Sultan Al Habtoor, President of Al Habtoor Motors, received Tendulkar, commonly acknowledged as the greatest batsmen of all time. Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his test debut against Pakistan at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years.
He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket and the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs or more in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket.
Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India.