reckons when you get injured matters a lot in the treatment of the problem very few know that rahul dravid also had a tennis elbow injury but his injury happened towards the end of the season in 2002 or 2003 rahul told me for the next three months he wont lift a bat and his injury had healed to me it happened at the start of the seasoni had no option but to pick up a bat and play 100plus balls every practice session that ensured i sank slowly but surelyexperts reckon the pretennis elbow injury tendulkar was more thrilling to watch post 2004 while he became more prolific the runmaking according to analysts seemed more efficient but less exciting for a batsman naturally blessed with a wide array of shots how egopuncturing was it to give up some of the shots to ensure that the injury does not worsenthey were in there somewhere but after the 2003 world cup i had my finger operated that injury actually happened in new zealand in 200203 before the world cup it took me about four months to recover i felt my grip and my style of playing had changed because of that in the following year i suffered from a tennis elbow i do not know if everything is related now from here shows his grip when you change your grip it impacts your hand in 2005 it was my right shoulder and bicep that had to be operated in 2012 i injured my wrist all these injuries impacted my grip and my back lift that is the reason i felt certain shots leaves it unsaidtendulkar reasons that the brain understands the body better than anyone else the brain shuts down certain parts of the body and forces you to make subtle adjustments and i felt somewhere without me realizing those changes cutting down on certain shots had happenedpti photobut he was also the most analysed batter by rivals and opposition teams and cutting down shots may have something to do with captains blocking some of his good shots tendulkar replies in the affirmative and adds that also caused me to change my playing style if there is a widish midwicket i am going to try and place the ball to avoid him and play straighter towards midon which might seem like i am avoiding the shot over midwicket the shots that i may have cut also depends on what my role was in the team tendulkars body did go through the wars a fair bit but his eye was still intact that eyesight which allowed him to get in position early and allowed him to pick up length earlier than mortals was what made him reveredthe great sunil gavaskar took care of his eyes by not reading in moving vehicles dim light and by taking care that pens and pencils of emotional fans seeking autographs do not get near his face how did tendulkar nurture his greatest gifti did not do