'Please come down to earth ...': Varun Aaron remembers Sachin Tendulkar's words on Test debut

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ALSO READ: James Anderson becomes 1st pacer and 3rd bowler to take 700 test wickets, Sachin Tendulkar calls it ‘simply magnificent’ Aaron first grabbed headlines in 2008 for his raw pace, but couldn't play for India as much as he would have loved to. Remembering one of the instances, Aaron ended up picking three wickets during his Test debut for India against West Indies in November of 2011, after speaking with Sachin Tendulkar. "We were playing at the Wankhede Stadium.

It was a really flat wicket, and the West Indies were 500 something for four. And I was really down. I was 21 years old and had never bowled 21 overs without a wicket.

Sachin Tendulkar was standing at mid-off, he looked at me and asked, 'why are you looking so down?' I was like, you know what, Paaji, I've never bowled 21 overs for no wickets. I can't believe this is happening on my debut. He's like, come here.

We stopped mid-over and he said, 'Do you know I waited 22 years for my first World Cup Trophy? So you can wait 21 overs for your first wicket, there's no problem with that. Please come down to earth and get bowling," Hindustan Times quoted Aaron as saying in an interview with the BCCI. "I was like, Man, seriously, that makes so much sense.

The very next ball, I got Darren Bravo (166) out, caught behind. Then got two other wickets - Carlton Baugh and Daren Sammy. And that just changed my debut.

Just a few words from Sachin Tendulkar. I had also induced an edge off Marlon Samuels, but it was dropped," Aaron added. "I was bowling flat out, gas out in my 26th over.

If I had gotten that wicket, you never know, I would've gotten one more over from MS Dhoni and maybe a fifer as well. It was just a great spell inspired by the great Sachin Tendulkar. And it