‘For once, the straight drive wasn’t my…’ - Sachin Tendulkar’s banter with Aakash Chopra and RP Singh goes viral

Sachin Tendulkar has been the finest cricket that India have ever produced all over these years. Throughout his illustrative career, Tendulkar managed to achieve top milestones. However, during his career, he played with several players. Now, former team India players, RP Singh and Aakash Chopra opened up about a funny incident.

Currently, they are busy doing the commentary duties in the ongoing SA20 league. In a game of that league, a batter got out as a ball hit the stumps at the non-striker end after it hit the bowler’s leg. While discussing that dismissal, RP Singh and Aakash Chopra came up with an incident involving Sachin Tendulkar.

Here is the shared tweet:

For once, the straight drive wasn’t my favorite shot! @cricketaakash @rpsingh bhaiyya toh batting karte samay bhi wicket lete the!😜 https://t.co/azwZ1jf1eB

— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 20, 2023

Fans went crazy after seeing the banter between Sachin Tendulkar with Aakash Chopra

Speaking about the dismissal, RP Singh said that he did hit a straight drive once while batting, and the player at the non-striker's end was run out because of that. But, Aakash Chopra became surprised to hear Sachin Tendulkar’s name as that non-striker batter. RP Singh said: “It is a run out at the non-striker's end for sure but I have a question for you. Where is the skill in this? The ball just hit the his (bowler's) leg and then went to the stumps.” 

“Have you ever done something like this?” said Chopra. “I have never been able to run out someone after the ball hit a part of my body while bowling but then I did hit a straight drive once while batting and the player at the non-striker's end was run out because of that," Singh added. Then, Aakash Chopra asked who this batter was and Singh said: “Sachin Tendulkar." Hearing that, the former India batter said the bowler to apologize to the master blaster. 

Then, RP Singh said: “I had apologized right then. Sorry for having hit the ball like that, please forgive me.” After that, Chopra again shared a tweet to apologize by tagging Sachin Tendulkar. In reply to that, he wrote: "For once, the straight drive wasn’t my favorite shot! @cricketaakash. @rpsingh bhaiyya toh batting karte samay bhi wicket lete the!"