5 Bowling records held by Sachin Tendulkar in International cricket

1. Test wicket as a teenager and 40-year old

Sachin Tendulkar’s 24-year long career in International cricket helped him create various records including one in the bowling department which is not spoken. He has picked up wickets in Test cricket when he was a teenager and also after turning 40 years. He is the only player in Test history to have achieved this feat of taking wickets in the teens and also in the 40s.

Interestingly, Tendulkar picked only 46 wickets in his Test career which lasted as many as 200 matches. Sachin took as many as four wickets before turning 20, all three wickets during their overseas tours. Merve Hughes, Allan Border, Mark Taylor and Andrew Hudson were Sachin’s first four victims in Test cricket. The legendary batsman failed to earn a wicket in this format in the following five years.

Sachin Tendulkar’s final wicket in this format came during the Kolkata Test against West Indies during his farewell series. Sachin got better of Shane Shillingford as the off-spinner from West Indies was trapped in front. During the same match, Tendulkar was dismissed by Shillingford only that too via LBW. Replays, however, showed that the umpire Nigel Llong failed to realize the length of the delivery.