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SACHIN TENDULKAR

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Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar at an awards event in January 2013


Personal information
Full name

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Born

24

1974 (age 41)[1]

April

Bombay, Maharashtra, India


Nickname

Tendlya,

Bombay

Bomber,

Little

Master,[1] Master Blaster[2][3]


Height

5 ft 5 in (165 cm)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm medium, leg

break, off

break
Role

Batsman

International information
India

National side

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

19882013

Mumbai

1992

Yorkshire

20082013

Mumbai Indians

2014

Marylebone Cricket Club

HISTORY:
Sachin Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain,
widely regarded to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time and by many as the
greatest batsman of all time. He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made
his Testdebut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi 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,
holds the record for most number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, the only player
to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket

Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting
achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting
honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008,
respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards. After a few hours of
his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the
decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. He is the
youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award. He also
won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC
awards In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of
theParliament of India.[19] He was also the first sportsperson and the first person
without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by
the Indian Air Force In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of
Australia.
In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs. He retired
from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013and subsequently announced his retirement
from all forms of cricket, retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and
final Test match, against theWest Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Tendulkar
played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.

FAMILY BACK GROUND


Tendulkar was born in a Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins family in Mumbai . His
father, Ramesh Tendulkar, who was a Marathi novelist, named him after his favorite
music director, Sachin Dev Burman.
Tendulkar's elder brother, Ajit, encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has
two other siblings: brother, Nitin, and sister, Savitai.
Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School), where he
began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant
Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a
fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355

Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting
instead.
On 24 May 1995, at the age of 22, Tendulkar married Anjali,
a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social
worker Annabel Mehta. Sachin's father-in-law, Anand Mehta, is a seven-time national
bridge champion. Anjali is six years his senior.

LIFESTYLE OF PERSON:
Tendulkar was born at Nirmal Nursing Home on 24 April 1973. His father,
Ramesh Tendulkar, was a well-known Marathinovelist and his mother, Rajni, worked
in the insurance industry. Ramesh named Tendulkar after his favourite music
director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar has three elder siblings: two half-brothers
Nitin and Ajit, and a half-sister Savita. They were Ramesh's children from his first
marriage. He spent his formative years in the Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing

Society, Bandra (East). As a young boy, Tendulkar was considered a bully, and often
picked up fights with new children in his school. He also showed an interest in tennis,
idolising John McEnroe. To help curb his mischievous and bullying tendencies, Ajit
introduced him to cricket in 1984.
He introduced the young Sachin to Ramakant Achrekar, a famous cricket
coach and a club cricketer of repute, at Shivaji Park, Dadar. In the first meeting, the
young Sachin did not play his best.
Ajit told Achrekar that he was feeling self-conscious due to the coach
observing him, and was not displaying his natural game. Ajit requested the coach to
give him another chance at playing, but watch while hiding behind a tree. This time,
Sachin, apparently unobserved, played much better and was accepted at Achrekar's
academy. Ajit is ten years elder and is credited by Sachin for playing a pivotal role in
his life.
Achrekar was impressed with Tendulkar's talent and advised him to shift his
schooling to Sharadashram Vidyamandir (English) High School, a school at Dadar
which had a dominant cricket team and had produced many notable cricketers. Prior
to this, Tendulkar had attended the Indian Education Society's New English School in
Bandra (East). He was also coached under the guidance of Achrekar at Shivaji Park in
the mornings and evenings. Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If
he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-rupee coin on the top of the stumps,
and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the
whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin.
Tendulkar now considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized
possessions. He moved in with his aunt and uncle, who lived near Shivaji Park, during
this period, due to his hectic schedule.

Early domestic career


On 14 November 1987, Tendulkar was selected to represent Mumbai in
the Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic First-class cricket tournament, for the
198788 season. However, he was not selected for the final eleven in any of the
matches, though he was often used as a substitute fielder. He narrowly missed out on
playing alongside his idol Gavaskar, who had retired from all forms of cricket after
the 1987 Cricket World Cup. 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 debut in first-class cricket. He was handpicked to play for the team by the then
Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar after watching him easily negotiating India's best
fast bowler at the time, Kapil Dev, in the Wankhede Stadium nets, 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.

