The Surfer

Operation Tendulkar

Andrew Wallace, the doctor who operated on Sachin Tendulkar's elbow and Virender Sehwag's shoulder, tells the Indian Express' Sandeep Dwivedi about the experience.

Andrew Wallace, the doctor who operated on Sachin Tendulkar's elbow and Virender Sehwag's shoulder, tells the Indian Express' Sandeep Dwivedi about the experience.

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Things only got worse as the date of the surgery — Tendulkar was operated at the St John’s & Elizabeth Hospital in London — approached. “There were five camera crews, 150 phone calls, 180 emails and the hospital had to appoint a special PR agency just to manage the situation,” says the man who restored an elbow that has been the fulcrum of Indian cricket for two decades.

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Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo