Former India cricketer Hemang Badani recalled an interesting anecdote when Sachin Tendulkar once asked the wicketkeeper to exchange his an...
Former India cricketer Hemang Badani recalled an interesting anecdote when Sachin Tendulkar once asked the wicketkeeper to exchange his and Javagal Srinath’s trousers to lighten up the latter’s mood during a One-Day International match against England in 2002.
Badani said Tendulkar decided to play a prank on the bowler after he found out Srinath was nervous before the match against England in Cuttack where the India pacer was playing his final ODI series.
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“For some strange reason at Cuttack, he [Srinath] was extremely nervous, extremely wobbly, which he normally isn’t,” Badani revealed on his Instagram account.
“Java is extremely vocal and very confident in his normal self, but for some strange reason, he was a little nervous that day.
“I wasn’t playing that game. Srinath, obviously being a 6-feet-2, 6-feet-3, had really long pants and Sachin, being about 5-feet-5, 5-feet-6 had shorter pants. To just try and lighten the mood and to make sure that Srinath got back to normalcy, during practice just before the match, he [Tendulkar] asked me to switch trousers.”
Badani said Srinath didn’t notice he was wearing Tendulkar’s trousers before someone told him about it once the match began.
“Srinath being Srinath, doesn’t even care. He...
