Sachin Tendulkar considers Indian team to be the best fielding side

While speaking about fitness at a press conference here on Saturday, Tendulkar lauded Indian cricket team for its brilliant fielding skills.

Comparing the level of fitness training Virat Kohli and his team undergoe with the one players belonging to Sachin’s era had to go through, he said: “Our fitness routine was different. There was less awareness in our time about fitness.”

“Similarly 20 years from now, the fitness trainings would be different as compared to the present ones” he added.

Remembering the memories at Eden Gardens of Kolkata, Tendulkar said that India-South Africa ODI match played in 1991 was a big moment for him.

South Africa was banned by ICC from playing cricket for its apartheid rules and in 1991 after their independence, they returned to international cricket with a match at Eden Gardens.

In this context, Tendulkar said: “The kind of reception South African players received at Kolkata was incredible.”

Tendulkar, who played his second-last international match in this city recollecting his memories of first day/night match in Kolkata during Hero Cup semi final, wittily said how he got wickets every time a mongoose surprisingly appeared at the boundary.

He did not miss the chance to admire the spectators of Eden Gardens whose loud cheer he thinks always made easier for Indian bowlers to pick wickets.

The cricket icon would flag off the IDBI Federal Life Insurance Kolkata Full Marathon 2017 on Sunday morning.

(Reporting by Souvik Ghosh)