The 200th and final Test in the stunning career of Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar is under way in his home city of Mumbai.[b][/b]

“There will not be another Sachin Tendulkar - he was the best batsman of my generation” -Shane Warne Leg-spin legend

The 40-year-old record run-scorer in Tests and one-day internationals will quit all cricket after India's second Test against West Indies.Tendulkar has scored 100 international hundreds in his 24-year career and helped India win the World Cup in 2011.

Tendulkar's 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. 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.