"Thank God for that, that I am playing for Sachin and Sachin is playing for me. I am done bowling against him. I have been bowling against him for last 15 years and I was not looking forward to bowling against him, to be honest," a cheerful Akhtar told PTI here.
He said he wanted to be on Tendulkar's team and enjoy the series.
Tendulkar and Australian cricket icon Shane Warne will captain 28 of the world's greatest cricketers for the inaugural 'Cricket All Stars' series in New York, Houston and Los Angeles this month.
The teams -- Sachin's Blasters and Warne's Warriors -- will play the T20 format and players were assigned to the two teams through a live draw of lots. However, a toss of coin between Tendulkar and Warne decided in whose team Akhtar would be. Tendulkar won the toss and hugged Akhtar as it emerged that he will be part of his team.
"I have not seen him (Tendulkar) as a captain. I will see what kind of strategy he liked to give me and he will get to know a little bit from me that as a fast bowler what I used to think running up to him," he said.