Sachin Tendulkar is arguably the most impeccable batsman to ever walk on a cricket field. He may not have the near-perfect average of Sir Don Bradman or the swagger of Sir Viv Richards but Tendulkar did what even the greats of the game couldn't. The Mumbaikar made his debut on November 15 in 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi and the rest, as they say, is history. He went on to represent India for the next 24 years and shatter all records possible and set some that still remain. Incidentally, November 15 was also the last day he represented India on the field. His last game came against West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium in 2013. The 45-year-old ended with 34,357 runs from 664 games, including 100 hundreds as well. Tendulkar's tally of 15921 Test runs remains the most in Test cricket and so does his total of 18426 runs in ODIs. He is also the only player to have played 200 Test matches as well as the first player ever to score a double century in ODI cricket. Tendulkar has also won 15 Man of the Series awards and 62 Man of the Match awards in ODIs. Not only that, he has won a Man of the Match Award against every one of the ICC Full Members during his time. He also won the World Cup in 2011 at his home ground -- Wankhede Stadium. Following his achievements and contribution to the game, the Master Blaster was awarded the Bharat Ratna award in 2014. He remains the only sportsperson to date to receive India's highest civilian honour. Along with it, he also won the Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan Awards.
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Virat Kohli's poor run of form across formats in 2024 continued as he scored just 23 runs across two innings in the first Test match against Bangladesh in Chennai. But he walked out with a huge Test milestone after his second innings on Day 2.
India are on the heels of kicking off a huge Test season with as many as 10 matches on the horizon, starting with a series against Bangladesh at home. Bangladesh are coming off beating Pakistan and the last time the Indian team was in action, 27 wickets were lost to spin but this is not all.
"Please tell us what’s wrong with Test cricket presently when Tendulkar is owning the record and how will Test cricket be better if (and that’s a huge if) an Englishman goes on to hold it," Sunil Gavaskar wrote in his column.
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Joe Root is the third-leading run-getter in the longest format of the game in 2024 thus far. The right-handed batter has aggregated 524 runs in seven games at an average of 43.66. He has already struck two centuries and the same number of half-centuries.
"You just try on bowling your best ball, top of off-stump, the whole time and hope he miss a straight one. In England, he might knick the odd one, but generally, I’d try and get him out LBW early,” James Anderson said.
Sachin Tendulkar received a rousing reception as the sports legends Roger Federer, Joe Root, and Pep Guardiola attended the world no.4 Jannik Sinner's men's singles third-round game against English star Cameron Norrie at centre court.
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Sachin Tendulkar still holds the record for scoring the most runs in international cricket. In addition to that, Sachin has also won the most Player of the Match (POTM) awards. Virat Kohli is second on the list of players with the most Player of the Match awards in international cricket.
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