Sachin Tendulkar believes that the single biggest change in cricket between when he started playing for India in 1989 and today is the laptop. โIt has altered everything,โ Tendulkar said in an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times on Wednesday evening at the Taj Mahal Palace, where he wasย attending an awards ceremony hosted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India as well as a promotional event for a watch brand. โYou can study and analyse so much more, you have so many more details.โ
Four years ago, he had dedicated his match-winning century against England in Chennai to the inhabitants of Mumbai, who had been ravaged by the terror attack of November 26. The Mumbai Test started two days after the sole surviving gunman of those attacks, Ajmal Kasab, was hanged in Puneโs Yerawada Jail.
โIt had not struck me. I must tell my teammates. It will charge us all up. But that one was an unbelievable game. I had felt that even if for a moment we had been able to make people smile because of our victory, we had done our duty as India players.โ
The World Cup victory in 2011 remains Tendulkarโs โgreatest momentโ; and 2000-2010 โthe great decade for Indian cricketโ. Indian cricketโs future, he said, is in the hands of โsome good playersโ. โFive years from now, well, we have the talent and the resources.โ
And retirement? โThe mind and the body know when it is the right moment to go.โ
