Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth: Mumbai
Major Teams:
Batting Style: Right -Hand Batsman
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium, Leg Break, Right Arm Off Break
ODI Debut:
Test Debut:
Height: 5'5
Let's go back 2 years. March ,2006. Ind vs Eng in India. 3 tests and 7 ODI's. First test played during March(1-5) happened to be a draw. Second test played during march (9-13) Ind bt Eng by 9 wickets. Third and Final Test, march 18 -22 Eng bt Ind. Very Very dismal performance by the giant Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He was right under the scanner of 1billion Indians and a committee of few baboons...
On March 26, 2006 an article was put here. Exactly 2 years back... Overwhelming response to sachin indicated that he was here to stay. Now, its march 26, 2008. India is back from Australian series writing of a comprehensive victory... Now dare talk about sachin's removal..!!! what a turn over of events... that's the trait "i would say" of a master...
Take a look at his records.
1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41*
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
12. 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
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
17. Most number of 100's in test's 38
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman
after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris
Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three
of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first
overseas born player to represent
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,
Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian
cricketer to get all of them.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in
ODI's 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most
by any batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. He 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
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against
31. In August of 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.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the
Asian Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
34. The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of
has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya
Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50
centuries in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75
centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s),
as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just
after Brian Lara
39. 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
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav
Ganguly is a world record
41. 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
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run
partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav
Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41
Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000
run marks IN ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against
47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded
in ODI matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major
Cricketing nations.
49. Sachin 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
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest
debutant in the world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the
second youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20
is a current world record
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in
world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian
Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs
in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs
in Test matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark
and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. 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 Tendulkar
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include
14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20
that
67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in
Tests at
of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in
Test cricket.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than
15000 runs in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than
11000 runs in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket
Rightly..." IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING "..................
Here's a little tit bit which i borrowed form wikipedia
"....In commemorating Sachin Tendulkar's feat of equaling Don Bradman's 29 centuries in Test Cricket, automotive giant Ferrari invited Sachin Tendulkar to its paddock in Silverstone on the eve of the British Grand Prix (23 July 2002) to receive a Ferrari 360 Modena from the legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher. On
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*Courtesy cricbuzz and wikipedia
