Former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar, who was part of the Indian Cricket Team, recalled how he saw Tendulkar’s successful hits, truly announcing his arrival on to the international cricket scene in that game.
“In New Zealand, he had one 80 and he had become a little tighter. But come England, he had sealed all his weaknesses. So that hundred was just a recognition of the growth of this man and I have never seen anyone come to international cricket so quickly,” Manjrekar said in Cricket Connected.
He further recalled and mentioned how Tendulkar went on to score two hundred in Australia after Old Trafford hundred. Later then in Australia immediately after England, he went there and dominated international cricket as a batsman. “It wasn’t that we were astounded by the effort. Because this is a guy whose climb at the international level from the age of 16, who started playing in Pakistan with a few good innings there but there was a certain amount of looseness, impetuous kind of batting outside the off-stump”.
In 1990 Test against England at Old Trafford, Sachin registered his first Test hundred. Sachin Tendulkar retired from cricket after playing his 200th Test in 2013 against West Indies. Post-retirement, he acted as a coach for the Ponting XI during The Big Appeal.
