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Twenty Years Of 

Little Master

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1989 Sachin

Tendulkar, at the age

of 15, had become the

youngest Indian toscore a century on

first-class debut, in

1988. A year later he

made his Test debut inPakistan, mixing it

with the likes of Kapil

Dev, who had started

 playing for India when

Tendulkar was onlyfive years old

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1990At the age of 17 years

and 112 days, Tendulkar 

scored the first of 87

international hundreds. His

110 in the fourth innings at

Old Trafford helped India

save the Test against

England

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1991 Tendulkar won

Australia over by scoring

114 at the WACA, the

 bounciest pitch in theworld. During the innings

Merv Hughes told Allan

Border: "This little *****

is going to get more runsthan you, AB."

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1992 Tendulkar was 19 years

and 217 days when he passed

the 1000-Test-runs milestone,

the youngest to do so. He did itwhile scoring 111 out of India's

227 in Johannesburg. Earlier in

the year he had become

Yorkshire's first-ever overseassigning

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1993After hundreds in three

foreign countries, Tendulkar 

forged his bond with Madras,

scoring 165 against England. It

was his first home century and

it led India to a series victory

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1994 Tendulkar opened in an ODI

for the first time, in Auckland

against New Zealand, and made

82, anchoring a chase of 143.

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1995 The little boy got

married, to Anjali Mehta, a

Bombay-based doctor, at age

22

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1996 Tendulkar became the first batsman to score more than 500 runs

in a World Cup. His tally ended on 523, with this stumping against Sri

Lanka, in the semi-final, which India lost

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1996 Tendulkar's first

captaincy assignment was the

inaugural Border-Gavaskar 

Trophy. India won the one-off Test in Delhi

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1996 The year Tendulkar mania

took off in India. He was

everywhere

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1997 Tendulkar led India

to a 4-1 victory against

Pakistan in an ODI series

in Toronto. It was one of India's few successes

during his tenure

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1998 The year Tendulkar 

dominated Australia with

two Test hundreds and

four ODI centuries, three

of which were in a row.

His twin innings in

Sharjah were the

highlights of a year during which he gave

Shane Warne nightmares

 by the bowler's own

admission

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1999Australia fought back at home the following year and this Glenn

McGrath LBW of Tendulkar, after he ducked into a short ball, is

 perhaps one of the most debated dismissals in cricket

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2000 In his 253rd match -

the ICC Champions Trophy

final in Nairobi - Tendulkar 

 broke MohammadAzharuddin's record of 

9378 runs to become the

highest run-scorer in ODIs.

He's had it ever since

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2001 Tendulkar didn't contribute with the bat to India's greatest

win of this decade - against Australia in Kolkata - but he picked up

three vital second-innings wickets. He scored a century in Chennai

to help India win the third Test and the series

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2002 In his 99th Test, Tendulkar overtook Don Bradman's 29 hundreds,

 by scoring 193 at Headingley. It contributed to an innings-and-46-run

win

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2003 Tendulkar scored 98 of his

record tally of 673 World Cup

runs in one unforgettable

innings against Pakistan inCenturion. The defining moment

was a savage upper cut against

Shoaib Akhtar that sailed over 

the third-man boundary.

Tendulkar marshalled India to

the final, where their bowlers

conceded 359 runs against

Australia. The Man-of-the-

Series bauble was littleconsolation

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2004 Tendulkar nearly spoiled Steve Waugh's farewell Test in Sydney,

scoring 241 not out and 60, but Australia held on for a draw

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2005 Tendulkar took possession

of another world record against

Sri Lanka in Delhi. This time it

was Sunil Gavaskar's 34-Testcentury mark that was overtaken

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2006 Tendulkar spent months out of the team because of a tennis

elbow. He returned in September, with 141 against West Indies in

Kuala Lumpur 

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2007 More than 17 years after his debut, in England, Tendulkar was

finally part of a squad that won a Test series outside the subcontinent

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2008 Often berated for not delivering on big occasions, Tendulkar 

scored 117 and 91 to lead India to victory in the first two finals of the

tri-series in Australia

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2008 Tendulkar became the highest run-scorer in Test cricket,

surpassing Brian Lara's 11,953. Fittingly, he did it against Australia,

in Mohali

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2009 Tendulkar 

revisited his glory

days with a

 breathtaking 175 off 

141 balls. It truly

was a blast from the

 past, for he received

almost no supportand India lost the

thriller to Australia

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Regards Sandeep Patil