Finally, Sachin Tendulkar say Good bye and retired from all formats of cricket after playing 24 years in international cricket for India. Sachin will play his 200th Test, which is scheduled to be during the home series against West Indies in November.
The 200th Test will be the last of numerous milestones in Tendulkar's career. No cricketer has played so many. He also owns the records for most runs and centuries in both Test and one-day cricket. Sachin Tendulkar said "All my life, I have had a dream of playing cricket for India. I have been living this dream every day for the last 24 years."
Sachin retired from ODIs in December 2012. Tendulkar finishes an amazing career in the 50-over format, having played 463 ODIs, scored 18,426 runs and made 49 centuries, each of them a world record. His last ODI was against Pakistan in Dhaka during the Asia Cup, where he made a half-century in India's victory.
"I have decided to retire from the One Day format of the game," he said in a statement. "I feel blessed to have fulfilled the dream of being part of a World Cup winning Indian team. The preparatory process to defend the World Cup in 2015 should begin early and in right earnest. I would like to wish the team all the very best for the future. I am eternally grateful to all my well wishers for their unconditional support and love over the years."
He is record holder of 100 centuries (51 in Test and 49 in ODI) in world cricket. India must be proud of Sachin Tendulkar for holding such a wonderful record in history of Cricket. Sachin has 51 Centuries in Test match format averaging over 55.00 and 49 Centuries in One Day Cricket Format averaging over 44.00.
In his 22 years of his career he has proved so may time his ability of Superb Batting. He made his Test Debut Against Pakistan at Karanchi in 1989 and ODI debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala in 1989. since then he become the regular player of Indian Team and played lots of momeriable innings in Test Matches as well IDI Crickets.
Sachin Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour. Sachin Tendulkar became the first sportsperson and the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force. He has received honorary doctorates from University of Mysore and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.
At 14, Tendulkar was a ball boy for the India versus Zimbabwe game at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup.Now, Sachin Tendulkar is the most prolific run scorer in one-day internationals with 18,426 runs. With a current aggregate of 14,692 Test runs, He also holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test (51) and ODI cricket (49).Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times. He has been Man of the Match 13 times in Test matches and Man of the Series four times. Similarly he has been Man of the Match 60 times in One day International matches and Man of the Series 14 times.