Sachin Cricket God

Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Nickname: Little Master, Master Blaster, Cricket God

Birth Date: April 24, 1973
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Birth Place: Mumbai, India
Profession: Cricket
Sex: Male
Nationality: Indian
Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Education: Sharadashram Vidyam
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly
Major Teams - India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire
Coach : Ramakant Achrekar
Information about Sachin ’s Family
Father: Sri Ramesh Tendulkar
Wife: Smt Anjali Mehta
Children: One daughter, Sara and a son Arjun
Brothers: Ajit and Nitin
Sister : Savitai

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India. He went to Shradashram Vidyamandir, a high school in Mumbai, where he began his cricketing career under his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He attended the MRF Pace Foundation during his schooldays to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who saw him training, was not much impressed and suggested that Tendulkar should focus on his batting instead. As a young boy, Tendulkar would practice for hours at the net, and was driven hard by his coach Achrekar.
While at school, his extraordinary batting skills got noticed by the sports circuit. People felt that the young boy would soon become one of the greats in cricket. In the 1988 season, he scored a century in every inning that he played. In one of the inter school matches that year, he had an unbroken 664-run partnership with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar a great Indian batsman of that time, gave him a pair of his own light pads. This touching gesture greatly encouraged the budding cricketer, who 20 years later broke Gavaskar’s world record of 34 Test centuries.
In 1988, when he was just under 16, he scored 100 not out in for Bombay against Gujrat. This was on his first-class debut. He then scored a century in his first appearance in the Deodhar and Duleep Trophy. Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar picked him up after seeing him batting Kapil Dev in the nets. That season he was Bombay’s highest run-getter. In the Irani Trophy final, He made an unbeaten century. He scored a century in all three of his Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy debuts, and became the first player to do so. He was selected for the tour of Pakistan next year.
At the very young age of 16, Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989. In this Test, he received several blows to his body at the hands of Waqar Younis, a pace bowler. He made just 15 runs. In the last test in Sialkot, he had a bloody nose from a bouncer, but he went on playing. He scored better in the subsequent games, scoring 53 runs of 18 balls at Peshawar.

In the 1990 Test in England he scored a century at Old Trafford. The English were highly impressed by his disciplined display of immense maturity. He played many types of strokes. His off-side shots from the back foot greatly impressed the English. Though short in height, he confidently faced short deliveries from the English pace bowlers. His great performance made him look the embodiment of Gavaskar, India’s former famous opener.
During the 1991-1992 tour of Australia Tendulkar scored and unbeaten 148 in Sydney and another century on a bouncing pitch a Perth.
At the age of 19, Tendulkar was in England, playing for Yorkshire in 1992. He scored 1070 runs at an average of 45.25 while playing for the English county as the first overseas player.
In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he made 673 runs in 11 matches which enabled India reach the final. Although Australia won the trophy Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award.
Shortly after this Tendulkar developed a tennis elbow and he was out of cricket for a while. But by 2005, he was back in form. He played well against Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Tendulkar performed very well against Bangla Desh and he was adjudged the Man of the Series in the Future Cup against South Africa.
Today Tendulkar is a national icon to fans all over the world. He is the most worshipped cricketer in the world. Tendulkar has been granted the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Vibhushan by the Indian government.
Personal Life
In 1995, Sachin married Anjali, a doctor and the daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta. They have two children, Sara and Arjun. Tendulkar now sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through a Mumbai-based NGO.
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Finally Sachin achieved the milestone of 15000 runs in Test Cricket. Now he is way ahead of the next highest scorer in the biggest version of World Cricket. He was unbeaten on 33 as India reached 2-152 in their second innings at stumps on the third day after being set a challenging 276-run target to win the match on a low, slow pitch. He also needs just one more century to score an unprecedented 100 international hundreds. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket.

How Sachin completed 15000 runs?

Top run-getters in Test cricket (on 9th Nov 2011 )
15,005 – Sachin Tendulkar (IND)
12,859 – Rahul Dravid (IND)
12,487 – Ricky Ponting (AUS)
11,953 – Brian Lara (WIS)
11,947 – Jacques Kallis (RSA)
11,174 – Allan Border (AUS)
10,927 – Steve Waugh (AUS)
10,122 – Sunil Gavaskar (IND)
Watch out this video recording where Sachin completes his 15000 runs.
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Happy Birthday Sachin Tendulkar God of cricket.....

Posted by chirag_eng on Saturday, 23 April 2011 | 0 Comments | Bookmark

Sachin Tendulkar also called as God Of Cricket, Master Blaster, Little Master is celebrating his 38th birthday today. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born in Mumbai 24th April 1973 is undoubetfully the greatest batsmen ever in the history of cricket. He is the first batsmen to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined; he now has 99 centuries in international cricket.

