Sachin Tendulkar: “The entire world cricket was afraid…”, Tendulkar told the name of the player whom he used to fear.

Sachin Tendulkar on Jonty Rhodes: The much-awaited International Masters League is all set to take the world by storm, with legendary cricketers from six cricket powerhouses – India, Sri Lanka, Australia, England, South Africa and West Indies coming together in an exciting T20 franchise tournament. The inaugural edition will run from November 17, 2024 to December 8, 2024. DY in Navi Mumbai Patil Stadium will host the first leg of four matches. The tournament will begin on November 17 with an exciting match between India and Sri Lanka, in which Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara will face each other, which will be reminiscent of their great matches.

Let us tell you that many greats including Sachin participated in a program of International Masters League. During this, Sachin Tendulkar also told the name of that player whom all the teams of world cricket were afraid of. Especially the batsmen did not dare to score runs in front of him. Sachin has described former South African player Jonty Rhodes as the greatest fielder in world cricket, whom he too was in awe of.

Sachin Tendulkar while talking about Jonty Rhodes (Tendulkar vs Jonty Rhodes) said, “I remember the match was taking place in Durban. It was a day night match. Jonty Rhodes was standing at the point, when Jonty was standing there, we We couldn't even think of running fast, we were afraid of Jonty Rhodes.

Sachin also recalled an incident regarding Jonty in the program and said, “A match was being held in Durban. A ball from the bowler hit the batsman's body, the ball went like a point. Rhodes dived and caught the ball. But when his face hit the ground while diving, we felt that Rhodes might have got hurt badly, but we saw that he stood up again and started fielding. Started moving towards position”.

Sachin said, “Yes, we were feeling bad, but somewhere we were also a little happy that now Rhodes will not be able to run on the field and field like that. Due to which we can get some runs from point place”.

Tendulkar said that. “Jonty used to have a different fear. When he used to stand at point, we did not think much about taking runs from there.”