Early career
Raj Singh Dungarpur is credited for the selection of Tendulkar for the Indian
tour of Pakistan in late 1989, and that too after just one first class season. 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 by Waqar
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. In the fourth
and final Test in Sialkot, 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.
In a 20-over exhibition game in Peshawar, held in parallel with the bilateral
series, Tendulkar made 53 runs off 18 balls, including an over in which he scored 27
runs (6, 4, 0, 6, 6, 6) off leg-spinner Abdul Qadir. This was later called "one of the
best innings I have seen" by the then Indian captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Tendulkar's Wax Statue inMadame Tussauds, London

Centuries against different nations

Test

ODI

Australia

11

Sri Lanka

South Africa

England

New Zealand

West Indies

Zimbabwe

Pakistan

Bangladesh

Kenya

Namibia

Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in Tests, with 15,921 runs, as well
as in One-Day Internationals, with 18,426 runs. He is the only player to score more
than 30,000 runs in all forms of international cricket (Tests, ODIs and Twenty20
Internationals).

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

Trophy against Australia. The performances earned him respect from Australian
cricket fans and players. Similarly he has been Man of the Match 62 times in One day
International matches and Man of the Series 15 times. 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. 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. In

the

fourth Test

of

the 200809

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,[310] and also the second ever player to score 11
Test centuries agaist Australia, tying with Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70
years previously. On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score
15,000 runs in Test Cricket.
Tendulkar has consistently done well in Cricket World Cups. Tendulkar 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.[313] 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.

AWARDS:
Career and annual awards

1994: Arjuna Award recipient for achievements in cricket

1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of
the Year

1997/98: India's highest sporting honour Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

1999: Padma Shri India's fourth highest civilian award

2008: Padma Vibhushan India's second highest civilian award

2010: ICC Cricketer of the year Highest award in the ICC listings

2010: LG People's Choice Award

2014: Bharat Ratna - India's highest civilian honour

ICC World Test XI: 2009, 2010, 2011

ICC World ODI XI: 2004, 2007, 2010

Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World 1997, 2010, 2012

Awards from the media

In August 2003, he was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in


the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee
News.

In November 2006, Time magazine named him as one of the Asian Heroes.

In December 2006, he was named "Sports Person of the Year"

In June 2009, Time magazine included his test debut in "Top 10 Sporting
Moments".

In 2010, he was voted as one of the world's 100 most influential people in
"The 2010 TIME 100" poll conducted by Time magazine.

The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated
him as the "Face of New India" next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma
Gandhi.

In February 2010, he was declared "Sports Icon of the Year for 21 years" at
the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards.

Awards for individual matches and series


Tendulkar has won a record 15 Man of the Series (MoS) and 62 Man of the
Match (MoM) awards in ODI Matches. He has won a Man of the Match Award
against every one of the ICC Full Members (Test Playing Nations). The only teams
against whom he has not won an ODI Man of the Match award, are the United Arab
Emirates (2 matches played), theNetherlands (1 match) and Bermuda (1 match).

Man of the Match awards


S No

Opponent

Venue

Season

Match performance

1st Innings: 68 (84); 2 Catches

England

Old Trafford, Manchester

1990

England

Chepauk, IN Chennai

1992/93

New Zealand

Chepauk, Chennai

1995/96

Australia

Chepauk, Chennai

1997/98

Pakistan

Chepauk, Chennai

1998/99

New Zealand

Motera, Ahmedabad

1999/00

Australia

MCG, Melbourne

1999/00

South Africa

Wankhede, Mumbai

1999/00

West Indies

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

2002/03

10

Australia

SCG, Sydney

2003/04

11

Australia

Adelaide

2007/09

12

New Zealand

Hamilton

2009

13

Bangladesh

Chittagong

2010

14

Australia

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

2010

2nd Innings: 119 (174)


