{"id":10242,"date":"2016-07-13T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2016-07-13T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:12:15","slug":"sachin-tendulkar-disclosed-the-reason-behind-using-heavy-cricket-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/13\/sachin-tendulkar-disclosed-the-reason-behind-using-heavy-cricket-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachin Tendulkar disclosed the reason behind using heavy Cricket bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tendu.jpg\" alt=\"Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Ajit Tendulkar, Cricket, Sports, Indian Cricket, Cricket Bat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest batsman of all times, Sachin Tendulkar had always used to enjoy tormenting the bowlers with a heavy piece of willow during his playing days. When other batsmen used to prefer using relatively lighter bats, Tendulkar continued to use a heavier bats throughout his illustrious cricket career.<\/p>\n<p>But do you know the reason behind the Master Blaster using such heavy bats (weighs in at 3lb 4oz) in his playing days?<\/p>\n<p>Tendulkar in a recent interview revealed the reason behind using a heavy bat. \u201cI played with a heavy bat because my elder brother and I shared one bat and it was his bat. I had to hold the handle right at the bottom so the weight was not out of control to manage,\u201d reported PTI.<\/p>\n<p>Tendulkar\u2019s elder brother Ajit\u00a0 who played the most important role in Sachin\u2019s career sacrificed a lot for his younger brother. Ajit who himself was a good cricketer, recognized Sachin\u2019s talent in his early days and decided to mentor him and that was one of the reason behind Sachin\u2019s successful international career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mom-e3lanat-wrap  \">\u00a0Sachin had to use a heavy bat because of his elder brother and the Master Blaster went on to score tons of runs for India across all formats. Perhaps, this was a blessing in disguise for the Indian maestro.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mom-e3lanat-wrap  \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mom-e3lanat-wrap  \">Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants a limitation in bat sizes for Test cricket. Regarding that Tendulkar said, \u201cThe size of the bats that I played with and those I see today are different. It is all about developing equipment and the bats have certainly developed a lot.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"mom-e3lanat-wrap  \"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest batsman of all times, Sachin Tendulkar had always used to enjoy tormenting the bowlers with a heavy piece of willow during his playing days. When other batsmen used to prefer using relatively lighter bats, Tendulkar continued to use a heavier bats throughout his illustrious cricket career. But do you know the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,70,8,170,140],"tags":[1377,10,1378,151,475,33,408],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-facts-in-cricket","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-ajit-tendulkar","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-bat","tag-indian-cricket","tag-ricky-ponting","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10244,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/10244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}