Global adulation continued to pour in for Sachin Tendulkar, as after being named Person of the Moment, Time magazine has now conferred the retiring batting legend with the ‘Person of the Week’ honour. Tendulkar, who will be retiring after playing his 200th Test and the ongoing Test against West Indies at Mumbai, garnered the maximum number of votes in an online poll, edging past contenders like Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Federal Reserve head nominee Janet Yellen.
Tendulkar, who made an impressive 74 runs in his 200th and last Test, had previously been named ‘Person of the Moment’ by Time.
The US magazine had asked readers to vote online in a poll for ‘Person of the Week’ for the week of November 10 and the 40 year-old got 54 votes, 88 per cent votes, way ahead of Yellen who got 13.41 per cent votes and Jinping with 6.1 per cent votes.
“Sachin Tendulkar, India’s top cricketer and widely considered the greatest of his generation, played his final Test match before retirement,” the magazine said.
Tendulkar’s stellar 24-year cricketing career boasts of innumerable records and milestones which would be hard to surpass.
Tendulkar was showered with adulation not only in India but across the world with leading US dailies paying rich tributes to the master blaster for his “supreme batsmanship” and “unwavering modesty” and describing him as “irreplacable”.
-With The News Today input
