The great cricketer Sachin Tendulkar played the last ODI match of his career on 18 March in 2012. This match of former Indian cricket team captain Sachin Tendulkar was an Asia Cup match. Which was played against Pakistan in Mirpur, Bangladesh. Sachin also played his first international match against Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989. That was a test match. At that time Sachin’s age was close to 16 years.
Sachin scored 52 runs in 48 balls in his last ODI. He hit 5 fours and a six during his innings. However, the highlight of that match was Virat Kohli’s innings. Virat Kohli came out to bat at number three, Virat Kohli had scored 183 runs in 148 balls with the help of 22 fours and one six in that match. Rohit Sharma was also a part of that match. Rohit had come out to bat at number four in that match. He scored 68 runs in 83 balls with the help of 5 fours and a six.
In that match, the command of Team India was in the hands of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. India won that match by 6 wickets with 13 balls to spare. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq won the toss and elected to bat. His decision proved to be correct when Pakistan has set a huge target of 329 runs for 6 wickets in 50 overs. However, India won that match due to the brilliant innings of Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma.
Nasir Jamshed scored 112 and Mohammad Hafeez scored 105 runs for Pakistan. Praveen Kumar and Ashok Dinda took 2-2 wickets for India. Irfan Pathan and Ravichandran Ashwin were also successful in taking a wicket each.
Chasing the target, Team India had a very poor start. Mohammad Hafeez took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir in the very first over. Couldn’t even open serious account. After this Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli took over the innings. Both added 133 runs for the second wicket.
To support Virat after Sachin’s dismissal Rohit Sharma Come to the crease. Virat and Rohit shared a 172-run partnership for the third wicket. When Rohit got out, the team’s score was 305 runs for 3 wickets in 45.5 overs. After 8 balls and 13 runs, Kohli also returned to the pavilion. At that time the score of Team India was 318 runs for 4 wickets in 47.1 overs.
After this Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni Scored 12 runs in the next 4 balls and put the match in India’s bag. Raina remained unbeaten on 12 off 6 balls and Dhoni scored 4 runs in a ball. Fast bowler Umar Gul took 2 wickets for Pakistan.