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Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut for India in 1989 at 16 and, across a 24-year career, became the leading run-scorer in the history of both major forms of international cricket — Test matches and One Day Internationals — a dual statistical record that no other player has come close to matching across both formats simultaneously. Tendulkar finished his career with 100 international centuries, a mark still known simply as "the ton of tons," combining 51 Test centuries and 49 ODI centuries — a round-number milestone that took years of anticipation to reach and that no other batsman in the sport's history has come within 20 centuries of matching. Nicknamed "the Little Master," Tendulkar was central to India's 2011 Cricket World Cup victory, played on home soil, a title his teammates carried him off the field to celebrate as the culmination of a career that had, until then, never included a World Cup win despite two decades of individual dominance. Tendulkar retired in 2013 after playing 200 Test matches, the most of any player in cricket history, and his sustained popularity across the entire subcontinent made him one of the most commercially significant athletes in the world during his playing career, a level of national attention few cricketers anywhere have matched before or since.
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Viv Richards
Vivian Richards played for the West Indies from 1974 to 1991, anchoring the batting lineup of a team that dominated world cricket for the better part of two decades, and built a reputation as the most feared and aggressive batsman of his generation, frequently walking to the crease without a helmet against fast-bowling attacks that intimidated most other batsmen of the era. Richards held the record for the fastest Test century by balls faced for nearly three decades, a 56-ball hundred against England in 1986, a mark that reflected an attacking approach built around dominating bowlers from the first ball rather than settling in cautiously. He captained the West Indies from 1985 to 1991 and never lost a Test series as captain, continuing a run of West Indian dominance that had made the team essentially unbeatable across the 1980s, built around a fearsome fast-bowling attack that Richards's own batting had to counter in the nets before facing anyone else's. Richards was named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, and his blend of aggressive stroke play and captaincy success during West Indies cricket's most dominant era is still the reference point players from the Caribbean are measured against.
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