Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai) is a former Indian cricketer.He has the highest number of runs in both Test cricket and One Day Internationals. He also has the highest number of centuries in both formats of the game. His last Test match being played against the West Indies.| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar |
| Born | 24 April 1973 [1] Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra |
| Nickname | God of Cricket, Little Master,[1] Master Blaster[2][3] |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm medium, leg break, off break |
| Role | Batsman |
100th international century[change | change source]
Tendulkar scored his much awaited 100th international hundred on 16 March 2012 against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup. He became the first person in history to achieve this feat. Incidentally, it was Tendulkar's first ODI hundred against Bangladesh. He said "It's been a tough phase for me ... I was not thinking about the milestone, the media started all this, wherever I went, the restaurant, room service, everyone was talking about the 100th hundred. Nobody talked about my 99 hundreds. It became mentally tough for me because nobody talked about my 99 hundreds."
National honours[change | change source]
- 1994 - Arjuna Award, by the Government of India in recognition of his outstanding achievement in sports.
- 1997-98 - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest honour given for achievement in sports.
- 1999 - Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
- 2001 - Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra State's highest Civilian Award.
- 2008 - Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.
- 2014 - Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.
Retirement
Following poor performance in the 2012 series against England, Tendulkar announced his retirement from One Day Internationals on 23 December 2012, while noting that he will be available for Test cricket.[243][244] In response to the news, former India captain Sourav Gangulynoted that Tendulkar could have played the up-coming series against Pakistan, while Anil Kumble said it would be "tough to see an Indian (ODI) team list without Tendulkar's name in it", and Javagal Srinath mentioned that Tendulkar "changed the way ODIs were played right from the time he opened in New Zealand in 1994".[245]
After playing a Twenty20 International in 2006 against South Africa, he said that he would not play the format again.[246] He announced his retirement from the IPL after his team, Mumbai Indians, beat Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on 26 May to win the Indian Premier League 2013.[22] He retired from Twenty20 cricket and limited-overs cricket, after playing the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 in September–October 2013 in India for Mumbai Indians.[247]
On 10 October 2013 Tendulkar announced that he would retire from all cricket after the two-Test series against West Indies in November.[248][249] On his request, the BCCI arranged that the two matches were played at Kolkata and Mumbai so that the farewell happened at his home ground.[250][251] He scored 74 runs in his last Test innings against West Indies, thus failing short by 79 runs to complete 16,000 runs in Test cricket, the next man to bat after him was the future captain Virat Kohli.[23][252] The Cricket Association of Bengal and the Mumbai Cricket Association organised events to mark his retirement from the sport.[253][254] Various national and international figures from cricket, politics, Bollywood and other fields spoke about him in a day-long Salaam Sachin Conclave organised by India Today.[255][256]
In July 2014, he captained the MCC side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.[257] In December 2014, he was announced ambassador of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 event.[258][259] It is his second term as he has already held the ambassador of the previous ICC Cricket world cup 2011.[260][261] So he is heading the ambassador position of the ICC Cricket world cup in consecutive terms of the cricket world cup (2011 and 2015).
Fan following
Tendulkar's consistent performances earned him a fan following across the globe, including amongst Australian crowds, where Tendulkar has consistently scored centuries.[64] One of the most popular sayings by his fans is "Cricket is my religion and Sachin is my God".[287] Cricinfomentions in his profile that "... Tendulkar remains, by a distance, the most worshipped cricketer in the world."[1] During the Australian tour of India in 1998 Matthew Hayden said "I have seen God. He bats at no. 4 in India in Tests."[288] However, on God, Tendulkar himself is reported to have said "I am not God of cricket. I make mistakes, God doesn't."[289] Tendulkar made a special appearance in the Bollywood film Stumped in 2003, appearing as himself.[290]
There have been many instances when Tendulkar's fans have undertaken extreme activities over his dismissal in the game. As reported by many Indian newspapers, a person hanged himself due to distress over Tendulkar's failure to reach his 100th century.[291]
At home in Mumbai, Tendulkar's fan following has caused him to lead a different lifestyle. Ian Chappell has said that he would be unable to cope with the lifestyle Tendulkar was forced to lead, having to "wear a wig and go out and watch a movie only at night".[282] In an interview with Tim Sheridan, Tendulkar admitted that he sometimes went for quiet drives in the streets of Mumbai late at night when he would be able to enjoy some peace and silence.[292] Tendulkar has a presence in the popular social networking site Twitter with the user name sachin_rt, since May 2010.[293]
Achievements and awards
| Test | ODI | |
|---|---|---|
 Australia | 11 | 9 |
 Sri Lanka | 9 | 8 |
 South Africa | 7 | 5 |
 England | 7 | 2 |
 New Zealand | 4 | 5 |
 West Indies | 3 | 4 |
 Zimbabwe | 3 | 5 |
 Pakistan | 2 | 5 |
 Bangladesh | 5 | 1 |
 Kenya | NA | 4 |
 Namibia | NA | 1 |
Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in Tests, with 15,921 runs, as well as in One-Day Internationals, with 18,426 runs.[1] He is the only player to score more than 30,000 runs in all forms of international cricket (Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals).[5] He is the 16th player and the first Indian to score 50,000 runs in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket (First-class, List A and Twenty20). He achieved this feat on 5 October 2013, during a Champions League Twenty20 match for his IPL team Mumbai Indians against Trinidad and Tobago.[294][295][296]
He also holds the record of the highest number of centuries in both Tests (51) and ODIs (49) as well as in Tests and ODIs combined (100). On 16 March 2012, Tendulkar scored his 100th international hundred. It came against Bangladesh in the league matches of Asia Cup 2012.[297] He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket,[298] and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined.[citation needed] He also holds the world record for playing the highest number of Test matches (200)[299] and ODI matches (463).[300]Tendulkar has been part of most wins by an Indian in both Test cricket with 72 wins and ODIs with 234 wins and is third in the world in ODI victories after Ricky Ponting (262 wins), Mahela Jayawardene (241 wins).[301][302]
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times, and in 1998 he scored 1,894 runs, the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for One-Day Internationals.[300] He is the first male cricketer to score a double-century in one-day cricket.[210]
He has been Man of the Match 13 times in Test matches and Man of the Series four times, out of them twice in the Border-Gavaskar Trophyagainst Australia.[303] The performances earned him respect from Australian cricket fans and players.[64] Similarly he has been Man of the Match 62 times in One day International matches and Man of the Series 15 times.[300] He became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 runs in Test cricket,[citation needed] having also been the third batsman and the first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in that form of the game.[304] He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals,[305] and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history.[citation needed] In the fourth Test of the 2008–09 Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia at Nagpur on 6 November 2008, 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,[306] 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.[307] On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test Cricket.[308]
Tendulkar has consistently done well in Cricket World Cups. He was the highest run scorer of the 1996 Cricket World Cup with a total of 523 runs and also of the 2003 Cricket World Cup with 673 runs.[309] 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.
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