The legendary batsman had amassed 673 runs in 11 innings during the 2003 World Cup.
"Pakistan is the only game that I have ever taken a runner in my life," Tendulkar himself told India Today about the game he scored a memorable 98 in against a bowling attack featuring Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar in Centurion. India won that game by six wickets, chasing a difficult 274-run target.
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"That was the World Cup game I couldn't even stand and it felt like someone has tied 500 kg weights. You can check with our then physio Andrew Leipus."
"I was cramping ....and I took a quick single which wasn't a wise thing to do. As it happened I collapsed and I said I can't go on like this and I tried standing up and I couldn't. So I thought because of cramping, the damage done was severe."
Later in the super 6 round, the great man revealed he was forced to carry tissue paper suffering from a bout of diarrhoea as he scored another magnificent 97 in the win against Sri Lanka in Johannesburg.
"I had a tummy problem. Because I didn't want to cramp in the next match, I kept having so much salt (water) and I had terrible diarrhoea."
"Those are the challenges you face when you have to go out there and play, no matter what if I was able to stand there, bat or not. I was always going to go out there on the field," Tendulkar added.
(Inputs from India Today)