london cricket icon sachin tendulkar on sunday revealed that a phone call from west indies batting legend vivian richards helped him change his mind after he thought of quitting the game in 2007it has been well documented that tendulkar changed his mind from quitting cricket in 2007 on the advice of his elder brother ajit but the indian batting maestro has not earlier spoken about richards role in doing thattendulkar said the 2007 world cup was possibly the worst phase of his career and the game which had shown him the best days of his life was showing him the worst days as welli felt that was it at that stage lot of things happening around indian cricket were not at all healthy we needed some changes and i felt if those changes did not happen then i was going to quit cricket i was almost 90 per cent sure of quitting cricket but my brother told me in 2011 there is world cup final in mumbai can you imagine holding that beautiful trophy in your hand tendulkar said during india today programme hereafter that i went away to my farmhouse and that is when i got a call from sir viv saying i know there is plenty of cricket left in you we had a conversation for about 45 minutes and that was so heartwarming because when your batting hero calls you it means a lot that was the moment things changed for me and from that moment onwards i also performed much much better tendulkar recalledrichards who was also present in the programme pointed to tendulkar and said he had always believed on this little guyi have had the opportunity to play against sunny gavaskar who i have always felt would be the godfather of indian batting then came sachin then you now have virat but the fact which amazed me the most is how such a small guy be so powerful richards saidtendulkar also said that losing the world cup final at the hands of australia in 2003 was one of the biggest disappointments of his lifeyes there was regret because we played so well in that tournament before that our batsmen were not in good space because we played in new zealand where they prepared lively pitches when we went to south africa we started gaining confidence with every match the only team that we lost to in that entire tournament was australiai felt we were charged up in the final may be a bit too much sometimes when your aggression is not controlled the result tends to go the other way then if given a chance again we would approach that game differently said tendulkarthe former india opener picked england australia and india as the favourites to reach the semifinals in the ongoing world cup in united kingdomtalking about india vs pakistan match on june 16 tendulkar said india are in a better space to win that gamefast bowling legend wasim akram said pakistani players