The legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar had scored a large chunk of runs for India during his 20-year international cricket career. Being always in the centre stage and admired by millions of cricket fans, he needed to keep his nerves calm and composed, and for that, he used different tactics.
In his recent video on his YouTube channel, Sachin Tendulkar revealed that during his rough patch in the first 3 Test matches of the series against Australia in 2004, he heard Bryan Adam’s famous chartbuster ‘Summer of 69’ on the loop during the fourth Test to deviate his mind.
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,” Sachin Tendulkar said during a Q/A session on his YouTube Channel. “I put that song on loop. Whether we were traveling to the ground, in the dressing room, before I was walking out to bat, lunchtime, tea time, after the match, going back to the hotel five days it was only Summer of 69 and nothing else.”
Apart from hearing the song, the dogged-mindset master blaster pushed himself not even to play a single cover-drive shot, which had cost him his wicket in the previous innings.
Sachin Tendulkar followed a similar ritual in World Cup 2003:
Sachin Tendulkar opened up he also heard Lucky Ali’s ‘Sur’ album during the whole 2003 World Cup, where he finished with 673 runs, the highest in the tournament.
“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.
He has the most number of international centuries in his name while has represented India in 200 Tests, which is the record only he holds.