Fans disappointed as Sachin Tendulkar leaves early

When Tendulkar came in to bat just 39 minutes after the second day of the first India-West Indies Test began, some of his  fans were still trickling into the stadium as not many had expected an early fall of Indian wickets. And when the 40-year-old was dismissed 41 minutes later, after scoring 10 runs from 24 balls, the fans endured a heartbreak. It was a sold-out second day as Tendulkar was to bat in his penultimate international match. “I came to watch him play some of his favourite shots. He displayed some form initially which kept our hopes alive that he  will hit a century in his farewell to Eden. But this is disappointing,” a 21-year-old Mallika Sarkar said.