Sachin Tendulkar 'Person of the Week'
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Global adulation continued to pour in for Sachin Tendulkar, as after being named Person of the Moment, Time magazine has now conferred the retiring batting legend with the 'Person of the Week' honour.
"Sachin Tendulkar, India's top cricketer and widely considered the greatest of his generation, played his final Test match before retirement," the magazine said.
Tendulkar's stellar 24-year cricketing career boasts of innumerable records and milestones which would be hard to surpass.
Tendulkar was showered with adulation not only in India but across the world with leading US dailies paying rich tributes to the master blaster for his "supreme batsmanship" and "unwavering modesty" and describing him as "irreplaceable".
Time magazine had also put out a special online feature highlighting Tendulkar's 10 greatest moments, including his first 100 in 1990 against England, his 2001 against Australia when he became the first player ever to score 10,000 runs in the one-day format, his unprecedented 200 runs in a single innings in an ODI against South Africa in 2010 and the 2011 World Cup win.
"This week, for more than a billion people, the world as they know it effectively comes to an end. The second Test match between India and the West Indies ...will be the last international appearance of one Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar," a Wall Street Journal article titled 'Farewell to Cricket's Little Master' said.
Another Time article said as the little Master plays his last Test match there is "as much a celebration of a great batsman as a poignant meditation on the vacuum he will leave behind." It said when Tendulkar's last match is over, "a nation will have to be content with its memories."
