Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international
cricket
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er who
captained the Indian national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the
history of cricket
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. He is the all time highest run-scorer in both
ODI and
Test Format with more than 18000 runs and 15000 runs respectively in total. He also holds the record for receiving most
Man-of-the-match
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awards in International Cricket with all forms combined. He is sometimes referred to as "''The God of Cricket''" in India. A film with that name was released in 2021.
Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his
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* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
...
debut on 15 November 1989 against
Pakistan
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in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
domestically and
India
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internationally for close to twenty-four years. In 2002, halfway through his career, ''Wisden'' ranked him the second-greatest Test batsman of all time, behind
Don Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has bee ...
, and the second-greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind
Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (born 7 March 1952) is an Antiguan retired cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Batting generally at number three in a dominant West Indies side, Richards is widely ...
. Later in his career, Tendulkar was part of the Indian team that won the
2011 Cricket World Cup
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, his first win in six
World Cup
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appearances for India. He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at the
2003 edition of the tournament.
Tendulkar received the
Arjuna Award
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in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievements, the
Khel Ratna Award
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, India's highest sporting honour, in 1997, and the
Padma Shri
Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...
and
Padma Vibhushan
The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service" ...
awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, two of India's highest civilian awards.
A few hours after the end of his last match in November 2013, the
Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the
Bharat Ratna
The Bharat Ratna (; ''Jewel of India'') is the highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "exceptional service/performance of the highest orde ...
, India's highest civilian award. As of 2021, he is the youngest recipient to date and was the first sportsperson to receive the award.
In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the
Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
, the upper house of the
Parliament of India
The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...
.
In 2010, ''
Time
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'' magazine included Tendulkar in its annual
Time 100
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list as one of the most influential people in the world.Tendulkar was awarded the
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
The Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy is a cricket trophy is awarded annually by the International Cricket Council to the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year. It is considered to be the most prestigious of the annual ICC Awards and was first awarded in 20 ...
for cricketer of the year at the
2010 ICC Awards.
Having retired from ODI cricket in 2012,
he retired from all forms of cricket in November 2013 after playing his
200th Test match.
Tendulkar played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.
In 2013, Tendulkar was included in an
all-time Test World XI compiled in 2013 to mark the 150th anniversary of ''
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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'', and he was the only specialist batsman of the post–World War II era, along with
Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (born 7 March 1952) is an Antiguan retired cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Batting generally at number three in a dominant West Indies side, Richards is widely ...
, to get featured in the team. In 2019 he was inducted into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
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.
Early years
Tendulkar was born at Nirmal Nursing Home in
Dadar
Dadar ( ̪aːd̪əɾ is a densely populated residential and shopping neighbourhood in Mumbai. It is also a prominent railway and bus service hub with local and national connectivity.
Dadar holds the distinction of being Mumbai’s first planne ...
,
Bombay
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on 24 April 1973
to a
Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin
Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins (RSB) are a Hindu community of India.
Rajapur are classified under the Other Backward Class(OBC) list by the Government of Kerala and the Government of Karnataka.
See also
*Gaudapada
*Govinda Bhagavatpada
Govinda ...
Maharastrian family His father,
Ramesh Tendulkar
Ramesh Tendulkar (18 December 1930 – 19 May 1999) was an Indian Marathi poet and novelist. He is the father of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.
Early life and education
Tendulkar was born in Alibag, Maharashtra. He used to live at Thikrul Naka, ...
, was a well-known
Marathi
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*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
*
* ...
novelist & poet and his mother, Rajni, worked in the insurance industry. Ramesh named Tendulkar after his favourite music director,
Sachin Dev Burman Sachin may refer to:
* Sachin (given name), an Indian given name, including a list of people with the name
** Sachin (actor) (born 1957), Indian actor and filmmaker
** Sachin Tendulkar (born 1973), Indian cricketer
Films
* ''Sachein'', a 2005 Tam ...
. Tendulkar has three elder siblings: two half-brothers Nitin and Ajit, and a half-sister Savita. They were Ramesh's children by his first wife, who died after the birth of her third child.
