I didn`t even know who Sachin was when we first met: Anjali

New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) For all the fame he achieved even
before the start of his international career, Sachin
Tendulkar's wife Anjali couldn't recognise him when they first
met in 1990 and she says the batting maestro perhaps fell for
her lack of cricket knowledge.
"I first met him at the Mumbai airport when he returned
from his first tour of England in 1990, after scoring his
maiden Test ton. In fact, when I first saw him at the airport,
I didn't even know who he was. It was purely by accident!"
Anjali, who married Tendulkar in 1995, said.
"I was there to pick up my mother and Sachin was arriving
with the Indian team. That's where we saw each other for the
first time... we had a courtship of five years and got married
in 1995. We had got engaged a year before that in 1994 and
that was in New Zealand," she said in a published interview.
Ignorant about cricket when she first started dating
Tendulkar, Anjali said she read up everything about the game
soon after but the man himself didn't like discussing the
sport at home.
"I think what he liked about me was that I knew nothing
about cricket when I first met him. But then, me being me, I
read everything about the game. I came to know all the
fielding positions but he doesn't like me discussing cricket
at home. But at times when he is low or upset, I do talk to
him about cricket. Again, it's not the game but things related
to it that we discuss," she said. More PTI