Biography
Name | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar |
Born | 24 April 1973, Mumbai |
Major Teams | Mumbai, Yorkshire, India, ACC Asian XI |
Batting Style | Right Hand Bat |
Bowling Style | Right Arm Off Break, Leg Break, Right Arm Medium |
Test Debut | 15-20 Nov,1989 (Ind vs Pak at Karachi) |
ODI Debut | 18 Dec 1989 (Ind vs Pak at Gujranwala) |
T20I Debut | 1 Dec 2006 (Ind v RSA at Johannesburg) |
"I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar." -Brian Lara(WI)
''V did not lose 2 a team called India, v lost 2 a man called Sachin Tendulkar'' - Mark Taylor(aus)
'Nothing bad can happen 2 us if v were on a plane in India wit Sachin Tendulkar on it.'' -Hashim Amla(SA)
''Sachin Tendulkar can play that leg glance with a walking stick also” -Waqar Younis(Pak)
''There r 2 kind of batsman in the world. 1 Sachin Tendulkar and 2. all the others” -Andy Flower(ZIM)
"I have seen God. He(Sachin tendulkar) bats at no.4 for India in tests” -Matthew Hayden(AUS.)
"I see myself when! i see Sachin Tendulkar batting” -Don Bradman(AUS)
"Do your crime when Sachin Tendulkar is batting, bcos even God is busy watching his batting” -Australian Fan
''V did not lose 2 a team called India, v lost 2 a man called Sachin Tendulkar'' - Mark Taylor(aus)
'Nothing bad can happen 2 us if v were on a plane in India wit Sachin Tendulkar on it.'' -Hashim Amla(SA)
''Sachin Tendulkar can play that leg glance with a walking stick also” -Waqar Younis(Pak)
''There r 2 kind of batsman in the world. 1 Sachin Tendulkar and 2. all the others” -Andy Flower(ZIM)
"I have seen God. He(Sachin tendulkar) bats at no.4 for India in tests” -Matthew Hayden(AUS.)
"I see myself when! i see Sachin Tendulkar batting” -Don Bradman(AUS)
"Do your crime when Sachin Tendulkar is batting, bcos even God is busy watching his batting” -Australian Fan
Awards & Records
- Highest Run scorer in the ODI
- Most number of hundreds in the ODI 48
- Most number of nineties in the ODI
- Most number of man of the matches(62) in the ODIs
- Most number of man of the series(17) in ODIs
- Best average for man of the matches in ODIs
- First cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
- First cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
- He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (2,278 at an average of 56.95 as on 2 April 2011)
- Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
- Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
- Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
- He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
- Most number of Fifties in ODI's 95
- Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 453
- He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
- Most number of 100's in test's 51
- He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
- He was the first cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India 's highest sporting honor only to be followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- In 2003, Wisden rated Sachin Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
- In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
- He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
- Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
- In 1992, at the age of 19, Sachin Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
- Sachin Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
- Sachin Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
- Sachin Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
- Sachin Tendulkar is the highest earning cricketer in the world
- Sachin Tendulkar has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
- Sachin Tendulkar most number man of match awards (10) against Australia
- In August 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
- In November 2006, Time magazine named Sachin Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
- In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"
- The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
- Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
- Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 Sachin Tendulkar had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
- Is most number of runs in test cricket surpassing Brian Lara
- Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
- The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
- Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
- Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
- Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
- Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (48 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 14th Nov, 2011)
- the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
- Second highest individual score among Indian batsmen (200* against South Africa at Gwalior in 2011).
- The score of 200* is the second highest score recorded in ODI matches
- Sachin Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
- Sachin Tendulkar was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
- Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
- Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
- On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
- When Sachin Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
- Sachin Tendulkar 's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
- Sachin Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side
- Sachin Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
- Sachin Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs
- Sachin Tendulkar is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
- On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
- Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
- Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
- Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
- Sachin Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Sachin Tendulkar
- Sachin Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(183) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
- First to 25,000 international runs
- Sachin Tendulkar 's 33,207 runs in international cricket include 18,111 runs in ODI's, 15,086 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
- On December 10, 2005, Sachin Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka . He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
- Sachin Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wickets and more than 15000 runs in ODI
- Sachin Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wickets and more than 11000 runs in Tests
Batting and fielding averages
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 | Ct | |||||
Tests | 188 | 311 | 32 | 15470 | 248* | 55.44 | 51 | 65 | 113 | |||||
ODIs | 453 | 442 | 41 | 18111 | 200* | 45.16 | 86.32 | 48 | 95 | 136 | ||||
T20Is | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10.00 | 83.33 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
First-class | 292 | 464 | 48 | 24389 | 248* | 58.62 | 78 | 111 | 181 | |||||
List A | 541 | 528 | 55 | 21684 | 200* | 45.84 | 59 | 113 | 171 | |||||
Twenty20 | 60 | 60 | 8 | 2069 | 100* | 39.78 | 124.71 | 1 | 13 | 23 |
Bowling averages
Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | ||
Tests | 188 | 139 | 4174 | 2445 | 45 | 3/10 | 3/14 | 54.33 | 3.51 | 92.7 | 0 | 0 | |
ODIs | 453 | 269 | 8044 | 6838 | 154 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 44.40 | 5.10 | 52.2 | 4 | 2 | |
T20Is | 1 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 1/12 | 1/12 | 12.00 | 4.80 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 | |
First-class | 292 | 7539 | 4337 | 70 | 3/10 | 61.95 | 3.45 | 107.7 | 0 | ||||
List A | 541 | 10220 | 8466 | 201 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 42.11 | 4.97 | 50.8 | 4 | 2 | ||
Twenty20 | 60 | 8 | 93 | 123 | 2 | 1/12 | 1/12 | 61.50 | 7.93 | 46.5 | 0 | 0 |
