Mumbai: Retired batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar said today the whole idea behind his writing a letter to world boxing body AIBA was to save woman boxer L Sarita Devi’s career from ending abruptly after the Asian Games controversy in Incheon.
“Our effort was to see that Sarita Devi’s career was not jeopardised. She committed a small mistake,” said Tendulkar when asked to react to the news that AIBA had imposed a one-year ban on the Manipuri boxer.
Tendulkar gave the reaction to the media after attending a unique exhibition by ten artists titled ‘Deconstructed Innings – A tribute to India’s greatest sports icon’, on his glittering cricketing life and career. Asked about the shocking killing of over 100 school children by the Taliban in Peshawar, the cricket great said: “I felt very sad (about the shocking incident).”
He praised the ten artists who have collectively called themselves ‘TenArt’ and said he was ‘extremely delighted’ by their work.
