His ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) duty prevented Sachin Tendulkar from accepting a request for a personal meeting with a large group of wheelchair bound soldiers in Pune, but the champion batsman interacted with them via video conference on Friday, prior to his 38th birthday.
“Respectful greetings, my dear soldier brethren; I have learned to take up responsibility and fight till the end from you people,” the batting maestro, who is an honorary Air Force Group captain, told the soldiers during his interaction from Mumbai, according to sources close to him.
The soldiers are undergoing rehabilitation at the paraplegic centre in Pune's Khadki cantonment area and are wheelchair bound. Some are paralysed neck-down and some others waist-down.
