The ultimate batsman of the century Sir Donald Bradman once said to his wife that a young boy he recently saw playing cricket plays just like him. That boy was Sachin Tendulkar. The legendary cricketer turned 48 on Saturday. 

Sachin was born on April 24, 1973, to Ramesh and Rajni Tendulkar. However, little did they know that their little one would be known as the ‘little master’ and become one of the greatest cricketers the world has ever seen. Sachin was very mischievous in his childhood and to discipline him, his father introduced him to cricket.

Sachin holds scores of records to his name and many of them are yet to be broken. Most prominent of them being the first person to score 100 test centuries. He has played 664 international cricket matches in all and has scored more than 34,000 runs. He is also the first sportsman to receive India’s highest civilian award, the ‘Bharat Ratna’.

But despite so many feats to his name, he is a humble human being in reality, and once he was famously quoted as saying, “I would be happy hearing people say that ‘Sachin is a good human being’ than being called ‘Sachin is a great cricketer.'”