Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar turned 40 today with cricket administrators and his fans lining up a series of events to celebrate the occasion. The Cricket Association of Bengal celebrated Tendulkar's birthday a day in advance by cutting a 10-pound cake in the presence of 100 blind students.Tendulkar, who is in Kolkata, will play as Mumbai Indians batsman in an IPL match against Knight Riders today evening.In a career spanning 24 years, Tendulkar has got almost all the batting record to his name other than Brian Lara's Test highest of 400 not out. Tendulkar, who has called it quits from the ODI format to prolong his Test career, has a colossal 18426 runs from 463 matches with 49 hundreds at an average of 44.83. In the leading run-getters list of Test matches, Tendulkar is sitting on pretty 15837 runs with 51 hundreds, way ahead of South African veteran Jacques Kallis who with 13128 runs is the only playing batsman to be in the race at fourth place.