“I am really upset that MSSA couldn’t treasure the sheet with a world-record partnership on it. I felt bad to read an MSSA official treating the score sheet like an ordinary one.

“If MSSA was unable to maintain the sheet, they could have given it to me or Sachin. We would have treasured it for the rest of our lives,” fumed Kambli, who only recently managed to get a copy of the 1990 edition of Guinness Book of World Records which highlighted the record for the first time.