In this episode of Batman@50 series, TOI's Gaurav Gupta catches up with Vinod Kambli, who recalls the iconic 664-run partnership with Sachin at an inter-school match in 1998. Kambli recalls how their coach Ramakant Achrekar was mad at them for going on batting. Kambli recalls: We just kept singing all through the partnership. We sang ... "wake me up before you go ...". We have always cherished memories of the partnership and the runs we made, says Kambli.
As
Sachin Tendulkar
turns 50, we celebrate some of the icon’s greatest knocks in our podcast series -- Batman@50. And, no Tendulkar story is complete without a mention of the blistering
664-run partnership with Vinod Kambli
during the inter-school Harris Shield tournament in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan in 1988.
Sachin was just two months away from his 15th birthday and Kambli was 16. Thirty-five years later, as Sachin steps into his 50s, Kambli recalls that special day in an exclusive chat with TOI’s Gaurav Gupta – from how they sang on as they hitting the bowlers to how their
coach Ramakant Achrekar
was mad at them for batting on and on and how close they got as friends during that partnership. Excerpts …
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