Sir — When he faced the first ball of his career from Waqar Younis in 1989, few people would have known that Sachin Tendulkar would become one of the all-time greats of the game, not just in India but across the cricketing world.
If the emergence of Tendulkar as a precocious Indian cricketer was one of the defining moments in the country’s cricket history, his retirement is one of the saddest moments in the country’s sports landscape.