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Sachin Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy: Moreshwar Rao Awasare vividly remembers the moment signifying the beginning of his daughter Ishwari’s unstoppable cricketing career. It was in November 2018 when Sachin Tendulkar Middlesex Global Academy held a camp in Bishop School, Pune.

The likes of Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli were present in Pune alongside other coaches to provide young girls and boys aged 7-18 opportunities to enhance their cricketing skills. Noticing several girls from Maharashtra signing up for the camp, Moreshwar sent Ishwari as well.

One fine day, Tendulkar was impressed by Ishwari’s right-handed batting and called her. “But the thing was, she didn’t know who Sachin really was. At 8.5 years, she was too young to know everything about him at that time. But Sachin saw her batting closely and later said, ‘who told you to change your stance?’