Former New Zealand quick Danny Morrison, speaking on The Edges & Sledges Podcast, recalled his face-off with an inexperienced, “impetuous” Sachin Tendulkar in 1990, who narrowly fell short of becoming the youngest-ever Test centurion.
Tendulkar, months short of his 17th birthday, travelled to New Zealand for his second overseas tour after a debut in Pakistan, featuring in three Tests and two ODIs.
Morrison, who was three years into his international career at the time, explained how the New Zealand camp was wary of the youngster’s special talent.
“That was it, and hence saying he was so impetuous because he could have been the youngest ever, and you could see it took him an age to get off the ground. [It was] like a snowball rolling down the hill, getting bigger and bigger, just getting boom, boom, boom until it went bust, sort of hit a tree down the mountain, which was a shame for Indian fans because he was going so beautifully. Got out for 88.
“But that’s the game, he could have been out on the second ball or whatever, playing a shot like that, but he was on a roll. Real talent, no doubt about that.”
