Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Tendulkar
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Personal information
Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born 24 April 1973 (1973-04-24) (age 37)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname Little Master, Tendlya,[1] Master Blaster,[2] The Master,[3][4] The Little Champion,[5]The Great Man[6]
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace
Role Batsman
International information
National side India
Test debut (cap 187) 15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test 18 July 2010 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 74) 18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI 24 February 2010 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 10
Domestic team information
Years Team
1988–present Mumbai
2008–present Mumbai Indians (Indian Premier League)
1992 Yorkshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 168 442 270 529
Runs scored 13,647 17,594 22,432 21,150
Batting average 55.93 45.12 59.03 45.87
100s/50s 48/55 46/93 74/101 57/111
Top score 248* 200* 248* 200*
Balls bowled 3,982 8,020 7,359 10,196
Wickets 44 154 69 201
Bowling average 52.22 44.26 60.73 42.01
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 105/– 132/– 173/– 169/–
Source: CricketArchive, 30 July 2010
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar About this sound pronunciation (Marathi: सचिन रमेश तेंडुलकर [səʨin rÉ™meË‘É• t̪eˑɳɖulkÉ™r]; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket.[7][8][9] He is the only player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket.[10][11] In 2002, just 12 years into his career Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.[12] In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against.[13] Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven.[nb 1] He is sometimes referred to as Little Master or Master Blaster.[15][16]
Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has 94 centuries in international cricket. On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form of the game,[17] having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.[18] He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history and 200 runs in a one-day international match. In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, 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, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously.[19] Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009, and has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour.

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