He is a true inspiration to the aspiring youngsters of cricket world wide, Only batsmen to reach 200 mark in the field of  cricket. Tendulkar became the first sportsperson and the first personality without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captian by the Indian Air Force.I wishes the "Pride Of India" Sachin Tendulkar a very happy birthday.

Some quotes by Sachin Tendulkar ..…

My big sister gave me a bat after returning from a trip to Kashmir, which is known for its high-quality willows. It wasn’t the best bat, but it was like a piece of gold to me. I used to imagine myself batting for India, hitting fours and sixes, the people cheering. I used that bat until it broke. I was the only one supporting John McEnroe — everyone used to call me “Mac” because I styled myself on him. I made my father buy me the same headbands and sweatbands and even grew my hair long. You wouldn’t believe the pictures of me from that time. I was also extremely naughty. Very, very difficult to handle. …I had a nanny who used to run after me virtually 24 hours a day, because I never wanted to go home. My father, who died in 1999, was never a cricket fan, not at all. He was a writer and a poet: he taught Marathi, my mother tongue, at the local university. But he understood exactly how to get the best out of me. He always encouraged me and told my mother that he had full faith in me. It was probably reverse psychology, but as I got older I felt like I could not misuse that trust. He warned me against taking short cuts and told me to just keep playing, despite the ups and downs. My parents taught me that it is important to live every day of your life with grace and honour. When it came to choosing between cricket and going to university, he said: “You can play cricket, I know that is your first love, so go for it.” Of course, my parents were extremely happy when I became the youngest player to play for India, at 16. .. Cricket is something very, very special to me. It has never been about owning this or that car and the other things that come with this life. An obsession with money or worldly matters was always thumbed down. My only dream was to wear the Indian cap and the Indian colours. In that respect, my childhood dreams have come true….. Having children brings back all my old childhood memories, wonderful years. Now, every minute is measured and calculated. I still dream — without dreams, life is flat, you stagnate. I don’t go to the temple every morning, but I do pray. I thank God for everything he has given me, because life has been very good to me.

Tendulkar, now in his nineteenth year in international cricket says, “I still play… because I still love the game. I would like to clarify this. It’s not about records. It’s all about loving the game and enjoying being out there in the middle. That is extremely special to me and far bigger than breaking records or creating new ones.” Creating records happens after you’ve gone on the cricket field, but you’ve got to find a reason to go on the cricket field, and for me the reason is very clear. From the age of three I’ve loved this sport and I’ve never thought about scoring the most number of centuries or runs in international cricket. Everyone enjoys breaking records, I’m enjoying it too, but that is not the reason for playing cricket. “Whatever level you reach, getting better never stops,” Sachin Tendulkar said. “When I started playing, I always wanted to be regarded as one of the best and the idea was that when I stopped playing, people would remember my name. Being regarded as one of the best players is always a good feeling, and that drives you, it refuels you completely. You want to be on top of your game all the time and push yourself harder and harder. There’s a huge responsibility and it is a great challenge. I love that,” he added….

Sachin Tendulkar is the cricketer who is born to break all records. He has broken many records and till date even today he is getting stronger and stronger. As of February 2010, Sachin holds following records
Test Match Records
Sachin Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in the Test cricket.
First cricketer to pass 12,000 run in Test cricket.
Highest number of centuries in Tests (47).
Sachin is the only player who has 40 wickets and more than 11,000 runs in Tests.
Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest player to score 1,000 Test runs, 2,000 Test runs, 3,000 Test runs, 4,000 Test runs, 5,000 Test runs, 6,000 Test runs, 7,000 Test runs, 8,000 Test runs, 9,000 Test runs and 10,000 Test runs.
Sachin Tendulkar has played Test cricket at a record 52 different grounds.
In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
On 3 January 2007, Sachin (5,751 runs) edged past Brian Lara’s (5,736 runs ) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.
Sachin’s record of five Test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.
Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test runs mark
Sachin Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (144) for India.


