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DELIRIOUS crowds greeted India's Sachin Tendulkar as he walked out to bat in his last Test match on Thursday, an emotional farewell game for a national hero whose 24-year career has made him a cricketing legend.
'The Little Master' faced 73 balls and finished the first day unbeaten on 38 from 73 balls.
Crowds at the Wankhede stadium in his home town of Mumbai erupted as Tendulkar went to the crease on the first day of the match, walking through a guard of honour created by his West Indian opponents, television pictures showed.
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Each run was greeted with raucous applause and cheering, with several textbook cover drives exhibiting the elegant strokeplay that had marked Tendulkar out since his international debut in 1989.
The 40-year-old is ending an international career during which he became the all-time leading Test and one-day batsman and the only man to score 100 international centuries.
Ahead of the match, he said the last 20 years had been "marked by some of the most challenging, exhilarating, poignant and memorable moments of my life".
"The game has seen so much change over the last two decades -- from advances in technology, new formats, yet the basic spirit and passion surrounding the game remains the same," he wrote in a front-page Hindustan Times article.
The end of the "Little Master", who has almost god-like status in his cricket-mad country, has been met with nationwide nostalgia for his sporting feats.
As he strode to the crease, acknowledging the applause with a modest raising of his bat, Indians all over the country huddled around television sets and Twitter exploded with messages wishing him luck.
Tendulkar led the team out onto the field at Wankhede stadium in the morning and the toss took place with a specially minted coin bearing his image on one side, footage showed. Cries of "Sachin! Sachin!" echoed throughout the day.
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