Sachin Tendulkar Birthday: When Sachin Tendulkar’s bouncer broke the batsman’s nose, the shirt was soaked in blood – sachin tendulkar birthday when bantoo singh nose broken by tendulkar bouncer

New Delhi:Sachin Tendulkar intimidated many bowlers with his tremendous batting but in a Ranji match played between Delhi and Mumbai in 1991, Bantu Singh suffered multiple fractures in his nose and started bleeding on the ball of ‘Master Blaster’. Bantu was the pillar of Delhi’s batting in the 1980s and 90s. He recalled the sentence from 32 years ago, a day before Tendulkar’s 50th birthday. This incident took place on 20 April 1991. He said, ‘My nose map has changed, now I have a new nose after that bouncer from Tendulkar.’

In that period, the rivalry between Mumbai and Delhi was at its peak and there was a close fight between the two teams. Bantu said, “We tried to prepare a grassy pitch at Kotla on which the ball would bounce but later it became a paradise for the batsmen. Our fast bowlers Sanjeev (Sharma) and Atul (Vasan) bowled a few bouncers to Dilip Bhai (Vengsarkar), who was playing his last season.

Sachin had scored a century

He said, ‘I remember that on at least two occasions, Dilip bhai was hit on the chest by Atul’s bouncers and a sparring ensued. Delhi lost by one run in the quarter-finals as they scored 389 in reply to Mumbai’s 390 in the first innings. In the second innings, Mumbai won the match by scoring 719 runs with the help of centuries from Sanjay Manjrekar, Tendulkar and Chandrakant Pandit.

ball hit the nose

He said, ‘I got this injury in the second innings. I scored a century in the first innings and just as a formality in the second innings I hit a four against Tendulkar but his next ball bounced off the grass and came towards me, I played a pull shot and the ball took the edge of the bat and went on the nose. Got it. The injury was so severe that I lost my balance, Manjrekar ran to me from the slips and saved me from falling. Both mine and Manjrekar’s shorts were red with blood.

Sachin called after the match

Bantu is taken to Sanjeevan Hospital just behind Kotla and it is found that he has multiple fractures in his nose, which needs surgery. He had to be on a liquid diet for at least two months. Bantu, however, remembered Tendulkar’s humanity. He said, ‘The Mumbai team left the same evening after the match was over. It was around 11 pm that our landline phone rang and my father picked up. Tendulkar was on the other side. Don’t know how they found my phone number. He asked my father, ‘How is Bantu? What is the doctor saying?’. Bantu said, ‘Later, whenever we met, he used to ask, ‘Naak thik hai na tera’.’
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