Sachin Tendulkar on look out for waiter who helped him perfect technique 25 years ago

Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar has asked help on Twitter so that he could find the waiter who advised him to redesign and perfect his elbow guard 25 years ago. The Indian Master Blaster posted a video of him talking about the incident on his Twitter account.

“A chance encounter can be memorable! I had met a staffer at Taj Coromandel, Chennai during a Test series with whom I had a discussion about my elbow guard, after which I redesigned it. I wonder where he is now & wishes to catch up with him. Hey netizens, can you help me find him?” he wrote in his tweet.

In the video, the Mumbai batsman is recounting a meeting with a staffer when he was staying in the Taj Coromandel Hotel in Chennai during a Test series. The staffer in question came to Tendulkar’s room to serve him coffee and advised him to change his bat swing when he played wearing an elbow guard.

I noticed that whenever you wear an arm-guard, your bat swing changes. He said he was a huge fan and used to watch every ball rewinding the action 5-7 times,” Tendulkar says in the video.

“I said, yes! You are the only person in the world who figured that out. You won’t believe that I actually came back to my room from the ground and carried my elbow guard and redesigned it: the correct size, the right amount of padding, where the straps should be and all that.”

The legend retired as one of the most successful players, playing 200 Test matches. He has often been compared to Donald Bradman, with many even suggesting that Tendulkar was beyond the class of the Aussie star. Ever since his retirement, Tendulkar has taken up short stints as a commentator and was also a member of the CAC that had appointed Anil Kumble as the head coach back in 2016. Tendulkar was also a member of the Rajya Sabha after his retirement.

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