Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin and ex-Pakistan skipper Salim Malik have also received life bans.
Rehman's ban was recently lifted, however, and Malik and Azharuddin continue to protest their innocence.
Pradeep Magazine too feels it would be "a miracle" if Azharuddin made a comeback to the team.
It hasn't made any difference to the way Azharuddin is still perceived by the public at large.
Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma received life bans, and Manoj Prabhakar was also given a five-year ban.
But Azharuddin claims he was never given any opportunity to question witnesses who gave evidence against him.
The same is probably true of India's 36-year-old captain, Mohammad Azharuddin, though Tendulkar could prove the forecasters wrong.
Azharuddin is one of three Test captains to receive life bans following inquiries.
The verdict sees Sourav Ganguly move ahead of Mohammad Azharuddin as India's most successful Test captain with 15 victories.
Azharuddin, meanwhile, is also awaiting the outcome of an appeal against his ban.
"We have taken the first steps towards fighting the injustice meted out to Azharuddin, " said his lawyer, T Jagdish.
The public perception of Azharuddin is not likely to be changed overnight by his casting aspersions on other cricketing stars.
Former captain Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma were banned for life, while all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar was suspended for five years.
Former captain Mohammed Azharuddin and batsman Ajay Sharma were banned for life, while Jadeja and Manoj Prabhakar were suspended for five years.
Azharuddin and Sharma were subsequently banned for life and Jadeja and Prabhakar received five-year bans, but Mongia was cleared of all allegations.
Child actors Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played young versions of two main characters, were moved to new homes by the Indian authorities.
Azharuddin, who is also under investigation by Indian tax officials, maintains he is innocent of any wrongdoing and has vowed to clear his name.
Mohammad Azharuddin has begun a legal challenge to the life ban imposed on him by the Board of Control for Cricket in India over match-fixing allegations.
Former South African skipper Hansie Cronje's appeal against a life ban was rejected last month while India's Mohammad Azharuddin has also filed an appeal against his ban.
But as the cases of Azharuddin and Malik have show, any punishment meted out must be based on water-tight proof or the courts will soon become involved.
Her classmate Azharuddin Alavi, 12, loves the school gardening project.
Three other players are also serving life bans as a result of investigations in their countries - South African Hansie Cronje and Indian duo Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma.
An internal inquiry, conducted on behalf of the Board by K Madhavan, concluded that Azharuddin had been guilty of match-fixing and the others had all had links with bookmakers.
The BCCI inquiry followed a report by India's Central Bureau of Investigation in which five players, Azharuddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Mannoj Prabhakar and Nayan Mongia were accused of corruption.
Former captain Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma were handed life bans on Tuesday, while Manoj Prabhakar, now retired from the game, and physio Ali Irani received the same penalty as Jadeja.
Azharuddin is also under investigation by Indian tax officials.
The more significant aspect of Azharuddin coming out of his isolation with an mud-slinging interview is the decision to move court, which alone can give him a clean chit and help salvage his tattered reputation.
The ACU was formed two years ago after the match-fixing scandal which led to life bans on three Test captains - the late Hansie Cronje of South Africa, Mohammad Azharuddin of India and Salim Malik of Pakistan.
It led to a number of match-fixing inquiries in various parts of the cricket world and five players - Cronje, Pakistanis Salim Malik and Ata-ur-Rehman, and Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma of India - received life bans from the game.
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