The Masterblaster Sachin Tendulkar

Between April 1990 and April 1998, Tendulkar played 185 consecutive matches - a record.

He is the first to appear in 400 innings in ODI matches.

In his first two ODIs, the runmachine failed to score.

Yet, the murmurs about his real stature, his real achievements go on unabated. Even on this Community we have had people suggesting that Sachin is more hype than performance, more myth than reality. At the other end of the spectrum I hear NDTV India gushing that Sachin Tendulkar holds almost 70 International Records. 
I really cannot side with the alarmists who try downplaying the achievements of a Cricketer who has probably been the greatest of his era (Brian Lara and Shane Warne are the only serious contenders I can remember).

The records for the most number of Man-of-the-Match awards (60), most runs in a calendar year (1,894 runs in 1998), most centuries in a calendar year (9 in 1998) and most runs in World Cups (1,796 at an average of 59.87) also belong to Tendulkar.