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    "excerpt": "Sachin Tendulkar testing positive on Saturday for Covid-19 has overshadowed an event that forever changed the career path of the legendary batsman on this date, 27 years ago. On March 27, back in 1994",
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    "editor1": "<p>Sachin Tendulkar testing positive on Saturday for Covid-19 has overshadowed an event that forever changed the career path of the legendary batsman on this date, 27 years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On March 27, back in 1994, opener Navjot Singh Sidhu suffered a stiff neck and wasn&#39;t available to open in the second ODI against New Zealand in Auckland.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The team management reluctantly let Tendulkar open. The right-handed batsman had volunteered to open the Indian innings to which the team think-tank initially objected as they didn&#39;t want to lose their best batsman to new ball.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, he opened and made a 49-ball 82 to help India chase down a 143-run target in 23.2 overs and win the match by seven wickets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That knock cemented his place at the top of the order. He made 45 of his 49 centuries batting as an opener.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Prior to him opening the batting, he had batted in positions from No. 3 to No. 7, scoring 1758 runs in 69 matches at an average of 30.84 with 13 half-centuries. Most of his fifties in that pre-opening period came at No. 4.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Since this day 27 years ago, when he opened an ODI innings for the first time, Tendulkar scored 15,310 runs in 340 innings as an opener, averaging 48.29.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Overall, since 27 March 1994, he made 16,668 runs in 386 innings at an average of 47.08. He batted 35 times at No. 4 (scoring four centuries), nine times at No. 3, and once each at Nos. 5 and 6.<\/p>\r\n",
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