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Sachin Tendulkar Tendulkar at an awards event in January 2013 Personal information Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Born 24 April 1973 (age 40)[1] Bombay, Maharashtra, India Nickname Tendlya, God of Cricket,[2][3] Little Master,[1] Master Blaster[4][5] Height 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm medium, leg break, off break Role Batsman International information National side • India Test debut(cap 187) 15 November 1989 v Pakistan Last Test 14 November 2013 v West Indies ODI debut(cap 74) 18 December 1989 v Pakistan Last ODI 18 March 2012 v Pakistan ODI shirt no. 10 Only T20I(cap 11) 1 December 2006 v South Africa Domestic team information Years Team 1988 Cricket Club of India 1988–2013 Mumbai 1992 Yorkshire 2008–2013 Mumbai Indians Career statistics Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 200 463 310 551 Runs scored 15,921 18,426 25,396 21,999 Batting average 53.79 44.83 57.92 45.54 100s/50s 51/68 49/96 81/116 60/114 Top score 248* 200* 248* 200* Balls bowled 4,240 8,054 7,563 10,230 Wickets 46 154 71 201 Bowling average 54.17 44.48 62.18 42.17 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 115/– 140/– 186/– 175/– Source: Cricinfo, 15 November 2013 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( i/ˌsətʃɪn tɛnˈduːlkər/; Marathi: सचिन रमेश तेंडुलकर; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of the modern generation, popularly holds the title God of Cricket among his fans [2] He is also acknowledged as the greatest cricketer of all time.[6][7][8][9] He took up cricket at the 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 only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a Double Century in a One Day International, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.[10] In October 2013, he became the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs in all recognized cricket (First-class, List A and Twenty20 combined).[11][12][13] In 2002, Wisden Cricketers Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.[14] Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India.[15] He had previously been named Player of the Tournament at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers Almanack.[16][17][18] Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, Indias highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, Indias fourth and second highest civilian awards and within a few hours of ending of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Ministers Office announced the decision to award Tendulkar with the Bharat Ratna, Indias highest civilian award, making him the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.[19][20] He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.[21] In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.[22] He was also the first sportsperson (and the first without an aviation background) to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.[23] In 2012, he was named an HonoraryMember of the Order of Australia.[24] In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs.[25] He retired from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013[26] and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket,[27] retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match, against theWest Indies in Mumbais Wankhede Stadium.[28][29] Tendulkar played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.[30] Early domestic career On 14 November 1987, Tendulkar was selected to represent Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, Indias premier domestic First-class cricket tournament, for the 1987–88 season. However, he was not selected for the final eleven in any of the matches, though he was often used as a substitute fielder.[36] He narrowly missed out playing alongside his idol Gavaskar, who had retired from all forms of cricket after the 1987 Cricket World Cup.[36] A year later, on 11 December 1988, aged just 15 years and 232 days, Tendulkar made his debut for Mumbai against Gujarat at home and scored 100 not out in that match, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on First-class debut. He was handpicked to play for the team by the then Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkarafter watching him easily negotiating Indias best fast bowler at the time, Kapil Dev, in the Wankhede Stadium nets,[1] where the Indian team had come to play against the touring New Zealand team. He followed this by scoring a century in his first Deodhar and Duleep Trophies, which are also Indian domestic tournaments.[51] Tendulkar finished the 1988–89 season as Mumbais highest run-scorer.[note 1][52] He also made an unbeaten century in the Irani Trophy match against Delhi at the start of the 1989–90 season, playing for the Rest of India.[53] Sachin was picked for young Indian team to tour England twice,under the Star Cricket Club banner in 1988 and 1989.[54][55] His first double century (204*) was for Mumbai while playing against the visiting Australian team at the Brabourne Stadium in 1998.[1][56] He is the only player to score a century on debut in all three of his domestic first-class tournaments (the Ranji, Irani, and Duleep Trophies).[57] Another double century was an innings of 233* against Tamil Nadu in the semi-finals of the 2000 Ranji Trophy, which he regards as one of the best innings of his career.[58][59][60] Yorkshire In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas-born player to represent Yorkshire, which prior to Tendulkar joining the team, never selected players even from other English counties.[1][note 2] Selected for Yorkshire as a replacement for the injured Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott, Tendulkar played 16 first-class matches for the county and scored 1070 runs at an average of 46.52.[61] International career Early career Raj Singh Dungarpur is credited for the selection of Tendulkar for the Indian tour of Pakistan in late 1989,[62] and that also after just one first class season.[63] The Indian selection committee had shown interest in selecting Tendulkar for the tour of the West Indies held earlier that year, but eventually did not select him, as they did not want him to be exposed to the dominant fast bowlers of the West Indies so early in his career. Tendulkar made his Test debut against Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989 aged just 16 years and 205 days. He made just 15 runs, being bowled byWaqar Younis, who also made his debut in that match, but was noted for how he handled numerous blows to his body at the hands of the Pakistani pace attack.