The longevity of Sachin Tendulkar: How the Master Blaster dominated the game for over 22 years

By Rounaq Sehrawat: From 1989 to 2013, legendary India batter Sachin Tendulkar dominated cricket for 24 years and broke almost all batting info inside the sport. While the Master Blaster has quite a few info to his title, the cornerstone for all of them is his longevity, which allowed him to collect accolades desire it’s child’s play all by means of his glittering occupation.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar made his debut for India on November 15, 1989 in direction of Pakistan in Test cricket. He scored 15 runs in India’s first innings and was cleaned up by the “Toe Crusher” Waqar Younis, and did not get the chance to bat inside the second innings as match led to a stalemate.

Fast forward 24 years and in November of 2013, Tendulkar made his final search for India and scored his 68th Test half-century, hitting 74 runs off 118 balls at his dwelling ground, the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. His knock was an enormous one as India beat the West Indies by an innings and 126 runs to current a turning into farewell to top-of-the-line batters to step foot on a cricket pitch.

The itemizing of accolades collected by Tendulkar is a protracted one, having scored 34,357 runs all through codecs, hitting 15,921 runs in Tests, 18,426 runs in one-day internationals and 10 runs inside the solitary T20I match that he carried out. He moreover stays the one participant to hit 100 centuries all through all codecs of the game, a feat that will on no account be replicated. He has moreover scored an unimaginable 164 half-centuries, hitting 96 fifties in ODIs and 68 in Test cricket.

But the muse of all these info rests on his unimaginable longevity, no matter struggling quite a few accidents all by means of his 24-year occupation. From his once more hurt in 1999 to his well-known tennis elbow hurt in 2009, Tendulkar battled ache all via his occupation.

But whatever the quite a few accidents he wanted to endure, Tendulkar holds the report for the longest occupation in ODI cricket, spanning 22 years in 91 days. While moreover being the longest serving India participant in Test cricket, collaborating in for 24 years and in the end, sitting behind Wilfred Rhodes (58 Tests), Dennis Brian Close (22 Test and three ODIs), Frank Edward Woolley (64 Tests), and George Alphonso Headley (22 Tests), with none of them collaborating in even close to the number of matches that Tendulkar did.

Speaking to Ravi Shastri ahead of his fiftieth birthday on the Wankhede Stadium, Tendulkar talked about this has been the slowest nonetheless in all probability probably the most fulfilling half-century of his occupation.

“This has been the slowest fifty of my life but the most fulfilling one and interesting one. It’s a package of highs and lows. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed scoring this fifty, it has taught me a lot. Above all, it has given me the honor of representing India for 24 years,” talked about Tendulkar.

Today the Little Master celebrates his fiftieth birthday, as the whole nation lovingly remembers a as quickly as in a period participant that united India alongside along with his wise stroke-play and a humble persona off the sector.