Mumbai star former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar made his debut at the age of 16 and eventually emerged as the backbone of the Indian batting department, taking on all the world’s best bowlers and scoring 30000+ runs and 100 centuries to give India many historic victories. It is a mountain when looking back at the matches he played and the victories that brought him centuries and records, he faced almost 3 generations of opposing bowlers for 24 years as an epic leader who has passed the time among many players who usually make a century on their debut.
Because in order to play successfully for 24 consecutive years, it is necessary to play consistently without injuries and without losing form. But it can be said that he was able to perform so successfully because he faced both of them many times in his career and did not give up. Especially after 1999, the tennis elbow injury caused him a major setback.
Secret of success:
Similarly, by 2007, he had lost his form and struggled to score runs, although he was thinking of retiring without speaking, but after the arrival of Dhoni as captain, he got good support and improved himself and made many achievements after 35 years of experience. In this case, Sehwag says that Sachin introduced new tactics in his batting every year to be successful and maintained his fitness to compete with Virat Kohli who came in 2008.
He said in a recent interview that it was the main reason behind his achievements like 100 centuries. “How did Sachin Tendulkar play for so many years? You might think that. It is because every year he thinks about what new technique he can incorporate into his batting or how he can improve himself. Maybe if I don’t introduce anything new in the batting, but if I keep my fitness, I can convert 100 runs into 200 runs.”
“But after players like us came in 2000, Sachin Tendulkar focused more on the fitness aspect than us. Then he competed with Virat Kohli who came in 2008. That means Sachin Tendulkar gave more importance to fitness than Virat Kohli. Let me tell you an example of this. Once we lifted weights ranging from 1 kg to 20 kg. We had to take each one and bend our wrists 10 times. However after doing that 5 – 6 times I was not strong enough. But Sachin didn’t stop at 1 to 20 kg and did it from 20 kg to 1 kg.”
“Because it was a workout for his forearms, he was able to use the weighted bat easily and play for long periods of time without tiring. But we could not lift more than 5 kg. Why should he do that especially when he had scored 10-15000 runs and 70 hundreds at that time? Because he wanted to keep himself fit”
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“He was able to play 40 years because he was so fit in our team. He had a back problem in 1999 and did not suffer from it again as he took appropriate exercises.