Sachin Tendulkar Biography

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India. He went to
Shradashram Vidyamandir, a high school in Mumbai, where he began his cricketing
career under his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He attended the MRF Pace Foundation du
ring his schooldays to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis
Lillee, who saw him training, was not much impressed and suggested that Tendulk
ar should focus on his batting instead. As a young boy, Tendulkar would practice
for hours at the net, and was driven hard by his coach Achrekar.
While at school, his extraordinary batting skills got noticed by the sports circ
uit. People felt that the young boy would soon become one of the greats in crick
et. In the 1988 season, he scored a century in every inning that he played. In o
ne of the inter school matches that year, he had an unbroken 664-run partnership
with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar a great Indian batsman of t
hat time, gave him a pair of his own light pads. This touching gesture greatly e
ncouraged the budding cricketer, who 20 years later broke Gavaskar s world record
of 34 Test centuries.
In 1988, when he was just under 16, he scored 100 not out in for Bombay against
Gujrat. This was on his first-class debut. He then scored a century in his first
appearance in the Deodhar and Duleep Trophy. Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar pi
cked him up after seeing him batting Kapil Dev in the nets. That season he was B
ombay s highest run-getter. In the Irani Trophy final, He made an unbeaten century
. He scored a century in all three of his Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep
Trophy debuts, and became the first player to do so. He was selected for the tou
r of Pakistan next year.
At the very young age of 16, Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan
in Karachi in 1989. In this Test, he received several blows to his body at the
hands of Waqar Younis, a pace bowler. He made just 15 runs. In the last test in
Sialkot, he had a bloody nose from a bouncer, but he went on playing. He scored
better in the subsequent games, scoring 53 runs of 18 balls at Peshawar.
In the 1990 Test in England he scored a century at Old Trafford. The English wer
e highly impressed by his disciplined display of immense maturity. He played man
y types of strokes. His off-side shots from the back foot greatly impressed the
English. Though short in height, he confidently faced short deliveries from the
English pace bowlers. His great performance made him look the embodiment of Gava
skar, India s former famous opener.
During the 1991-1992 tour of Australia Tendulkar scored and unbeaten 148 in Sydn
ey and another century on a bouncing pitch a Perth.
At the age of 19, Tendulkar was in England, playing for Yorkshire in 1992. He sc
ored 1070 runs at an average of 45.25 while playing for the English county as th
e first overseas player.
In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he made 873 runs in 11 matches which enabled Indi
a reach the final. Although Australia won the trophy Tendulkar was given the Man
of the Tournament award.
Shortly after this Tendulkar developed a tennis elbow and he was out of cricket
for a while. But by 2005, he was back in form. He played well against Australia,
Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Tendulkar performed very well against Bangla Desh and he was adjudged the Man of
the Series in the Future Cup against South Africa.
Today Tendulkar is a national icon to fans all over the world. He is the most wo
rshipped cricketer in the world. Tendulkar has been granted the Padma Vibhushan,
Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Vibhushan by the India
n government.
Personal Life
In 1995, Sachin married Anjali, a doctor and the daughter of Gujarati industrial
ist Anand Mehta. They have two children, Sara and Arjun. Tendulkar now sponsors
200 underprivileged children every year through a Mumbai-based NGO.