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(born , 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.
Born in
Mumbai (then Bombay) into a middle-class family, Sachin Tendulkar was named after his family's favourite music director
Sachin Dev Burman . He went to
Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he started his cricketing career under coach
Ramakant 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 against
Gujarat . At 15 years and 232 days he was the youngest to score a century on debut.
Sachin played his first international match against
Pakistan 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 his 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 was equally 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 centurion in Test cricket. The long anticipated maiden Test century came in
England 's tour in 1990 but the other scores were not remarkable. Tendulkar truly came into his own in the 1991-1992 tour of
Australia that included a brilliant century on the fast and 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 the
Border-Gavaskar Trophy against
Australia .
His first ODI century came on
September 9 ,
1994 against Australia in
Sri Lanka at
Colombo . It had taken Tendulkar 79 ODIs to score a century.
Sachin Tendulkar is 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 calendar 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 calendar 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 calendar year.
While not a regular bowler, Tendulkar has 37 wickets in 132 tests.
- Tendulkar lists this innings, played on a bouncy WACA pitch when he was only 18 years old, as his best batting performance.
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Highlights of Tendulkar's Test career include:
- Rated as the second best batsman of all time (next to Don Bradman) by Wisden Rediff.com http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2002/dec/13wisden.htm ''Tendulkar second-best ever: Wisden''. Dec 14, 2002
- Highest number of Test centuries (35), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar 's record (34) on 10 December , 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi .
- Played in the highest number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds, ahead of Azharuddin (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 Brian 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.
- Has 37 Test Wickets (14 Dec 2005)
- Second fastest player to reach 9000 runs (Brian Lara made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.)
Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:
- Played more matches than any other cricketer
- Most Man of the Match (50) awards
- Appeared on the most grounds (89 different grounds)
- Most runs (14,146 as of 15th February, 2006)
- Most centuries (39)
- Most centuries vs. Australia , South Africa , New Zealand , Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe .
- First cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark in ODIs
- Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs
- Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of February, 2006
- Over 100 Wickets (141 as of 15th February, 2006)
- Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs (as of March 17 2006 )
- Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186--- against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)
- Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar 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 calendar year.
- In 1998 he hit 9 ODI centuries, the highest by any player in an year.
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- Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to have been declared run out by a Third Umpire in 1992 against South Africa in South Africa.
- He was the first overseas cricketer to play for Yorkshire CCC in 1992.
- Oddly, Wisden does not include any innings by Tendulkar among its list of 100 greatest Test batting performances.
Tendulkar has often been criticised about his performance against India's arch-rivals, Pakistan. India-Pakistan matches are often the most tense matches and their rivalry is considered to bring out the best in players from both sides.
In the 16 Tests he has played against Pakistan, Tendulkar has scored 918 runs at an average of 39.91 compared to his overall test batting average of 55.39. His top score in a Test match against Pakistan is 194 compared to his overall top score of 248.
In the ODI version of game, Tendulkar does better against Pakistan. In the 61 matches played, Tendulkar has scored 2122 and averages 38.58 compared to his overall ODI Batting average of 44.20.
The case against Sachin Tendulkar's recent performances was summed up by
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in its 2005 edition: "Apart from a glorious, nothing-to-lose 55 against Australia on a Mumbai terrortrack, watching Tendulkar became a colder experience: after his humbling 2003, he seemed to reject his bewitching fusion of majesty and human frailty in favour of a mechanical, robotic accumulation."
The criticism must be seen against the backdrop of Tendulkar's performance through the years 1994-1999, coinciding with his physical peak, at age 20 through 25. Tendulkar was told to open the batting at ruefully joked that he was having nightmares about his Indian nemesisSportNetwork.net http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s119/st62164.htm. ''Down Memory Lane - Shane Warne's nightmare''. Nov 29, 2004.
A chronic back problem flared up when Pakistan toured India in 1999, with India losing the historic Test at took over as captain in 2000.
Tendulkar made 673 runs in 11 matches in the 2003 World Cup, helping India reach the finals. While Australia retained the trophy that it had won in 1999, Tendulkar was given the Man of the Series award.
The drawn series as India toured Australia in 2003-2004 saw Tendulkar making his mark in the last Test of the series, with a double century in
Sydney . The series was tied 1-1, with
Rahul Dravid taking the Man of the Series award.
Tennis Elbow then took its toll on Tendulkar, leaving him out of the side for the first two Tests when
Australia toured India in 2005. He played a part in the facesaving Indian victory in Mumbai, though Australia had already taken the series 2-1, with the Chennai Test drawn.
Of late, as Wisden noted, Tendulkar has not been his old aggressive self. Expert opinion is divided on whether this is due to his increasing years or the lingering after-effects of injuries over 17 years at the highest level. On 10 December, 2005, at
Feroz Shah Kotla , he delighted fans with a record-breaking 35th Test century, against the
Sri Lankans . But doubts were raised once again when he averaged a mere 21 over three Test innings when India toured Pakistan in 2006.
On
6 February ,
2006 , Tendulkar scored his 39th ODI hundred, in a match against Pakistan. Tendulkar now has 16 more ODI tons than the man who is second on the list of ODI century-makers, Sourav Ganguly. He followed with a run-a-ball 42 in the second ODI against Pakistan on February 11, 2006, and then a truly masterly 95 in hostile conditions on 13 February, 2006 in Lahore.
On http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/23/stories/2006032304402100.htm '' Playing five bowlers weakens the batting'' Mar 23, 2006
Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali Mehta, the paediatrician daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta, in 1995, some years after they were introduced by mutual friends. They have two children, Sara (born October 1997) and Arjun (born 23 September, 2000). Tendulkar sponsors 200 under-privileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. He is reluctant to speak about this, or other charitable activities, choosing to preserve the sanctity of his personal life despite the overwhelming media interest in him. Tendulkar has been seen taking his
Ferrari 360 Modena for late-night drives in Mumbai. (Gifted by
Fiat through
Michael Schumacher , the car became notorious when Tendulkar was given
Customs exemption; Fiat paid the dues to end the controversy.)
