Sachin Tendulkar - The Debutant

There was a great deal of curiosity about young Sachin Tendulkar when he landed in Pakistan. Was he as good as he was touted to be, cricket writers and Pakistan players all wanted to know. His Test debut, however, was undistinguished: he scored 15 batting at number 6, but Imran Khan did mention that he liked the boy’s courage to play bowlers like Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and himself. In the next Test, Tendulkar scored a half century to reveal his class. At Sialkot, where he scored another half century despite being hit on the face by a snorter from Waqar, Tendulkar announced to the world that he was something special