Thursday, July 31, 2008

He is Unstopable


                                               Personal information
Full name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Nickname: Little Master, Tendlya, Master Blaster, Maestro
Born: 24 April 1973 (age 35)
Bombay, India
Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Role Batsman
Batting style: Right-handed
Bowling style: Right-arm leg break/off break/medium

                                          International information
Test debut: (cap 187) 15 November 1989: v Pakistan
Last Test 24 January 2008: v Australia
ODI debut (cap 74) 18 December 1989: v Pakistan
Last ODI 04 March 2008: v Australia
ODI shirt no. 10

                                        Domestic team information
Years Team
1988–present Mumbai
1992 Yorkshire
2008 Mumbai Indians
                                              Career statistics
                                           (Tests,ODIs,FC,LA)
Matches: 148,417,247,504
Runs scored: 11,821:16,361:20545:19913
Batting average 54.98,44.34,59.37,45.25
100s/50s 39/49 42/89 65/95 53/107
Top score: 248* 186* 248* 186*

Balls bowled: 3742,7895,7221,10185
Wickets: 42,154,67,201
Bowling average: 51.02,43.71,61.20,41.90
5 wickets in innings: 0,2,0,2
10 wickets in match: 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling: 3/10,5/32,3/10,5/32
Catches/stumpings: 98/– 122/– 165/– 157/–

                                                                                                  As of 20.June.2008

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Living Legend


Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), often referred to as The Little Master or The Master Blaster, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman, and the greatest One-day international batsman.

He holds several highly regarded batting records and is the leading scorer of centuries in both Test cricket and One-day internationals. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so. He is the most prolific run scorer in ODIs by a margin of over 4000 runs and has scored the most runs in international cricket as a whole. He crossed 16,000 runs in ODIs on February 5, 2008 while playing against Sri Lanka in Brisbane, Australia.

At 13, Tendulkar was the best player in the Mumbai schools competition for Under 19s. At 14, Tendulkar made his first-class debut for the Mumbai cricket team and scored a century on debut. He made his international test debut in 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at age 16. He scored his first international century at just 17.

He is the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour and the only cricketer and one of the first sportsmen (along with Vishwanathan Anand) to receive the Padma Vibhushan (2008), the second highest civilian honour of India. He is the most sponsored player in world cricket and has a huge fan following even amongst foreign audiences. Tendulkar has made numerous commercial ventures including opening a chain ofrestaurants in India.

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