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.
"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 college student Mallika Sarkar said.
Tendulkar took guard at 9.39am after Indian opener Murali Vijay was stumped when he tried to step out to off-spinner Shane Shillingford.
It was India's second wicket but the crowd started cheering as the number four got ready to walk in to play in his penultimate international match.
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