March 18, 2012, is a date that none of the fans of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar can forget. This is the date when perhaps one of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time, played his last 50-over international for Team India, against Pakistan and bid goodbye to a career full of records.

Tendulkar retired from ODIs with 18426 runs in 463 matches. He averaged 44.83 and had a strike rate of 86.23 with a world record 49 hundreds and 96 half-centuries. He also picked 154 wickets with two five-wicket hauls and the best bowling of 5/32.

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Many of his ODI records still stand and some may even be unbreakable and not only records, but Sachin Tendulkar has given us umpteen moments to cherish in his 24-year cricket career, some of which can be called defining ones.  

Therefore, today Team COC looks at five such defining moments of Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI career.

Check out the Top 5 defining moments of Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI career