Sachin Tendulkar: Undoubtly the the best cricketer of the world Cricket

It has been a while since i last wrote on any topic. As we are celebrating 20 years for active cricket for Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the best batsman India ever has, I want to go back to time when he started his career. I was a kid of age 5-6 years when Tendulkar started playing cricket at the age of 16, a mare 5'3'' of height at that time (now he is 5'5''). I dont recall the initial couple of years when Sachin started his career but 1991 onwards I have followed cricket very closely. There was a time when I use to follow cricket so closely that I use to remember all the statistics of most of the famous International players.
It has been a excellent journey of 20 years and mind you being in the game like Cricket that requires mental and physical fitness at its most, is not an easy task. Its the inner self-belief and determination that this man has that gave him these many years of cricket (hopefully he would be playing another couple of years). Its not easy when One billion people expect you make a century every time you walk in the park and more worse even if you are making a decent 40-50 it is not considered a good score. I still remember those days when Sachin was the sole bearer of the Indian Batting line-up for almost a decade.
Talking about the achievements, He has 87 International Centuries (45 in ODIs & 42 in Test Cricket) along with 17 scores in 90s in ODIs (One Day Internationals). He has played 159 test and 436 ODIs, all figures are records in itself. He was the first batsman to achieve 11000 runs in ODIs and the journey continued till recently when he completed 17000 runs. Only Jayasurya of Sri Lanka and Ponting of Australia are in the race of this record but these two also are almost 3000 and 4000 runs behind of that magic figure. Also we must not forget that Sachin is yet to retire. In Balling also Sachin has 154 wickets in ODIs and 44 wickets in Test cricket. The records of this man is something that any youngster will be looking at. These are the numbers but what truly makes him a great sportsperson is the kind of person he is in daily life. No one can put a figure for any wrong doing about this man. I must say its a tuff task to maintain this kind of integrity for as long as 20 years.
I wish he play at least till the next world cup and India must win this world cup so that this person never regret of not winning the world cup for his team. Ultimately He has given his life to cricket and this country, At least he deserves this much. All the best for coming years and Hopefully by the time he will retire, All the batting records will be with his name.