Key moments in Tendulkar's Ranji Trophy career

Sachin Tendulkar ended his Ranji Trophy career on a high, his half-century helping Mumbai overcome a spirited challenge from Haryana in their season-opener and win by four wickets, at Lahli, near Rohtak, on Wednesday.

This was Tendulkar's last match for Mumbai. The veteran batsman will retire from cricket after the two-Test series against the West Indies next month.

Rajneesh Gupta presents the important milestones of Tendulkar's career:

- Tendulkar made his Ranji Trophy debut against Gujarat in December 1988, at the age of 15 years, 230 days, and scored an unbeaten 100 -- becoming the youngest Indian to score a hundred on first-class debut.

- Tendulkar's batting average of 87.36 is the highest for any batsman playing 50 innings or more in Ranji Trophy.

- Among all batsmen who have scored at least five hundreds in Ranji Trophy, Sachin Tendulkar's innings per hundred ratio of 3.16 is the second best after Vijay Merchant who scored a hundred every 2.94 innings.

- Tendulkar is the quickest to race to the 3,000 and 4,000 run milestones in the history of the Ranji Trophy, taking only 38 and 51 innings respectively to do so.

- Left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju dismissed Tendulkar on most occasions in the Ranji Trophy -- thrice. Six other bowlers have dismissed him twice each.

- Sanjay Manjrekar was Tendulkar's most prolific partner in the Ranji Trophy. The pair added 915 runs in 10 innings together (avg 101.66), with five century stands.

Tendulkar also had five century stands with Vinod Kambli in the Ranji Trophy.

- Tendulkar was dismissed for a duck only once in his Ranji Trophy career. That was in 2008-09 Ranji final against Uttar Pradesh, by pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

- Mumbai never lost when Tendulkar scored a hundred in the Ranji Trophy. In fact, out of his 37 scores of 50-plus, only one came in a defeat (vs Haryana, 1990-91 final).