Sachin Tendulkar's birthday celebrations with wife Anjali at home in Bandra

Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, who turned 45 yesterday, cuts a birthday cake at his residence in Bandra. Pic/PTI

Sachin Tendulkar, who turned 45 on April 24, had a quiet celebration in his home in Bandra along with his lovely wife Anjali. Sachin Tendulkar also cut a cake with Anjali by his side, as well as some of his well-wishers.

Sachin Tendulkar had many fans wishing him well on his birthday, but it was a certain Australian Board that led to disappointing him as well as his well-wishers. Cricket Australia shared a post wishing Sachin Tendulkar on his birthday with a video of former Australian pacer Damien Fleming, who also celebrates his birthday, dismissing Sachin. "Some @bowlologist gold from the man himself, happy birthday, Damien Fleming!, stated Cricket Australia in the post.

Celebrating his 45th birthday, the batting maestro recalled how his dented car added to the joy the day India won its second ODI World Cup, in 2011 -- a personal first for him in a record sixth appearance at the marquee tournament. "After we won the World Cup, Anjali (Tendulkar), being superstitious, didn't want to be at the ground. I called her and said 'what are you doing at home? You got to be here in the dressing room, we are all celebrating'," Tendulkar recalled at the launch of cricket writer Boria Majumdar's book 'Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians' here last night.

"Somehow she (Anjali) made it to the stadium and while she was getting there, just outside the stadium, people were dancing, celebrating, jumping on top of the cars." However, the delirious celebrations came to a halt the moment fans recognised Mrs Tendulkar.

"...they said 'we can't touch this car, we can't do anything on this car'. Somehow she gets inside the stadium and then we were all celebrating in the dressing room and when it was time to go back to the hotel I looked at the car and wondered how there were dents on the roof of the car," he said.

"The driver said that 'after I dropped madam, everyone started jumping and dancing on the top of the car', so I said 'these dents will always remind of that wonderful moment at the World Cup' so, I call them 'Happy Dents'," he added The eve of his birthday was also exactly 20 years since Tendulkar demolished Australia in Sharjah, in what is famous as 'Desert Storm'.

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