Vengsarkar dwelled on the time  he requested Kapil Dev to bowl to a 15-year-old Tendulkar at the India nets in the 1988-89 season. Baroda-based More spoke about how he had the best seat in the house when Tendulkar scored his second hundred of the 1991-92 Test series against Australia at Perth, as a non-striker. Amre expressed how he was fortunate to witness that Perth hundred as 12th man.

And Zaheer Khan pointed to what a great guide his senior was at mid-on or mid-off while he bowled his brand of left-arm pace. “When I was bowling to Michael Vaughan over the wicket, he told me to go round the wicket. His skill to analyse and go into details was great,” Zaheer said.

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Later in the evening, ex-coach Aunshuman Gaekwad waxed eloquent on his two hundreds in the 1998 Coca-Cola Cup at Sharjah where the desert storm ton was carved against Australia. The caring side of Tendulkar emerged when former BCCI CEO Prof Shetty revealed how Tendulkar invited a terminally ill child to his home and spent time with him. “Not only that, Sachin made it a point to call the boy a few days later after the kid’s blood transfusion,” said Shetty.

Dr Anant Joshi, who was deeply involved in the treatment of Tendulkar’s injuries revealed how he asked a doctor from overseas on what he thought about Sachin’s toe injury, suffered in 2001. Joshi was mighty amused when he was told that this sort of injury afflicted ballet dancers.

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