Tendulkar was hit on the ribs while playing Shoaib Akhtar in 2007 but he continued playing.
Former India batsman Sachin Tendulkar is no stranger to injury as he had to deal with a few in his 24-year international career. Tendulkar talked about one such injury he suffered in 2007 when Pakistan toured India for a five ODI and three-Test series.
Tendulkar recalled that it was Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar at the bowling crease when he was hit on the ribs but he kept batting only to find out four months later that had suffered a broken rib.
“I got hit in my rib cage in 2007. We were playing Pakistan in India and in the first over itself I got hit in the rib cage off a Shoaib Akhtar ball. It was quite painful. For a month and a half or two months, I was not able to cough or sleep on my tummy. But I continued playing like that,” Tendulkar said in an interview with Unacademy.
The right-hand batsman with 100 international centuries to his name then talked about the groin injury he suffered in Australia and then in a body scan, he found out that he might have had a broken rib at some stage.
“When I went to Australia, I played the whole series we played the VB series and towards the end of it, I had a groin injury. I came back to India and we did a full body scan. At that time, it was the doctor who told me about it,” the master said.
“I did not ask him about my rib, I was worried about my groin injury because the IPL was going to start. But I couldn’t get fit in time and missed the first seven matches. But the doctor told me that there was a hotspot. You must have broken your rib at some stage. It troubled me for two months,” Tendulkar signed off.
(With Hindustan Times inputs)