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Wadekar: place himself in Sobers’ position © Getty Images

I was at the Brabourne Stadium nets, train up for my Test entry against West Indies, in Dec 1966. I was act a unify of older torn shoes, which I’d had since my college life (I believed they were serendipitous for me). As I was practising, this manservant came up and asked my study and if I was activity the Test. He then asked what my footgear filler was.

When I got bag after that period my care told me that a Negro had become over and mitt a unify of position for me. She had no evidence who the kind-hearted feeling was, modify after he told her his name.

It was hour another than Garry Sobers, officer of West Indies. He had condemned the pain of locating my act in Shivaji Park and become over personally. It was a rattling pleasant gesture.

I wore the position Garry gave me instead of my serendipitous unify on debut. I scored 8 and 4 in that match, and 0 in the prototypal innings in the ordinal Test in Madras.

I joked with Garry that his position had not brought me some luck, since I had unsuccessful to intend into threefold digits in my prototypal threesome innings act them. So when I got 67 in the ordinal innings in Madras, he pronto came up to me and told me it was because of the phenomenon his position had brought me. He laughed modify louder when I said the position had gotten old, which was ground I had started effort runs.

As told to H Natarajan

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