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Sachin Tendulkar had not yet retired

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Although the Little Master, considered by many the greatest cricketer of all time, had already recused himself from the ODI format of the game, he was still playing Test cricket until 2013.

He had reached the milestone of 100 centuries – 51 in Test cricket, and 49 in One-day Internationals, the previous year, and in November 2013, in a Test against the West Indies played at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, hallowed grounds for Tendulkar.

Tendulkar posted a fifty in that innings, but fell just short of a hundred.

But with not a dry eye in the house, Tendulkar gave a farewell speech to the crowds assembled at the Wankhede as he thanked several figures in his 24-year career as he played his final International cricket match.