three shared the opening slot. Later, the pair of Ganguly-Sehwag and Sachin-Sehwag had their separate achievements, flair and 𝓡success.
In white-ball cricket, Indi꧅a has been perennially blessed with a successful opening partnership since then in the form of Sehwag-Gautam Gambhir and now Rohit Sharma-Shikhar Dhawan.
Recently, during his latest interaction with Indian Test opener Mayank Agarwal, Sourav talked about Sachin’🎉s reasons, rather excuses, for not taking the ♔strike.
“Sachin Paji always forced you to take the strike while opening with you in ODIs? Myth ? Reality ? Listen to what Dada has to say #DadaOpensWithMayank episode coming up soon on //bcci.tv,” BCCI caption✃ed its post with an excerpt of the interaction.
“Always, he did. He had an answer to that. I used to tell him ‘sometimes you also face the first ball. I always face the first ball’. He had two answers for t💜hat,” Ganguly said.
“One, he believed if his form was good, he should continue and remain at the non-striker’s end. And when his form wasn’t good, he would say ‘I should remain at the non-striker’s end, as it takes the pressure off me’. He had an answ꧃er for both good form and bad form,” he added.
“🌟Until and unless some days, you walk past him 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 once or twice, I went past him and stood at the non-striker’s end,” Ganguly concluded.
Here’s the video:
Sachin Paji always 𓆏forced𓆉 you to take the strike while opening with you in ODIs? Myth ? Reality ?
Listen to what Dada has to say 😄 episode coming up soo♏n on
— BCCI (@BCCI)
