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Life History of Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the great Indian cricket player needs no introduction to the fans of cricket. He has a god like image in India and treated as a super hero. Even the neighboring Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh are full with thousands of fanatic followers of Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin Tendulkar, history of his life, his achievements and also he as a man are the subjects of discussion to millions of Indians. His life and records is a actually a very long saga for which a book of biography will be appropriate. But here we are going to make a short life history and biography of Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar : Early Life

Sachin’s school Sharadashram Vidyamandir played an important role for his life as a cricketer. This school had a great games teacher Sri Ramakanta Achrekar, the coach and mentor of Sachin. He was trained vigorously by Achrekar who did not falter to recognize the talent of the boy.
While playing for his school team Tendulkar got the attention of the Mumbai cricket world as a future possible star. In 1988, at the age of 15 he got the attention of all India sports media by making an unbeaten partnership of 644 runs with his friend Vinod Kambli which was a world record.
In 1988 at the age of 15 he played for the Mumbai Ronji Trophy Team. In his debut match against Gujrat he scored a century and thus made a record of scoring the first class debut century at the youngest age.

International Career

Sachin played his first test match against Pakistan in Karchi in 1989 at the age of 16. He faced one of the deadliest Pakistani bowling attack ever. He only scored 15 and was bowled out by Waqar Younis. In the second test he scored a fifty.
In his first ODI he scored a zero bowled by , well, Waqar Younis.
Tendulkar scored his first test century against England in 1990 at Old Trafford. The innings was highly praised because it was played in a very tough condition.

The Rise of the King

Tendulkar was getting success in subsequent matches. But he became famous as a hard hitter batsmen who was good for a quick 40-50 runs. It was rare to get a longer innings from him at the earlier stage.
After playing 79 matches he scored his first ODI century against New Zealand !
In the 1996 world cup he was the top run scorer. It was his time to rise. In the next series with Australia he single handedly beaten the world’s best cricket team.
In 1997 he was elected captain but was not successful.
During the 1999 world cup Tendulkar lost his father. In 2003 world cup he scored 673 runs and played a pivotal role in India’s going to final.
In 10th December 2005 he scored his record breaking 35th test century against Sri Lanka.

100th Century:

Tendulkar is the first batsmen in the game of cricket to score 100 international centuries. On 16th March,2012 at Mirpur, against Bangladesh he achieved this milestone.
51 of these centuries are scored in Test matches and 49 in ODI.

What is great about him?

Sachin is considered as one of the all-time greats in the history of cricket. He is a class player and is in the same ranks with Sir Don Bradman and Viv Richards.
Tendulkar is great because years after years he is taking the pressure of being the best batsmen of the team and performing accordingly. He have been performing in all versions of the game : Test, One Day and T20.
He can play every kind of shots effortlessly. He can play fast bowling and spin bowling equally well. He has been tried to improve his batting skills with time.

he Honors and Titles:

He got numerous awards in his career. Some of the important are listed below:
1) Padma Vibhusan, 2nd highest civilian award of India,2008
2) Padma Shri
3) Maharashtra Bhushan, the highest civilian award by the govt. of Maharashtra
4) Wisden Cricketer of the Year
5) Arjuna Award by Govt. of India
6) ICC Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for cricketer of the year.
7) Honorary Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.
8) Membership of Rajya sabha

Career Records

Sachin Tendulkar has as outstanding career record as a batsmen. He has done what no one could not.
Till date he has played 188 tests in which he has scored a whooping 15,470 runs! No one is not close enough. He has 51 test hundreds, the highest number of centuries ever made by any cricketer in international cricket.
He played 462 ODI matches in which he has scored 18,374 runs. He has 49 ODI centuries.

Career Stats of Sachin Tendulkar as a Batsman

Test
ODI
Match
194
463
Runs
15,645
18,426
Centuries
51
49
50s
66
96
Highest
248
200*
Average
54.32
44.83

Double Centuries of Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar has 6 test doubles and 1 one day international double century under his belt.
His double centuries in Test cricket is listed below
1) 217 vs N Z 1999
2) 201 vs ZIM 2000
3) 241* vs AUS 2004
4) 248* vs BD 2004
5) 203 vs SL 2010
6) 214 vs AUS 2010
ODI
1) 200* vs SA 2010

Give Your Vote

Do You Think Sachin Tendulkar is the All Time Best?

  •  Yes, he is the greatest
  •  No, He is lesser than Bradman
  •  No, he is lesser than Viv Richards
  •  No
  •  Yes but one of the all time best
  •  I don't know

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