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Cricketing Fraternity Celebrates Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th Birthday
By CricShots - Apr 24, 2020 11:42 am
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On Friday, the cricketing legend, Sachin Tendulkar turned 47 with wishes pouring in from all parts of the world for the batting legend. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a tribute video on its official Twitter handle on Tendulkar’s birthday. Captioning the video on Twitter, BCCI wrote: “As the Master Blaster @sachin_rt turns 47, we relive one of his glorious knocks against England in 2008. He dedicated this ton – 41st in Test cricket, to the victims of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.”

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The current Indian coach, Ravi Shastri was among the first to wish Sachin Tendulkar, tweeting “Happy Birthday, Bossman. Legacy you’ve left behind in the sport is immortal. God bless Champ”. Aprt from him a lot of people form the cricketing fraternity wished the legend, here are some of the wishes:

https://twitter.com/BCCI/status/1253390714924195841

https://twitter.com/YUVSTRONG12/status/1253541747235274752

Many fans took the opportunity to post videos of their favorite Sachin Tendulkar knock while others posted some memes to show their reverence to the ‘god of cricket’. Here are some of the wishes:

https://twitter.com/AssaultSethuuu/status/1253328245472165894

One of the greatest batsmen to ever play the game of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar has numerous records to his name. He played 664 international matches — 200 Tests, 463 ODIs and one T20I. He amassed 15,921 runs in Test cricket and maintained an average of 53.78 with 51 centuries and 68 half-centuries.

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The batting phenom was just as equally good in the ODIs as he scored 18,426 runs at an average of 44.83 with 49 centuries and 96 fifties. Among the plethora of records, he was the first person to breach the 200-mark in 50-over cricket. Sachin played just one T20I in 2006 against South Africa in Johannesburg where he scored 10 runs. 

The legend decided to hang his boots from all forms of cricket in 2013. Tendulkar, much like other former and current cricketers across the globe, is spending time at home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Recently, he had pledged to feed 5,000 people for a month. In March this year, the batting great had donated ₹25 lakh each to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund and the Chief Minister of Maharashtra”s Relief Fund to aid the battle against COVID-19. Sachin was also among the 40 elite sportspersons with whom PM Narendra Modi had a video conference to discuss the prevailing situation on April 3.