Sachin Tendulkar Retires

Hello there. I'm Nick and welcome to a special edition of sports today. India's little Master Sachin. Tendulkar has announced he'll retire from all forms of cricket tributes coming in from around the world. the phenomenon of the water together nothing is his contribution to world to get has been fantastic. We'll take a detailed look at 10:00 duckers career and find out why he's the most worship player in international cricket. Hello there and welcome to this Sachin Tendulkar special India's greatest ever cricketer has announced he'll retire from international cricket after playing his 200th test against the West Indies next month at 5 foot 5 or 165 centimeters.

Tendulkar wanted to be a fast bowler when he was growing up, but he was rejected by Dennis lillee a 1987 because he was too short so Tendulkar picked up the bat and developed into one of the most feared batsman in the world the little Master they call him the man. So Donald Bradman thought looked most like him Joe Wilson looks back at 10 Dockers incredible career. No, man has ever done more with a simple cricket bat quite simply Sachin Tendulkar has scored more runs than anyone else in the international game ever in India is State as his more than statistical the devotion of his followers crosses into the spiritual those who know $10. Well admire not just his Cricket talent, but his ability to ignore the Adoration sister's idea about the game. We help to get the risk Rick Aguilera is like very simple.

Very simple never got carried away with their duration. He gets in India and overseas and I've seen the best part of such an event would go for 14 years. We play together. We started school cricket and Captain Tim for six years. So that was a huge honor for me. Fantastic Tendulkar and Nadia. It was in jail can make his first century for India in August 1990 against England. He was just 17 by his mid-30s. He'd become both celebrity and Statesmen when India reeled after the Mumbai attacks in 2008. It was Tendulkar who appeared on television. Vision telling his country. He played for India now more than ever in pure batting terms. Well, there's always debate about who is the greatest. I think it's easy to forget Brian Lara or didn't play as long as sash. He got out earlier, but those two are the best two players by a long way in the last 20 years, but for many especially in India Tendulkar is just unsurpassable and the to test matches that remain in his career will be an opportunity for an outpouring of emotion.

Which will make this seem tame Joe Wilson BBC News. Let's go to our Sports correspondent Joe Wilson now in New Broadcasting House in London, Joe. What's your greatest memory of him playing? Well, Nick, I'd have to think back to the 2008 series when England went over to play couple of test matches. No put that in its context. That was very shortly after the Mumbai attacks. There was huge tension about that series a lot of questions about whether England would actually go from a security point of view. There's much in Chennai, India.

Chasing down a huge token their second inning Sachin Tendulkar. It's a for not only to win the match but to bring up his hundred now throughout that test match in in the days that preceded it on television in India every time you watched an ad break on virtually any channel 10 Delta appeared. He was looking to camera symbol way that I am now and he was talking to the people of India. He said I play for India now more than ever. It really struck me at the time that the country needed somebody to try and compose the Nation almost and the man they turned to wasn't a politician. It wasn't a Bollywood star. It was a cricketer. So in that week alone, I guess he cemented his State as not only as a batsman, but also as a statement, so that is probably my outstanding memory of his career. I think that's when he was 35 Hey Joe, you mentioned that the Indians love him, but he's also revered and worshiped around the world. Isn't he? Why is that? Well, I think in particular in India, but also to a large degree around the world what really people respect and

Admire about Tendulkar. Is that combination of his ability and his humility, you know the Adoration that he gets in India in particular it would be so easy for it to go to his head and I think there are other Indian cricketers without naming any who people in India see is maybe they start believing in their own hype a little bit Sachin Tendulkar as never done that so I think that in particular is is why he's gained such respect and such a reputation in India in particular.

In terms of what other cricketers have said about him. You will find a list as long as your arm of cricketers who've given tributes to Sachin Tendulkar. I think the one that really matters is this one I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique,. So I asked my wife to come and look at him. I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play. You know, who said that Nick Don Bradman if he says that about you what else do you need? What an honor I can remember I can remember the dawn saying that in 2002, Joe wisdom, which we all know around the world to be the Cricut Bible realistically. They voted Sachin Tendulkar second best batsmen in the history of tests and one day Cricket if the poll was held again in 2013. Where do you think it's it was interesting wasn't as just reach its 150th anniversary. Hasn't it Nick? So it's charted the whole development of international cricket. I don't think you can put anybody above Bradenton personally. I think Bradman is the greatest Sportsman of all time let alone cricketer. So I think that you have

Of course, it was a very different era Don Bradman never played one day Internationals, which of course Tendulkar did an interesting as we move into the manure of cricket 2020 may become the predominant form of the game and I think Tendulkar only played one 2020 match internationally in his career. So I would put 10 belka just behind Bradman is interesting Jeff boycott in the report their kind of put him on a similar level to Brian Lara. I think Nick to be honest the other crooked I would mention in a kind of similar breath similar similar sentence is actually The Englishman WG great back in the 19th century who really reestablished a boundaries of cricket. What you could do is about so when he scored hundreds people couldn't quite believe it. So he really established the popularity of cricket in England and then on a global stage of the 19th century, so I guess my one two three would be Brandman Tendulkar and WG Grace. How does that sound Nick? Yeah can't really be paid her. Thank you very much. Joe Wilson for the moment. Let's take the reaction in India to tendulkar's announcement. I'm joined Now by Mukesh.

