Sachin Tendulkar

Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (AKA: SR. Tendulkar)
Nick Name: The Master Blaster, The Little Champion, The Bombay Bomber
DOB: 24-04-1973
Test Debut: Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90
ODI Debut: Pakistan at Gujranwala,
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break, Leg Break, Right Arm Medium, Leg Break Googly

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer. He holds several batting records, including the most Test centuries and the most one-day international centuries, and was rated in 2002 by Wisden as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman. He received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honour, for 1997-1998, and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999. Tendulkar was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997. Early daysBorn in Mumbai (then Bombay) into a middle-class family.
Sachin Tendulkar was named after his family’s favourite music director Sachin Dev Burman.
He went to Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he started his cricketing career under coach Ramakant Achrekar. While at school, he was involved in a mammoth 664 run partnership in a Harris Shield game with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli. In 1988/1989, he scored 100 not-out in his first first-class match, for Bombay against Gujarat. At 15 years and 232 days he was the youngest to score a century on debut. International career Sachin played his first international match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989, facing the likes of Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Abdul Qadir, and Waqar Younis. He made just 15 runs, being bowled by Waqar Younis, who also made his debut in that match. It was an inauspicious start, but Tendulkar followed it up with his maiden Test fifty a few days later at Faisalabad. His One-day International (ODI) debut on December 18 was equally disappointing, where he was dismissed without scoring a run, again by Waqar Younis. The series was followed by a non-descript tour of New Zealand in which he fell for 88 in a Test match, John Wright, who would later coach India, pouching the catch that prevented Tendulkar from becoming the youngest centurion in Test cricket. The long anticipated maiden Test century came in England’s tour in 1990 but the other scores were not remarkable. Tendulkar truly came into his own in the 1991-1992 tour of Australia that included a brilliant century on the fast and bouncy track at Perth. He has been Man of the Match 11 times in Test matches and Man of the Series twice, both times in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.
His first ODI century came on September 9, 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It had taken Tendulkar 79 ODIs to score a century.Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to score a century while making his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debut.

Wisden named Tendulkar one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1997, the first calendar year in which he scored 1,000 Test runs. He repeated the feat in 1999, 2001, and 2002.

Tendulkar also holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003. In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, still the record for ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year.


While not a regular bowler, Tendulkar has 37 wickets in 132 tests.


Highlights of Tendulkar’s Test career include:


Rated as the second best batsman of all time (next to Don Bradman) by Wisden.
Highest number of Test centuries (35), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar’s record (34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi.
Played in the highest number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds, ahead of Azharuddin (48), Kapil Dev (47), Inzamam-ul-Haq (46) and Wasim Akram (45).
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.
4th highest tally of runs in Test cricket (10,323)
Career Average 55.79 - Has the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs
Second Indian to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
Has 37 Test wickets (14 Dec 2005)
Second fastest player to reach 9000 runs (Brian Lara made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.)
Highlights of Tendulkar’s ODI career include:



Played more matches than any other cricketer
Most Man of the Match (50) awards
Appeared on the most grounds (89 different grounds)
Most runs (14,146 as of 15th February, 2006)
Most centuries (39)
Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
First cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark in ODIs
Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs
Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of February, 2006
Over 100 wickets (141 as of 15th February, 2006)
Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs (as of March 17, 2006)
Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)
Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.
In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, still the record for ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year.
In 1998 he hit 9 ODI centuries, the highest by any player in an year.
World Cup
Most runs (1732 at an average of 59.72) in World Cup Cricket History.
Player Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
673 runs in 2003 World Cup, highest by any one in a single Cricket World Cup.


Sachin Tendulkar, a renowned professional Indian batsman, was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is the son of Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, and has two brothers, Ajit, Nitin and a sister, Savitai. He was inspired by his brother Ajit to become a cricketer. He married Anjali in 1995 and they have a daughter, Sara and a son, Arjun. He is ambidextrous because he uses his right hand for batting, bowling and throwing, but writes with his left hand. Sachin Tendulkar is well known for his unique punch style of hitting and his picture-perfect straight drive that made him earn comparisons to Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest batsman of all time. He is popularly known as “Little Master”, “Master Blaster”, “Maestro” and “Tendlya” in the cricket world.


Sachin Tendulkar attended the Sharadashram Vidyamandir high school, where he started off his career in cricket with the help of Ramakant Achrekar, his coach and mentor. While studying, he went to the MRF Pace Foundation to be trained as a fast bowler by Dennis Lillee, a former Australian cricketer, who redirected his aim from becoming a fast bowler to batsman. Sachin Tendulkar had an exceptional season in 1988 when he scored a century in all the innings he played. In 1988, he, along with Vinod Kambli, his friend and team mate, set up an unbeaten 644-run partnership, at a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game, which remained as a record partnership in any form of cricket till 2006. In 1988-1989, at the age of 15, he scored 100 not-out in his debut first-class match for Mumbai against Gujarat. His first double century was for Mumbai playing against the visiting Australian team at the Brabourne Stadium in 1998. Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts.


Sachin Tendulkar played his first international Test match against Pakistan in Karachi on November15, 1989 and in August 1990, he made his first Test century in a match against England at Old Trafford. In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2007-08, Sachin Tendulkar showed exceptional form, becoming the leading run scorer with 493 runs in four Tests. As of 2008, he has featured in 150 Test matches and has secured 11,877 runs becoming the second highest run scorer. In his Test career, Sachin Tendulkar has been named the Man of the Match eleven times and the Man of the Series four times.


Sachin Tendulkar made his One Day International (ODI) debut on December 18, 1989 against Pakistan and has played 417 ODIs. He has performed well in almost all Cricket World Cups and was the highest run scorer at the 1996 and the 2003 Cricket World Cup. In ODIs, Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for scoring more than 1000 runs in a calendar year for seven times, that includes a year in which he scored 1894 runs from ODIs, which is the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player. In the One-Day International Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series involving Sri Lanka and Australia, he became the first and only batsman to complete 16,000 runs in ODIs. As of 2008, Sachin Tendulkar has made 16,361 runs from the ODI matches making him the most prolific run scorer in the ODIs.


In 1996, Sachin Tendulkar took over as the captain of the Indian cricket team and served as a captain for two terms. He gives constant suggestions and building strategies to the Indian captain and still remains a fundamental part of the Indian team. Sachin Tendulkar is ranked by the objective scoring method of the Wisden 100 as the second best test batsman and best ODI batsman of all time and also holds the record of securing the highest number of centuries in Test (39) and ODI cricket (42). He is also one of the few players who are still playing international cricket from the 1980s.


Sachin Tendulkar was bought as the icon and most expensive player for the Mumbai Indians team at the 2008 Indian Premier League (IPL) for US$1,121,250. He was the captain of the Mumbai Indians team and featured in seven matches, scoring 188 runs, his highest being 65.


In recognition to his contribution to the field of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar was conferred with the Arjuna Award, by the Government of India in 1994. He was named as the 1997 Wisden Cricketer of the Year and was also the recipient of the 1997-98 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest honour given for achievement in sports. In 1999, Sachin Tendulkar was awarded with Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award and was named as the Player of the tournament at the 2003 Cricket World Cup. He was also named in the ICC World ODI XI for two years, 2004 and 2007 and in September 2007 Sachin Tendulkar secured the first place in the list of 50 greatest cricketers by Shane Warne, a former international Australian cricketer. In 2008, he was presented with Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award and was suggested for an honorary knighthood by Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister.