Profile Of Sachin Tendulkar

PROFILE - SACHIN TENDULKAR

Name : Sachin Tendulkar
Full name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Nick name :Master Blaster, Little Champion, Mumbai Bomber
Height : 5' 4”
Born : 24-04-1973
Birth place: Mumbai, India
Test Debut: Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90
ODI Debut: Pakistan at Gujranwala, 2nd ODI, 1989/90                 
1st Class Debut: 1988
Major Teams: Mumbai, Yorkshire, India
Known As: Sachin Tendulkar
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break, Leg Break, Right Arm Medium,                              Leg Break Googly
Marital Status: Married
Wife Name: Anjali Tendulkar
Children: Two (One Boy and One Girl)
Girl Name: Sarah Tendulkar
Boy Name: Arjun Tendulkar 

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer. He holds many batting records, including the most Test centuries and the most one-day international centuries, and was rated in 2002 by Wisden as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman[1]. 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.

Early days

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 scored a century on debut.

International career

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 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.

Miscellaneous

* 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 performance.

Criticism and recent performance

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 collection.”

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 Auckland against New Zealand in 1994 [4]. He went on to make 82 runs off 49 balls. This was the beginning of a glorious period, culminating in the Australian tour of 1998-1999, following which Australian spinner Shane Warne ruefully joked that he was having nightmares about his Indian nemesis.

A chronic back problem flared up when Pakistan toured India in 1999, with India losing the historic Test at Chepauk despite a gritty century from Tendulkar himself. Worse was to come as Professor Ramesh Tendulkar, Sachin’s father, died in the middle of the 1999 cricket World Cup. Tendulkar, succeeding Mohammad Azharuddin as captain, then led India on a tour of Australia, where the visitors were comprehensively beaten 3-0 [6] by the newly-crowned world champions. Tendulkar resigned, and Sourav Ganguly 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 Sachin 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 19 March 2006, after scoring an unconvincing 1 off 21 balls against England in the first innings of the third Test in his home ground, Wankhede, Tendulkar was booed off the ground by a section of the crowd[7], the first time that he has ever faced such flak. While cheered on when he came for his second innings, Tendulkar was to end the three-Test series without a single half-century to his credit, and news of a shoulder operation raised more questions about his longevity. Geoffrey Boycott was brutal in his assessment: “Sachin Tendulkar is in the worst form of his career…Now that he’s going to sit out for a further two months, I don’t think he can ever come back to regain what he once had.”

Personal life

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.)

Sachin - "A long-term plan is more important so I will not be worried if it takes a couple of weeks more,"

List Of Records-Sachin Tendulkar

   1. Record number of matches played – 452 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 – 18008 runs
   7. Record number of ODI centuries – 48 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 18,000 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 – 95 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 – 14
  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 14,000 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 – 99 centuries
  51. Most Test cricket centuries – 51 Centuries
  52. First batsman to complete 31,000 International runs
  53. Most test runs – 14447 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 – 6
  68. Most Half Centuries in World Cup cricket – 19
  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 – 1968 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 1996 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.

Sachin - "I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be."

Career achievements-Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar is the most prolific run scorer in one-day internationals with 18,000 runs. With a current aggregate of 14240 Test runs, he surpassed Brian Lara's previous record tally of 11,953 runs as the highest run scorer in test matches in the second Test of Australia's 2008 tour of India in Mohali. Tendulkar described "It is definitely the biggest achievement in 19 years of my career" on the day he achieved the record.

He also holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test (51) and ODI cricket (48). Throughout his career, he has made a strong impact on Indian cricket and was, at one time, the foundation of most of the team's victories. In recognition with his impact on sports in a cricket-loving country like India, Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan and more by the Government of India. He was also chosen as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1997 and is ranked by the Wisden 100 as the second best test batsman and best ODI batsman of all time.

Tendulkar has also consistently done well in Cricket World Cups. Tendulkar was the highest run scorer of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and 1996 Cricket World Cup. 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.

Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times, and in 1998 he scored 1894 runs, easily the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for one day internationals. Tendulkar is also one of the very few players who are still playing in international cricket from the 1980s. On 24 February 2010, Tendulkar broke the previous world record for highest individual innings in an ODI, and became the first male cricketer to score a double-century in one-day cricket.

He made 200 runs and broke the previous record of anwar's 194 runs, jointly held by Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry. Sachin 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 61 times in One day International matches and Man of the Series 15 times.

