Sachin Tendulkar Biography
Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Nick Name: The Master Blaster,The Little champion,The Bombay Bomber.
DOB:24-04-1973.
Test Debut: Pakisthan at Karachi, 1st test,1989/90.
ODI Debut: Pakisthan at gujranwala.
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer.He holds several batting records,including the most test centuries and most one-day international centuries, and was rated in 2002 by Wisden as the second greatest Test batsman ever ,after sir Don Bradman. He recieved the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, india's highest sporting honour,for 1997-1998.and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999.Tendulkar was a Wisden Cricketer of the year in 1997.He went to sharadashram vidyamandir School where he started his career under coach Ramakanth Achrekar. While at school, he was involved in a mammoth 664 run partnership in a Harris Shield game with friend and team mate vinod kambli.In 1988/1989,he scored 100 not-out in his first first-class match,for Bombay aganist Gujarat.At 15 years and 232 days he was the youngest to score a century on debut.International career Sachin played his first international match aganist pakisthan in Karachi in 1989, facing the likes of Wasim Akram,Imran Khan,Abdul Qadir, and Waqar Younis.He made just 15 runs,being bowled by Waqar Younis,who also made debut in that match.It was an inauspicious start,but Tendulkar followed it up with his maiden Test fifty a few days later at Faisalabad.His One-day international(ODI) debut on December 18 wasequally disappointing.where he was dismissed without scoring a run, again by Waqar Younis.the series was followed by a non-descript tour of New Zealand in which he fell for 88 in a Test match,John Wright,who would later coach india,pouching the catch that prevented Tendulkar from becoming the youngest centurian in Test Cricket.The long anticipated maiden Test century came in England's Tour in 1990 but the other scores were not remarkable.Tendulkar truley came into his own in the 1991-1992 tour of Australia that included a brilliant century on the fast bouncy track at Perth.He has been Man of the match 11 times in test matches and Man of the series twice,both times in Border-Gavaskar Trophy aganist Australia.
His first ODI century came on September9,1994 aganist Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo.It had taken Tendulkar 79 ODI's to score a century.Sachin Tendulkaris the only player to score a century while making his Ranji Trophy,Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debut.
Wisden named Tendulkar one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1997, the first calender Year in which he scored 1,000 Test runs.He repeated the feat in 1999,2001 and 2002.
Tendulkar also holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calender year.He has done it six times- 1994,1996,1997,1998,2000 and 2003.in 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs.still the record for ODI runs by any batsman in any given calender year.
While not a regulr bowler,Tendulkar has 37 wickets in 132 tests.
Highlights of Tendulkar's Test career includes:
- Rated as the second best batsman of all the time(next to bradman) by wisden.
- Highest number of Test centuries(35),overtaking Sunil Gavasker's record(34) on 10 December 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi.
- Played in the hiegest Number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds, a head of Azaharuddin(48), kapil Dev(47),Inzamam-ul-Haq(46) and Wasim Akram(45).
- He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. he holds this record along with Brain Lara.Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings.
- 4th highest tally of runs in Test Cricket (10,323)
- Career Average 55.79 - Has the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs.
- Second indian to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
- Second Fastest player to reach 9000 runs(Brain lara made 9000 in 177 innings,sachin in 179).
- Played more matches than any other cricketer.
- Most man of the match(50) awards.
- Most runs.
- most centuries(43).
- First Cricketer to Cross 10,000-run mark in ODI's.
- Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODI's.
- In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs,still the record for ODI runs by any batsman in any given calender year.
- In 1998 he hit 9 ODI centuries ,the highest by any player in an year.
- Player of the Tournment in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
- 673 runs in 2003 World cup,higest by any one in a single Cricket World Cup.
