Sanjay Manjrekar reveals an incident about Kambli and Tendulkar

Manjrekar has revealed an incident saying that Vinod Kambli is “quite the character.”

A recent video in the past few days did the rounds on social media involving Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and his old close friend Vinod Kambli. Netizens were in shock to see the state in which Kambli is right now, citing health concerns. Amidst this, Sanjay Manjrekar has an incident to share about Tendulkar and Kambli, who go back a long way. They have played cricket together for many years, but their friendship hit rock bottom when the latter accused his best friend of not supporting him through his lows during an Indian reality show. However, the two bonded back years later and have been close ever since.

Sanjay Manjrekar recalls about Kambli being quite the character.

Interacting with SportsKeeda three years ago, Manjrekar spoke about Vinod Kambli’s early years and how he would go after him and Sachin, all because he wasn’t a part of India’s Playing XI. He said, “This story is from the 1992 World Cup when Vinod Kambli was in the Indian World Cup team. Kambli is someone you know is a character and he was very friendly with me and Sachin. In the first few matches of the World Cup, he wasn’t playing. His mood was off; he was a bit upset. Sachin and I were the two established players so we were getting all the matches. But after every match, when we would meet, he would come after us. He would criticize, ‘What is this batting? You could have played faster.’ He didn’t even spare Sachin.”

“If there is one person who could upset Sachin, that is Vinod Kambli.”

Speaking further about them, Manjrekar said, “In a match against Zimbabwe, Sachin and I had a good partnership. It was a small target, and we won the match. Despite that, in the evening, Kambli would again go like ‘The match and all is fine; but we could have won it a lot earlier.’ He told Sachin, ‘John Traicos is such an ordinary bowler. You could have hit him out of the ground; you were taking singles.’ Sachin said ‘our target was to win the match.’ But Vinod did not learn. If there is one person who could upset Sachin, that is Vinod Kambli.”