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: Sachin Tendulkar : :
Sachin
Ramesh Tendulkar: born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer
who was rated in an article by Wisden in 2002 as the second
greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman. He holds
several key batting records, including the most Test centuries,
most ODI centuries and the most runs in ODI cricket. He
is also the most capped player currently playing international
cricket. He received 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 is widely regarded as one of the
greatest batsmen ever.
Personal
life
Born in a middle class Bhalavalikar/Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins
community a sub sect of Gaud Saraswat Brahmins community
in Bombay, now known as Mumbai, Tendulkar was named after
his family's favourite music director Sachin Dev Burman.
His late father Ramesh Tendulkar was a Marathi novelist.
He was encouraged to play cricket by his elder brother,
Ajit Tendulkar. Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali Tendulkar(nee
Mehta)(born 13 feb 1971), 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 12 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, Annaben 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.
Early
days of cricket
He attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he began
his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and
mentor Ramakant Achrekar. While at school, he was involved
in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game
in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli, who also
went on to represent India. At the time, this was a record
partnership in any form of cricket, until 2006 when it was
broken by two under-13 batsmen in a match held at Hyderabad
in India.
ODI
Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:
- Most
runs (14,847 as of 20th Mar, 2007)
- Most
centuries (41)
- Played
most number of ODIs (383), (as of 20th Mar, 2007).
- Played
most number of consecutive ODI matches (185)
- Most
Man of the Match (53) awards
- Only
player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of October,
2006
- Second
most number of Fifties (77). Inzamam-ul-Haq (83) and Rahul
Dravid (77) are the only other batsmen who have scored
77 Fifties.
- Appeared
on the most grounds (90 different grounds)
- Most
ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year - 1,894
ODI runs in 1998.
- Most
Centuries by a player in one year - 9 ODI centuries in
1998
- Most
centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri
Lanka and Zimbabwe.
- 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.
-
Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000
ODI runs (as of October 2006)
- First
cricketer and fastest cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark,
11,000-run mark, 12,000-run mark, 13,000 run-mark and
14,000 run-mark in ODIs
- Only
cricketer to cross 12,000-run mark in ODIs
- Only
cricketer to cross 13,000-run mark in ODIs.
- Only
cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs.
- One
of only six players to pass 10,000 runs in ODIs (Sanath
Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Brian Lara,
and Inzamam ul Haq are the others)
- Highest
individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New
Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)
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