Sachin Tendulkar singled out the Ranji Trophy semi-final between Mumbai and Tamil Nadu played at the Wankhede Stadium in the 1999-2000 season as his most memorable game in the championship. “I will say it was the 1993-94 semi-final against Tamil Nadu,” said Tendulkar to a query to him at the function to celebrate Mumbai’s 500th Ranji game against Baroda commencing on Thursday.<\/p>\n
He also described how Mumbai overtook Tamil Nadu’s first innings score of 485 successfully with him at the crease with last man Santosh Saxena.<\/p>\n
Tendulkar, who struck a double century, said that after the ball got changed by the umpires, it suddenly started to reverse.<\/p>\n
“I started to stand outside the crease and Hemang Badani will tell the bowler from a point in Tamil that I was standing outside. I then went back into the crease when the bowler started his run-up. After the match I told Badani that I understand Tamil”, he told the gathering at the Mumbai CA’s Sharad Pawar academy at the Bandra-Kurla complex.<\/p>\n
Mumbai went on to win the game by eight wickets.<\/p>\n
Tendulkar also pointed out that Mumbai’s success percentage in the Ranji matches was 47 percent.<\/p>\n
“If I say it’s unbelievable it’s an understatement,” said the champion batsman and scorer of 100 hundreds in international cricket.<\/p>\n
Other former cricketers, who spoke about their time in the championship and Mumbai’s domination were Madhav Apte, Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sudhir Naik, Sanjay Manjrekar and Amol Muzumdar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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