Sachin Tendulkar: Hundred Hundreds and the Day Wankhede Said Goodbye

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Sachin Tendulkar was born in Mumbai on April 24, 1973. He made his Test debut for India in Pakistan in 1989, aged just sixteen, which still sounds impossible. For the next two decades he was the player that Indian cricket was built around, and the crowd's noise when he walked out to bat was a sound that you could recognise from the television in another room.

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The numbers are huge. He scored a hundred international centuries, fifty-one in Tests and forty-nine in one-day internationals, which is a record. He was also the first batsman to score a double century in a one-day international, in 2010. He holds the record for the most runs in Test cricket, and for years it seemed that records were something that he simply collected.

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The title that mattered most to him, he often said, was the 2011 World Cup, which India won at home, and the final was played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. He played in five World Cups before that and never lifted the trophy, so the scenes at the end were emotional for everyone watching.

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He retired in November 2013, after his 200th Test, again at the Wankhede. His farewell speech is remembered for its warmth and for how he thanked his family and coaches. In 2014 he received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, and he was the first sportsperson to get it.

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If you are old enough to remember watching him, which innings do you think of first? I still think about a few of his knocks from the 1990s.