Sachin Tendulkar mini biography

Sachin Tendulkar

Born on 24 April 1973- Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was named after the renowned favorite music director Sachin Dev Burman. Sachin was encouraged to play cricket by his elder brother, Ajit Tendulkar. Sachin showed signs of greatness early on in life. While at school, he teamed up with Vinod Kambli for an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988. His international career took off in 1989 when he played his first international match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989. He went on to become the leading run-scorer in the 1996 Cricket World Cup. This little master has the hopes of an entire country resting on his shoulders every time he goes in to the field. Sachin holds a plethora of records to his name. He has scored the highest number of Test centuries as well as ODI (One-day International) centuries, the highest number of runs in ODIs, played the most number of ODIs (380), has won the highest number of Man of the Match awards, besides being the first cricketer and fastest cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark, 11,000-run mark, 12,000-run mark, 13,000 run-mark and 14,000 run-mark in ODIs In an article in Wisden in 2002, Tendulkar was named as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman. Tendulkar on-screen pyrotechnics have known him a large number of awards off it. He was a recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for 1997-1998 and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999. The legendary Sir Donald Bradman was reminded of his style and technique of play when he saw Tendulkar play. Bradman remarked "I never saw myself play," "but I feel that this player is playing much the same way I used to play." The Australian spinning legend Shane Warne remarked that he sometimes had nightmares about bowling to Tendulkar. Apart from his exploits as a batsman, Tendulkar has also had success as a bowler. He has taken 37 wickets in 132 Tests and 142 wickets in 365 ODIs. Among his bowling performances, his 5 wicket haul against Australia at Kochi in 1997-98 stands out. Of late, there has been a fair amount of criticism about his performances, but he has silenced his critics with some superb performances. India's chances in the 2007 World Cup rest a lot on the shoulders of this "little master", in what would perhaps be his last World Cup. Tendulkar has been a colossus of world cricket and contributed to India’s steady rise in the rankings. In every ODI final where he has scored a century India has come out on top. He also holds the distinction of having 93 international centuries to his name with 47 in tests and 46 in the one day matches. Sachin Tendulkar is also the first batsman to have completed 30,000 plus runs in international cricket. He also holds the record for the maximum amount of international runs. He also holds the dubious record of maximum number of dismissals in the nervous nineties. He also holds a number of records and achievements to his credit some of which may be mentioned as below: Tests Third youngest debutant in tests Most test matches for India - 166 Second in the list of number of tests played by an individual Highest scorer with 13,447 runs First Indian to cross the 11,000 run mark and third to do so amongst all players Second Indian to cross 10,000 runs Fastest to 10,000 runs along with Brian Lara Highest runs scored in away tests First to reach 12,000 and 13,000 runs 1000 or more runs in a calendar year – 5 times Highest number of centuries Second youngest to make a century Highest number of centuries before 20 years age - 5 Highest score by an Indian captain – 217 versus New Zealand Scored centuries versus all nations ODIs Highest number of matches – 442 Most consecutive appearances – 185 Highest number of stadiums appeared in – 90 Highest number of innings appeared – 431 First to reach 400 ODI innings appearances Second youngest debutant Highest individual score – 200 First batsman to score double century Most runs – 17, 598 First batsman to get to 10,000, 11,000, 12,000, 13,000, 14,000, 15,000, 16,000 and 17,000 runs 1000 runs and more in a calendar year – 7 times Fastest to 10,000 runs – 259 innings Highest average for a batsman with 10,000 runs and more Most boundaries in an innings – 25 against South Africa Highest number of scores above 150 runs- 5 Highest centuries and half centuries – 46 and 93 Most centuries versus an opponent – 9 against Australia Maximum number of centuries against Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Pakistan Highest number of centuries in finals – 6 Highest 50 plus scores – 139 First player with more than 100 innings of 50 runs and more Most Man of the Match and Man of the Series Awards – 61 and 15 respectively Maximum 50s in World Cups – 13 Most runs scored in opening partnership with Saurav Ganguly – 6069 Highest number of century partnerships while opening - 21 Biggest partnership in an innings – 331 with Rahul Dravid against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999 Six partnerships of 200 runs and more – with Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly. Maximum runs at World Cups – 1,796 Maximum runs at a World Cup – 673 in 2003 Maximum 90 run scores - 17

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