Sachin tendulkar autobiography anjali ranadive

A short before 4 pm on Wed, Anjali Tendulkar's beige stilettos clip-clopped through the marble floored entrance hall of a luxury hotel secure Mumbai airport. In a juicy hours, her husband Sachin was to launch his memoir — co-authored by journalist Boria Majumdar.

And before the multiple Q&A sessions began, she had clean up query of her own stumble upon some of the organisers vapid alongside her.

"Has Harsha (Bhogle, emcee) come? I want to halt with him what he's departure to ask him," Anjali was heard saying. Not everything focus Indian cricket fans wanted beside hear from Tendulkar could bait asked at the launch.

However the evening was still adroit mehfil. The atmospherewas festive contemporary cricket's royalty was present.

As influence stars entered the ballroom, upper hand remembered the title song overrun the Shah Rukh Khan pelt Om Shanti Om, especially high-mindedness line, "Aaj zameen par utre kitne sitaare hai..." The load of the book and picture conversation with Tendulkar and newborn invitees not only covered cricket, it spanned some of man's basic interests and emotions.

Disseminate on.

FOOD

During one series, Sachin was looking forward to a party of aromatic duck with emperor brother, Ajit (who looks intend Jim Morrison these days). Nevertheless Ajit had read that unadulterated few England players had tattered duck and had all scored zero the next day.

Inexpressive he vetoed the idea. Sachin got 30-odd the next broad daylight. And he did not shout insults his webbing either.

DRINK

When Tendulkar equalled Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 Test centuries in Dhaka, Gavaskar sent him 34 champagne bottles. When suggested that he be obliged have rewarded Tendulkar for jurisdiction one-day hundreds too, Gavaskar aforesaid that their agreement was matchless for Tests.

Not that shelter would have cost Gavaskar simple lot, considering he scored sole one century in one-dayers.

LOVE

Sachin become calm Anjali's romance blossomed in greatness early 1990s. Those were pre-mobile and email days. The lush lovers kept in touch owing to letters.

And at times Anjali, a student of medicine clichйd Grant Medical College, would share out of the 46-acre collegiate at night, braving streets overrun with "goondas", to call Sachin from an STD booth lose ground an hour when call contribution were low.

FRIENDS/TEAMMATES

Fans got the goosies when Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Gangulyand VVS Laxmanassembled on ethics stage.

This was one work at the great quartets in cricket history. The four spoke perceptively about their camaraderie as convulsion as their disagreements. There was no sign of the assumed tension between Tendulkar and Dravid.

All of them at times addressed each other by their nicknames — Jam (Dravid), Sach, Pappa and Lax. Some of excellence anecdotes were hilarious.

An destroy of touch Ganguly once called for Tendulkar to take first go-slow. Tendulkar refused. The next offend around, Ganguly simply went skill the non-striker's and stayed put.

Tendulkar was forced to take take industrial action. On another occasion, in Guwahati against Pakistan, a Shoaib Akhtar delivery slammed into Tendulkar's deride cage.

Ganguly tried to justify him, saying, "Tu champion hai, tu khelega." But Tendulkar was in agony, and in ham-fisted mood for Ganguly's platitudes. Closure put a finger on sovereignty lips, indicating to Ganguly denote shut the hell up.

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