Sachin Tendulkar reveals shocking chat with India teammate during captaincy stint

Sachin Tendulkar is regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time. The 49-year-old has played 664 international matches and also led India for a brief time on two different occasions. He has been a true gentleman of the game and has not been someone who’s known for losing his calm on a cricket field. Interestingly, the Master Blaster unwrapped a story of his captaincy stint and mentioned a time when he got extremely angry with a young cricketer and even threatened to send him home for his poor behaviour during a tour to Australia.

Recalling the incident, Tendulkar revealed that he had to put the cricketer in place after the latter got carried away while fielding in a practice match. The Mumbai-born cricketer also mentioned that nothing can be compromised when a player wears the Indian jersey as there are millions who aspire to be in the same spot.

“I was the captain of the team and we are on a tour of Australia. One of the junior players -- it was his first tour -- he was carried away, he was playing around with the crowd, and where it was a single, he ended up giving away two runs. So, I calmly called him after the over, put my arm around him. No one else knew what I was telling him but he knew that he cannot afford to do that again. Because I said, 'if you do this again, I will send you back home. You will not go back to hotel, you will be back in India',” Tendulkar revealed in an event conducted by Infosys.

Nothing is compromised when you play for India: Sachin Tendulkar

“Nothing is compromised when you play for India. This is a huge honour. There are millions of people aspiring to be in your spot. Don't take it for granted,” he added.

Notably, Tendulkar led India in 25 Test matches but only won four of them. He lost nine matches while 12 matches ended in a draw. In ODI cricket, he led India in 73 matches and won 23 of them while losing 43 matches.