Gurugram, May 17 -- Kerala batter Vathsal Govind, a part of the team's 2024-25 Ranji Trophy runners-up finish squad, spoke on idolising cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar and his experience of meeting the state's superstar wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson.

Vathsal was speaking to ANI in Gurugram. He has represented Kerala's senior team in 11 first-class matches, having made 376 runs in 13 innings at an average of 31.33, including a century. In List-A cricket, he has been prolific with 503 runs in 14 innings at an average of 50.21, with three fifties.

Having represented both his birthplace, Delhi, and Kerala at the age-group level in 2010s, Vathsal earned his Kerala call-up in 2018.

Speaking on his experience so far in Kerala, saying that...