Sachin Tendulkar: life and times of a cricketing legend

Sachin Tendulkar: life and times of a cricketing legend

• Batsman will retire after 200th Test for India
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1973 Born 24 April, Mumbai

1988 Scores 100 not out in his first first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy – becoming the youngest cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut, aged 15 years and 232 days

1989 Makes Test debut for India against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of 16.

December: makes ODI debut against Pakistan but is dismissed by Waqar Younis without scoring a run

1990 Scores maiden Test century against England at Old Trafford

1992 At the age of 19 he becomes the first overseas-born player to represent Yorkshire

1994 September: hits his first ODI century against Sri Lanka in Colombo after 79 one-day matches

1996 Leading run-scorer at World Cup played in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, with a total of 523 runs

August: takes on the India captaincy, although suffers two relatively unsuccessful stints during a four-year period, winning only four Tests and 23 ODIs

1997 Named Wisden Cricketer of the Year

1998 Scores his first double century for Mumbai against Australia in the Brabourne Stadium

1999 November: involved in India's highest run-scoring ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid as the pair put on 339 against New Zealand. In the same match, he records the highest individual ODI score in Indian history, with an unbeaten 186

2000 Gives up the captaincy of India after the two-Test series with South Africa

2001 Given a suspended ban of one game in light of alleged ball tampering during a match against South Africa at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. The ban is later lifted by the International Cricket Council after an investigation

2003 Named Player of the Tournament at the 2003 Cricket World Cup and scores 673 runs, the highest by any player in the tournament

2005 Overtakes Sunil Gavaskar's record of the highest number of Test centuries by clinching his 35th against Sri Lanka in Delhi

2006 Overtakes Kapil Dev by securing the record for the highest amount of Test appearances for India, with 135

2007 January 3: edges past Brian Lara's world record of runs scored in Tests away from home, with 5,751 runs.

June: becomes the first player to score over 15,000 ODI runs during a match against South Africa in Belfast

2008 March: plays a record-breaking 417th ODI match against Australia

August: becomes only the third player in Test match history, and the first from India, to play 150 matches when he is selected in the third Test against Sri Lanka

June: nominated as the "Icon Player" of IPL franchise Mumbai Indians, signing a deal worth $1,121,250 per season

October 17: becomes the highest run-scorer in Test cricket, passing Lara's previous mark of 11,953, when he reaches 16 in the first innings of the second Test against Australia

2010 February 24: Scores the first double-century in one-day international history, hitting an unbeaten 200 against South Africa

April: named player of IPL3 after finishing as the tournament's top run-scorer

3 August: becomes most-capped player in Test history, making his 169th Test appearance in the third Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo to overtake former Australia captain Steve Waugh

19 December: becomes first batsman to hit 50 Test centuries, achieving the feat against South Africa in Centurion

2011 March: hits two tournament centuries as co-hosts India win the World Cup.

November: becomes the first man to score 15,000 Test runs during series against West Indies

2012 March: scores his 100th international century in an Asia Cup match against Bangladesh, the first player to do so

2013 October: announces impending Test retirement

23 December: announces retirement from one-day international cricket

2013 10 October: announces he will retire from Test cricket after playing in his 200th Test against the West Indies in November

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