Tendulkar spent his formative years in the ''Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society'' in
Bandra (East). As a young boy, Tendulkar was considered a
bully
Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively wikt:domination, dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception (by the bully or by ot ...
, and often picked up fights with new children in his school.
Tendulkar also showed an interest in
tennis
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that was on an equal level to cricket. He particularly idolised American player
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. He was known for his shot-making and volleying skills, his rivalries with Björn Borg and Jimmy Connors, and his confrontational on-court beha ...
, and emulated his hero by growing his hair long at the age of 7 or 8 years. At this time, Tendulkar also regularly wore tennis
wristbands
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and
headbands, and carried a
tennis racquet
A racket, or racquet, is a sports implement used for striking a ball or shuttlecock in games such as squash, tennis, racquetball, badminton and padel. In the strictest sense a racket consists of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a ...
with him as a sign of his love for tennis.
To help curb his mischievous, bullying tendencies, Ajit Tendulkar, his elder brother introduced Sachin to cricket in 1984. He introduced him to
Ramakant Achrekar
Ramakant Vitthal Achrekar (1932 – 2 January 2019) was an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai. He was most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most notably Sachin Tendulkar. He had also been a selector for the ...
, a famous cricket coach and a club cricketer of repute, at
Shivaji Park
Shivaji Park, officially Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park, is a public park situated in Dadar, Mumbai. It is the largest park in the island city. Similar but bigger in size to Azad Maidan and August Kranti Maidan (formerly Gowalia Tank Grounds ...
, Dadar. In the first meeting, the Sachin did not able to play his best game. Ajit told Achrekar that he was feeling self-conscious due to the coach observing him, and was not displaying his natural game. Ajit requested the coach to give him another chance at playing, but watch while hiding behind a tree. This time, Sachin, apparently unobserved, played much better and was accepted at Achrekar's academy. Ajit Tendulkar also had experience of playing cricket in Bombay's
Kanga Cricket League
The Kanga Cricket League (officially the Dr. H. D. Kanga Memorial Cricket League) is a cricket competition in Mumbai, India, inaugurated in 1948. It is named after Hormasji Kanga, who played 43 First class cricket matches as an all-rounder, a ...
.
Achrekar was impressed with Tendulkar's talent and advised him to shift his schooling to ''Sharadashram Vidyamandir'' (English) High School,
a school at Dadar which had a dominant cricket team and had produced many notable cricketers. Prior to this, Tendulkar had attended the Indian Education Society's New English School in Bandra (East).
He was also coached under the guidance of Achrekar at Shivaji Park in the mornings and evenings. Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-
rupee
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India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, B ...
coin on the top of the
stumps
In cricket, the stumps are the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket. '' Stumping'' or ''being stumped'' is a method of dismissing a batsman.
The umpire ''calling stumps'' means the play is over for the day.
Part of ...
, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Tendulkar now considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized possessions. He moved in with his aunt and uncle, who lived near Shivaji Park, during this period, due to his hectic schedule.
![Anjali-Sachin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Anjali-Sachin.jpg)
Meanwhile, at school, he developed a reputation as a
child prodigy
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. He had become a common conversation point in local cricketing circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. Sachin consistently featured in the school team in the ''Matunga Gujarati Seva Mandal'' (MGSM) Shield. Besides school cricket, he also played club cricket, initially representing John Bright Cricket Club in Bombay's premier club cricket tournament, the
Kanga Cricket League
The Kanga Cricket League (officially the Dr. H. D. Kanga Memorial Cricket League) is a cricket competition in Mumbai, India, inaugurated in 1948. It is named after Hormasji Kanga, who played 43 First class cricket matches as an all-rounder, a ...
,
and later went on to play for the
Cricket Club of India
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(CCI).
In 1987, at the age of 14, he attended the
MRF Pace Foundation
MRF Pace Foundation is a coaching clinic for training fast bowlers from all over the world. Based in Chennai, India, it was founded in 1987 by MRF Limited, with the help of former Australian pace spearhead Dennis Lillee. Through this program, y ...
in Madras (now
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
) to train as a
fast bowler
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, but the Australian fast bowler
Dennis Lillee
Dennis Keith Lillee, (born 18 July 1949) is Australian retired cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". , who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead. On 20 January 1987, he also turned out as substitute for
Imran Khan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...
