Before the runs, the records and the trophies, there was a shy yet confident curly-haired teenager who got the entire cricket world excited with his batting feats. But what made the young Sachin Tendulkar so precious? What did he do in his teenage years that ensured that the years that followed made him the greatest batter ever of his generation?

Hear Cyrus discuss it all with Ayaz Memon, a man who closely followed Sachin’s growth as a young reporter in Mumbai in the late 80s and 90s in this episode of A Century of Stories: Cricket podcast presented by IDFC FIRST Bank.

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