Sachin Tendulkar has seen it all in his 24-year-old international career. He talks about what inspired the team after their horrendous run in the 2007 World Cup.

Team India was probably at their worst in the showpiece event in West Indies. Newly appointed coach Greg Chappell made too many changes and none of the players looked comfortable with them. The entire thought process of the team changed which made them look out of sync.

That period was not only horrendous in the career of Tendulkar, but it also affected the team a lot. He knew that something needed to be changed to get the team back together and get the co-ordination among the players right.

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Tendulkar said on India Today Inspiration, “2007 was the lowest point of my career. I didn't enjoy that phase in Indian cricket at all because we were not going in a good direction and I just felt that there was something drastically wrong with Indian cricket.”

“The thought process was wrong and what we were wanting to achieve was not a common goal. There were individuals thinking in the team and I didn't fell the atmosphere was healthy in the dressing room and it needed to change,” he said.

Those changes were done after the World Cup and it resulted in the Indian team winning the showpiece event in 2011. BCCI made changes in the team management and they brought in former cricketers like Gary Kirsten, Venkatesh Prasad, Ravi Shastri and Chandu Borde in different capacities.

“From there on Venkatesh Prasad was there, Robin Singh was there, if I'm not mistaken, (Chandu) Borde Sir was there, Lalchand Rajput, all these guys came together. And then Gary (Kirsten) and Paddy (Upton) joined and things just changed from there,” Tendulkar said.

“Ravi (Shastri) was there in Bangladesh immediately after the World Cup but because of his other commitments he could not stay with the team,” the 46-year-old added.

(Inputs from India Today)