's side in an exhibition game at Brabourne Stadium in Bombay, to mark the golden jubilee of
Cricket Club of India
Cricket Club of India (CCI) is a cricket club in India. It is located on Dinsha Wacha Road, in Churchgate of Mumbai, India. It was conceived as India's counterpart to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). It is considered one of the most prestigious ...
. A couple of months later, former Indian batsman
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: uniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ ; born 10 July 1949), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the grea ...
gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads and consoled him to not get disheartened for not getting the
Bombay Cricket Association's "Best Junior Cricketer Award" (He was 14 years that time). "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," Tendulkar said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries. Sachin served as a
ball boy
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in the
1987 Cricket World Cup
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when India played against England in the semifinal in Bombay. In his season in 1988, Tendulkar scored a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run
partnership
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in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game against St. Xavier's High School in 1988 with his friend and teammate
Vinod Kambli
Vinod Kambli (; born 18 January 1972) is a former Indian international Cricketer, who played for India as a left-handed middle order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa. Kambli became the first cricketer in cricket history ...
, who would also go on to represent India. Tendulkar scored 326 (not out) in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament. This was a record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006, when it was broken by two under-13 batsmen in a match held at
Hyderabad
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in India.
Early domestic career
On 14 November 1987, the 14-year-old Tendulkar was selected to represent
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
in the
Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy (also known as Mastercard Ranji Trophy for sponsorship reasons) is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between multiple teams representing regional and state cricket associations. Board of Control for Cr ...
, India's premier domestic
First-class cricket
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tournament, for the 1987–88 season. However, he was not selected for the final eleven in any of the matches, though he was often used as a substitute fielder.
He narrowly missed out on playing alongside his idol Gavaskar, who had retired from all forms of cricket after the
1987 Cricket World Cup
The 1987 Cricket World Cup (officially known as the Reliance Cup 1987 for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth Cricket World Cup. It was held from 8 October to 8 November 1987 in India and Pakistan – the first such tournament to be held outsid ...
.
A year later, on 11 December 1988, aged 15 years and 232 days, Tendulkar made his debut for Bombay against
Gujarat
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at
Wankhede stadium and scored 100 not out in that match, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on debut in first-class cricket. He was selected to play for the team by the then Bombay captain
Dilip Vengsarkar
Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar (born 6 April 1956) is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indi ...
after watching him easily playing India's best fast bowler at the time,
Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj (Pronunciation: əpiːl deːʋ born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricketer. He was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, and was named by ''Wisden'' as the Indian Cricketer of the Centu ...
, in the
Wankhede Stadium's Cricket practice nets,
where the
Indian team had come to play against the touring
New Zealand team. He followed this by scoring a century in his first
Deodhar and
Duleep Trophies, which are also Indian domestic tournaments.
Tendulkar finished the
1988–89 Ranji Trophy season as Bombay's highest run-scorer. He scored 583 runs at an average of 67.77, and was the eighth-highest run-scorer overall. In 1995–96 Irani trophy he captained Mumbai against Rest of India team.
He also made an unbeaten century in the
Irani Trophy
Irani Trophy or Irani Cup also known as the Mastercard Irani Trophy due to sponsorship reasons, is a first-class cricket tournament organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). . It is played annually between the winners of ...
match against
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
at the start of the 1989–90 season, playing for the Rest of India. Sachin was picked for a young Indian team to tour England twice, under the Star Cricket Club banner in 1988 and 1989. In the famous 1990–91 Ranji Trophy final, in which
Haryana
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...
defeated Bombay by two runs after leading in the first innings, Tendulkar's 96 from 75 balls was a key to giving Bombay a chance of victory as it attempted to chase 355 from only 70 overs on the final day.
In the final of 1995 Ranji trophy, Tendulkar scored 140 and 139 versus
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
at Wankhede playing as a captain. Against Haydrabad 53, 128 in 2000, 105, 43 against
Bengal
Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...
in 2007 are the innings he played for Mumbai in the final of Ranji trophy at Wankhede stadium.
