26. He sang and whistled with Vinod Kambli during their 664-run record stand in the Harris Shield tournament in 1988 to avoid eye contact with the coach's assistant who wanted to declare while the duo wanted to bat on.
27. Two wards in Delhi's Tihar Jail were named after Sachin and Vinod Kambli, after the duo shared a 664-run unbroken partnership in a school tournament.
28. Sachin scored a duck on his One Day International debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala on December 18, 1989
29. Sachin's first man of the match in a Test was at Manchester in 1990 and he got Magnum champagne bottle as the prize. Sachin preserved it for eight years and finally uncorked it on his daughter Sara's first birthday.
30. He was without a bat contract during the 1996 World Cup in which he emerged as the highest run-getter.
31. In 1992, he became the first overseas player to represent Yorkshire county team.
32. Aged 19, it made him the youngest Indian to play in county cricket
33. On November 14, 1992, playing against South Africa at Kingsmead in Durban, Tendulkar became the first batsman to have been declared run out by a third umpire.
34. In 1998 Sachin was chosen for the 1997-98 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
35. When then BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur was asked why was Tendulkar not seen at the presentation after Pakistan won the Chennai Test of 1999 despite a brilliant hundred from Tendulkar, a distraught Raj Singh said: "He is crying in the dressing room."
36. Tendulkar refused to do a Pepsi ad because it required him to smash cricket balls with a fly swatter. He told ad-film maker Prahlad Kakkar that this will project him as bigger than the game of cricket. The ad was modified and stumps replaced the fly swatter.
37. Launched in 2009 by a company founded by former investment banker Karl Fowler, a book on Sachin Tendulkar - Tendulkar Opus -has 852 pages edged in gold leaf with each page measuring 50cm x 50cm and weighs 37 kg.
38. In 2010, Sachin was conferred an honorary rank of the Indian Air Force which made him the first sportsperson to be conferred a rank by the IAF and the first personality with no aviation background to receive the honour.
39. In the dressing room, he chooses his spot first -Sachin always occupies a corner. Once he has exercised his choice, others rush to take their places.
40. Sachin follows Roger Federer and Formula 1 and understands music and medicine. Is fond of seafood and can hold a conversation on the merits of different wines.
41. The team has a system of monetary fines for players coming late (to the bus or a meeting or a function) and for flouting the dress code. But Tendulkar has never had to pay up in 23 years.
42. Sachin bats right-handed, bowls with his right-arm, but writes with his left hand
43. In 2002 cricket bible Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman, behind Sir Don Bradman
44. In 2003 Wisden rated Sachin the greatest ever ODI player
45. In 2010 he won the ICC Award-Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for cricketer of the year
