India's cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar is all set to play his 200th Test match on home soil against West Indies in November and perhaps bid farewell to the game at the end of the series, it has been reported.
Tendulkar, who is two Tests short of becoming the first cricketer to feature in 200 Tests, was expected to put an end to his 24-year career at the highest level at the end of the South Africa Test series.
Following the injury to his left hand while playing for Mumbai Indians against Sunrisers Hyderabad in a league match during IPL 2013, which effectively advanced his IPL retirement, doubts had arisen over the 40-year-old's participation in the South Africa tour.
However, after undergoing a surgery on his injured hand, Tendulkar has been included in the Mumbai Indians' squad for the Champions League Twenty20.
The decision to invite West Indies for two Tests and five one-dayers was taken at the working committee meeting of the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) on Sunday.
The Tests series against West Indies, which will comprise at least two Tests likely to be played in Kolkata and Mumbai in November, offers Tendulkar a perfect stage to sign off in his hometown.
The champion batsman has so far played 198 Tests, scoring 15,837 runs at an average of 53.86 and has scored 51 centuries.
Tendulkar, who has retired from ODIs and Twenty20s, played 463 50-over games scoring 18.426 runs at an average of 44.83. He struck 49 hundreds in the process.
However, the veteran batsman has not been able to score a century in his last 38 Test innings, since his memorable knock of 146 in Cape Town in January 2011.
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Tendulkar to play 200th Test in Mumbai... and may retire
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