Cricketers are superstitious beings sometimes and they try various methods to bring back their rub of green when out-of-form. Legendary India batsman tried something similar during India’s 2004 tour of Australia. The master batsman was going through an extremely lean patch, scoring just 88 runs from the first 3 Test matches of the series. In his 5 innings he had registered 3 single-digit scores including 2 ducks.
Sachin Tendulkar was aching to get back to form and he did so in the 4th Test in Sydney. The former right-hander in a brilliant display of patience and skill, planned not to play even a single cover drive, the shot which had costed him his wicket in the pervious innings.
The 47-year-old has now revealed one more thing which helped him during those 5 days of the Test match. Tendulkar has revealed that he heard Bryan Adam’s famous chartbuster ‘Summer of 69’ on loop. International cricket’s highest-ever run-scorer said that he was listening to the song while travelling, before walking out to bat, at lunch and tea, in the hotel — almost everywhere and all the time.
“The song that I heard, I remember in 2004 in Sydney when I scored 241 not out, those five days I only heard one song Bryan Adams’ Summer of 69,” Tendulkar said during a Q/A session on his YouTube Channel. “I put that song on loop. Whether we were travelling to the ground, in the dressing room, before I was walking out to bat, lunch time, tea time, after the match, going back to the hotel five days it was only Summer of 69 and nothing else.”
“I also remember that during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, I listened to Lucky Ali’s ‘Sur’ album. I thought it was really good and as time went by, it kept growing on me more and more,” Tendulkar added.
