Sachin Tendulkar: batting, bowling challenging in Aus and NZ.,Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar: batting, bowling challenging in Aus and NZ.

Tendulkar believes hitters will have to be careful with the wind conditions due to the geographical location of some of the places.

In 1990, New Zealand was my first destination outside the Indian subcontinent, traveling with the national team. I was looking forward to playing against Richard Hadlee, one of the best-ever fast bowlers. I never expected any special treatment of the great baseball and boxing and I was on the receiving end of hostilities as well as any other hitter of my team. So in my first innings in New Zealand when Danny Morrison fired me for a golden duck, kiwis made sure I got a send-off "appropriate". Needless to say I was completely embarrassed!


My first trip to Australia was in 1991, just before the ICC Cricket World Cup 1992. The trip was special because it was the beginning of my long relationship with the Sydney Cricket Ground my favorite ground outside India. It was also the beginning of my friendship with one of Australia's favorite sons, Shane Warne. I met my hero Viv Richards batting first. The meeting probably lasted three minutes, but it was very exciting for me.

I spent four and a half months in Australia then and certainly left a major impact on my career.
It was during this tour that I mastered hitting back-foot. Being vertically challenged, I took a lot of pride in staying on top of the bounce, I instinctively reach behind the line and hit it with a straight bat. Of course, if you were not offered room, I would still go for the cut shot but hit back foot was more versatile - you could use this shot even against good balls in length, which made the Bowler work that much harder.

Throw often would fetch me a couple of races and if timed the ball well, then it could go all the way to the fence. Even defensive, I stood on my toes to keep on top of the ball, the approach was different from the run on defense flat-footed, which was more conventional.

New Zealand also has a special place as it was in Auckland (1994) I started opening the batting in one day International, a position which I enjoyed during my career.

My enthusiasm for opening the batting was driven by the fact that naturally could attack players from the beginning and take advantage of restrictions on the ground in opening scales entries. In 1991-1992, Mark Greatbatch, the charismatic lefty, had successfully attacked the bowling as a starter, and I was so sure I could do similar work for my country.

Whenever I supported myself to attack players on the front and disrupt his rhythm - remember down the window, repeatedly, forcing the bowler to adjust its length and then wait for the short ball to come!

Perth and Brisbane are renowned for their quick and bouncy windows that expose easily inexperience. Both batsmen and bowlers have low margins for error. As a hitter, if you understand the pace and bounce, then you could reach the top of the bowling alley. For the bowler, the place of good length is smaller in the area in these areas and the batter can capitalize if the line and length falters. But if they extract bounce zones good length, then life would be hard hitter.

In New Zealand, the batsmen have to be careful with the wind conditions due to the geographical location of some of the places. Sometimes the wind can be strong enough to seriously affect the timing of a hitter, playing against the wind his butt lift is faster, but the low oscillation is quite slow, while the ball is coming faster and vice versa from the other end.

The other peculiarity of land in New Zealand is that not all of them are the traditional way round. In Australia, the Adelaide Oval, true to its name, has a square shorter limits on the point and straight leg but very long borders. As a visiting team, this makes a big difference, because it affects field positions and strategies bowling. Larger motifs in Australia also result in longer limits. I remember when they had full limits during the '99 series, I ordered a fourth race in a shot from the edge Ricky Ponting. We ran despite the strong arm of Ricky, knowing that the ball was going to take some time to get to the wicketkeeper. Although borders have been brought since then, remain long.

This edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 presents the new rule five outfielders in the circle of 30 yards, something I have never experienced in my career.
For players who are struggling with form, the extra outfielder in the circle will be a challenge as rotating the strike will be more difficult.

At the same time, as a batsman let me say that if we have two batsmen at the crease as then God help the bowlers! (By Sachin Tendulkar)