Sachin Tendulkar is the best batsman I have ever seen. He is excellent to watch, he is an excellent role model and his record speak for itself. Only a handful of players can live up to their world wide reputation and back it up with some quite remarkable statistics.

He has been playing cricket for 20 years now and is still going strong. At 36-years-old, he is still scoring test match centuries and remains the driving force of the Indian batting line-up.

He averages a remarkable 54.79 in 160 test matches and has reached three figures on no less than 43 occasions. Quite a remarkable record, I'm sure you will agree.

There is no doubt that he will go down in cricket history and rightly so. He is a remarkable professional who has always played the game in the correct way.

He isn't even done yet as this international cricket blog suggests. The end may be close, but you just know that he will go out on a high note.