Waqar is credited with transforming Tendulkar from a boy wonder to a man in the course of one delivery: the bouncer which left the maestro bleeding in the Sialkot Test. Tendulkar recovered well to dispatch his counterpart for a boundary off the very next ball, and as years have passed by, this episode has become one of cricket’s favourite stories.

Waqar Younis at a conclave in the city yesterday. Pic/Atul Kamble