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Sachin Tendulkar has marked his guard, he has taken a glimpse at your field, he has lined you up, the crowd is behind him and you have the red leather ball in your hand. You run in hard, get through his defences and send the stumps cartwheeling. Oh dear, what have you just done? (Also Read:  List of Sachin Tendulkar's 110 Teammates ) The little master walks away with his head down, the crowd is baying for your blood, there’s an eerie silence in the ground, you know you’re now the target of a billion people. Then, the feeling sinks in. Bloody hell, you’ve just dismissed the best batsman in the world! You know you’ve achieved something great, your team-mates let you know that when they come charging in towards you, bouncing with child-like enthusiasm. Now, you think, you’ve just dismissed a man who holds almost every batting record that cricket has to offer. What’s life going to be like for you? Surely you’re going to be a star, or wait, is this going to be a c...

As the longest serving and illustrious cricketer of modern times — 199 Tests in 24 years of Test cricket — Sachin Tendulkar has had the pleasure of having more teammates than any of his contemporaries such as Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Brian Lara. (Also Read:  Sachin Tendulkar's 200 facts ) Tendulkar made his debut at the age of 16 against Pakistan and hence held a six-year lead over the Australian Ponting and South African Kallis and almost a seven-year lead against fellow Indian middle order batsman Dravid. He began his international career one year before Lara. Set to play his 200th and farewell Test at the Wankhede Stadium from Thursday, Tendulkar added two more teammates in Mumbai’s Rohit Sharma and Bengal’s Mohammad Shami who were capped against the West Indies last week at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. This took his teammates tally to 110 teammates, one behind England’s Frank Woolley (111 in 64 Tests) and seven behind England’s Graham Gooch (118...

Any sportsman worth his mettle will vouch that their biggest achievement on and off their sporting ground is the respect they command from their team-mates and opponents. If this respect could be measured in weight or numbers, Sachin Tendulkar would have another world record to his name. (Also Read:  Why SACHIN called as GOD??? ) As the champion cricketer bids adieu to the game he has worshipped all his life, we bring to you a compilation of quotes on the great man. These words said by his team-mates, opponents, former cricketers and other eminent public figures are a fine measure of the greatness of not only Tendulkar, the cricketer but also Sachin, the man. (Also Read:  Tributes pour in for Tendulkar on Twitter ) Indian Cricketers MS Dhoni:  "He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual." Virat Kohli after ICC World Cup 2011 w...

1 . His father named him after the legendary music director Sachin Dev Burman. 2 . During his school days, he grew his hair and tied a band around it to copy his idol, tennis legend John McEnroe. 3 . While growing up, Sachin would ask his friend Ramesh Pardhe to dip a rubber ball in water and hurl it at him to see the wet marks left on the bat to know whether he had middled the ball!  (Also Read:  Sachin Tendulkar's milestones over the Years ) 4 . Praveen Amre bought him his first pair of international quality cricket shoes 5 . When Sachin was fourteen, Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra-light pads. However they were stolen when Sachin was at an Under-15 national camp in Indore.  (Also Read:  Sachin Tendulkar Records in Numbers ) 6 . Dilip Vengsarkar gifted Sachin a Gunn & Moore bat after he was picked for the Bombay Under-15 team. 7 . Sachin has 13 coins from his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He would win a coin if he could get through an...