British model-actor Amy Jackson produced a brief performance, gyrating to Bollywood numbers ahead of the opening match between defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
Tendulkar and his three former India team-mates -- V V S Laxman, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag -- did a lap of honour riding on golf carts. Tendulkar and Laxman rode one cart while Ganguly and Sehwag occupied the other one.
Another Indian legend, Rahul Dravid, was also to be felicitated but he could not make it to the ceremony as he was busy mentoring the Delhi Daredevils outfit.
Laxman was honoured with a memento by head of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators, Vinod Rai, while acting BCCI president C K Khanna felicitated Ganguly.
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Acting BCCI secretary Amitabh Chaudhary felicitated Sehwag
while IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla honoured Tendulkar.
A visual of the eight captains signing the MCC Spirit of Cricket was shown before SRH and RCB skippers David Warner and Virat Kohli entered the arena. Warner presented a souvenir to Kohli to signify all the teams' resolve to uphold the spirit of cricket.