Sachin Tendulkar tracker: Day 1, Eden Gardens

As Sachin Tendulkar make his final bow, Cricketnext track the key moments of his last 10 days of almost a quarter of a century he has spent in the game.

The first day began at the Eden Gardens, that is bathing in Sachin mania since Sunday. This is the 199th and penultimate Test of Tendulkar's career, and the last one at Eden, which is why the people of Kolkata want to make it a memorable one.

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Here's how we tracked Sachin on Day 1:

Presents Test cap to debutant Rohit Sharma

Rohit's heroics in the one-day series against Australia earned him a call-up to the Test squad. And it just got better on Wednesday when, after being included in the eleven, Rohit got his Test cap from the one and only Sachin Tendulkar.

First touch

Over 1.3: West Indies opener Kieran Powell flicks to get off the mark with a couple, and a loud cheer went around the ground as Tendulkar retrieved the ball for his first action of the day.

Pounced on the ball from square leg

Darren Bravo, somewhat stifled by Indian spinners, tried to steal a single at square leg, but the 40-year-old Tendulkar absolutely pounced on the ball, forcing Bravo to backtrack into his crease. And of course, followed by a huge 'Eden Roar'.

The boundary sprint

The first post-lunch Sachin moment of the afternoon came in the 35th over of the day when he ran full tilt from fine-leg to square-leg and got his right foot in to stop the boundary - much to the delight of the crowd that swelled as the day wore on.

Ball-boy moment

Tendulkar obliged the ball boys at the boundary ropes, signing autographs for them. But the staggering fact about that moment is that exactly 26 years go, on November 5, 1987, Tendulkar himself sat on the boundary ropes as a ball-boy during the Prudential Cup in India. Now that's how life comes a full circle.

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