He has been a thorough legend of the game. He’s been an outstanding achiever in the game. It really won’t be incorrect to call him a brand ambassador of the term cricketing excellence. He made run making a familiar habit and continued with that tradition almost until the end of his career and whether you’ve noticed it or not, even excelled in the Indian Premier League. Sachin Tendulkar is perhaps one of those cricketers who just about any batter would want to be. And yet, there’s only one little master, a bonafide legend of the game and someone whose second nature was hitting one heroic knock after another.
For someone who utterly dominated both formats of the game- for there were just two formats for the better part of his storied career- perhaps it’s hardly a surprise that the great man from Mumbai, one of India’s most loved sons also excelled in the famed Indian Premier League. And if in case you did not notice, we’d like to submit with much humility that Tendulkar presided over the checkered franchise based league with typical excellence, his batting riddler with quite a few unbelievable performances.
The grace, the style, the perfect head position and the great balance with which he launched into an avalanche of cricketing strokes- as beautiful as they were imitation-worthy- defined his performances for the iconic Mumbai Indians until the very end of his IPL stint.
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However, that being said, it has to be admitted that the date May 13 is also definitive when it comes to the legendary career of the iconic Sachin Tendulkar.
So that leaves us with the simple question and it’s that why is May 13 important to Sachin Tendulkar, after all?
For starters, it’s concerned with the famous Indian Premier League.
It happens to be the very date on which the iconic right hander, known for effervescent batting technique and commanding excellence in the middle last played an IPL contest.
You read it right!
It was May 13, 2013 where Tendulkar last featured in an IPL contest. So the next bit is this-
What happened on May 13, 2013 that further defines Tendulkar’s IPL journey
Interestingly, the man widely regarded as the greatest batter to ever play the game never got dismissed on that particular day. An injury cut short his time spent in the middle.
And what was the batter’s run output?
By the time Tendulkar found himself injured and unable to carry on any further, he had already stroked his way to 38 finely collected runs off just 31 deliveries.
Perhaps what was most special was that in quite a similar fashion to the way he called time on his Test career, Tendulkar’s IPL journey too, concluded at the famed Wankhede, at his home in Mumbai.
The opposition was the Hyderabad team and Tendulkar made runs against an MI opponent for one more time.
