00:00This boy sat with his pads on for two full days in a school match and never got to bat.
00:04That single moment defined his entire life. In 1988, Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli
00:10shared a 6-64 run school partnership. Waiting next to bat was a 13-year-old named Amul Muzumdar.
00:17The team declared he never faced a ball. He spent the next 20 years waiting for India to call his
00:23name too. He scored 11,167 first-class runs, debuted with an unbeaten 260, a world-record
00:31score on debut, averaged over 80 in his first five runji seasons. The call never came. Dravid,
00:38Tendulkar, Laxman, Ganguly, the greatest middle order in Indian history, left no room for him.
00:43He once packed his kit bag, told his wife he was done and stopped playing cricket entirely for a
00:49month. But in 2025, Amul Muzumdar stood on the cricket field again, this time as a coach of
00:55the Indian women's team that won the World Cup. India finally gave him his trophy just 32 years late.
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