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Sachin Tendulkar

Personal information Full name Born Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar 24 April 1973 (age 38) Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India Little Master, Tendlya,[1] The God of Cricket,[2] Master Blaster,[3] The

Nickname

Master,[4][5] The Little Champion,[6] Height Batting style Bowling style Role National side Test debut
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5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) Right-handed Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace Batsman International information India 15 November 1989 v Pakistan 2 August 2011 v England 18 December 1989 v Pakistan 2 April 2011 v Sri Lanka 10 Domestic team information Team Mumbai Mumbai Indians (Indian Premier League) Yorkshire Career statistics Test 179 14,81 0 56.95 51/60 248* 4,096 45 53.07 0 0 3/10 ODI 453 18,11 1 45.16 48/95 200* 8,032 154 44.32 2 n/a 5/32 FC 280 23,58 5 59.86 77/10 5 248* 7,461 70 59.86 0 0 3/10 LA 540 21,663 45.89 59/113 200* 10,220 201 42.11 2 n/a 5/32

Last Test ODI debut

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Last ODI ODI shirt no. Years 1988 present 2008 present 1992

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar pronunciation (helpinfo) (Marathi: ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket.[7][8][9] He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket.[10][11] In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.[12] In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against.[13] Tendulkar was an integral part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team at the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India.[14] Tendulkar is the first and the only player in Test Cricket history to score fifty centuries, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined; he now has 99 centuries in international cricket.[15] On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000 and 14,000 runs in that form of the game,[16] having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.[17] He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 11 Test centuries against Australia, tying with Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously.[18] Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. He also holds the world record for playing highest number of Test and ODI matches.Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour.

Tendulkar became the first sportsperson and the first personality without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.[19] He has received honorary doctorates from Mysore University[20] and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences[21] He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.[22]
Contents [hide] 1 Early years and personal life 2 Philanthropy 3 Early domestic career 4 International career 4.1 Early career 4.2 Rise through the ranks 4.3 Captaincy 4.4 Injuries and apparent decline 4.5 Return to old form and consistency 4.6 2007/08 tour of Australia 4.7 Home series against South Africa 4.8 Sri Lanka Series 4.9 Return to form and breaking the record 4.10 ODI and Test Series against England 4.11 20092010 4.12 2011 World Cup and after 5 Indian Premier League 6 Champions League Twenty20 7 The Journey of the Legend 7.1 Test Cricket 8 Style of play 9 Controversies 9.1 Mike Denness incident 9.2 Controversy over Ferrari customs waiver

10 Fan following 11 Business interests 11.1 Commercial endorsements 12 Biographies 13 Career achievements 13.1 Individual honours and appreciations 14 See also 15 Notes 16 References 17 Further reading 18 External links

Early years and personal life

Tendulkar was born in Bombay (now Mumbai). His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry,[23] and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin, and sister Savita. Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School),[1] where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.[24] When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-rupee coin on the top of the stumps, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Tendulkar now considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized possessions.[25] While at school, he developed a reputation as a child prodigy. He had become a common conversation point in Mumbai circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. His

season in 1988 was extraordinary, with Tendulkar scoring a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli, who would also go on to represent India. The destructive pair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the opposition unwilling to continue the game. Tendulkar scored 326* in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament.[26] This was a record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006, when it was broken by two under-13 batsmen in a match held at Hyderabad in India. At 14, Tendulkar was a ball boy for the India versus Zimbabwe game at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup.[27] When he was 14, former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads. "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," Tendulkar said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries.[28] On 24 May 1995,[29] Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997), and Arjun (born 24 September 1999). Anjali is six years elder to him.[30]

Philanthropy
Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. A request from Sachin on Twitter raised 1.025 crore (US$228,575) through Sachin's crusade against cancer for the Crusade against Cancer foundation.[31][32]

Early domestic career

On 11 December 1988, aged just 15 years and 232 days, Tendulkar scored 100 not out in his debut first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on firstclass debut. He followed this by scoring a century in his first Deodhar and Duleep Trophy.[33] He was picked by the Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar after seeing him negotiate Kapil Dev in the nets,[1] and finished the season as Bombay's highest run-scorer.[34][35] He also made an unbeaten century in the Irani Trophy final,[36] and was

selected for the tour of Pakistan next year, after just one first class season.[37] His first double century was for Mumbai while playing against the visiting Australian team at the Brabourne Stadium in 1998.[1] He is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts.[38] In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire[1][39] Tendulkar played 16 first-class matches for the county and scored 1070 runs at an average of 46.52.
[40]

