Sachin Tendulkar, Double Hundred, ODI Cricket, 2010
Sachin Tendulkar. Credit: Getty Images

Cricket is seen as a religion in India and the fans know how to pay a rich tribute to the legendary cricketers. We have come across fans naming the ‘street’ after cricketing brain ‘MS Dhoni’ in Chennai. Likewise, a junior researcher by the name of Dhruv Prajapati has named a spider after Sachin Tendulkar. Perhaps, this happens only in India as the fans have supported Sachin through his ups and downs of his career.

Dhruv Prajapati, who working with the Gujarat Ecological Education & Research (GEER) Foundation has discovered two new living species of spiders and named one after Sachin Tendulkar and the other after Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara. The junior researcher has a very interesting reason as to why he named the spider after legendary Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin Tenulkar
Sachin Tendulkar waves his hand. (Credits: Reuters)

Sachin Tendulkar is my favourite cricketer: Dhruv Prajapati

Like most others in India and across the world, Dhruv Prajapati is a massive fan of Sachin Tendulkar. The latter is experiencing a great fandom that not many cricketers in the world have seen. In an interview with Times of India, the research scholar who is pursuing a ph.D in spider taxonomy said: “I named (one spider) Marengo Sachin Tendulkar because Sachin happens to be my favourite cricketer.”

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Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot. (Credit: ESPN Cricinfo)

While one name is inspired by Sachin Tendulkar, the other name of spider is inspired by Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara who was a crusader in creating and spreading awareness about the importance of education in the Indian state Kerala. “Another name is inspired by Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara who was a crusader in creating awareness about education in Kerala,” he said.

He then went on to add saying that the two new species are a part of the Indomarengo and Marengo genus of Asian jumping spiders. The notable information discovered as the result of his study were published in the September issue of a Russian journal- “Arthropoda Selecta”. ​