Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar feels that he was fortunes to have played the amusement when its presence and ubiquity in India developed complex, and finished in the nation turning into a cricketing superpower.
Tendulkar, whose narrative ‘Sachin: A billion dreams’ releases on Friday, credited the film’s director James Erskine for catching his development as a cricketer, as well as the general development of the game inside the country.
“James Erskine, my director, was clear this is something we had to document,” Tendulkar said to Economic Times. “He wanted to portray this change that our country has undergone in the last 30 years because that’s also the story of why and how cricket has become what it is.”
The 44-year-old, who has scored more than 15,000 keeps running in Test, and more than 18,000 keeps running in ODI cricket, went ahead to state that he didn’t have much thought regarding the game when he had quite recently begun playing the game.
“When I played I had very little knowledge of it all. It was all a cocoon,” he said. “But others, my family, friends and people associated were seeing this change like you all did.
“I am glad I have lived and played cricket at a time when the game was transformed like the way it has and how India turned into the nerve centre of the game something that needs showcasing.”