His first double century (204*) was for Mumbai while playing against the visiting Australian team at the
Brabourne Stadium
The Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai in Western India, built in the British Bombay era. It was the home ground of the Mumbai men's and women's cricket teams. It can accommodate 50,000 people for sports matches. The ground is owne ...
in 1998.
He is the only player to score a century on debut in all three of his domestic first-class tournaments (the Ranji, Irani, and Duleep Trophies). Another double century was an innings of 233* against
Tamil Nadu
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in the semi-finals of the 2000
Ranji Trophy
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, which he regards as one of the best innings of his career.
Tendulkar was part of 5 Ranji trophy finals in which Mumbai won 4.
Yorkshire
In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas-born player to represent
Yorkshire
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, which prior to Tendulkar joining the team, never selected players even from outside Yorkshire.
Selected for Yorkshire as a replacement for the injured
Australian
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Australia
* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
** European Australians
** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists
** Aboriginal Au ...
fast bowler
Craig McDermott
Craig John McDermott (born 14 April 1965) is a former Australian cricketer. Between 1984 and 1996 he played 71 Tests for Australia, taking 291 wickets. Following the end of his playing career, he was the bowling coach for the Australian team fo ...
, Tendulkar played 16 first-class matches for the county and scored 1070 runs at an average of 46.52.
International career
Early career
Raj Singh Dungarpur
Raj Singh Dungarpur (19 December 1935 – 12 September 2009) was a president of Board of Control for Cricket in India. He played first class cricket for 16 years and was in and out of the Board of Control for more than 20 years. He was a sel ...
is credited for the selection of Tendulkar for the
Indian tour of Pakistan in late 1989, after one first class season. The Indian selection committee had shown interest in selecting Tendulkar for the
tour of the West Indies held earlier that year, but eventually did not select him, as they did not want him to be exposed to the dominant fast bowlers of the West Indies so early in his career. Tendulkar made his
Test
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* Test (assessment), an educational assessment intended to measure the respondents' knowledge or other abilities
Arts and entertainment
* ''Test'' (2013 film), an American film
* ''Test'' (2014 film), ...
debut against Pakistan in
Karachi in November 1989 aged 16 years and 205 days. He made 15 runs, being bowled by
Waqar Younis
Waqar Younis Maitla HI ( Punjabi, ur, ; born 16 November 1971) is a Pakistani cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer who captained Pakistan national cricket team. A right-arm fast bowler, Waqar Younis is regarded as one of the grea ...
, who also made his debut in that match, but was noted for how he handled numerous blows to his body at the hands of the Pakistani pace attack. In the fourth and final Test in
Sialkot
Sialkot ( ur, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of Sialkot District and the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu (the winter capital of Indian administered Jammu and Ka ...
, he was hit on the nose by a bouncer bowled by Younis, but he declined medical assistance and continued to bat even as he gushed blood from it.
In a 20-over exhibition game in
Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
, held in parallel with the bilateral series, Tendulkar made 53 runs off 18 balls, including an over in which he scored 27 runs (6, 4, 0, 6, 6, 6) off leg-spinner
Abdul Qadir
Abd al-Qadir or Abdulkadir ( ar, عبد القادر) is a male Muslim given name. It is formed from the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''al-'' and '' Qadir''. The name means "servant of the powerful", ''Al-Qādir'' being one of the names of God in the ...
. This was later called "one of the best innings I have seen" by the then Indian captain
Krishnamachari Srikkanth
Krishnamachari Srikkanth (born 21 December 1959), also known as Cheeka, is a former captain of the Indian cricket team and former chairman of the selection committee. He played a crucial part in India's team batting line up as opener espec ...
. In all, he scored 215 runs at an average of 35.83 in the Test series, and was dismissed without scoring a run in the only
One Day International
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(ODI) he played. Thus Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest player to debut for India in
Tests
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at the age of 16 years and 205 days and also the youngest player to debut for India in
ODIs at the age of 16 years and 238 days.
