No plans on retiring any time soon: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 – Cricket News Update
India's veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar has maintained that he has no plans of retiring from cricket anytime soon, insisting that he will quit the moment he stops enjoying the game.
“As long as there is a reason to wake up with a reason in the morning, it makes sense in continuing (playing cricket),” said Tendulkar, while speaking at the Castrol Awards for Cricketing Excellence ceremony in Bangalore. “The day I don't enjoy wielding
bat in my hands, I will think otherwise. But that moment hasn't come as yet. When I will get that feeling, I will confirm on that.”
Tendulkar has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame since making his debut as a 16-year-old in a Test match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 during November 1989 in Karachi. Since then he has gone on to play a total of 189 Test matches, and 463 ODIs for the national side, and
at 39 years of age, maintains a keen desire to continue playing the sport.
His achievements include a pile of records, among these his record for most Test runs of all time (15489), and most ODI runs of all time (18426). Perhaps his most spectacular record is his hundred international centuries, which many experts have adjudged
to be near unbreakable. Tendulkar scored his first Test century when he was only 17 – a match-winning score at Old Trafford, and had accumulated 16 centuries in the extended-overs format before reaching the age of 25.
The most difficult hundred was undoubtedly the very last, with the right-hander falling into a batting slump following the 2011 World Cup and going for nearly a year without a triple-digit score. The moment of glory came, at last, during the Asia Cup in
March this year, when Tendulkar scored a ton against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 to complete his 100 international centuries.
With the record safely registered, there have been calls for the veteran batsman’s retirement from international cricket, with many claiming that Tendulkar is taking up a spot which can used to groom a younger player for the Indian team.
However, despite the retirement of many of his contemporaries (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772), the veteran batsman has insisted that he will continue playing until he stops enjoying the sport.
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