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Sachin Tendulkar debut vs Pakistan

Sachin Tendulkar battles inner demons to score first Test half-century on debut tour to Pakistan

On November 24, 1989 Sachin Tendulkar, at the age of 16 became the youngest to score a Test fifty during the Faisalabad Test against Pakistan. Nishad Pai Vaidya recounts the first of many remarkable innings of the Little Master in international cricket.

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Sachin Tendulkar is a great player irrespective of the era in which he plays: Zaheer Abbas

Legendary Pakistan batsman Zaheer Abbas believes that it will be extremely difficult for India to get "another player of Sachin Tendulkar's calibre" and says the retiring great would have been as successful a player had he been born in any other era.

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‘I felt very small I had said something like that about Sachin Tendulkar’

I first watched Sachin Tendulkar bat when he was brought to the nets of the Indian team as a 14-year-old. I was stunned to watch this teenager bat with such maturity; it was simply amazing. Later on, I faced him when Delhi played Bombay (as Mumbai was known then) in a Ranji Trophy game at the Wankhede during the 1988-89 season

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Sachin Tendulkar became a role model for a generation of liberalised India

The other level of the Sachin Tendulkar phenomenon, his social impact, is closely linked to his astonishing record establishing abilities. Tendulkar came in full bloom during the 1991-92 India-Australia series.  This was also the time when India was liberalising and letting the hitherto chained energies of Indians free.

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Sachin Tendulkar is the quintessential nationalist who has sacrificed a lot for the country: Boney Kapoor

Renowned Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor described the joy of watching batting legend Sachin Tendulkar play while talking to Boria Mazumdar for a special edition of the Outlook magazine.

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Sachin Tendulkar the greatest batsman of this era: Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis

Famed Pakistan pace duo Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis Monday paid rich tribute to Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, labelling him "the greatest batsman of this era".

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