[64] In the fourth and final Test inSialkot, he was hit on the nose by a bouncer bowled by Younis, but he declined medical assistance and continued to bat even as he gushed blood from it.[65] In a 20 over exhibition game inPeshawar, held in parallel with the bilateral series, Tendulkar made 53 runs off 18 balls, including an over in which he scored 27 runs off leg-spinner Abdul Qadir.[66][note 3] This was later called one of the best innings I have seen by the then Indian captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth.[67] In all, he scored 215 runs at an average of 35.83 in the Test series, and was dismissed without scoring a run in the only One Day International (ODI) he played.[68][69] Thus Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest player to debut for India in Tests at the age of 16 years and 205 days and also the youngest player to debut for India in ODIs at the age of 16 years and 238 days.[70][71] The series was followed by a tour of New Zealand in which he scored 117 runs at an average of 29.25 in Tests including an innings of 88 in the second Test.[72] He was dismissed without scoring in one of the two one-day games he played, and scored 36 in the other.[73] On his next tour, to England in July–August 1990, he became the second youngest cricketer to score a Test century as he made 119 not out in the second Test at Old Trafford in Manchester.[65] Wisden described his innings as a disciplined display of immense maturity and also wrote:[74] He looked the embodiment of Indias famous opener, Gavaskar, and indeed was wearing a pair of his pads. While he displayed a full repertoire of strokes in compiling his maiden Test hundred, most remarkable were his off-side shots from the back foot. Though only 5ft 5in tall, he was still able to control without difficulty short deliveries from the English pacemen. Tendulkar further enhanced his reputation as a future great during the 1991–1992 tour of Australia held before the 1992 Cricket World Cup, that included an unbeaten 148 in the third Test Sydneyand 114 on a fast, bouncing pitch in the final Test at Perth against a world-class pace attack comprising Merv Hughes, Bruce Reid and Craig McDermott. Hughes commented to Allan Border at the time that This little pricks going to get more runs than you, AB.[75] Indian Premier League and Champions League Tendulkars record in Twenty20 matches[170] Matches Runs HS 100s 50s Avg. T20I[212] 1 10 10 0 0 10.00 IPL[213] 78 2334 100* 1 13 34.83 CLT20[214] 13 265 69 0 1 20.38 Tendulkar was made the icon player and captain for his home side, the Mumbai Indians in the inaugural Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition in 2008.[215] As an icon player, he was signed for a sum of US$1,121,250, 15% more than the second-highest paid player in the team, Sanath Jayasuriya.[216] In 2010 edition of Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians reached the final of the tournament. Tendulkar made 618 runs in 14 innings during the tournament, breaking Shaun Marshs record of most runs in an IPL season. He was declared player of the tournament for his performance during the season. He also won Best Batsman and Best Captain awards at 2010 IPL Awardsceremony.[217] Sachin Tendulkar captained Mumbai Indians in 4 league matches of second edition of the league. He scored 68 in the first match and 48 against Guyana. But Mumbai Indians failed to qualify for semifinals after losing the initial two matches. Tendulkar scored 135 runs.[218] In the 2011 IPL, against Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Tendulkar scored his maiden Twenty20 hundred. He scored 100 not out off 66 balls. In 51 matches in the IPL Tendulkar has scored 1,723 runs, making him the second-highest run-scorer in the competitions history.[219] Nominated to Rajya Sabha In April 2012, Tendulkar accepted the Rajya Sabha nomination proposed by the president of India and became the first active sportsperson and cricketer to have been nominated.[353] Former cricketers Sanjay Manjrekar,[354] Ajit Wadekar,[355] Madan Lal[355] expressed their surprise over this move. On 2 May, Tendulkar was elected to seat number 103 in the Rajya Sabha[356] and took the oath on 4 June.[357] He refused to take the bungalow allotted to him in New Delhi calling it waste of tax payers money as he resides in Mumbai.[358] Philanthropy Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta.[359][360] A request from Sachin on Twitter raised 1.025 crore (US$160,000) through Sachins crusade against cancer for the Crusade against Cancer foundation.[361][362] Sachin Tendulkar spent nine hours on the 12-hour Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon on 18 September 2011 that helped raise 7 crore – 2 crore more than the target – for from the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilets for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.[363] Biographies Sachin Tendulkar has been the subject of various books. The following is the listing of books focused on Tendulkars career: • Sachin: The Story of the Worlds Greatest Batsman by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Global. ISBN 978-0-14-302854-3[364] • Sachin Tendulkar Opus[365] • The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Global. ISBN 978-81-7476-530-7[366] • Sachin Tendulkar-a definitive biography by Vaibhav Purandare. Publisher: Roli Books. ISBN 81-7436-360-2[367] • Sachin Tendulkar – Masterful by Peter Murray, Ashish Shukla. Publisher: Rupa. ISBN 81-7167-806-8[368] • If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God by Vijay Santhanam, Shyam Balasubramanian. Publisher: HarperCollins India ISBN 978-81-7223-821-6[369] • Master Stroke: 100 Centuries of Sachin Tendulkar by Neelima Athalye. Publisher: Sakal Publications. ISBN 978-93-80571-84-3[370] • Dhruvtara, a book on cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar, was launched as an audio book on Monday, 15 October 2012 to mark White Cane Day.[371] • Sachin ke sau shatak by Dharmender Panth, a book on Tendulkars 100 centuries written in Hindi. ISBN 9788123765242[372] • Sachin Tendulkar: Masterful by Peter Murray, Ashish Shukla. Publisher:Murray Advertising. ISBN 81-7167-806-8[373]
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