Full Name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born : 24 April 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Major Teams : Mumbai, Yorkshire, India, ACC Asian XI

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Sachin_Tendulkar.ogg pronunciation (help·info) (Marathi: सचिन रमेश तेंडुलकर) (born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai) is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.[5][6][7] In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, next to Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards.[8] In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against.[9] Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven, the dream team of Donald Bradman, published in his biography.[10] He is sometimes referred to as Little Master or Master Blaster.[11][12]

Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. The first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has more than eighty international centuries.

On October 17, 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 runs in that form of the game,[13] having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.[14] 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 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years back.[15] Tendulkar has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honor.



He was born in a middle class Rajapur Saraswat Family in Mumbai.
He was named after his family's favorite Music Director - Sachin Dev Burman
His father - Late Ramesh Tendulkar was a Marathi Novelist
His elder brother saw his interest in cricket and encouraged him to pursue the game. He married Anjali Mehta. She is a pediatrician.
He has two children - A nine-year-old daughter named Sara, and a six-year-old son named Arjun.
He sponsors 200 underprivileged children through a Mumbai based NGO called Apnalaya

He attended The Sharada Ashram Vidya Mandir School
He started playing cricket here. His coach and mentor was Ramakant Achrekar. His teammate was Vinod Kambli. He had an unbroken record of 664 run partnership with Vinod. This partnership was broken in 2006 by 2 under thirteen batsmen - Shabaz and Manoj Kumar in a match in Hyderabad.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers.

He holds many batting records like the most Test centuries. The most ODI centuries and the most number of runs in One Day Internationals.
Tendulkar was a Wisden Cricketer of The Year in 1997.
In an article by Wisden in 2002, he was rated the second greatest batsman, the first being Sir Don Bradman.
H e received The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - India's highest sporting honour in 1998.
He won the Padma Shri in 1999

He was the youngest cricketer to score a century. He scored a century against Gujarat when he was just 15 years old.
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He went on to score centuries for his debut matches in the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and the Irani Trophy. He played his first International match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989, he was out after scoring just 15 runs. But then in the match in Faislabad, he made his first 50.
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This was followed by a series in New Zealand, where he was caught by John Wright for 98. John Wright later became the coach for India.
In the next tour of England, in 1990 he made his first century at Old Trafford.
He has been declared Man of The Match 11 times in test matches and Man Of The Series twice.