Asha Bhosle's only daughter Varsha Bhosle, who died in 2012, had penned this beautiful ode to her mother.
As he closes the most revered chapter of his career, here are some of his best Test knocks:
Statistical highlights of the ICC Champions Trophy's Group A match between England and Australia in Birmingham.
Kevin Pietersen is backing England, India and Australia to make the semi-finals with Jason Holder's West Indies his outsiders to play beyond their world ranking.
Statistical highlights of the ICC Champions Trophy semifinal match between South Africa and England in London.
Statistical highlights from day one of the fourth cricket Test between India and England in Mumbai on Thursday. # Keaton Jennings became the third England batsman after Bryan Valentine and Alastair Cook and the eighth overall to register a hundred on Test debut in India. # Apart from the three England batsmen, two New Zealanders, Bruce Taylor and Kane Williamson, Australia's Michael Clarke, West Indian, Gordon Greenidge and South Africa's Alviro Petersen have accomplished the feat. # Jennings is the eighth England opener to post a hundred on Test debut.
India captain Virat Kohli struck his 15th Test century while opener Murali Vijay hit form and compiled a ton of his own to help India wrest control on Day 3 of the 4th Test in Mumbai on Saturday. Here are the statistical highlights from the third day's play of the fourth cricket Test played between India and England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
India's off spinner R Ashwin owned the day's play with an all-round performance to put England on the back foot in the 2nd Test in Visakhapatnam.
Statistical highlights of the fifth and final one-dayer between India and England in Leeds on Friday.
India's R Ashwin struck a counter-attacking half-century to help India claw back into the match after the hosts got off to a shaky start on Day 3.
Almost two sessions were washed out, with only 36 overs possible on day two as England reached 237 for six in reply to India's 152 in their first innings. Here are the statistical highlights from the second day's play of the fourth cricket Test between India and England at Old Trafford in Manchester.
India captain Virat Kohli and off-spinner R Ashwin put on splendid performances to put the hosts in the driver's seat on Day 3 of the 2nd Test. Here are the statistical highlights from the day's play from the match played between India and England in Visakhapatnam on Saturday.
Jonny Bairstow saved England the blushes after his half-century helped the team amass 268 for 8 after an early flurry of wickets.
Statistical highlights from Day 4 in the second cricket Test between India and England at Lord's on Sunday.
Statistical highlights on Day 2 of the third cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka
New Zealand beat England by the Duckworth-Lewis method in their Group1 match of the World T20 Championships in Chittagong on Saturday. Here are the statistical highlights from that match.
Statistical highlights on day three of the third cricket Test between India and Australia in Melbourne.
Statistical highlights of the Champions Trophy Group A match between New Zealand and England.
Statistical highlights of the fifth and final ODI between India and New Zealand.
# England (537) have recorded their third highest total vs India in Tests in India - the top two being 652 for seven wickets declared at Chennai in January 1985 and 559 for eight wickets declared at Kanpur in February 1964. # Moeen Ali has recorded his fourth century in Tests - his first against India - his first three were two vs Sri Lanka and one vs Pakistan. His outstanding 117 vs India is his first century in 21 innings (12 Tests) away from home.
Here are the statistical highlights from the opening day's play of the fourth and final cricket Test between India and Australia, played in Dharamsala on Saturday.
Statistical highlights of the second One-day International between India and England at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff on Wednesday.
Statistical highlights from the day's play
Statistical highlights of the fourth day's play of the third cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Tuesday
Steve Smith led the way with another good knock as Australia raced to 251 for 6 and a lead of 348 over India before rain stopped play at the end of the fourth day in the fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. Statistical highlights from the day's play.
Riding on Joe Root's ton and Moeen Ali's half century (99 batting), England made most of the favourable conditions to finish Day 1 on 311/4. Here are the statistical highlights from Day 1 of the 1st Test in Rajkot on Wednesday.
Statistical highlights of the ICC Champions Trophy match between India and Sri Lanka, in London.
Take a look at the statistical highlights of the fifth ODI between India and Sri Lanka.
The 33-year-old has Tendulkar and Pakistani skipper Inzamam-ul Haq for company in the elite 10,000 club.
Statistical highlights from the third day's play of the first Test between India and Australia at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday.
Fast bowler Steven Finn claimed his first five-wicket haul in a One-Day International as England destroyed India's batting at the Gabba in Brisbane. He took five wickets for 33 runs from eight overs while James Anderson claimed four as the pair skittled the reigning World champions for 153 in less than 40 overs. Statistical highlights from the match.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Wriddhiman Saha stitched an unbeaten 108-run partnership for the sixth wicket to rescue India from a precarious start as the visitors' posted 234 for five when stumps were drawn on day 1 of the third Test at St Lucia. Ashwin will resume the second day on 75 and will be eyeing his second century of the series. His partner Saha will begin his innings on 46. Statistical highlights on Day one of the third cricket test between India and the West Indies, here on Tuesday.
Statistical highlights on the second day of the second and final cricket Test between India and South Africa in Durban.
David Warner punished a wasteful India with his second century as Australia seized control of the first Test at close of play on Day 4. The left-hander, who scored an emotional 145 in the first innings, added another 102 to help fire Australia to a 363-run lead at a sun-drenched Adelaide Oval on Friday. In the course of the day's play several milestones were set. Check them out.
Steven Smith (133) became the ninth Australian to score a century on captaincy debut as Australia wriggled out from a precarious 247 for 6 to post a mammoth 505 in their first innings in the second Test against India at the Gabba on Friday. He was well-supported by Mitchell Johnson (88) and Mitchell Starc (52) who made valuable contributions down the order, as the hosts took a first innings lead of 97 runs. India ended the third day on 71 for 1 in the second innings. Statistical highlights from the day's play. Statistical highlights from the day's play.
Despite the Indian bowlers working hard to improve their chances of a win in the third Test in Melbourne, Australia finished Day 4 on 261 for seven with Shaun March (62 no out) and Ryan Harris (8 not out) and 326-run lead. Rogers and Shaun Marsh scored fighting fifties to put Australia in a strong position on Monday. Here are the statistical highlights from the day's play.
Statistical highlights of the one-off Twenty20 international between India and England at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Sunday.
Virat Kohli is the sixth Indian batsman to register a hundred in his 50th Test, joining Polly Umrigar, Gundappa Viswanath, Sunil Gavaskar, VVS Laxman and Kapil Dev.
Virat Kohli's tally is the highest by a visiting No. 4 player in a Test series in Australia, surpassing the 480 in seven innings by Sachin Tendulkar in 2007-08.
