Tendulkar wishes health and happiness to Kambli on his 49th birthday

NEW DELHI: Little Master Sachin Tendulkar wished health and happiness to his friend and former India cricketer Vinod Kambli as he turned 49 on Monday.


Taking to Twitter, Tendulkar wrote: "Wishing you a very happy birthday @vinodkambli349! Have a blessed year full of health & happiness. Keep smiling always."


Both Tendulkar and Kambli were trained under coach

Ramakant Achrekar

and studied in the same school Shardashram Vidyamandir. Tendulkar and Kambli on February 24, 1988, shared a

664-run stand

for their school

Shardashram Vidyamandir

against St Xavier's.

Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen ever, Tendulkar holds the record of being the highest run-scorer of all time in international cricket, having notched up 18,426 runs in ODIs and 15,921 runs in Test matches.

The left-handed batsman Kambli scored 2,477 runs in his ODI career while he accumulated 1,084 runs in 17 Test matches.