Waqar Younis is regarded as one of the vital efficient pacers to grace Pakistan cricket within the 90s and early 2000s. He has performed 87 Check fits, snapping up 373 wickets during his illustrious profession with the crown jewel being the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar, who by the way used to be additionally making his Check bow, in his 1989 Check debut.
Within the fit, Younis took 4 wickets for 80 runs within the first innings with one in all his sufferers being Tendulkar, who used to be castled through the Pakistan icon. The opposite wickets he took had been Kapil Dev, Sanjay Manjrekar and Manoj Prabhakar.
In a throwback to the mythical second, Pakistan Cricket shared a video of Younis’s Check debut which featured him getting rid of Tendulkar for 15 runs.
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Recalling their first come across, Younis had stated he by no means imagined that Sachin would turn into the largest identify within the coming years because the latter were given out for simply 15 runs in Karachi.
“I used to be taking part in my first Check fit and it used to be a dream come true for me. I did set up to bowl 18 overs in spite of an harm and were given 4 wickets together with a Sachin Tendulkar’s wicket. He may just rating simply 15 runs however the way in which he performed a few stylish drives, used to be actually spectacular,” Waqar had stated on Wisden’s podcast ‘The Largest Competition.’
Waqar had additionally added that there used to be a buzz about Sachin, who used to be then only a child, and all the Indian cricket group used to be speaking about him.
“He used to be the person who used to be scoring triple centuries within the faculty. Who ratings triple centuries in class? Within the first glance, he didn’t give me the affect that he used to be going to be the good Sachin Tendulkar. What he’s carried out over time is fantastic. His exhausting paintings has actually paid off,” Waqar had stated.