International career
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 2007). "Interview with Sachin Tendulkar". The Cricket Show. Retrieved 31 December 2007. ^ http://www.ndtv.com/news/sports/sachin-tendulkar-joins-twitter-23227.php ^ "A Brand Name called Sachin Tendulkar". The Times of India (India). 7 August 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "$17 mn deal for Sachin". Rediff. 16 May 2001. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin still sells; get Rs 180 crore deal". Hindustan Times. India. 16 May 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin opens restaurant, plans chains". Rediff. 19 July 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin expands restaurant business". The Economic Times (India). 17 October 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2007.[dead link] ^ "Sachin Tendulkar becomes stakeholder in a joint venture". The Indian Express. India. 7 February 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin Tendulkar becomes stakeholder in a joint venture". London: BBC. 7 February 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Pharma cos get Boost (er) dose from cricketers & Bollywood". The Economic Times (India). 12 December 2005. Retrieved 21 March 2007.[dead
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^ "Pepsi celebrates Sachin at 29". The Hindu Business Line. 25 April 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "The Don and the New Master". India Today. 7 September 1998. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Tendulkar Closes MRF Innings after Decade at Crease". 18 September 2009. ^ "Sachin to remain adidas brand ambassador post retirement too!".

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Fibre2Fashion. 29 May 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin to bat for Britannia". The Financial Express. 2 November 2001. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Fiat puts Tendulkar in driver's seat". The Hindu. India. 1 August 2001. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "TVS signs Sachin as brand ambassador". The Hindu Business Line. 16 February 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin to bat for ESPN-Star Sports". The Indian Express. India. 7 February 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "ITC Foods bets big on `Sachin Fit Kit' range". Sify. 9 March 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Canon clicks Sachin as brand ambassador". The Hindu Business Line. 7 November 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Airtel drops Tendulkar as brand ambassador". The Indian Express. India. 3 November 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Reynolds plans product line with Tendulkar". The Hindu Business Line. 1 February 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "G-Hanz unveils `safe' mobiles". The Indian Express. India. 24 January 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ "Sachin to endorse Sanyo BPL brands". Zee News. 26 February 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ a b c "Sachin Tendulkar makes money faster than runs". Indian Express. 19 May 1999. Retrieved 3 March 2008. ^ "Sachin to Bat for Castrol". Castrol India. Retrieved 25 January 2011. ^ Jyothy Labs ^ Coke ropes in Sachin as its 'happiness ambassador' ^ "Star Gaze: How Sachin and Raveena ad it up". The Economic Times (India). 6 November 2003. Retrieved 21 March 2007.[dead link] ^ "Sachin & BCCI to spread AIDS Awareness message". Thatscricket. 22 March 2005. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 21 March 2007. ^ http://www.technicstoday.com/2010/05/luminous-signs-the-legend-sachintendulkar-as-brand-ambassador/ ^ "Book: Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman". Retrieved 11 May 2007. ^ "Man of letters". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ "Book: The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar". Retrieved 11 May 2007. ^ "Willow talk". The Telegraph. Kolkota, India. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ "Sachin Tendulkar a definitive biography". Retrieved 11 May 2007.

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^ "Sachin Tendulkar Masterful". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ "Sachin Tendulkar Masterful". Retrieved 11 May 2007. ^ "Book: If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God". Retrieved 18 June 2009. ^ "Tendulkar makes history in Mohali". Australian Broadcasting Corporation www.abc.net.au. 17 October 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2008. ^ "Tendulkar scales another peak". Special Correspondent (Chennai, India: Hindu). 18 October 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2008. ^ http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_hundreds_career. html?id=12;type=trophy ^ "Tendulkar hits 196, highest score in ODIs". Gwaliar: Rediff.com. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2010. ^ "Statistics, Sachin Tendulkar in Tests". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ CBC Sports (13 August 2001). "Late Bradman rates top 11 cricketers". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 27 November 2008. ^ "Tendulkar receives Padma Vibhushan". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 6 May 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ "Rajiv Gandhi Awards Categories & Awardees". Rajiv Gandhi Awards. Retrieved 20 August 2009. ^ "Sachin got Maharashtra Bhushan award". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 2 December 2009. ^ "Padma Awards Directory, 19542007" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ "List of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Winners". Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ "List of Arjuna Awardees". Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ^ Sachin Awarded in London ^ Sachin, Mohinder Bag Top Honors at Castrol Awards for Cricketing Excellence, Castrol India, 28 January 2010, retrieved 29 January 2011 ^ Tendulkar, Durani honoured at BCCI awards, Cricinfo, 31 May 2011, retrieved 18 July 2011 ^ Tankha, Madhur (3 September 2010), "My dream has come true: Sachin", The Hindu, retrieved 18 July 2011

Further reading

Murray, Peter; Shukla, Ashish (2002). Sachin Tendulkar: Masterful.

Murray Advertising. ISBN 81-7167-806-8.

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