Stats: Longest Test careers in history

Sachin Tendulkar has a career span of 23 years and 364 days which is today going to be 24 years of a wonderful, magical cricketing era. But there are players who had a longer cricketing span than the Little Master, as the table below shows:

In this span India has played 217 Test matches out of which Sachin played 200 Tests. Also, Sachin hasn’t missed a single year of Test cricket.