Milestone man Tendulkar completes 20 years in intl cricket

Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday completed 20 years in international cricket and became the first Indian and only the 16th in the history of the game to have a career spanning more than two decades.

Tendulkar, who made his debut as a 16-year-old against Pakistan way back in November 15, 1989, will reach the milestone of 20 years and one day in international cricket when he comes out to play against Sri Lanka in the first Test of the three-match series in Ahmedabad on Monday.

In his Test career spanning 19 years 143 days till date, Tendulkar has represented India in a record 159 Tests.

He also played a record 436 50-over matches in his 19 years and 325 days one-day career, thus becoming only the second player after Pakistan's Javed Miandad to have the longest ODI career.

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Tata Steel to start work at Orissa plant in Dec

India's Tata Steel will start constructing a 6-million-tonne steel plant in Orissa from next month, its Managing Director H.M. Nerurkar said on Saturday.

"Eighty percent of the people have already been evacuated from the site and we hope to start the construction by December 2009," he told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar.

He also told the firm, the world's sixth-biggest steelmaker, will conclude expansion of its Jamshedpur plant by June-August 2011.

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TRS wants Hyderabad as capital of Telangana

As if Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) aligning with NDA wasn’t surprise enough, party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao further created a

flutter by visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Monday where he said he prayed for the peaceful creation of Telangana along the lines of the reorganisation of Punjab and Haryana.

Asked whether Chandrasekhar Rao was hinting at Hyderabad turning into the common capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a TRS leader said, “His focus was on a peaceful division of Andhra Pradesh as happened in Punjab. TRS wants Hyderabad to remain as the capital of the new Telangana state only.”

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