When Sachin wrote to wife Anjali

Walking down memory lane, legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday recalled writing letters to wife Anjali in the pre-mobile era and found her handwriting “beautiful,” which anyone would “watch and admire”.

But writing letters to his wife needed some effort from the former batsman.

“Hitting a cricket ball came naturally to me. But, while writing letters to Anjali, I had to doubly check what I was writing,” he said with a sheepish grin.

“.. in those days when there were no mobiles and the only mode of communication was through landlines or writing letters, I started writing letters. I started with my parents and later wrote some letters to (wife) Anjali,” Tendulkar said, during a handwriting promotional event for here.

While doctors’ handwriting were usually not clear as one would expect, his wife Anjali, who is a doctor by profession, was an exception, the 40-year-old said.

“But my wife, I think, is an exception because she has got a beautiful handwriting, which anyone would watch and admire.”

To a query on who, among his cricket colleagues had the best of handwriting, he said, “I think Anil (Kumble) writes quite clearly.”