McGrath makes shocking claims about receiving 'death threats' after picking Sachin's scalp

Sachin Tendulkar's rivalry with Glenn McGrath is often remembered as one of most memorable ones as it gave cricket fans several moments to cherish. Widely regarded as best players to have played game, McGrath and Tendulkar starred in several matches to take ir team over line.

Both of m often locked horns in pursuit of a win and one such game was Adelaide Test of 1999, when McGrath got better of Sachin Tendulkar as he got him out for a duck but lbw decision was severely criticised by many, including Tendulkar, who opined that ball was missing wickets by a mile.

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'Cricket Australia received death threats for me' 

In a recent interview with a leading news daily, McGrath opened up about controversial wicket that led Australia to victory in Adelaide Test. McGrath revealed that he received death threats over Sachin's wicket and his family had to get extra security in Sydney because Cricket Australia had also received death threats for speedster. Terming wicket as an 'unusual freak dismissal' McGrath said that even though Sachin still feels that ball was clearing stumps by a ball and half, since re was DRS n, so when umpires gave out that was it. Even Sachin Tendulkar was fumed at umpire's decision. Here is a video of wicket: 

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Taking an account of incident, McGrath said that when Sachin had come in, I tried to unsettle him with a bounce since he hadn't scored yet. Furrmore, he added, ball didn't bounce much and it hit Sachin on shoulder as he ducked. McGrath remembered that he could see bails over Tendulkar's head from where he was looking and it looked out and he still believes that it was out. 

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'It would've missed stumps comfortably'

Tendulkar in his book - 'Playing it My Way', wrote that he thought that ball would have missed stumps comfortably as it was on rise. However, India went on to lose Adelaide Test by 285 runs. Sachin Tendulkar who was captaining Indian side back n had scored 61 in first innings and got out on a duck in second innings. Eventually, India went on to lose three-match Test series by 3-0.

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