The song behind Sachin’s 241 in Sydney
We all have that one song that refuses to leave our mind. We keep listening to it for days. Sachin Tendulkar has revealed the song that stayed with him for five consecutive days during the Sydney Test in 2004 when he scored 241.
Sachin was battling lack of form heading into the game, and had scores of 0, 1, 37, 0 and 44 from the three Tests in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. However, in Sydney he came out stronger and scored one of his best Test innings.
Sachin’s masterclass innings is known for many a skills, including the fact that he completely refrained from playing cover drive during the innings. But on a lighter note, the master has now revealed an off-field ritual from the Test.
Sachin has revealed that throughout the five days of the SCG Test, there was a song he constantly listened to, in and out of the ground.
Have you guessed the song already?
“The song that I heard, I remember in 2004 in Sydney when I scored 241 not out, those five days I only heard one song – Bryan Adams’ Summer of 69,” Tendulkar said during a Q/A session on his YouTube Channel.
“I put that song on loop. Whether we were travelling to the ground, in the dressing room, before I was walking out to bat, lunch time, tea time, after the match, going back to the hotel… five days it was only Summer of 69 and nothing else.”
Not just during that Test, the Master revealed that a year ago in South Africa during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa he had practiced a similar ritual and was hooked to an Indian Music Album.
“I also remember that during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, I listened to Lucky Ali’s Sur album. I thought it was really good and as time went by, it kept growing on me more and more,” Tendulkar added.
Now that Sachin has revealed the choice of songs from these two events, it’s a good time to recollect that Team India once famously acknowledged that they were not quite on the same page as the Master Blaster when it came to the choice of music.
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