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 April 1974 (age 41)[1]

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

National side India

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

1988–2013 Mumbai

1992 Yorkshire

2008–2013 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

1987–88 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 9

 Sri Lanka 9 8

 South Africa 7 5

 England 7 2

 New Zealand 4 5

 West Indies 3 4

 Zimbabwe 3 5

 Pakistan 2 5

 Bangladesh 5 1

 Kenya 0 4

 Namibia 0 1

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 2008–09 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

1 England Old Trafford, Manchester 19901st Innings: 68 (8×4); 2 Catches

2nd Innings: 119 (17×4)

2 England Chepauk, IN Chennai 1992/931st Innings: 165 (24×4, 1×6); 2–1–5–0

2nd Innings: 2 Catches; 2–1–4–0

3 New Zealand Chepauk, Chennai 1995/96 1st Innings: 52 (5×4)

4 Australia Chepauk, Chennai 1997/981st Innings: 4 (1×4); 1 Catch

2nd Innings: 155 (14×4, 4×6)

5 Pakistan Chepauk, Chennai 1998/991st Innings: 0; 3–0–10–1

2nd Innings: 136 (18×4); 7–1–35–2

6 New Zealand Motera, Ahmedabad 1999/001st Innings: 217 (29×4)

2nd Innings: 15 (3×4); 5–2–19–0

7 Australia MCG, Melbourne 1999/001st Innings: 116 (9×4, 1×6)

2nd Innings: 52 (4×4)

8 South Africa Wankhede, Mumbai 1999/001st Innings: 97 (12×4, 2×6); 5–1–10–3

2nd Innings: 8 (2×4); 1–0–4–0

9 West Indies Eden Gardens, Kolkata 2002/031st Innings: 36 (7×4); 7–0–33–0

2nd Innings: 176 (26×4)

10 Australia SCG, Sydney 2003/041st Innings: 241 (33×4)

2nd Innings: 60 (5×4); 6–0–36–0; 1 Catch

11 Australia Adelaide 2007/091st Innings: 153

2nd Innings: 13

12 New Zealand Hamilton 20091st Innings: 160

2nd Innings: DNB

13 Bangladesh Chittagong 20101st Innings: 105*

2nd Innings: 16

14 Australia M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 20101st Innings: 215 (22×4, 2×6)

innings: 53* (5×4, 2×6)

Man of the Series awards

This table is incomplete.

# Season Series Performance

1Border-Gavaskar

Trophy (Australia inIndia Test Series)1997/98

446 (3 Matches, 5 Innings, 2×100, 1×50); 13.2–

1–48–1; 2 Catches

2Border-Gavaskar

Trophy (India inAustralia Test Series)1999/00 278 Runs (6 Innings, 1×100, 2×50); 9–0–46–1

3 England in India Test Series 2001/02307 Runs (4 Innings, 1×100, 2×50); 17–3–50–1;

4 Catches

4 India in Bangladesh Test Series 2007 (personal stats)

5Border-Gavaskar

Trophy (Australia inIndia Test Series)2010

403 Runs (4 Innings, 1×100, 2×50); (personal

stats)

Total Man of the Match awards by opposition

# Opponent Total Home Away Neutral

1 Australia (59 matches) 12 6 1 5

2 Bangladesh (10 matches) 1 0 0 1

3 England (27 matches) 2 1 1 0

4 New Zealand (38 matches) 6 4 2 0

5 Pakistan (61 matches) 8 2 1 5

6 South Africa (50 matches) 8 4 1 0

7 Sri Lanka (65 matches) 6 1 2 3

8 West Indies (38 matches) 9 3 1 5

9 Zimbabwe (34 matches) 8 0 4 4

10 Kenya (10 matches) 4 2 0 2

11 Namibia (1 match) 1 0 0 1

Total (469 ODI matches) 62 23 13 26

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 Mumbai-

based 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.

Dalbir’s 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 Tendulkar’s 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 Tendulkar’s 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