After scoring more than 50,000 runs in all forms of recognised cricket not many people would like believe that Sachin Tendulkar wanted to become a fast bowler for his country and dreamt of bowling quick when he started playing cricket at the age of 10. He even went to the extent of going to the MRF pace foundation in 1987 to get some bowling tips and pursue his dream to become a fast bowler.

Dennis Lillee was the coaching director for the MRF Pace foundation at that time and did his bit in Tendulkar becoming a batsmen as he advised him to change his interest in some thing else as bowling would not have taken him any where. But over the years the world has seen Tendulkar rolling his arm over, sometimes coming in and bowling the 50th over or sometimes giving the all important breakthrough. Also known as 'the man with the golden arm' Sachin Tendulkar has had his fair share of success with the ball as well.

Here is a look at his best bowling figures in one-day matches:

4 for 34 against West Indies during 1991 at Sharjah: Those were the days when Tendulkar used to jog into the bowling crease and bowl medium pace coming close to the wicket. This was one of the very few occasions when Sachin Tendulkar won the man of the match award because of his contribution with the ball with figures of 4 for 34 against the mighty West Indians. He dismissed Clayton Lambert, Richie Richardson, Gus Logie and Jeff Dujon to restrict the West Indians to a paltry total of 141 which paved the way for India's seven wicket victory.

Hero Cup semi-final against South Africa in 1993: India were looking down the barrel as the South Africans were running away with the match. With only six left to win the match Mohammad Azharuddin, the then Indian captain gave the ball to Sachin Tendulkar and the little man did the job with the ball in hand. South Africa fell short by two runs which gave India a famous victory in the last over.

5 for 32 against Australia during 1998 at Kochi: Sachin Tendulkar by this time of his career was good enough to do anything except wicket-keeping and as Kochi just found out that he was equally good with his leg-spin. In a wicket which was assisting the spinners Tendulkar bamboozled the Aussies with his leg-spin ending up with figures of 5 for 32 by picking up wickets of Steve Waugh, Michael Bevan, Darren Lehmann and Damien Martyn which helped India win the match by 41 runs.

5 for 50 against Pakistan during 2005 at Kochi: It was always difficult to keep Sachin out of action and if he failed with the bat he would always try to make it up with the ball in hand. Tendulkar was again in the thick of things against Pakistan as he ran through the Pakistani midle order by picking up the wickets of Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Sami. India went on to win the match by 87 runs.