“Sachin Tendulkar wasn’t such a big name then; Ravi Shastri was,” says the one-time Aussie first-class pace bowler Greg Rowley with a laugh. A successful lawyer and Cricket Australia official in his mid-50s now, he is talking about the 1991 Prime Minister’s XI game at Manuka Oval, where the current India team is set to play the warm-up game from Saturday. Rowley, 23 then, and looking to break into the Australian team, finished the game with flattering figures of 7 for 27, including the wickets of Tendulkar and Shastri. Like now, India had played just one Test before that PM’s X1 game then and the 18-year old Tendulkar hadn’t yet scored much. But soon, hundreds at Perth and Sydney Tests would follow. “Oh, by the end of the series though, I would know who Tendulkar really was,” he says. The Prime Minister’s XI games were a big deal then in Australian cricket, with talented youngsters rubbing shoulders with seniors and having a crack at the national scene. “It was televised nationally, and for us first-class …