Download Subtitles for Sachin Tendulkar's Inspirational Speech

I went to the bathroom and I cried and I looked at myself in the mirror said this this level of cricket is not for you you know you're not good enough to do all this let's introduce the batting Master of the world siton tend well let's share a few stories I reckon um why don't we start right at the beginning but School cricket was exciting and uh the reason to start playing cricket was a strange one I mean I was a notorious child difficult to manage and uh I took a lot of pride in that uh one of the evenings uh they were showing a famous Bollywood film on on a TV channel and in those days uh there were not many channels back home in India so we friends thought this is this is the best time to polish off all the mangoes from the tree which we were not meant to and we fell down we also brought the tree down with us and that was a turning point of my career because my brother and my family the rest of the family members said this is enough and then you're not allowing more of these complaints to come home every evening because that was supposed to be my summer vacations beginning of my summer vacations and and uh I said that we we going to make you burn all your calories on a cricket field you do what you want you love Cricket go out and play with a season ball and that's how my career started and uh gradually I I did not know I mean I was only 11 years old I did not know what were the big tournaments but but the dream was there in front of me I wanted to play for India because as a 10-year-old I had seen coule Dave lift that beautiful trophy at Lords 1983 World Cup so I had also joined the celebrations not knowing the significance of winning the World Cup so that's how my Cricket started and uh I always wanted to win the World Cup that was the reason I started and as the time went by I started enjoying cricket and I started realizing the challenges of cricket and my coach was instrumental and along with my brother a to to my elder brother Ajit to make me realize the the importance of leading a disciplined life a focused life and uh uh to to to to make me push Harder They found reasons and and even towards the end of my career I followed that formula I if I scored runs let the rest of the world talk about it I think about the next game and that right from my school days became an Unwritten formula Unwritten Law at home that we don't talk about last game we talk about next game and however many runs I scored I wanted to go out and score more than that so if I didn't score I would have a restless night if I scored runs I would still have a restless night thinking that how am I going to score more and that's how it all happened I mean I I I normally don't discuss numbers but uh this is something that I must share with all of you I towards the end of my school Cricket career I already started playing first class cricket and uh the last season I can proudly say that I averaged 1,25 because I only got out once in the whole season and my my brother and my coach was instrumental in that because uh every time I scored runs none of them said well played to me and that's why in my farewell speech I said I said to my coach that at least now you can take a chance by saying well done there is there are no no more matches in my career but uh something that that lived for was appreciation from my coach and my brother which never happened I mean and that was something which uh you know sort of kept me giving uh giving my best all the time and then a asked around the room and we will have a chance to ask some questions um after we have our conversation here um many people have said simple easy question what was the best Innings ever uh the one in Perth 1992 I was only 18 then and uh that that was a fast Wicket everyone I guess each and every o you know how fast the Wicket is and kind of Bounce It generates so for for someone who had never experienced that kind of pace and bounce and Australia as usual was playing terrific cricket so so for for me to go out there and score runs on that pitch was really important and I can almost say the turning turning phase of my career because after that I was not overc confident but I was confident to play any attack in the world and I felt I was ready to face any attack in the world uh I was able to challenge many attacks after that in the world but that one particular inning was was uh the best inning but the most most meaningful Innings and something which which has uh stayed with me now and it'll stay with me forever has to be the one that I played against England in Chennai in 2008 uh there was a time when Mumbai was hit by that terrible terrorist attack and uh the the one day series was cancel England went off to Dubai and uh they graciously came back to play the test series and when we turned up in Chennai to play the first test none of us were in frame of mind to play test Cricket I mean any form of cricket because all we kept discussing was you know how could this happen to our nation and why did it happen it was the toughest phase of my career and I would speak on the behalf of our team it was really really tough and for first 3 and a half days we were completely out of ideas we we could not put up a competitive performance and England uh gave us a Target in the fourth Innings of 375 runs 374 runs we were able to win that game we chased 375 on a difficult track but to see the entire nation celebrating that Victory even for a second meant a lot to all of us and I had played a significant role in that so that is the most important Innings of my life more than even you know the the other World Cup Innings or other important Innings that I've been part of uh this this had a different meaning all together so CH I imagine you're right what about um some of the characters that did bow to you I mean we're talking about the very best fast Bowlers in the world after the last quarter of a century why don't we just you go through a few names what about the first your first tour against Pakistan and then maybe Donald and mcgr and and waren who reckons even today after you smashed him around in charer that he has nightmares of you hitting for six I mean the first test series was was uh An important series because uh I was only 16 and I did not know at that time what I was you know facing against I mean uh you you talk about Iman Khan world class bowler Wasim Akram amazing absolutely super all time one of the greatest Bowlers to have played vakar yunus I would put him in the same league Abdul Kad again in the same league so it was a it was a world class attack and uh I went out to bat in the first game and straight from school Cricket to