Having idolised him as a teen, former India batter Virender Sehwag fashioned a wonderful opening partnership with the legendary Sachin Tendulkar. Both Sehwag and Tendulkar performed an important position in India’s World Cup triumph on house soil in 2011. Over the years, each Sehwag and Tendulkar have shared loads of anecdotes from their time collectively on and off the sphere. In a video shared on Twitter, Sehwag has now shared one other fascinating story, involving Tendulkar.

It is well-known that Sehwag had a behavior of buzzing songs whereas batting as doing the identical would improve his confidence.

Sehwag revealed that throughout the 2011 World Cup recreation towards South Africa, Tendulkar received irritated together with his behavior and truly hit him with the bat.

“We were playing against South Africa in 2011 World Cup. I was singing songs while batting and he was also in good touch that time. He had a habit of talking between overs, but I wasn’t talking at all. I was only singing because that helps me concentrate. This continued for three overs. After fourth over, he came from behind and hit me with a bat. He said, ‘tujhe Kishore Kumar bana dunga agar aise hi gaane gaata raha (I’ll go crazy if you keep singing songs like this),” Sehwag recalled in a video uploaded by Star Sports.

“I was like, ‘we are batting so good. What’s there to talk, let’s keep it going!’. In 20 overs, we scored around 140-150 that time. When the over gets finished, he wants to talk about bowlers and their tactics… basically the cricketing things. But I don’t care about that at all,” he added.

Speaking of the match, Sehwag had scored 73, whereas Tendulkar smashed a century (111) because the pair collected 142 runs for the opening wicket.

However, India suffered a collapse within the center and had been restricted to 296.

In reply, South Africa chased down the goal with two balls to spare.

For the report, it was India’s solely defeat throughout the event.