Searching for Sachin
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
AFP
For Sachin Tendulkar fans, here’s an interesting site. CV Williams, an Australian writer, is producing a biography of Tendulkar and will release a new chapter online each week. In this instalment Tendulkar's life as a child is covered.
He was a sweet boy like the others. But one of the outstanding qualities about Sachin has always been his determination during training as well as during a game. Some say he overtrains, to this day. As a boy he would run with more vigour, do more push ups than the other boys, demand that it was his turn to bat more often, hit more runs, and play on more maidans around the district, as his coach ‘Achrekar Sir’ ferried him from maidan to maidan on the back of his scooter on game days. And most likely he had more fun.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo