Sachin Tendulkar will be conferred with the BCCI’S Lifetime Achievement Award at the Board’s annual gala in Mumbai on Saturday.

The 51-year-old, who played 664 international games for India, holds the record for the highest number of Test and ODI runs in the history of the game.

Tendulkar’s 200 Test and 463 ODI appearances are also the highest by any player in the history of the game. He has 15,921 Test runs and a whopping 18,426 in ODIs.

However, he played only one T20 International in his stellar career.

Considered the greatest batter of his era, Tendulkar was not just a prolific run-scorer but also an icon of the game, who played for more than two decades after debuting as a 16-year-old in a 1989 Test against Pakistan.

The well-documented and numerous batting records apart, Tendulkar was also a key member of India’s 2011 World Cup-winning team, which was his record sixth and last appearance in the showpiece.

Overall, Tendulkar will be the 31st recipient of the award, which was instituted in 1994 in honour of India’s first captain, Col. C K Nayudu, who also served the game as an administrator. The latter had a 47-year-long first-class career between 1916 and 1963, which is a world record.

In 2023, the BCCI bestowed the Lifetime Achievement award to former India head coach Ravi Shastri and wicket-keeping great Farokh Engineer.

(inouts from PTI)