Sachin Tendulkar Bushfire cricket

Former cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh on Sunday returned to the nets for a charity match between Gilchrist XI and Ponting XI to raise funds for Australia’s bushfire victims at Junction Oval, Melbourne. While Sachin will coach the Ponting XI team and Yuvraj will be playing for Adam Gilchrist’s team.

Ahead of the match, both Sachin and Yuvraj spent some time in nets. Yuvraj revealed that Sachin played for about 40 minutes in the nets. Yuvraj said,

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“He said he is going to play just six balls, but he batted for 40 minutes in the nets.”

Earlier, Australian crickter, Ellyse Perry has asked Sachin to come out of retirement to bat for an over during the innings break of the star-studded charity match. The offer was accepted by master blaster.

Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh charity match
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Sachin came to bat an over for a charity match to aid Australian bushfire relief at the Junction Oval, Melbourne. The 46 year old Master Blaster said that it was first time in five years that he was walking up to the pitch. Sachin faced star all rounder and 2019 Women’s Cricketer of the Year Ellyse Perry in the over and her former teammate Alex Blackwell. Sachin hit a boundary of the first ball, thanks to a misfield by a woman fire-fighter, who had come to field for the special cause.

During the match Sachin said,

“I turned up here as a coach, but for me to go out and bat in the lunch will be interesting. I will be holding a cricket bat after 5 and a half years.”

Watch Sachin Tendulkar bat one again

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Both team XI are as follows:

Gilchrist XI: Adam Gilchrist (wk), Shane Watson, Brad Hodge, Yuvraj Singh, Elyse Villani, Andrew Symonds, Cameron Smith, Nick Riewoldt, Peter Siddle, Fawad Ahmed, Courtney Walsh

Ponting XI: Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Phoebe Litchfield, Brian Lara, Alex Blackwell, Brad Haddin (wk), Luke Hodge, Brett Lee, Dan Christian, Wasim Akram

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