One-Day Internationals Records
Sachin Tendulkar is the only batsmen to score a double hundred (200 in 147 balls against South Africa on 24Feb 2010) in ODI.
Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of ODI centuries(46).
Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of fifties in ODIs (93).
Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of runs in ODI cricket (17598).
Sachin Tendulkar was the first cricketer to pass 10,000 runs in ODIs.
Sachin Tendulkar was the first cricketer to pass 15,000 runs in the ODIs.
Sachin Tendulkar has won Man of the Match award 56 in the ODIs, making him the the best of all
Sachin Tendulkar has most number of Man of the Series award, 14 in total.
Sachin Tendulkar has won Most man of match awards (10) against Australia.
Sachin Tendulkar has the highest ODI score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
Sachin Tendulkar has Appeared in highest number of ODIs (425).
Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored 1,894 runs in calendar year in ODIs – the most by any batsman.
Sachin Tendulkar has the record of most centuries in a calendar year: nine ODI centuries in 1998.
He has scored 1,000 runs in a calendar year on six separate occasions – 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 & 2003.
In 1998 he had nine one-day centuries in a year making him the only player to do it.
Sachin Tendulkar is the fastest cricketer to reach 10,000 runs, taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored over 1,000 ODI runs against all major cricketing nations.
In 1998 he scored a total of 1,894 runs, a record number of runs scored in ODIs in a single year.
Sachin with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches.The duo also has a record of 20 century partnership for opening pair.
He is the only player ever to pass the 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 run marks in ODIs.
Sachin and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999.
Sachin is the only player who has 150 wickets and more than 15,000 runs in ODIs.
In 2003, Wisden rated Sachin as No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in the list of all-time greatest ODI players.
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Sachin Tendulkar Records list

Posted on 16 September 2010 by admin

Its been 21 years since Sachin Tendulkar stepped in to the International arena of Cricket. Sachin has been breaking cricket records ever since his debut, and will surely break more records in the time to come. Following Sachin Tendulkar records list has been growing ever year, and will grow until he plays.

1. Record number of matches played – 442 matches
2. First player to play a record 400 innings
3. Number of consecutive ODI appearances – 190 matches
4. Cricket grounds played on – 90 grounds
5. Highest individual score by a single player – 200*
6. Most runs in a cricket career – 17,598 runs
7. Record number of ODI centuries – 46 Centuries
8. Record number of centuries in ODIs against an opponent – 9 Centuries
9. Record number of centuries in tournament finals – 6 Centuries
10. Record number of centuries in all formats against an opponent – 19 centuries
11. On Sachin’s Debut, he was the second youngest debutant after Aaqib Javed of Pakistan
12. First player to score 10,000 runs
13. First player to score 11,000 runs
14. First player to score 12,000 runs
15. First player to score 13,000 runs
16. First player to score 14,000 runs
17. First player to score 15,000 runs
18. First player to score 16,000 runs
19. First player to score 17,000 runs
20. Only male player to score a double century in ODIs
21. Tendulkar has scored more than 1,000 runs against every major cricket playing nation
22. Sachin is the only player to score more than 3000 runs against a single opponent – Sri Lanka and Australia
23. Holds the record to score more than 1,000 runs in a single calender year. He has done this 7 times so far.
24. Most number of runs in tournament finals – 1833 runs
25. Most fours in an innings – 25 against South Africa
26. Record number of scores above 150  in an innings – 5
27. Most Half Centuries in ODIs – 93 Half Centuries
28. Highest number of scores over 50 – 139
29. Most Man of the Match awards in ODIs – 61
30. Most Man of the Series awards in ODIs – 19
31. Most half centuries in world cup matches – 13
32. Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most runs in ODIs in a calendar year – 1894 runs in 1998
33. Second Fastest to reach 8000 test runs. Record recently broken by Kumar Sangakarra
34. Fastest to reach 12,000 test runs
35. Fastest to reach 13,000 test runs
36. Record centuries in a calendar year – 9 centuries in 1998
37. Highest partnership for any ODI wicket – 331 runs with Rahul Dravid
38. Highest partnership for 2nd wicket in ODIs – 331 runs with Rahul Dravid
39. Highest partnership for 3rd wicket in ODIs – 237* runs with Rahul Dravid
40. Highest partnership aggregated by a pair – 8227 runs with Sourav Ganguly
41. Record opening partnership pair – 6609 runs with Sourav Ganguly
42. Most century partnerships – 26 partnerships with Sourav Ganguly
43. 4 wickets and Century in the same match – Against Australia in 1998
44. Sachin Tendulkar has been dismissed a record 3 times on 99 in ODIs
45. Sachin has been the most dismissed batsman in the 90s in International cricket – 24
46. Most 200 run partnerships in ODIs – 6
47. Most century partnerships by an opening pair – 21 with Sourav Ganguly
48. Record number of runs in a cricket world cup – 673 runs in 2003
49. Most runs in cricket world cups combined – 1796 runs
50. Most centuries in International cricket – 94 centuries
51. Most Test cricket centuries – 48 Centuries
52. First batsman to complete 31,000 International runs
53. Most test runs – 13447 runs
54. Most dismissals in the 90s in ODIs – 17
55. Most number of Test appearances - 169
56. Most fours in test cricket – 1734+
57. Most century partnerships in Tests – 17 with Rahul Dravid
58. Highest score by an Indian captain – 217 against New Zealand
59. More than 1000 test runs in a single calendar year – 5 times
60. Record number of man of the match awards by an Indian in Test matches – 14 times
61. First batsman to score 50 international centuries
62. First batsman to score 60 International centuries
63. Tendulkar holds the record for being the only batsman to score 70 International centuries
64. Tendulkar holds the record for being the only batsman to score 80 International centuries
65. Tendulkar holds the record for being the only batsman to score 90 International centuries
66. Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to have scored century on debut in the Irani trophy, Ranji trophy and Duleep trophy
67. Most Centuriess in World cup Cricket – 4
68. Most Half Centuries in World Cup cricket – 17
69. Most boundaries in International cricket – 3675
70. Most half centuries in International cricket – 149
71. Most runs in a single edition of the IPL – 618 runs
72. Most runs scored in test matches away from home – 7819 runs
73. Highest overall partnership runs, in all formats combined – 12,400 runs with Sourav Ganguly
74. Most matches in a career – 606 matches
75. Sachin Tendulkar has played for a record number of consecutive matches for India – 239 matches
76. Highest partnership for the 3rd wicket in World Cup – 237 runs with Rahul Dravid
77. Fastest to reach 10,000 Test runs
78. Sachin is currently second after Sanath Jayasuriya for the most ODI appearances, soon expected to overtake
79. Sachin Tendulkar scored 5 centuries before he turned 20
80. Most fours in ODI cricket – 1927 boundaries
81. Ranked by Wisden as the Best ODI batsman of all time
82. Ranked by Wisden as the Second Best Test batsman of all time
83. Highest Indian last wicket partnership – 133 runs with Zaheer Khan
84. Most number of Man of the Match awards in World Cup
85. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli were involved in a 664 run partnership in Harris Shield game in 1988. A record broken this year
86. In 1992, Sachin became the first overseas player to play for Yorkshire at the age of 19
87. Has the least percentage of Man of the Match awards when on the losing side. Out of the 56 times, India has lost 5 times
88. Sachin has won the Padma Shri, Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards, and he is the only cricketer to receive them all
89. One of the few batsmen to have Centuries against all Test Playing countries
90. The first batsman to be given out by a Third Umpire TV reviewal system
91. Sachin holds the record for being the only player to have 40 wickets and 11000 runs in Test cricket
92. Sachin holds the record for being the only player to have 150 wickets and 15000 runs in ODI cricket
93. Sachin Tendulkar holds the best average amongst the batsman who have crossed 10,000 ODI runs
94. The highest run scorer in the 199 and 2003 cricket world cups
95. Sachin is the only player to have more than 100, fifty plus scores
96. The only batsman to have scored more than 2 centuries against all Test playing nations
97. Sachin has completed his Century by hitting a 6, on four different occasions in test matches, a record shared by Ken Barrington
98. Only cricketer to have done 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODIs
99. The only player to be in Top 100 of ICC rankings for 10 years
100. Sachin is the cricketer to have a record number of records.

