"I have decided to retire from the One-Day format of the game. I feel blessed to have fulfilled the dream of being part of a World Cup wining Indian team. The preparatory process to defend the World Cup in 2015 should begin early and in right earnest," PTI quoted the 39-year-old as saying in a statement released by the BCCI today. [break]
"I would like to wish the team all the very best for the future. I am eternally grateful to all my well wishers for their unconditional support and love over the years," he added.
(AFP/File)
Tendulkar has scored 18,426 runs in 463 one-dayers at an average of 44.83, with 49 hundreds in the format, including a double hundred -- the first in this form of the game. He made his ODI debut against Pakistan in 1989. Already retired from Twenty20 format in 2006, the batsman from Mumbai will, however, continue playing Test cricket.
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