Former cricketer turned comedy circus judge, Navjot Singh Sidhu, has recalled some hilarious and interesting trivial about cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev from his own batting days during his current stint as a housemate in the realty TV show, Bigg Boss 6.
While in conversation with other housemates at Bigg Boss this week, Sidhu shared the lost trivia of a young debutant Sachin Tendulkar actually sleepwalking during their tour to Pakistan in 1989. "It was Sachin's first test match in Pakistan. One night I was surprised to see a dazed looking Tendulkar walking out of his hotel room and mumbling in Marathi ''maajha bat, maajha bat (my bat, my bat)''. That's when we realised that he was actually sleepwalking,'' Sidhu reminisced at the Bigg Boss show.
Sidhu also praised Tendulkar for fearlessly facing the scorching deliveries of Waqar Younis, even after a bouncer had hit Sachin hard, causing his nose to bleed profusely. Despite being injured, Sachin refused to budge from the wicket and determinedly said, "Main khelega (I will play)'', which earned him a lot of respect among his Indian team mates and also in the Pakistan camp.
However, the sleepwalking incident about Sachin had only once hit the newspaper headlines in 1989 -- after which there were no more stories about the master blaster's somnambulism. Now, after 23 years, Sidhu revived those days in whites.
The turbaned Sikh known for his smart one-liners or 'Sidhuisms', also recalled the time when India was playing test series against West Indies in 1983. "Kapil paaji (Dev) had taken a record nine wickets and all the international mediapersons wanted to interview him. I cautioned Kapil not to face the Press, as his English was not very good in those days. Instead, I suggested that we should go and watch actress Meenakshi Seshadiri in the hit film Hero. However, Kapil decided to let the international media interview him,'' said Sidhu.
When repeatedly asked why a big country like India could not produce another fast bowler like him, Kapil famously quipped that 'his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive -- hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev'!
This trivia about Kapil 'paaji' had the Bigg Boss inmates in splits this week.
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