Sachin Tendulkar : Greatest Batsman The world Have Ever Had.

Bye Bye Sachin : End Of a Golden Era of Cricket

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (Marathi: born 24 April 1973): 
Is an Indian cricketer widely considered by many to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the first player to score a double century in 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. Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India

 

Tendulkar is the only cricketer to accomplish the feat of scoring a hundred centuries in international cricket which includes 49 ODI and 51 Test centuries. He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined. 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, 14,000 and 15,000 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 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 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. On 24 February 2010, Tendulkar became the first man to score a double century (200*) in an ODI against South Africa. On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test Cricket. He also holds the world record for playing 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 honour. Tendulkar became 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. He has received honorary doctorates from University of Mysore and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.


Early Plaing Career:



Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India. He went to Shradashram Vidyamandir, a high school in Mumbai, where he began his cricketing career under his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He attended the MRF Pace Foundation during his schooldays to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who saw him training, was not much impressed and suggested that Tendulkar should focus on his batting instead. As a young boy, Tendulkar would practice for hours at the net, and was driven hard by his coach Achrekar.

While at school, his extraordinary batting skills got noticed by the sports circuit. People felt that the young boy would soon become one of the greats in cricket. In the 1988 season, he scored a century in every inning that he played. In one of the inter school matches that year, he had an unbroken 664-run partnership with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.

When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar a great Indian batsman of that time, gave him a pair of his own light pads. This touching gesture greatly encouraged the budding cricketer, who 20 years later broke Gavaskar’s world record of 34 Test centuries.
In 1988, when he was just under 16, he scored 100 not out in for Bombay against Gujrat. This was on his first-class debut. He then scored a century in his first appearance in the Deodhar and Duleep Trophy. Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar picked him up after seeing him batting Kapil Dev in the nets. That season he was Bombay’s highest run-getter. In the Irani Trophy final, He made an unbeaten century. He scored a century in all three of his Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy debuts, and became the first player to do so. He was selected for the tour of Pakistan next year.
At the very young age of 16, Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989. In this Test, he received several blows to his body at the hands of Waqar Younis, a pace bowler. He made just 15 runs. In the last test in Sialkot, he had a bloody nose from a bouncer, but he went on playing. He scored better in the subsequent games, scoring 53 runs of 18 balls at Peshawar.

Records:

Sachin Tendulkar, easily the biggest cricketer/sportsperson India has ever produced and if we consider statistics, this Mumbai born is above any batsman who has ever played the game at highest level.

Sachin Tendulkar, as of today = March 2012, has 49 century in one day international cricket and following is the list of all hundreds made by him in his career of 50 over cricket.

Highest ODI score = 200* : versus South Africa at captain Roop Singh stadium in Gwalior.. Sachin's previous best was 186 against New Zealand and leads the list of highest ODI score by a batsman.

Century against each country : Sachin Tendulkar has scored a one day century against each country. Sachin has most ODI century versus Australia = 8, followed by 7 against Srilanka and 5 each against New Zealand and Zimbabwe.

Most century at a venue = Sharjah in UAE where Sachin has scored 7 century. Followed by RPS ground in Colombo and Relaince stadium in Baroda where Tendulkar has 3 century in ODI each.

ODI career summary : Matches = 463, Innings = 452, Not out = 41, Runs = 18426, Average = 44.91, Highest score = 200*, Hundreds = 49, Fifties = 96, fours = 2016, sixes = 195.

1989	0	0	0
1990	1	0	1
1991	0	0	0
1992	3	0	3
1993	2	0	2
1994	2	3	5
1995	0	1	1
1996	2	6	8
1997	4	2	6
1998	3	9	12
1999	5	3	8
2000	2	3	5
2001	3	4	7
2002	4	2	6
2003	0	3	3
2004	3	1	4
2005	1	1	2
2006	0	2	2
2007	2	1	3
2008	4	1	5
2009	2	3	5
2010	7	1	8
2011	1	2	3
2012	0	1	1
Total	51	49	100

Philanthropy

Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. A request from Sachin on Twitter raised 1.025 crore (US$204,487.5) through Sachin's crusade against cancer for the Crusade against Cancer foundation. Sachin Tendulkar devoted all of nine hours to the 12-hour Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon on 18 September 2011 that helped raise  7 crore –  2 crore more than the target – for from the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilets for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.

As A Great Person:

Records only show his great performance as Bastman in The great Game of Cricket , Also as a person he is a great simple man with Ancient sage like Patience and Concentration to achieve his goal.Today The Game of Cricket Become Synonymous with Him worldover. He Save and play a major part to Win India in Varous Occassions. He aslo Inspire many Cricketplayer  and also  other sports-person around the world. After Recent world Cup Victory whole Indian Team Dedicated this great win to his name.

Bye Bye Sachin : End Of a Golden Era of Cricket