"Sachin Hit Me Into A Tree": WI Great, In Praising Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Reveals Major Story

Former West Indies pacer Ian Bishop recalled bowling to a teenage Sachin Tendulkar in 1990 and how he "shocked the living daylights" out of him with a powerful hit and went to compare the legends' exploits with those of 14-year-old sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the Rajasthan Royals (RR) batter who became the youngest T20 centurion and fastest Indian with an Indian Premier League (IPL) century during the match against Gujarat Titans (GT) on Monday. Bishop, who took 279 scalps for WI between 1988-1998, was speaking in a video by ESPNCricinfo after Suryavanshi's 35-ball century against GT.

During the conversation about Suryavanshi. Bishop recalled the 1990 tour match between India and Derbyshire during India's tour to England on a bouncy Chesterfield wicket. During that match, Sachin scored a brilliant 105 during a chase of 236 runs and one of his notable hits included smashing Bishop's ball for six. This left Bishop shocked as India were down 212/8 while chasing the target and he felt that Derbyshire had the game "sewn up".

"I was playing for Derbyshire, and we were playing against India at Chesterfield. Never forgot it. We batted first, and we must have made... don't know the exact numbers. Chesterfield bounces. You get in there, and it bounces. We were in the game, and this little...he was this high (gesturing with his hand), and he came into bat, faced a couple of balls, and I thought, okay, we have got this sewn up. The asking rate is a little challenging towards the end of the game, and this little kid cannot hit me anywhere. I ran up, and I made the mistake of bowling a little back of a length, thinking I'd talk him up and he hit me into a tree, way over deep mid-wicket, as far as I've ever been hit before. Sachin