1st Innings: 165 (244, 16); 2150
2nd Innings: 2 Catches; 2140
1st Innings: 52 (54)
1st Innings: 4 (14); 1 Catch
2nd Innings: 155 (144, 46)
1st Innings: 0; 30101
2nd Innings: 136 (184); 71352
1st Innings: 217 (294)
2nd Innings: 15 (34); 52190
1st Innings: 116 (94, 16)
2nd Innings: 52 (44)
1st Innings: 97 (124, 26); 51103
2nd Innings: 8 (24); 1040
1st Innings: 36 (74); 70330
2nd Innings: 176 (264)
1st Innings: 241 (334)
2nd Innings: 60 (54); 60360; 1 Catch
1st Innings: 153
2nd Innings: 13
1st Innings: 160
2nd Innings: DNB
1st Innings: 105*
2nd Innings: 16
1st Innings: 215 (224, 26)
innings: 53* (54, 26)

Man of the Series awards


This table is incomplete.
#
1
2

Season
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia inIndia Test
Series)
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India inAustralia Test
Series)

Series
1997/98

Performance
446 (3 Matches, 5 Innings, 2100, 150); 13.21
481; 2 Catches

1999/00 278 Runs (6 Innings, 1100, 250); 90461

3 England in India Test Series

2001/02

4 India in Bangladesh Test Series

2007

5 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia inIndia Test 2010

307 Runs (4 Innings, 1100, 250); 173501; 4


Catches
(personal stats)
403 Runs (4 Innings, 1100, 250); (personal stats)

Series)

Total Man of the Match awards by opposition


#

Opponent

Total

Home

Away

Neutral

Australia (59 matches)

12

Bangladesh (10 matches)

England (27 matches)

New Zealand (38 matches)

Pakistan (61 matches)

South Africa (50 matches)

Sri Lanka (65 matches)

West Indies (38 matches)

Zimbabwe (34 matches)

10 Kenya (10 matches)

11 Namibia (1 match)

13

26

Total (469 ODI matches)

62

23

CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIETY:


Sachin Tendulkar has always been a gentleman, on field or off field.Besides
honoring the cricket lovers all over the world with his master strokes,he has also
contributed to the society outside the cricketing world.
Now charity is something like 'optional' for cricketers but it does show the
amount of care a person has for the society. Sachin Tendulkar has been sincerely
involved in many activities of philanthropy during his career. I will mention a few
here:
1) Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through a Mumbaibased

NGO

called

Apnalaya,

He

not

only

sponsors

for

their

education,books, notebook etc but also provides clothes and other necessities.
2)Tendulkar has helped over 300 have-nots so far through the Dr Agarwal Eye
Hospital in Chennai since October 2004 to get their cataract and eye grafting
operations done.
3)He also helped raised Rupees 1.025 crore through a request on Twitter for a cancer
charity.The appeal was posted on Twitter as "Sachin's crusade against cancer".The
event

was

organized

by

the

"Crusade

Against

Cancer

Foundation".

Sachin himself thanked the donors and presented them bats signed by himself.
Sachin Tendulkar raises Rs 10 Million for Cancer Charity
4) Tendulkar has been instrumental in the hospital taking care of total expenses for
treatment of state level sportsmen and women.
5)Sachin Tendulkar helped a telethon raise Rs7 crore for schools.He devoted all of
nine hours to the 12-hour Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon, patiently
answering questions from schoolchildren.He helped raise 7 crore, which was 2 crore
more than the target.
Humble Sachin Tendulkar helps telethon raise Rs7 crore for schools - Sport - dna
6)Sachin paid the total expense of 'hip substitute' surgical treatment of Dalbir Singh
Gill, a former cricketer who played with Sachin Tendulkar at Under-17 levels.
Dalbirs mom wrote a letter and sent all health care reviews to Sachin and within
hours he responded saying he would consider all the duty of his friend.
7)Sachin Tendulkar endorses social advertisements and various other consciousness
campaign free of charge like Polio etc.
These are just few specifically mentioned generous acts of the master.Besides doing
all these he also keeps himself busy with various other social issues, awareness
campaign, charity work from time to time.

CONCLUSION:
A number of Tendulkars critics have suggested that his below-par
performance in recent years can be attributed to a preoccupation with his business
ventures and advertising campaigns. Whether this has indeed been the case is difficult
to ascertain. However, it is clear that Sachin Tendulkar is one of the greatest batsman
in international cricket. Even in the twilight of his career, millions across the world
keenly follow Tendulkars performance on the cricket field.

QUOTATION:
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting
himself on and off the field.
Sachin Tendulkar

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