Sachin - "Dressing room discussions should not come out. If it has come out it was absolutely wrong"

Style of Play-Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar is cross-dominant: He bats, bowls and throws with his right hand, but writes with his left hand. He also prepares left-handed throws at the nets on a regular basis. Cricinfo columnist Sambit Bal has described him as the "most wholesome batsman of his time". His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes. He appears to show little precedence for the slow and low wickets which are typical in India, and has scored many centuries on the hard, bouncy pitches in South Africa and Australia. 

Sachin is known for his unique punch style of hitting the ball over square. He is also renowned for his picture-perfect straight drive, often completed with no follow-through. Recently, legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar, in an article he wrote in the AFP, remarked that "it is hard to imagine any player in the history of the game who combines classical technique with raw offense like the little champion does".

Style of Sachin

Sir Donald Bradman, considered by many as the greatest batsman of all time, considered Tendulkar to have a batting style similar to his. In his biography, it is stated that "Bradman was most taken by Tendulkar's technique, concentration and shot production, and had asked his wife to have a look at Tendulkar, having felt that Tendulkar played like him. Bradman's wife, Jessie, agreed that they did appear similar."

Former Australian cricket team coach John Buchanan voiced his opinion that Tendulkar had become impressed to the short ball early in his innings because of a lack of footwork. Buchanan also believes Tendulkar has a weakness while playing left-arm pace. He was affected by a series of injuries since 2004. Since then Tendulkar's batting has tended to be less attacking. 

Explaining this change in his batting style, he has acknowledged that he is batting differently due to that fact that, firstly, no batsman can bat the same way for the entire length of a long career and, secondly, he is a senior member of the team now and thus has more constraint. During the early part of his career he was a more attacking batsman and frequently scored centuries at close to a run a ball. Ian Chappell, former Australian player, recently remarked that "Tendulkar now, is nothing like the player he was when he was a young bloke".

Tendulkar has incorporated several modern and unorthodox strokes into his repertoire in recent times, including the paddle sweep, the scoop over short fine leg and the slash to third man over the slips' heads, over the last seven or eight years. This has enabled him to remain scoring consistently in spite of the physical toll of distress and a lean period in the mid-2000s. By his own admission, he does not bat as aggressively as he did in the 90s and early 2000s, because his body has undergone changes and cannot sustain disruptive shotmaking over a long period.He is often praised for his ability to adapt to the needs of his body and yet keep scoring consistently.

While Tendulkar is not a regular bowler, he is adept at bowling medium pace, leg spin, and off spin with equal ease. He often bowls when two batsmen of the opposite team have been batting together for a long period, as he can often be a useful partnership breaker. With his bowling, he has helped secure an Indian victory on more than one occasion. He has taken 44 test match wickets and is the ninth highest wicket taker for India in ODIs.

Sachin  -  "I just want to continue the way I am going"

Early Years and Personal Life-Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar was born in Mumbai.His mother, Rajni, working in insurance, and his father, Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit supported him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings:-a brother Nitin, and sister Savita.

Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School), where he began his cricketing career under the reference 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.

When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became depleted, 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 entire session without getting dismissed, the coach would give the coin to him. Tendulkar now considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized possessions.

While at school, he supported a reputation as a child prodigy. He had become a common discussion point in Mumbai circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. His season in 1988 was extraordinary, with Sachin scoring a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend as well as team mate Vinod Kambli, who would also go on to represent India. The destructive pair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the opposition unwilling to continue the game. Tendulkar scored 326* in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament. 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.

At 14, Tendulkar was a ball boy for the India vs Zimbabwe game at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup. When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads. "It was the greatest source of supporting for me," he said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries.On 24 May 1995, Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social servicer Annabel Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born on 12 October 1997), and Arjun (born  on 24 September 1999).

Sachin's Philanthropy

             Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO 10.25 million through Sachin's crusade against Cancer foundaton associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta.

Overview of Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, born on (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 ODI cricket.He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket.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.In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against.

Tendulkar is the first and the only player in Test Cricket history to score fifty centuries, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined; he now has 99 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, 13,000 and 14,000 runs in that form of the game,having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket. 

He was also the first player to scored 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 11 Test centuries against Australia, tying with Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously.Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. He also holds the world record for playing the highest number of Test and ODI matches.

Tendulkar 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 honor. He became the first sports person and the first personality without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.He has received honorary doctorates from Mysore University and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.