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Sachin Tendulkar

The Master Blaster

A career that made cricket a daily habit for a billion people, and set the benchmark every Indian batter is still measured against.

From the Shivaji Park nets in Mumbai as a schoolboy prodigy to a farewell Test at the Wankhede in 2013.

Chosen cause

Pathshala Trust

Runs after-school learning centres for first-generation learners across small-town India.

Iconic moments

1989
Debut at sixteen
Faced Pakistan's pace attack in Karachi as a schoolboy and refused to walk off after being hit.
1998
Desert Storm, Sharjah
Two innings against Australia that are still replayed as the template for chasing.
2011
World Cup at home
Carried on the shoulders of his team around the Wankhede after India won the final.