Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar at an awards event in January 2013
Personal information
Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born
24 April 1973 (age 41)
[1]

Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname
Tendlya, God of Cricket,
[2][3]
Little Master,
[1]

Master Blaster
[4][5]

Height 5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium, leg break, off break
Role Batsman
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 187) 15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test 14 November 2013 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 74) 18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI 18 March 2012 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no. 10
Only T20I (cap 11) 1 December 2006 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
1988 Cricket Club of India
19882013 Mumbai
1992 Yorkshire
20082013 Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 200 463 310 551
Runs scored 15,921 18,426 25,396 21,999
Batting average 53.79 44.83 57.92 45.54
100s/50s 51/68 49/96 81/116 60/114
Top score 248* 200* 248* 200*
Balls bowled 4,240 8,054 7,563 10,230
Wickets 46 154 71 201
Bowling average 54.17 44.48 62.18 42.17
5 wickets in
innings
0 2 0 2
10 wickets in
match
0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/10 5/32 3/10 5/32
Catches/stumpings 115/ 140/ 186/ 175/

Source: Cricinfo, 15 November 2013
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (
i
/stn tndulkr/; born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian
cricketer widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, popularly holding the
title "God of Cricket" among his fans.
[2]
Some commentators, such as former West Indian
batsman Brian Lara, have labelled Tendulkar the greatest cricketer of all time.
[6][7][8][9]
He took
up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut against Pakistan at the age of sixteen, and
went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four
years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman
to score a double century in a One Day International, the only player to complete more than
30,000 runs in international cricket.
[10]
and the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000
runs or more in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket.
[11]

In 2002, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time,
behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.
[12]

Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his
first win in six World Cup appearances for India.
[13]
He had previously been named "Player of
the Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the
only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary
of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
[14][15][16]

Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and
Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest
civilian awards. After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's
Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian
award.
[17][18]
He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the
award.
[19][20]
He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the
ICC awards.
[21]
In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the
Parliament of India.
[22]
He was also the first sportsperson and the first person without an aviation
background to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air Force.
[23]
In
2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.
[24][25]

In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs.
[26]
He retired from
Twenty20 cricket in October 2013
[27]
and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms
of cricket,
[28][29]
retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match,
against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.
[30]
Tendulkar played 664 international
cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.
[10]

Contents
1 Early years
2 Early domestic career
o 2.1 Yorkshire
3 International career
o 3.1 Early career
o 3.2 Rise through the ranks
o 3.3 Captaincy
o 3.4 Injuries and decline amid surpassing Bradman's haul
o 3.5 Return to old form and consistency
o 3.6 200708 tour of Australia
o 3.7 Home series against South Africa
o 3.8 Sri Lanka Series
o 3.9 Return to form and breaking Brian Lara's record
o 3.10 ODI and Test Series against England
o 3.11 20092010
o 3.12 2011 World Cup and after
3.12.1 100th international century
3.12.2 Return To Ranji Trophy
o 3.13 Retirement
4 Indian Premier League and Champions League
5 Style of play
6 Fan following
7 Career achievements
o 7.1 National honours
o 7.2 Other honours
8 Controversies
o 8.1 Mike Denness incident
o 8.2 Ferrari import tax
9 Personal life
o 9.1 Family
o 9.2 Beliefs
o 9.3 Business interests
o 9.4 Commercial endorsements
o 9.5 Nominated to Rajya Sabha
o 9.6 Philanthropy
10 Biographies
11 See also
12 Notes
13 References
14 External links