#1 SACHIN TENDULKAR
Thrust into the national side as a timid 16-year old, no one doubted his immense talent as a teenager, but few would have imagined then that he would go on to re-write the annals of the game and obliterate almost every batting record that came his way.
With a flawless technique and a nonpareil ability to gauge a delivery, Tendulkar stayed at the top of his game for over two decades at the international level, and scored exactly a 100 hundreds.
He scored his first Test century against England at Manchester in 1990 as a 17-year old, and went on to score 50 more in a Test career that continued till November 2013.
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