Sachin Tendulkar ( Little Master)

Sachin Tendulkar Profile

Full Name

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar 

Nickname

Little Master 
Sachin

Height

5' 5"

Major Teams

India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians,Yorkshire

 

Playing Role

Top-order batsman

 

Batting Style

Right-hand bat

Bowling Style

Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly

ODI Runs

88111

Test Runs

14851

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on 24 April 1973. He is an Indian cricketer who has caught the fancy of the whole world with his batting skills. He has been touted by experts as the best batsman in the world. Sachin 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.

Basic Information

• He was born in Mumbai. His father Ramesh Tendulkar was a Marathi novelist.
• He was introduces to cricket by his brother Ajit Tendulkar.  He has another brother Nitin and a sister Savita.
• He went to Sharadashram Vidyamandir. Here he started getting coaching from Ramakant Achrekar.
• Tendulkar used to train as a fast bowler at MRF Pace foundation but Denise Lillee asked him o focus on his batting.
• During his babyhood he was considered a child prodigy and received many gifts from famous cricketers of those times.
• In 1995 he got married to a Gujrati paediatrician Anjali and presently has two children Sara and Arjun.

Playing Style

Tendulkar bats, bowls and throws with his right hand, but writes with his left hand. He also practices left-handed throws at the nets on a regular basis.  His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting undesirable movements and spiral. He appears to show little preference for the slow and low wickets which are typical in India, and has scored many centuries on the hard, bouncy pitches in South Africa and Australia. He is known for his unique punch style of hitting the ball over square. He is also renowned for his picture-perfect straight drive, often completed with no follow-through.

Career Acquirements

Sachin Tendulkar is the most copious run scorer in one-day internationals with 18,111 runs. With a current aggregate of 14,851 Test runs. He broke Brian Lara's previous record tally of 11,953 runs as the highest run scorer in test matches in the second Test of Australia's 2008 tour of India in Mohali. Tendulkar described "It is definitely the biggest achievement in 19 years of my career" on the day he achieved the record. He also holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test (51) and ODI cricket (48). Throughout his career, he has made a strong impact on Indian cricket and was, at one time, the foundation of most of the team's wining. In identification with his impact on sport in a cricket-loving country like India, Tendulkar has been allotmented the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,Arjuna Award, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India.

Tendulkar has also continually done well in Cricket World Cups. Tendulkar was the highest run scorer of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and 1996 Cricket World Cup. After his century against England during group stages of 2011 Cricket World Cup, he became the player to hit most number of centuries in Cricket World Cups with six centuries and the first player to score 2000 runs in World Cup cricket. Tendulkar is also one of the rare players who are still playing in international cricket from the 1980s. On 24 February 2010, Tendulkar broke the previous world record for highest individual innings in an ODI, and became the first male cricketer to score a double-century in one-day cricket. He made 200 runs and broke the previous record of 194 runs, jointly held by Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry.

He has been Man of the Match 13 times in Test matches and Man of the Series four times. Similarly he has been Man of the Match 60 times in One day International matches and Man of the Series 14 times.

Test Cricket Career

§                    On his Test debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y). Mushtaq Mohammad (15y) and Aaqib Javed (16y) debuted in Test matches younger to Sachin. Since then, there have been 2 players who were younger than Sachin on their Test Cricketdebut: Hasan Raza - Pakistan (14y), the current youngest debutant, and Mohammad Sharif - Bangladesh (15y).

§                    Sachin has played the most number of Test Matches (179).

Test Cricket Runs

·         Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 14851* Test runs.

·         Career Average (1989–2010, 177 Tests, 14,692 runs) at 56.94

·         Became the first Indian to achieve the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. Lara took 213 innings, Sachin 223 and Border 259.

·         Second Indian cricketer after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.

·         Sachin and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.

·         Sachin Tendulkar (8145) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.

·         Sachin Tendulkar (29) world record of Centuries in Tests away from home.

·         First player to reach 12,000-13,000-14,000 Test runs.

·         Holds the record for scoring most 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 2010 (1600*), 2008 (1063), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).

·         Sachin Tendulkar is the fourth highest run-scorer in a single calendar year in Test History. He has scored 1562 runs in 2010 and is behind Mohammad Yousuf (1780 runs in 2006), Viv Richards (1710 runs in 1976) and Graeme Smith (1656 runs in 2008).

One Day Cricket

• Matches Played: 450
• On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant. Only Aaqib Javed debuted in ODI matches younger than Sachin Tendulkar.
• Most runs in an ODI Innings: Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for maximum number of runs scored in one ODI innings. He is the only batsman to score 200 runs (147ball 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa.
• Most runs: 18,111 Runs at the rate of 45.16 runs for every time he has gotten out (as of 4 April 2011). He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000 and 17,000 run marks.
• First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000-16,000-17,000 and 18,000 ODI runs.
• Most centuries: 48

Twelve Month record: (Calendar Year Record)

·         Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.

·         Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

Companionship Records:

• Sachin with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the starting partnership. They have put together 6,609 runs in 136 matches that inject 21 century companionship and 23 fifty run partnerships. The 20 century partnerships for opening couple are also a world record.
• Sachin and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they made runs 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999 at the LBS, Hyderabad.

• Sachin Tendulkar has been included in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.
• Most runs (2,278 at an average of 56.95 as on 9 April 2011) in World Cup Cricket History including 6 centuries & 15 fifties with a best score of 152* against Namibia in 2003 world cup
• 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
• Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

 

Awards

Awards

1994: Arjuna Award Recipient for achievements in Cricket

1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year

1997/98: India's highest sporting honour - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

1999: Padma Shri - India's fourth highest civilian award

2008: Padma Vibhushan - India's second highest civilian award

2010: ICC cricketer of the year - Highest award in the ICC listings

ICC World Test XI: 2009,2010

ICC World ODI XI: 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 , 2011

Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 2010