I told Sachin 'shut up, let me do the talking': When Tendulkar was constantly 'being sledged by Waugh brothers'

Ravi Shastri reminisced about one of his matches against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), where he and Sachin Tendulkar had to deal with a lot of sledging from the opposition. He disclosed that Sachin was irritated by the constant sledging by Australian players and even attempted to respond.

Shastri further stated that Tendulkar approached him and explained his strategy to respond the Australian players in a similar fashion. He added that he told 'Master Blaster' to "shut up" and respond to everything with his bat.

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"I remember one at the SCG. It was Sachin's first tour. I had just reached a hundred, and Sachin had just come to bat. And he was being sledged by the Waugh brothers (Steve and Mark). 'You little this, you little that'. And Mike Whitney had come on to the field as a 12th man. I was having a pow-pow with Allan Border until I reached my 100. He took the ball in his hand and said, 'Get back into your crease; I'll break your head'. I turned around there. There were mics, and you could be fined. So I went on the centre of the pitch and I shouted across the SCG, 'Hey Mike! If you can claim to throw as well as you can bowl, you wouldn't be the 12th man of Australia. And that was it," Shastri said at the Summer of Cricket Lunch hosted by Cricket ACT.