Sachin Tendulkar opens up on the prank with Virat Kohli in his debut series by Yuvraj Singh and Co

Virat Kohli was asked to touch Sachin Tendulkar's feet and seek blessing before his debut match.

Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar talked about the prank on Virat Kohli's debut series with India's senior team in August 2008. He had no idea what's happening when Kohli touched his feet on their first meeting.

It was a prank by Yuvraj Singh, Munaf Patel, and Harbhajan Singh, who convinced Kohli that the newcomers have to touch Tendulkar's feet and seek blessing before their debut. Tendulkar recalled the incident and said he had no clue what was happening.

"I didn't know what was happening. I asked him 'what are you doing?'. Told him that there was no need for this and such things don't happen. Then he got up and we looked at those guys, they started laughing," Tendulkar said on YouTube show LegendsWithUnacademy.

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Kohli had opened up about the funny incident while talking to Gaurav Kapoor, in the breakfast with champions. "After getting selected, the initial two days the only thing I could think about is meeting Sachin in the dressing room in any way possible. And these people got wind of it because I had told that to someone."

Tendulkar also spoke about the 2011 World Cup-winning lap when Kohli and Yusuf Pathan had lifted him on their shoulder. It was his dream to lift the World Cup trophy which finally got fulfilled in the last few years of his career. 

"When I saw Kapil Dev lifting the World Cup in 1983, it was an unbelievable experience, I enjoyed it with my friends and I wanted to chase my dream. I decided what may come, I have to focus and chase my dream of lifting the World Cup. In Mumbai at Wankhede, it was just unbelievable, it was the best cricketing day of life. How many times you have the country celebrate, many few things are there which the entire country celebrates," he said.

"The victory lap had one incident when Virat and Yusuf Pathan lifted me, I told them to ensure that I do not fall down. It was not just the Indian team that won the World Cup, it was the entire nation, it is all of us who did it," Tendulkar added.