The series was followed by a tour of New Zealand in which he scored 117 runs at an average of 29.25 in Tests including an innings of 88 in the second Test. He was dismissed without scoring in one of the two one-day games he played, and scored 36 in the other. On his next tour, a summer tour to England of 1990, on 14 August, he became the second youngest cricketer to score a Test century as he made 119 not out in the second Test at
Old Trafford
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in Manchester, an innings which contributed to a draw and saved India from certain defeat in the match.
Wisden
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described his innings as "a disciplined display of immense maturity" and also wrote:
He looked the embodiment of India's famous opener, Gavaskar, and indeed was wearing a pair of his pads. While he displayed a full repertoire of strokes in compiling his maiden Test hundred, most remarkable were his off-side shots from the back foot. Though only 5ft 5in tall, he was still able to control without difficulty short deliveries from the English pacemen.
Tendulkar further enhanced his reputation as a future great during the 1991–92 tour of Australia held before the
1992 Cricket World Cup
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, that included an unbeaten 148 in the third Test at
Sydney
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, making him the youngest batsman to score a century in Australia. He then scored 114 on a fast, bouncing pitch in the final Test at
Perth
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against a pace attack comprising
Merv Hughes
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,
Bruce Reid
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Domestic career
Reid played for Western Australi ...
and
Craig McDermott
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. Hughes commented to
Allan Border
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at the time that "This little prick's going to get more runs than you, AB."
Rise through the ranks
Tendulkar's performance through the years 1994–1999 coincided with his physical peak, in his early twenties. He opened the batting at
Auckland
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against New Zealand in 1994, making 82 runs off 49 balls. He scored his first ODI century on 9 September 1994 against Australia in
Sri Lanka
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at
Colombo
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. It took him 78 ODIs to score his first century.
![Sachin at the other end](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Sachin_at_the_other_end.jpg)
Tendulkar's rise continued when he was the leading run scorer at the
1996 World Cup, scoring two centuries. He was the only Indian batsman to perform well in the semi-final against Sri Lanka. Tendulkar fell amid a batting collapse and the match referee,
Clive Lloyd
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, awarded Sri Lanka the match after the crowd began rioting and throwing litter onto the field.
After the World Cup, in the same year against Pakistan at
Sharjah
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Sharjah is the capital o ...
, Indian captain
Mohammed Azharuddin
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was going through a lean patch. Tendulkar and
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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both made centuries to set a then record partnership for the second wicket. After getting out, Tendulkar found Azharuddin in two minds about whether he should bat. Tendulkar convinced Azharuddin to bat and Azharuddin subsequently unleashed 24 runs off one over. India went on to win that match. It enabled India to post a score in excess of 300 runs for the first time in an ODI.
Desert storm
Sachin scored 143 (131) runs in Sharjah against the mighty Australian team in the
1998 Coca-Cola cup, including 5 sixes in an inning against
Shane Warne
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,
Damien Fleming
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and
Michael Kasprowicz
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. Per
ICC's poll, it is the best one-day inning from Tendulkar. This inning of Tendulkar's is know as "Desert storm" due to this match being interrupted by a
desert storm
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.
This was the beginning of a period at the top of the batting world, culminating in the Australian tour of India in early 1998, with Tendulkar scoring three consecutive centuries. The focus was on the clash between Tendulkar, the world's most dominating batsman and
Shane Warne
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, the world's leading spinner, both at the peak of their careers, clashing in a Test series. In the lead-up to the series, Tendulkar simulated scenarios in the nets with
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (born 31 December 1965), popularly known as "''Siva''" and LS, is a former Indian cricketer and current cricket commentator. During his playing career, he was a right arm leg-spinner. Sivaramakrishnan began his commenta ...
