5 pre-match rituals of great cricketers

#2 Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar's rituals helped him become one of the greatest ever batsmen

Arguably the greatest batsman since Sir Donald Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar might have made the game look easy, but for all his immense gifts as a batsman across format, he also had his own set of pre-match rituals that helped him with his game.

Ahead of big games, he often went weeks without sleeping at night and would continuously try to work out ways to handle each and every bowler in the opposition. He tried to visualise his innings as well and hence when he played the actual game, Tendulkar was often playing from memory.

As he himself said about his pre-match rituals once, "Pre-match, I would tick all the boxes, and if I had done all those things, I could stand in front of the mirror and say, 'Yes, I have prepared myself well.'”