Monday, 9 January 2012
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar,the world famous Indian cricketer was born on 24 April 1973 in Mumbai. He is the most experienced player of Team India right now and plays as an opener in ODI and middle order batsman in Tests. He is a right handed batsman and bowls right arm leg-spin, off-spin and medium pace. He is well known as Little Master, Master Blaster and is nicknamed Tendlya. He is one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
Sachin: The Individual
His father, Mr.Ramesh was a Marathi novelist & mother Mrs.Rajni ,worked in an insurance company. Sachin started playing cricket from his childhood days. His brother Vijay was the main motivation behind him taking cricket as a profession.To begin with, he started training under Ramakant Achrekar his coach at Sharadashram Vidyamandir. Then he joined MRF Pace Academy in pursue of becoming a fast bowler but some of the greats of cricket advised him to focus on batting.
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| Sachin & Anjali |
He married Anjali a doctor by profession in 1995 and they have a son Arjun and a daughter Sara.
Cricket Career:
He made his first class debut for Bombay against Gujarat making a century at just 15 years and 232 days thus becoming the youngest player to score a century on debut. He also represented Mumbai in Duleep and Irani trophy.
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| Kambli & Sachin after the record partnership. |
He made his ODI debut against Pakistan on December 18, 1989. He made his maiden test century (119*) against England at Old Trafford thus becoming the second youngest player to score a test century at the age of 16. Wisden described that innings as one of the disciplined mixed with maturity.
From there on Tendulkar rose through the ranks and went on to become one of the greatest to have played the game of cricket.
His maiden ODI century came in his 79th match against Australia on September 9, 1994 in Srilanka. Imagine that and now he is has the highest number of centuries both in tests and ODI. His good form didn’t stopped there as he went on to become the leading run scorer in 1996 world cup.
Tendulkar achieved his peak form in the year 1998 when he showed his strength and easiness to murder spin attack. He made a mark on Shane Warne and Gavin Robertson mauling them by occasionally dancing down the track and drive over the infield. He scored three consecutive centuries in the series against Australia.
He again tormented Australia especially Shane Warne in Sharjah with two most unbelievable knocks of his career and helping India win the Sharjah Cup. He scored two back to back centuries (semifinal and final) as India beat Australia.
Today Sachin Tendulkar holds every record possible in cricket. He is also ranked as the second best test batsman and ODI batsman of all time by Wisden.
- He was the first to reach 10,000 runs in ODI and 12000, 13000 and 14000 runs in Test Cricket.
- He also holds the record of highest run scorer in ODI and Test.
- He has the highest number of centuries in ODI (48) and Test (51).
- Highest Individual score in an ODI innings (200*) against South Africa.
- First man on the planet to score a double century in ODI.
- Player of the Tournament in ICC Cricket World Cup 2003
- Arjuna Award, 1994
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 1997
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year, 1997
- Padma Shri, 1999
- Maharashtra Bhushan Award, 2001
- Padma Vibhushan, 2008
- Most Centuries in ODI (48)
- Highest number of Man of the Match awards (56)
- Most Man of the Series (14) awards
- First cricketer to score 10,000 runs and to get passed 16,000, 17000 and 18000 runs.
- Highest number of runs in a World Cup (1,796 @ 59.87)
- Most number of Man of the Match awards in World Cup matches.
- Most number of ODI fifties
- Most ODIs played (453)
- Only player to be in top 10 of ICC rankings for 10 years.
- Most Test Centuries (51)
- Only cricketer to receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards.
- Sachin Tendulkar century has been a unique feature in his debut games of Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. No other batsmen have done it yet.
- First overseas player to play for English County Yorkshire .
- Only cricketer to receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri and Arjuna Award.
- Most runs scored in a single calendar year (1894 runs in the year 1998)
- First batsmen to score 50 & 75 international centuries.
- Most number of international runs in all forms of the game. (33409 runs in ODI+Test+T20s)
- Involved in 6 200+ partnerships in One Day Internationals – most by any batsman.
- Most centuries in 1 Calendar year (9 centuries in 1998)
- Least number of innings required by Sachin Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs in One Day Internationals (259). Also, Sachin Tendulkar batting average is highest among the batsmen with more than 10,000 runs.
- Played in most number of stadiums around the world. (90)
- Most number of successive ODI appearances (185)
- When Sachin Tendulkar centuries reached the mark of 5, he was the youngest to do so. This is still a record.
- Highest score by an Indian captain in a Test innings (217 against New Zealand )
- Highest number of runs scored on foreign soil (over 7,000 runs)
- Most number of Test appearances for India
- Most number of Test appearances (177)
- First batsman to score 30000, 31000 and 32000 international runs
- Sachin is the only player to have 150+ ODI wickets and over 18,000 runs
- Only player to have taken 40+ wickets and score 14,000 runs in Test Cricket..
- First man on the planet to score a double century in ODI.
- First player to play 300 innings in Test Matches.
