Tendulkar had failed with the bat but skipper Mohammad Azharuddin gave him the task to bowl the last over.
It was a gamble that paid off and still remembered fondly as Tendulkar bowled three dot balls to Allan Donald preceded by a runout and Brian McMillan failed to get a boundary off the last delivery with the crowd buzzing from behind.
“When in Kolkata we used to have a joke running around — ‘Pehle do wicket lelo, baki ke aath wickets crowd le leta hai’ (first take the first two wickets, the crowd will look after the rest).”
Singling out the Hero Cup semi-final on November 24, 1993 as one of his best moments at Eden Gardens, he said: “It was quite memorable and completely different, the first day-and-night match where I ended up bowling the last over.
