Sachin Tendulkar a living legend

Sachin Tendulkar a living legend and one of a kind. He may be the second best cricketer, after Don Bradman, in the history of cricket, but he is the most worshiped cricketer (or maybe sportsman) in the world. He is the first and only cricketer to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first cricketer to score a double century in a One-Day International (ODI), the only cricketer played 200 test matches and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. These are just a few of the best records; the numbers of records he made and broke are even hard to count. One of the best Batsman of all time, Brain Lara said that "He's the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket. You think of the great boxers and basketball players, but if you were to talk before the game, then you would have to talk about Sachin."

Sachin Tendulkar played international cricket for almost 24 years. On this long period of time, many things have changed as the world. However, two things were constant, which are Sachin Tendulkar's batting form and Sachin Craze all over the cricket world. Now it’s time to put that in a rest forever, as the God of Cricket is retired from all forms of Cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar made his International Cricket debut against a Test match with Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989 aged just 16 years and 223 days. If you believe “Morning Shows the Day," then you are totally wrong. As Tendulkar only scored 15 runs in the being bowled by another debutant Waqar Younis. Though, he shows a quick preview of his talent in that series. Tendulkar scored 59 in the second test in Faisalabad, an innings he still recalls as a landmark in that it convinced him; he belonged at the international level. On the last day of the fourth and final test in Sialkot, he was hit in the nose by a bouncer bowled by Younis, but he declined medical assistance and continued to bat even as he gushed blood from it. He eventually scored 57 runs in that innings. After that, he never had to look back. He always performed. No selector was insane enough or ever had any chance to drop him from a team.

Not only, a good cricketer, he is also a gem of a person. No teammate, opposition player, umpire or any person never had any complaint about him. He mentored younger players on the team. He never sledded an opponent or dissented from an umpire's decision. He never talked back to criticism. Always, he let his bat do the talking. His Indian teammate Yuvraj Singh said: "Everybody talks about his records, but the standard he set in the field was incredible."