Happy Birthday Sachin

On Wednesday, Sachin Tendulkar turned 40 with cricket administrators and his fans lining up a series of events to celebrate the senior Indian batsman, who will also appear in an IPL match.

Moreover, the Mumbai Indians batsman, who happens be to here for his IPL team's clash against Kolkata Knight Riders, will begin the day with a customary cake-cutting ceremony at the team hotel.

In a course of action, the Cricket Association of Bengal celebrated Tendulkar's birthday a day in advance by cutting a 10-pound cake in the presence of 100 blind students. Visually challenged students from Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Blind School and Light House for the Blind cut the cake in the evening.

A message from the CAB read that they are overwhelmed with joy and they want Tendulkar to live 100 years.

Interestingly, on Wednesday, 40-pound cake cutting ceremony will be a private affair near the dressing room and Tendulkar's wife Anjali joined him on Tuesday night along with team owner Nita Ambani for more celebrations.

The chocolate cake will be made up from special cocoa from Ghana and Madagascar while it will have an image of Tendulkar and it could genuinely be that of the World Cup-winning moment of April 2, 2011.

Fact-fully, in a career spanning 24 years, Tendulkar has got almost all the batting record to his name other than Brian Lara’s Test highest of 400 not out.

Tendulkar, who has called it quits from the ODI format to prolong his Test career, has a gigantic 18,426 runs from 463 matches with 49 hundreds at an average of 44.83. In fact, in the leading run-getters list of Test matches, Tendulkar is sitting on 15837 runs with 51 hundreds, way ahead of South African veteran Jacques Kallis who with 13128 runs is the only playing batsman to be in the race at fourth place.

As a concluding fact, Tendulkar has played only one T20 for India as he has limited his Twenty20 ambition to his franchise Mumbai Indians in the IPL.

Have a splendid Birthday, Sachin Tendulkar!

(AW:Samrat Biswas)