When Sachin Tendulkar had no money to go home from the railway station!

[JANASENA]

Believe it or not! Sachin Tendulkar, once the richest cricketer in the world, revealed he had no money for a cab ride back home. Years ago, Tendulkar, then a teenager, had returned from Pune after playing an under-15 game in Pune but found himself stranded at the railway station.

Tendulkar retired from international cricket in 2013 after becoming the first man to play in 200 Tests and score 100 international hundreds. He holds the record for most runs in Tests as well as one-day internationals.

The Mumbai marauder was also the first man to score a double ton in ODIs, against the visiting South Africans. (Also Read:Sachin Tendulkar set to make debut as actor)

"I was only 12 years old and was selected to play for the Mumbai under-15 team. I was excited, carried some money and we went to Poona (Pune) to play three matches and it started raining there," Tendulkar said at the launch of 'digibank' initiative of DBS.

"When I got my turn, I was out on 4, run-out. I was only 12 and could barely run at a decent pace. I was disappointed and came back to the dressing room crying and after that I did not get another chance to bat," he said.

"Because it had rained, we had nothing to do the whole day, except to go out, watch a movie and eat. Without knowing how to spend my money and how to equally pace myself and save money, I finished everything and when I came back to Mumbai by
train there was not a penny in my pocket.

"I was carrying two big bags, we got off at Dadar station and I had to walk to Shivaji Park because I had no money," Tendulkar recalled, ruing that it was the pre-cell phone era.

"Can you imagine, if I had a phone in my hand, one SMS and my father or my mother would have transferred the amount to my phone and may be I would have travelled by cab," said.

Tendulkar who celebrated his 43rd birthday two days ago.

Tendulkar and technology are not distant cousins, far removed. The Master Blaster was the first player in the history of the game to be declared run out by the third umpire. The former India captain was found short of his crease for 11 in the Durban Test of India's historic tour of South Africa back in 1992.

"When it comes to technology, yours truly was the first one to be given out by the third umpire in 1992, I was given run out by the third umpire. Sometimes technology can't go
your way," he said.

"While fielding you need the right decisions from the third umpire, but not while batting," he said on a lighter note.
 
Asked to look back on the changes that have taken place in the game during his lengthy career, Tendulkar said, "A lot of changes happened. When I started playing cricket -- that was ages ago in 1989 -- we did not have a proper sponsor. So guys who had been around for a while had t-shirts and trousers and all that.

"We, on our first tour, had limited resources to get top clothing. So, from there it all started. We were suddenly told that there is going to be a computer in the dressing room -- which was in 2002-03.

"What is a computer going to do in the dressing room? Computer is not going to teach you how to bat. But over a period of time we realised that planning and executing those
plans was not left to imagination. We could actually set up a projector and have all those data displayed on the screen," he said.

"And if we spoke about, do not bowl to this batsman in this area, because that is his strong one, it was not us 15 players imagining, but it was actually there in front of us.

"Those kinds of things helped us in planning for them and to execute those plans, the thought process was clear," he said.

[VizagRocks]

When I was 15, even I didn't have the money to go back home, after I ran away, and couldn't handle hunger, and sleeping on the floor for two days.

I begged Sulurupeta Train station manager to help me board a train to Chennai. This, when my father was filthy rich.

Poor little rich kid.

[VizagRocks]

Who is interested in reading this rich kid's life story?

Stick to cricket man.

[chichi]

i dont bother or even surprise for that

[rrc_2015]

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[Vuthal_Bithal]

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