Arguably one of the greatest cricketers of all times, Sachin Tendulkar’s name is rarely ever out of the limelight. Six years have passed by since he had announced his retirement when he played his last Test match in front of a Wankhede stadium that was packed to the rafters but Tendulkar remains one of the biggest names in Indian cricket to date.
In what has to be one of the most unique ways to pay tribute to the master blaster, a research scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in spider taxonomy decided to name one of two newly discovered species after Tendulkar.
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AS per the quotes in Times of India, Dhruv Prajapati said, “I named (one spider) Marengo sachintendulkar because Sachin happens to be my favorite cricketer. Another name is inspired by Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara who was a crusader in creating awareness about education in Kerala.”
Prajapati is a junior researcher with the Gujarat Ecological Education & Research (GEER) Foundation. He said that the two new species are part of the Indomarengo and Marengo genus of Asian jumping spiders.
Some of the legends of world cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Virender Sehwag, and Muttiah Muralitharan are among the big names set to feature in a T20 tournament which will be taking place to promote road safety, called the Road Safety World Series. Some other prominent names that are set to be part of the tournament include Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee and Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
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Tendulkar will be returning to play cricket in front of a crowd for the third time since his retirement in 2013, having played for the MCC against Rest of the World XI at Lord’s in 2014 and three exhibition T20s in the USA in 2015.
