Sachin Tendulkar - THE GREAT Cricketer
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973) is one of the most famous Indian cricketers of all time. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 1989. He made his international debut against Pakistan in 1989 at the age of 16. He is widely regarded as one of the best batsmen of all time and by many as the greatest of his era. His cricketing and batting abilities are widely regarded as genius by many stalwarts of the game. In a famous instance, Sir Donald Bradman, who is himself universally regarded as the greatest ever batsman to play the game, said of Sachin: "He reminds me of myself". Tendulkar is affectionately known as 'The Little Master' by his adoring fans. As this epithet was previously applied to another great Indian batsman, Sunil Gavaskar, Gavaskar himself conferred the title "The Little Champion" on Tendulkar. Tendulkar received India's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in the year 1997-1998.


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.


Sachin Tendulkar

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

Batting and fielding averages


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

Bowling averages


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


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