Sachin Tendulkar - THE GREAT Cricketer
Start From the beginning
Born in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) into a middle class family, Tendulkar was named after his family's favorite music director Sachin Dev Burman. He went to Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he started his cricketing career. He, when in school was involved in a mammoth 664 run partnership in a Harris Shield game with friend and International team mate Vinod Kambli, and in 1988/89 scored 100 not out in his first first-class match, for Bombay against Gujarat. Aged 15 years 232 days, he was then by some distance the youngest player to score a century on debut.
His maiden ODI century came on September 9, 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo.
He was named by Wisden as one of the Cricketers of the Year 1997 which was the first calendar year in which he scored a 1000 test runs. He repeated the feat in 1999, 2001 and 2002.
Famous Innings
Test Cricket
* Equalled the world record for most centuries (34) in test cricket, along with Sunil Gavaskar.
** crossed 10,000 runs in test cricket, second Indian to do so along with Sunil Gavaskar
Achievements
Some remarkable achievements of his career are:
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- 4th highest tally of runs in test cricket (10,134) at an outstanding average of 57.25 (highest among those who have scored over 8,500 test runs) as of March 2005
- Most runs (over 13642) and centuries (38) in one-day internationals
- Only person to have scored over 11,000 ODI runs and over 25 ODI centuries as of April 28 2005
- Highest ODI batting average among Indian batsmen and among all batsmen who have scored over 7,500 ODI runs (as of April 3 2005)
- Most Number of Man of the Matches in one-day internationals
- Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs in ODIs as of April 2005
- Most Number of Runs in World Cup Cricket History
- First cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark in ODIs
- Has equalled Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 test centuries.
- Among those who have played over 100 test matches, he is the only one with a batting average above 55.
- Only second Indian to cross 10,000 runs in Test matches.
- He has the most centuries in ODI cricket against Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
- He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in test cricket history. He holds this record along with Brian Lara. Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings.
- To go with this he has 34 hundreds in Test cricket at an average of 57. An average above 50 distinguishes a batsman as an all time great.
- Highest individual score in ODIs among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)
- Second fastest player to reach 9000 runs (Brian Lara made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.) While his batting ranks him among the best in the world, he is also a part-time bowler and has played a crucial role as a leg spinner or a medium pace bowler who tends to break partnerships. He has more than a hundred wickets in ODIs and 35 in tests, though his bowling averages are above 40. He continues to perform well under the massive weight of expectation of hundreds of millions of cricket followers, in India and around the world, and most recently was named Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Incidentally, Sachin is the first batsman to be declared run out by third umpire in 1992 in South Africa.
Full Name:- Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born :- April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age:- 36 years 307 days
Major teams :- India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire
Nickname:- Tendlya, Little Master
Batting style:- Right-hand bat
Bowling style:- Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly
Height :- 5 ft 5 in
Education:- Sharadashram Vidyamandir School
|
Mat |
Inns |
NO |
Runs |
HS |
Ave |
BF |
SR |
100 |
50 |
4s |
6s |
Ct |
St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests |
166 |
271 |
29 |
13447 |
248* |
55.56 |
|
|
47 |
54 |
|
55 |
104 |
0 |
ODIs |
442 |
431 |
41 |
17598 |
200* |
45.12 |
20401 |
86.26 |
46 |
93 |
1927 |
185 |
134 |
0 |
T20Is |
1 |
1 |
0 |
10 |
10 |
10.00 |
12 |
83.33 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
First-class |
268 |
422 |
45 |
22336 |
248* |
59.24 |
|
|
74 |
100 |
|
|
172 |
0 |
List A |
529 |
516 |
55 |
21150 |
200* |
45.87 |
|
|
57 |
111 |
|
|
169 |
0 |
Twenty20 |
25 |
25 |
3 |
750 |
69 |
34.09 |
599 |
125.20 |
0 |
5 |
95 |
17 |
14 |
0 |
|
Mat |
Inns |
Balls |
Runs |
Wkts |
BBI |
BBM |
Ave |
Econ |
SR |
4w |
5w |
10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests |
166 |
130 |
3994 |
2299 |
44 |
3/10 |
3/14 |
52.25 |
3.45 |
90.7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
ODIs |
442 |
267 |
8020 |
6817 |
154 |
5/32 |
5/32 |
44.26 |
5.10 |
52.0 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
T20Is |
1 |
1 |
15 |
12 |
1 |
1/12 |
1/12 |
12.00 |
4.80 |
15.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
First-class |
268 |
|
7359 |
4191 |
69 |
3/10 |
|
60.73 |
3.41 |
106.6 |
|
0 |
0 |
List A |
529 |
|
10196 |
8445 |
201 |
5/32 |
5/32 |
42.01 |
4.96 |
50.7 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
Twenty20 |
25 |
8 |
93 |
123 |
2 |
1/12 |
1/12 |
61.50 |
7.93 |
46.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|