Sachin Tendulkar recalls being ruled out of action due to an unknown injury caused by Shoaib Akhtar’s delivery

Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar recalled an incident where an Akhtar delivery had him ruled out of action for several months. I got hit in my rib cage in 2007. We were playing Pakistan in India and in the first over itself I got hit in the rib cage off a Shoaib Akhtar ball. It was quite painful. For a month and a half or two months, I was not able to cough or sleep on my tummy. But I continued playing like that, he said.