The Mayans have told, the world would come to a drastic end on December, 2012. Maybe somehow they were wrong. But, in Cricket World, this is surely an end as Sachin Tendulkar has announced his retirement from ODI cricket. This is surely an end to the most intriguing cricket career of Sachin Tendulkar. In his 39 years of life span, he has contributed to cricket for 23 years.
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| The Living Legend of Cricket |
Known as the living legend of Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar has confirmed his retirement from ODI Cricket today. He has officially declared his retirement to BCCI. After gifting the world with his continuous and tremendous performance, he retires from the One-Day format of Cricket. He has been on the ground playing 463 ODI matches while stroking 18,426 runs with his magic bat and scoring 49 centuries, also ensuring all of these are world records. He is the one, who, just after 12 years of his career, has been ranked the second greatest Test batsman of all time behind Don Bradman and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time behind Viv Richards by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack.
Sachin Tendulkar was a part of six consecutive Cricket World Cups and a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Team India, his first such win. Tendulkar's debut match in 1989 against Pakistan in Gujranwala was not something so special where he scored a duck.
