The return of Sachin Tendulkar and the decision to select a third spinner in Rahul Sharma were the notable features of the Indian team for the ODI triangular series in Australia beginning in Melbourne on February 5. The selection panel, which met here on Sunday, was widely expected to pick a 16-member team for the two T20 internationals against Australia in Sydney and Melbourne on February 1 and 3 and the ODI tri-series where the host and Sri Lanka are the two other contenders.
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) |
Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of ODI centuries(48).
Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of fifties in ODIs (95).
Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of runs in ODI cricket (17598).
Sachin Tendulkar was the first cricketer to pass 10,000 runs in ODIs.
Sachin Tendulkar was the first cricketer to pass 15,000 runs in the ODIs.
Sachin Tendulkar has won Man of the Match award 56 in the ODIs, making him the the best of all
Sachin Tendulkar has most number of Man of the Series award, 14 in total.
Sachin Tendulkar has won Most man of match awards (10) against Australia.
Sachin Tendulkar has the highest ODI score among Indian batsmen (200* against South Africa in 2010).
Sachin Tendulkar has Appeared in highest number of ODIs (425).
Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored 1,894 runs in calendar year in ODIs – the most by any batsman.
Sachin Tendulkar has the record of most centuries in a calendar year: nine ODI centuries in 1998.
He has scored 1,000 runs in a calendar year on six separate occasions – 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 & 2003.
In 1998 he had nine one-day centuries in a year making him the only player to do it.
Sachin Tendulkar is the fastest cricketer to reach 10,000 runs, taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored over 1,000 ODI runs against all major cricketing nations.
In 1998 he scored a total of 1,894 runs, a record number of runs scored in ODIs in a single year.
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 duo also has a record of 20 century partnership for opening pair.
He is the only player ever to pass the 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 run marks in ODIs.
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 is the only player who has 150 wickets and more than 15,000 runs in ODIs.
In 2003, Wisden rated Sachin Tendulkar as No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in the list of all-time greatest ODI players.
Chance for Rahul
However, the wise men sprang a surprise by choosing a 17-man side with an additional bowler in Rahul Sharma.The promising leg-spinner could harness the bounce on the Australian pitches.The side led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni has seven specialist batsmen, two wicket-keeper batsmen, five pacemen and three spinners.The side has balance and options.Sachin Tendulkar's last match for India in ODIs was the victorious ODI World Cup final against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai last year.Another prominent member of that triumphant eleven, Zaheer Khan, will spearhead the pace pack.Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Varun Aaron, S. Sreesanth and Munaf Patel could not be considered for fitness reasons. Praveen Kumar is back after being sidelined by an injury to his ribs.Another swing bowler, Irfan Pathan, got the nod over Abhimanyu Mithun because of his left-arm variety and the ability with the willow.
Parthiv stays
Wicket-keeper batsman Parthiv Patel holds on to his place despite indifferent form with the bat in the home ODI series against the West Indies that preceded the tour of Australia.Dinesh Karthik, who could have strengthened the side's batting, and Wriddhiman Saha missed out. Parthiv was not expected to retain his spot.Manoj Tiwari, who notched up a century in the fifth ODI against the West Indies in Chennai, finds favour with the selectors.With much focus on the younger generation of batsmen, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and Manoj Tiwari would have to shoulder much of the middle-order burden on pitches that could offer movement and lift to the pacemen even in the abbreviated form of the game.While M.S Dhoni's record as a batsman in the ODIs is impressive he averages 51.15 at a strike rate of 88.52 the batting ability of Ravindra Jadeja, Pathan and R. Ashwin could lend depth to the line-up in the ODI format.This side would not be short of energy on the field.
The squad:
M.S. Dhoni (captain),
V. Sehwag (vice-captain),
S. Tendulkar,
G. Gambhir,
V. Kohli,
R. Sharma,
S. Raina,
R. Jadeja,
R. Ashwin,
U. Yadav,
P. Kumar,
V. Kumar,
M. Tiwari,
R. Sharma,
P. Patel,
Zaheer Khan,
I. Pathan.
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