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Personal life
PERSONAL LIFE
· Tendulkar was born in Bombay (now Mumbai).
· 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 Savitai. Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School), 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, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.
· 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.
· 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.
· Tendulkar scored 326* in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament. 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.
· When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads
· In 1995, Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali (born November 10, 1967), a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta.
· They have two children, Sara (born October 12, 1997), and Arjun (born September 24, 1999).
· Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annaben Mehta.
General
SACHIN TENDULKAR
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
D O B : 24 April 1973
Place Of Birth : Mumbai, India
Height : 5.5”
Nick name: Known as The Master Blaster, Little Master, Champion, also known as the best batsman in the world of cricket.
PLAYER INFORMATION
Batting style: Right-handed
Bowling style: Right-arm leg spin / Right-arm off spin/ Right arm Medium
Role: All Rounder
National side: India
Test Debut (cap 187) 15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test: 24 November 2009 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 74) 18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI 8 November 2009 v Australia
ODI shirt no. 10
Years Team
1988–present Mumbai
2008-present Mumbai Indians (Indian Premier League)
1992 Yorkshire
CAREER STATISTICS
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 161 436 263 523
Runs scored 12,917 17,178 21,806 20,730
Batting average 54.73 44.50 58.77 45.36
100s/50s 43/53 45/91 70/99 56/109
Top score 248* 186* 248* 186*
Balls bowled 3,982 8,020 7,347 10,196
Wickets 44 154 69 201
Bowling average 52.22 44.26 60.72 42.01
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 104/– 132/– 172/– 167/–
GENERAL INFORMATION
· Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
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· He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket and Test cricket
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· In 2002, he was ranked as the the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards by Wiesden.
· In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven.
· He is also called Master blaster or the little Master.
· Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. The first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has eighty-eight international centuries.
· Recently on November 20, 2009, Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket.
· On October 17, 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 runs in that form of the game,having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.
· 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 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years back.
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· Tendulkar has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honor.