Watch: Sachin Tendulkar clear bowled by Waqar Younis on debut in a throwback video

Waqar Younis is taken into account one of the vital efficient pacers to grace Pakistan cricket within the 90s and early 2000s. He has performed 87 Test matches, snapping up 373 wickets all through his illustrious profession with the crown jewel being the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar, who by the way was additionally making his Test bow, in his 1989 Test debut.

In the match, Younis took 4 wickets for 80 runs within the first innings with one among his victims being Tendulkar, who was castled by the Pakistan icon. The different wickets he took had been Kapil Dev, Sanjay Manjrekar and Manoj Prabhakar.

In a throwback to the legendary second, Pakistan Cricket shared a video of Younis’s Test debut which featured him taking out Tendulkar for 15 runs.

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Recalling their first encounter, Younis had mentioned he by no means imagined that Sachin would turn out to be the largest identify within the coming years because the latter received out for simply 15 runs in Karachi.

“I was playing my first Test match and it was a dream come true for me. I did manage to bowl 18 overs despite an injury and got 4 wickets including a Sachin Tendulkar’s wicket. He could score just 15 runs but the way he played a couple of classy drives, was really impressive,” Waqar had mentioned on Wisden’s podcast ‘The Greatest Rivalry.’

Waqar had additionally added that there was a buzz about Sachin, who was then only a child, and your complete Indian cricket group was speaking about him.

“He was the one who was scoring triple centuries in the school. Who scores triple centuries in school? In the first look, he did not give me the impression that he was going to be the great Sachin Tendulkar. What he’s done over the years is amazing. His hard work has really paid off,” Waqar had mentioned.