| Second Test, Mumbai (day one): |
| India v West Indies 182 all out |
India legend Sachin Tendulkar is batting on the first day of his 200th and final Test match.
The 40-year-old arrived at the crease in his home city of Mumbai with India 77-2 after West Indies had been bowled out for 182.
Greeted by a rapturous standing ovation, Tendulkar was also given a guard of honour by the Windies players.
He got off the mark from his third delivery, slog-sweeping Shane Shillingford for a single.
Tendulkar is the leading run-scorer in international cricket, having made 18,426 runs in 463 one-day internationals and, prior to this match, 15,847 runs in 199 Tests.
His final match caps a month-long outpouring of emotion from a cricket-mad nation of 1.2 billion people which started when he confirmed that the series against West Indies would be his last.
Born: April 24, 1973, Mumbai
International debut: Nov 1989 v Pakistan
Test matches: 199
He has scored 15,847 runs at an average of 53.71, hitting 51 tons and 67 half centuries.
One-day internationals: 463
He has scored 18,426 runs at an average of 44.83 and a strike rate of 86.23. He has scored 49 centuries (highest score 200) and 96 fifties
Such has been the interest in Tendulkar's final match that a website selling tickets crashed shortly after opening, receiving 19.7 million hits in the first hour.
Fans have staged protests against the fact that only 5,000 of the 33,000 tickets went on public sale, with the remainder of the seats being filled by politicians, celebrities, former players and corporate guests.
The area around the Wankhede Stadium has been plastered with posters and murals of the player dubbed the "Little Master".
Tendulkar's wife, Anjali, has joked that they may require a museum to house all the gifts and mementos.
Meanwhile, tributes have been flocking in from some of Tendulkar's most illustrious contemporaries.
West Indies great Brian Lara described the India star as "the Muhammad Ali and the Michael Jordan of cricket".
Lara, who scored 11,953 runs in 131 Tests, added: "Tendulkar has had the greatest cricket career of anyone who has ever played the game."
Former Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne also praised the prolific batsman.
"There will not be another Sachin Tendulkar," Warne, who took 708 Test wickets, wrote in his Daily Telegraph column. "He was the best batsman of my generation."
The hysteria surrounding Tendulkar has overshadowed a milestone for West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who will be playing his 150th Test.
The 39-year-old left-hander, however, said it was a "privilege" just to be sharing the stage with the Indian on such a momentous occasion.
"We have watched him over the years. It is always a joy to look at him bat even though he is batting against us," said Chanderpaul, who has scored 10,897 runs at an average of 51.89.
"There is so much you can learn from a legend like him. He is a master of batting. His art, his skill and looking at him you can learn a lot."
West Indies captain Darren Sammy said his bowlers were competing to be the last man to dismiss Tendulkar.
"From the moment we heard it is going to be his last Test in Mumbai, all the bowlers were quite motivated," he said.
"There is a chance to go down in history. The last stroke he would play in any cricket match and your name could go down in there."
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