Awards: Arjuna award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Vibhushan
Outstanding player,the nation has ever witnessed,Sachin Tendulkar,has decided to say goodbye to One Day Internationals.“I have decided to retire from the one-day format. I feel blessed to have fulfilled the dream of being part of a World Cup wining Indian team,” Tendulkar said.On Sunday the 39-year-old ended his world record 463-match ODI career in which he scored 18,426 runs at 44.83 by informing the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that he is through with the 50-overs form of the game in which he played six World Cups from the 1992 Benson and Hedges World Cup in Australia-New Zealand till the ICC World Cup 2011 that India won defeating Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium.
He has played in 96 venues across the world from the first one against Pakistan at Gujranwala in December 1989 till the Asia Cup early this year.He was more or less on the recordbooks, especially after he reached the 100 international centuries milestone against Bangladesh on March 16, 2012 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.