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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
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