Mukesh you're in a India Bureau in Delhi is a twenty20 international. That's about to start in Rajkot. Just over an hour's time. I think between India and Australia Tendulkar will no doubt be a hot topic of the stands. Why is Tendulkar India's greatest? Then if you talk about statistics as in you're just mentioning a hundred International centuries, that is a great achievement which he read and about from that more than fifty thousand International runs. I mean, these are just statistics but about from cricket if we talk about Sachin Tendulkar as a sports person. He has inspired not only creators but other sports person as well. I mean whether it's we talking about you know, Sania Mirza, who's who?

I mean tennis player of India Leander paes or if you talk about Saina Nehwal the ace schüttler. I mean all of them are great fan of Sachin Tendulkar., so I mean he has inspired a whole generation of sports person. Not only created I would say and that's a great ability and in terms of gentleness game, which we call Cricket is he has been termed as as the gentleman who has represented the game very well in terms of the it being the gentleman's game and and and one of the best free caters India has produced. Okay gentlemen, and a tough fighter remember his test debut at 16 years old. He got hit in the mouth by waqar younis wiped it off blood all over his shirt kept on playing, you know, we always wanted to be Tendulkar. We were playing Cricket in the backyard growing up. What's your greatest memory of his career?

I still remember, you know his Pakistan series his first Series in 1989. That was and at that time Abdul qadir was one of the greatest Spinners. It was a one-day International in Peshawar it rain in the match washed out. But what happened because the spectators were there so the organizers decided to have a you know charity match justjust so that the The Spectators who their connect actually have a match and

at mad such in Tendulkar had four sixes on Abdul qadir as bows and I did interview Abdul Kadir recently and he still mentioned mentions that inning and he still remembers that and he did say that, you know, no one ever did no one ever hit four sixes on my bowling ever before or ever after that. So that is one of the greatest Innings, which I remember because he was just he just entered and Pakistan India Pakistan as if you talk about it, you know the arch Was this so much of pressure is much more than Cricket into those matches and Performing like that. I went great shots those four sixes. I still remember those those bowls and that match is still very fresh in my memory. 1988-89 be shower one day international highlights rules will be coming out. Thank you very much Mukesh amateur sports editor in our BBC Delhi. Bureau's thank you very much. Well, the social media circles are abuzz online with lots of reaction can turn to 10 stalkers.

Time at announcement. Here's some of the reaction we've got so far Tha Moody the former Australian top order batsman wrote time waits for no one as Tendulkar says, goodbye. Been a privilege to play and coach against the little Master one of the greats Michael Vaughn the former England Captain wrote one of the greatest ever such an is retiring one of my heroes and an absolute joy to play against okay as Chopra the former Indian batsman said great player and a brilliant human being Thanks for the Memories privileged to have shared the dressing room with you.

Ravi bapat of the England batsman 50,000 runs for Sachin Tendulkar crazy don't think another bats and will score that many runs even with his Xbox and Playstation runs out it. Well, let's go back to our Sports correspondent Joe Wilson a new Broadcasting House in London for a little bit more Joe. You told us about so Don Bradman distribute a little bit earlier this week. We saw the MBA was trying to take some sporting market share in India car construction Tendulkar may be used his his legacy to keep the game strong in.

Yeah, that's an interesting point. You know, I mean what he did, what does he do next and they'll be plenty of people who'd want to Usher him into all kinds of roles neck into politics may be particularly in Mumbai and that region of India. They're probably people who wish him to go into a sports administrative role. I think one thing we will see quite a bit of him here in London because we know that he likes coming to to London in particular to England is perhaps the plays that he can escape the kind of attention that he gets in India.

one of the things that we've been talking about in the last few minutes and Mukesh was alluding to is his modesty and his humility is amiss is quietness as a Persona when I spoke to sort of Ganguly about him. That's how we describe him as a quiet man. I don't think it is his personality which lends itself particularly really to politics. I think we'll see a much more perhaps in a charitable sense and that's something he's done in the last few years is promoting various Charities if you can link a charitable work to Cricket work, I think

What he the role that he will play one thing I'd say to finish off with Nick. There is a sense of Celebration. Absolutely some of the tweets you where there's also a bit of a sense of relief because in the last couple of years we have seen a decline of Tendulkar the weight from to get to a hundred International centuries seem to go on forever now, we've got the perfect opportunity to go out in Mumbai and I could almost see the cues for tickets for that second test match in November starting from here Nick Joe Wilson our Sports correspondent in you broadcasting a signal to thank you very much for wrapping up Sachin Tendulkar. Who is announced his retirement from international cricket? Thanks for watching this special edition of sports today. Remember you can get more about the little Masters career in a breakdown on our website all the video when career stats there on bbc.com Ball, but for me Nick Marshall McCormick and the rest of the sport today team. Thanks for watching. We'll see you soon. Bye bye.