(Image source from: The Master-Blaster turns 41 today})

The country's most venerated sportsman, Sachin Tendulkar has added another milestone to his life. The 'God of Cricket', who has stunned the world with his magnanimous cricketing in the last 25 years of his stupendous career, turns 41 today. The 'Little Man's' cricketing exploits are unfathomable. But for all you know, his greatness lies beyond just runs, centuries and crickets. During his career, thousands of records were broken, new ones made, but one thing that remained constant was the love for the God of Cricket in every Indian’s heart .On the special occasion of his birthday, we have compiled a few lesser known facts about the legendary sportsman. Read away.

1. You probably know that Sachin Tendulkar was born to Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist. But did you know he was born to Ramesh Tendulkar's second wife Rajni?

2. Sachin Tendulkar was a die-hard fan of tennis legend John McEnroe. So he styled his hair like his favorite idol.

3. The superstitious Sachin Tendulkar always takes the left window seat of the front row in the team bus.

4. Did you know that the world's greatest batsmen had quite an awful start to his one-day career - as he scored a duck on his ODI debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala on December 18, 1989.

5. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli owns a world record partnership of 664 runs in the Harris Shield, an inter-school tournament in Mumbai.

6. Sachin Tendulkar is the first cricketer to receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

7. Sachin Tendulkar is right handed batsman and bowler, but uses his left hand to write.

8 Sachin Tendulkar has appeared in an Australian reality TV series ‘An Aussie Goes Bolly’ in 2008.

9. Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to score double century in One Day Internationals.

10. He has spent 70,211 minutes at crease in his international cricket career.

We wish Sachin Tendulkar a happy birthday.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury