Sachin: A Billion Dreams Page #5

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That's 50.

Beautiful 50 from this young man...

...a star of the future.

Until 1991 we were an economy

that was a closed one.

- We are on the verge of a collapse.

- Time to think big.

There's a chance he'll get it.

It almost seemed as though we were

present at a kind of an arc in history.

We were actually watching the

possibilities of the future unfold.

Here's the youngest player

to score a test 100 in Australia.

His second 100 in the series,

and certainly the best.

Tendulkar's achievements

overseas proved that...

...lndia is as good

as anyone anywhere.

- Can you see any specific area...

- ...you might ever

go getting him out?

- I think our best chance

is when he's not looking!

128 years of cricket

tradition were broken today...

...when Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar

made his debut for Yorkshire.

- He's a fine young player,

he's going to get better.

In those days, Doordarshan,

the state broadcaster...

...would demand 5 lakh rupees from

the BCCI to telecast a cricket-match.

In 1993, for the first time...

...the Indian Cricket Board sold telecast

rights to ESPN for 650,000 dollars.

And so began a deluge of money.

The person at the centre

of this telecast revolution...

...and liberalization

story was Sachin.

He became the poster

boy of the country.

With the young Sachin,

there was a great desire to love him.

He represented the traditional

middle class virtues.

H um i I ity. Modesty.

You respect your elders.

You don't chase money.

Tendulkar chased runs...

...and let the money come to him.

- Like being famous?

Not very much, but...

like to be famous.

- Till now I've not become

a great batsman.

- But no one can tell his future.

Gavaskafls generation

invested in fixed-bank deposits.

Sachin's generation

plays the equity markets.

Sachin batted like

he was playing the equity markets.

- You've just got engaged

to be married haven't you?

- Yeah, I got engaged the other day...

...when we got back from Sharjah.

- Were you embarrassed

when you popped the question?

- No, no. Not really.

In 1990, Sachin was

returning after playing...

...his first tour to England.

In those days the airpon

had a viewing gallery.

So I had gone to the airpon with

my friend to pick up my Mum.

There were many people standing

downstairs wearing these blazers.

I thought one of them very cute.

And I was looking down.

Suddenly I saw

somebody look up at me.

And I thought he's like the cutest

person I'd ever seen in my life.

My friend Aparna said, "You don't know

who he is? He is Sachin Tendulkar...

...and he is the youngest Indian

to have scored a Test century."

I ran down from there, and...

...l was just screaming

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