Personal information | ||||
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Full name | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | |||
Born | 24 April 1973 Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India |
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Nickname | Little Master, Tendlya[1] | |||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | |||
Batting style | Right-handed | |||
Bowling style | Right-arm leg spin, off spin, medium pace | |||
Role | Batsman | |||
International information | ||||
National side | India | |||
Test debut (cap 187) | 15 November 1989 v Pakistan | |||
Last Test | 03 September 2012 v New Zealand | |||
ODI debut (cap 74) | 18 December 1989 v Pakistan | |||
Last ODI | 18 March 2012 v Pakistan | |||
ODI shirt no. | 10 | |||
Only T20I | 1 December 2006 v South Africa | |||
Domestic team information | ||||
Years | Team | |||
1988 | Cricket Club of India | |||
1988–present | Mumbai | |||
1992 | Yorkshire | |||
2008–present | Mumbai Indians | |||
Career statistics | ||||
Competition | Test | ODI | FC | LA |
Matches | 190 | 463 | 292 | 550 |
Runs scored | 15,533 | 18,426 | 24,389 | 21,947 |
Batting average | 55.08 | 44.83 | 58.62 | 45.53 |
100s/50s | 51/65 | 49/96 | 78/111 | 60/113 |
Top score | 248* | 200* | 248* | 200* |
Balls bowled | 4,174 | 8,032 | 7,539 | 10,220 |
Wickets | 45 | 154 | 70 | 201 |
Bowling average | 54.33 | 44.32 | 61.95 | 42.11 |
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 | 113/– | 140/– | 181/– | 175/– |
Source: Cricinfo, 17 July 2012 |
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (
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. After a two-month break he is likely to return to test arena with the series against New Zealand commencing in late August 2012. 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. Sachin holds 12th rank in ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen as of August 2012.On 1 August 2012, Sachin Tendulkar was nominated for the ICC People's Choice award for the third time.
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