one season of first class cricket and then to play against the best bowling attack in the world I was clueless I had no idea I was getting beaten by the pace I'd never experience someone bowl at 90 95 M an hour and um I could I could actually see the ball but uh while I was reacting the ball was more towards the keeper and not closer to the keeper rather than it's it's it should be closer to me but uh and I said oh this is this is a wrong place and you know you got in the wrong place at the wrong time and I got out I got out on 15 while walking back I somehow controlled my tears I was only 16 then so I was allowed to do all that I went to the bathroom and I cried and I looked at myself in the mirror said this this level of cricket is not for you you know you're not good enough to do all this and uh fortunately I got about six days in between so I ended up speaking to lot of uh the senior players and the team the coach and they all said that you know you batted as if you were playing a school batch this is not a school match you need to learn to give respect to these worldclass Bowlers and you need to you need to just hang around there give yourself some time and in the next match I went out I was just hoping that I get picked for the next game which I was and the next game I decided not to look at the scoreboard I said the only time I'm looking in the direction of the score scoreboard is to look at the clock because I had decided my target was that I'm going to bat for half an hour not worrying about runs and after half an hour you know I got used to that pace and I said I can deal with this pace you know it's it's it's not easy but it's not impossible and that changed my thinking I scored 59 in that test match and from there on I never doubted my ability but the first match I thought it was my first and the last one what about fear in that you've been able to overcome a lot of pine during your career in the in the in fact uh in the same series uh in the fourth test match we were in a in a bad position in the second Innings we were 34 for four wickets down and with a day and a half to go so I got hit on my nose when I was batting on one I later on I realized that I had broken my nose uh everyone gathered and then you know you know what happens when Pakistan team is around you there there are bound to be some commends and and Javed miandad was was uh you know a tricky customer and then he said you've broken your nose you you can't be batting here you have to go to the hospital knowing that you know one batsman goes to the hospital there again they start to dominate yeah and the doctor came I iced my nose and I put a bandage and I continued batting but U that was again I mean I I scored 58 in that match and I batted for four more hours after that which sort of you know helped us draw the series because Pakistan had the most wonderful attack in the world they were expected to thrash us 40 and to to draw the series was kind of a uh which I which I got to know through English guys it was a moral victory for us so so I only learned that word towards the end of my career but it means a lot so it was kind of a moral victory for us and we were able to draw but uh I I became Fearless after that look I think an interesting question here would be you've had your highs and your lows and you've been absolutely um magnificent right through how does one get up off the deck when when things aren't going well I would like to share one experience with you here it's it's a funny story but uh completely out of the box which we hadn't tried and it it did wonders for our team we were playing against New Zealand and uh Chris kanes was bowling this was in India uh in uh in moali so in your hometown uh it was it was uh uh the ball was reverse swinging and Chris GES was virtually beating us two three times an over I was batting with Rahul davit so the main batters of batting we'd like to believe that we were the main batters and uh we were getting beaten and we were sort of Clueless because we couldn't see the shine sometimes the surfaces are such that it becomes little difficult to figure out which side which side is the shiny side and which is the rough side I mean uh I I expect all you guys to know what reverse swing is reverse swing is wherever the shiny side is the ball starts to go in that direction even if the bowler wants the ball to go in the opposite direction it will not go because of the imbalance and uh the the surface of of the ball so Chris had started doing that and I met with Rahul in the middle of the Wicket in the middle of the over I said I've got an idea uh and he said uh do you want to share it now or after the over I said I'll share with you after the over but but it it can work so rul said okay tell me now what is what is your idea I said to Rahul I am closer to the bowler and when he walking back on the run up I need to stand here and he's walking back onto his run up I would be watching him closely and I'd be watching the ball which side is a shiny side and which side is a rough side so rul said uh then what happens after that I said whichever side is the shiny side I will hold the bat in that hand if the ball if he's going to Bow an outswinger the bat is going to be in my left hand if he's bowling ins swinger the bat is in my right hand at the non-striker's end so that's the only time in my career when the batsman is ready to face the ball he's not watching the bowler he's watching the bat so he's very good so Rahul is watching me and suddenly and suddenly uh you see couple of cover drives been hit for boundaries and you know on drives passing you know piercing midwicket and mid on and Chris is like wondering I mean these guys are getting beaten couple of times every hour and suddenly I'm giving away couple of boundaries there's definitely something wrong so all the fielders were watching me because I was you know watching Chris and not Rahul normally no batsman stands facing the Bowery he would be like facing the other batter and then I would quickly change the bat and they by then they had sort of figured out that there is something fishy and Chris lost his momentum he lost his rhythm and he held the ball cross him and he bowled the ball and instead of you know looking at Rahul or checking what has happened there he looks at me and I say what have you got for this Chris Chris didn't realize that I had also warned Rahul that if I don't know what is coming I'm going to hold the bat in the middle so that is uh that is how the story goes so it's just in short it's just being a step ahead of your opposition sat thank you so much ladies and gentlemen it has been an outstanding night thank you so much [Music] a [Music]