Sachin Tendulkar has made many records on the cricket field in his 24-year international career, which ended in November 2013. But on Sunday night, the Master Blaster made another debut—this time with the mic.

Tendulkar collaborated with singer Sonu Nigam for the iconic cricketer’s debut track ‘Cricket Wali Beat’. 

The song had its world TV premiere on the grand finale of singing TV reality show “Indian Idol 9” on Sunday night on Sony Entertainment Television.

Talking about the song, Sonu said,”I am glad to be part of Sachin’s new innings. I was very surprised to see the way he was pitching right. That’s why I believe that when God blesses someone with genius; it spills in other faculties too.”

“He is a very good singer. We did not use pitch corrector on his voice as he was singing in the right tone and despite being the shy person that he is, he got extremely comfortable the moment I kind of increased the fun quotient while we were shooting the video. It was wonderful and I am very happy that people are loving the song,” the singer said.