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Sachin Tendulkar Yorkshire
Wed, July 23 2014
Sachin Tendulkar given Yorkshire’s honorary life membership
Sachin Tendulkar played for the County side in 1992.
Wed, October 23 2013
‘Sachin Tendulkar was convinced by Sunil Gavaskar to play for Yorkshire’
1992. A year earlier, Freddie Trueman had called Yorkshire county committee’s decision to recruit an overseas player "a bloody disgrace". But, even as old traditions were being overcome against rigid resistance, the revolutionary administrators suffered a blow in their bold bid to infuse foreign talent into the side. Captain Martyn Moxon’s first choice overseas professional, Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott, pulled out due to a groin injury a month before his scheduled debut on Good Friday.