Another 100 for Sachin Tendulkar, with his records list. We are sure the list will grow. The list surely does tell what great caliber does Sachin Tendulkar possess. When Sachin Tendulkar toured Pakistan to face the finest bowling attacks ever in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a Formula 1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was captain of the world champion Argentine team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam title, Roger Federer was a name no one knew of , Lionel Messi was probably in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid back in Jamaica. The Berlin Wall still existed firmly, USSR was one big, big country fighting the Cold War, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to open the Narsimha Rao’s Indian economy.
It seems while time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.
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Career Statistics Sachin Tendulkar

As on 25 September, 2011 the master batsmen career stats are as follow
Batting  Stats

	Tests	ODIs	T20Is	First-Class	Twenty20
Matches	181	453	1	285	60
Innings	298	442	1	451	60
Not Out	32	41	0	48	8
Runs	14965	18111	10	23884	2069
High Score	248*	200*	10	248*	100
Average	56.25	45.16	10.00	59.26	39.78
Strike Rate		86.32	83.33		124.71
100’s	51	48	0	78	1
50’s	61	95	0	107	13
Catches	108	136	1	176	23

Bowling Stats

	Tests	ODIs	T20Is	First-Class	Twenty20
Matches	181	453	1	285	60
Innings	137	269	1		8
Balls	4132	8044	15	7497	93
Runs	2416	6838	12	4308	123
Wickets	45	154	1	70	2
BBI	3/10	5/32	1/12	3/10	1/12
BBM	3/14	5/32	1/12		1/12
Average	53.68	44.40	12.00	61.54	61.50
Economy	3.50	5.10	4.80	3.44	7.93
Strike Rate	91.8	52.2	15.0	107.1	46.5
5w	0	2	0	0	0