Personal information Full nameSachin Ramesh Tendulkar Born24 April 1973 (age 40)[1] Bombay , Maharashtra, India NicknameMaster Blaster, Tendlya, Maestro, God of Cricket, Genius, Little Master[1] Height5 ft 5 in (165 cm) Batting styleRight-handed Bowling styleRight-arm leg spin , off spin , medium pace RoleBatsman International information National side * India Test debut(cap 187 )15 November 1989 v Pakistan Last Test14 November 2013 v West Indies ODI debut(cap 74 )18 December 1989 v Pakistan Last ODI18 March 2012 v Pakistan ODI shirt no.10 Only T20I(cap 11 )1 December 2006 v South Africa Domestic team information YearsTeam 1988Cricket Club of India 1988–2013Mumbai 1992Yorkshire 2008–2013Mumbai Indians Career statistics CompetitionTest ODI FC LA Matches200463310551 Runs scored15,92118,42625,39621,999 Batting average 53.7944.8357.9245.54 100s/50s51/6849/9681/11660/114 Top score248*200*248*200* Balls bowled4,2408,0547,56310,230 Wickets 4615471201 Bowling average 54.1744.4862.1842.17 5 wickets in innings 0202 10 wickets in match0n/a0n/a Best bowling3/105/323/105/32 Catches/stumpings 115/–140/–186/–175/– Source: Cricinfo , 15 November 2013 *Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar* (Listen i / s ə ˈ tʃ ɪ n t ɛ n ˈ d uː l k ər / ; born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as the best batsman of his generation.[2] [3] He took up cricket at 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 first player to score one hundred international centuries , the first player to score a double century in a One Day International , and thus far the only to complete 34,000 runs in international cricket.[4] [5] [6] [7] On 5 October 2013, he became the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs in all recognized cricket (First-class cricket , List A cricket andTwenty20 combined).[8] [9] [10] In 2002, Wisden Cricketers Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman , and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards .[11] Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winningIndian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India.[12] He was also the recipient of Player of the Tournament award of the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa. In October 2013, he became the only Indian cricketer to be named in an all-time Test World XI to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers Almanack.[13] [14] [15] [16] Tendulkar has also been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, Indias second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, Indias highest sporting honour. Tendulkar won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.[17] In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Parliament of India .[18] He was also the first sportsperson and the first one without aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by theIndian Air Force . In 2012, he was named as an HonoraryMember of the Order of Australia .[19] . On 23 December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs[20] [21] [22] [23] and from Twenty20 format in May 2013. He announced his retirement from Test Cricket on October 10th 2013 saying he would retire after the two test matches against the West Indies at home in November 2013.[24] He retired from cricket altogether on 16th November 2013 after playing his 200th Test match , against the West Indies in Mumbais Wankhede Stadium .[25] [26] [27] Within a few hours of ending of his final match, the Prime Ministers Office announced the conferring of the Bharat Ratna , Indias highest civilian award, for Tendulkar making him the first sportsperson ever and youngest recipient to date.[28] [29] Early years Tendulkar was born at Nirmal Nursing Home on 24 April 1973. His father Ramesh Tendulkar was a reputed Marathi novelist and his mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry.[30] Ramesh named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman . Tendulkar has three elder siblings: two half-brothers Nitin and Ajit, and a half-sister Savita. They were Rameshs children from his first marriage.[31] He spent his formative years in the Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society, Bandra (East) . As a young boy, Tendulkar was considered a bully, and often picked up fights with new children in his school.[32] He also showed an interest in tennis, idolising John McEnroe .[33] To help curb his mischievous and bullying tendencies, Ajit introduced him to cricket in 1984. He introduced the young Sachin to Ramakant Achrekar , a famous cricket coach and a club cricketer of repute, at Shivaji Park , Dadar . Achrekar was impressed with Tendulkars talent and advised him to shift his schooling to Sharadashram Vidyamandir (English) High School,[1] a school at Dadar which had a dominant cricket team and had produced many notable cricketers.[34] Prior to this, Tendulkar had attended the Indian Education Societys New English School in Bandra (East).[34] He was also coached under the guidance of Achrekar at Shivaji Park in the mornings and evenings.[35] 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.[36] He moved in with his aunt and uncle, who lived near Shivaji Park, during this period, due to his hectic schedule.[34] Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali Meanwhile at school, he developed a reputation as a child prodigy. He had become a common conversation point in local cricketing circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. Sachin consistently featured in his school Shardashram Vidyamandir (English) team in Matunga Gujarati Seva Mandal (popularly coined MGSM Shield).[37] Besides school cricket, he also played club cricket, initially representing John Bright Cricket Club in Mumbais premier club cricket tournament, the Kanga League,[34] and later went on to play for the Cricket Club of India .[38] [39] [40] In 1987, at the age of 14, he attended the MRF Pace Foundation in Madras (nowChennai ) 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.[41] On January 20, 1987, he also turned out as substitute for Imran Khan s side in an exhibition game at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai,to mark the golden jubilee of Cricket Club of India .[42] A couple of months later, former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads and consoled him to not get disheartened for not getting the Mumbai Cricket Associations Best junior cricket award(He was 14 years that time). It was the greatest source of encouragement for me, Tendulkar said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskars world record of 34 Test centuries.[43] [44] Sachin served as a ballboy in 1987 Cricket World Cup when India played against England in the semifinal in Mumbai .[45] [46] His season in 1988 was extraordinary, with Tendulkar scoring a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-runpartnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game against St. Xaviers High School in 1988 with his 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 (not out) in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament.[47] 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.Family life On 24 May 1995,[48] at the age of 22, Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. Sachins father-in-law, Anand Mehta, is a seven-time national bridge champion.[49] Anjali is six years his senior.[50] They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997) and Arjun (born 24 September 1999). Arjun Tendulkar, a left handed batsman, has been included in under-14 probables list of Mumbai Cricket Association for off-season training camp and in January 2013 he was selected for Mumbai under-14 team for the west zone league[51] Beliefs Tendulkar is an ardent devotee of Sathya Sai Baba ofPuttaparthi .[52] [53] [54] He has visited Puttaparthi on several occasions to seek Babas blessings.[52] [55] In 1997, Tendulkar captained the Indian National side, playing against a World Eleven team, in the Unity Cup which was held at the hill view stadium in Puttaparthi, in Babas presence.[56] [57] After Sai Babas death, Tendulkar broke into tears when he saw the body of Baba in Puttaparthi, and cancelled his birthday celebrations.[58] [59] [60] The cricketer is also known to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi at home and frequently visits temples during night when it is calm and quiet.[61] [62] The cricketer has also offered his prayers at several other Hindu temples across the country.[63] [64]
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