Legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar's retirement from Test cricket after playing his 200th Test against the West Indies next month will bring the curtains down on an extraordinary career spanning a marathon 24 years. The master blaster made his Test debut against arch-rival Pakistan at Karachi in 1989. Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, the most prolific runmaker of all time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon the game has ever known. He currently holds the record for most hundreds in both Tests and One Day Internationals. In 198 Test matches, Tendulkar scored over Fifteen Thousand Eight hundred runs at an average of 53.86. He slammed 51 Test centuries and an unbeaten 248 against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2004 was his best ever. At 36 years, 306 days, he scored the first double century in one-day cricket. Overall, he hit 49 hundreds in ODI matches. In 2012, Tendulkar became the first player to score 100 international centuries, which like Don Bradman's batting average, could be a mark that lasts for ever.