What If: Sachin Tendulkar decided to become a fast bowler instead of a batsman

#1 Virat Kohli would not have taken up cricket as a career

We would have never seen Kohli play

Many cricketers who we see in the domestic and international circuit today took up cricket because of Sachin Tendulkar, and one such man was Virat Kohli. Time and again, India’s current Test captain has gone on to mention that the Master Blaster was his idol growing up and the reason he took up cricket as a career was because of Sachin himself.

“When playing cricket as kids, we all pretend to be a particular player. I always wanted to be Sachin. I wanted to bat like him, so I tried to copy the shots he played and hit sixes the way he used to hit them. He was the one player that always made me think that I want to bat like him,” Kohli had said in an exclusive interview with The Hindu a couple of years ago,

If not for Sachin, Kohli might not have gotten inspired to take up cricket. He might have gone a different way and thus we would not have seen one of the greatest finishers in world cricket today.