- Lived:
- born 24 April 1973 in Bombay (Mumbai) — and the life happened in public, on cricket grounds across every continent the game is played, for twenty-four years without a season off
- Field:
- cricket — batsman; the highest run-scorer in the history of international cricket and the only player with a hundred international centuries
- The Big Idea:
- A sixteen-year-old was handed the expectations of the largest audience any athlete has ever had, and instead of being broken by them he built a life — of routine, silence and a straight bat — that could carry them for twenty-four years.
- In their words:
- "'Sachin, Sachin' will reverberate in my ears till I stop breathing" — from his farewell speech, Wankhede Stadium, November 2013 (as of September 2026)
- If you remember one thing:
- The numbers are the least of it. The real record is that a boy made a national possession at sixteen gave a billion people a quarter-century of himself and walked off the field, at forty, still sane, still straight, still theirs.