Can you imagine Sachin Tendulkar playing for an Australian team? He played some of the most iconic innings against Australia. He played for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL). But Sachin in Australian team? This feels really wrong and strange.
But big bash league (BBL) The franchise’s plan was to bring Sachin Tendulkar back from his retirement so that he could play at least one match for them in the Australian Franchise League. In an official video, former Melbourne Stars chairman Eddie McGuire revealed that he came up with a plan to bring Sachin Tendulkar out of retirement.
Official video reveals shocking claims
McGuire claims that he had a special plan to bring the Master Blaster along with the late great Shane Warne to represent his team for one night.
But why would they think of having Sachin on their side? As mentioned by the former franchise president, their side lacked star attraction. So he thought of doing something big, something incredibly impressive, that would capture the attention of every cricket fan. With this in mind, he decided to approach the Indian batsman.
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Get Sachin Tendulkar: Former Melbourne Stars chairman
“I was just thinking about the international perspective because I was lobbying when they started taking all our players. Ridiculously, some were being picked up and not even playing. You’d have to go up to Tasmania, get on the team bus and then not get any games,” McGuire said in a video shared by the Melbourne Stars.
“I said, ‘Well, if you are going to take my four batsmen or my four bowlers, at least allow me to bring an international player.’ And I actually said at one stage, ‘If I go and get Sachin Tendulkar, I’ll fill this ground five times over’,’ he added.
They may have had a plan, but it never came to fruition. Sachin TendulkarHe retired from international cricket in November 2013, never revised his decision and remains retired till date. However, the former head of the BBL franchise claims that they were very keen to bring the icon out of retirement.
“I said, ‘Just for one game, if we invite him to play in the grand final. You’ve taken three or four of my best batsmen, so let me bring one. Let me take Sachin Tendulkar as our batsman and Warney as our bowler, and let’s see how many people come. We’ll have to put screens in the park. It will be the biggest cricket match in Australian history, in a Big Bash T20 match on a single night,'” he recalled. Did it.
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Eddie McGuire wanted Sachin Tendulkar in green!
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Sachin once played for the Australian cricket team
Tendulkar and Warne played together for the same team during the Cricket All Stars Series in 2015. And in 2020, for the first time in history, Tendulkar played in the yellow jersey for the Bushfire Cricket Bash to raise funds for the victims of the Australian bushfires.
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