, the former India leg spinner, donning the role of Warne. In their tour opener, Australia faced the then Ranji Champions Mumbai at the
Brabourne Stadium
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in a three-day first class match. Tendulkar made an unbeaten 204 as Shane Warne conceded 111 runs in 16 overs and Australia lost the match within three days. He also had a role with the ball in the five-match ODI series in India following the Tests, including a five wicket haul in an ODI in
Kochi
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. Set 310 runs to win, Australia were cruising at 203 for 3 in the 31st over when Tendulkar turned the match for India, taking the wickets of
Michael Bevan
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,
Steve Waugh
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,
Darren Lehmann
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,
Tom Moody
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and
Damien Martyn
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for 32 runs in 10 overs. The Test match success was followed by two consecutive centuries in April 1998 in a Triangular cricket
tournament
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in Sharjah—the first in a must-win game to take India to the finals and then again in the finals, both against Australia. These twin knocks were also known as the
Desert Storm
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innings. Following the series, Warne ruefully joked that he was having nightmares about his Indian nemesis.
Tendulkar's contribution in the ICC 1998 quarterfinal at
Dhaka
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paved the way for India's entry into the semifinals, when he took four Australian wickets after scoring 141 runs in 128 balls.
The inaugural
Asian Test Championship
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took place in
February and March 1999, involving India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In the first match, between India and Pakistan in Eden Gardens, Tendulkar was run out for nine after colliding with Pakistan bowler
Shoaib Akhtar
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Ak ...
. Around 100,000 people came to support India during the initial four days of the tournament, breaking a 63-year-old record for aggregate Test attendance record. The crowd's reaction to Tendulkar's dismissal was to throw objects at Akhtar, and the players were taken off the field. The match resumed after Tendulkar and the
president of the ICC appealed to the crowd; however, further rioting meant that the match was finished in front of a crowd of 200 people. Tendulkar scored his 19th Test century in the second Test and the match resulted in a draw with Sri Lanka. India did not progress to the final, which was won by Pakistan, and refused to participate the next time the championship was held due to increasing political tensions between India and Pakistan.
In the Test against Pakistan at
Chepauk
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in 1999, the first of a two-Test series, Sachin scored 136 in the fourth innings with India chasing 271 for victory. However, he was out when India needed 17 more runs to win, triggering a batting collapse, and India lost the match by 12 runs. The worst was yet to come as Professor Ramesh Tendulkar, Sachin's father, died in the middle of the
1999 Cricket World Cup
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. Tendulkar flew back to India to attend the final rituals of his father, missing the match against
Zimbabwe
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. However, he returned to the World Cup scoring a century (140 not out of 101 balls) in his very next match against
Kenya
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in Bristol. He dedicated this century to his father.
Captaincy
Tendulkar's two tenures as captain of the Indian cricket team were not very successful. When Tendulkar took over as captain in 1996, it was with huge hopes and expectations. However, by 1997 the team was performing poorly.
Azharuddin was credited with saying ''"Nahin jeetega! Chote ki naseeb main jeet nahin hai!"'', which translates into: "He won't win! It's not in the small one's destiny!".
Tendulkar, succeeding Azharuddin as captain for his second term, led India on a tour of Australia, where the visitors were beaten 3–0 by the newly crowned world champions.
Tendulkar, however, won the player of the series award
as well as player of the match in one of the games. After another Test series defeat, this time by a 0–2 margin at home against South Africa, Tendulkar resigned, and
Sourav Ganguly
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took over as captain in 2000.
During the Indian team's 2007 tour of England, the desire of
Rahul Dravid
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to resign from the captaincy became known. Then
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(BCCI)
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Sharad Pawar
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offered the captaincy to Tendulkar, who instead recommended
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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to take over the reins. Pawar later revealed this conversation, crediting Tendulkar for first forwarding the name of Dhoni, who since achieved much success as captain.
2000 fixing matter
In the year of 2000 a huge match fixing scandal happened in Indian cricket. After the incident Sachin Tendulkar and other 3 senior cricketers played important role ensured that the players banned by BCCI and whose performance was dubious were never picked for the Indian team again. Sachin and co. did this work quietly without doing public statements.
The continued calls for Tendulkar to be made captain, the offer of captaincy in 2007 and his rejection of the offer, there are numerous articles relating to where his faults were in captaincy.
Mike Denness incident
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between
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and
South Africa
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at
St George's Park,
Port Elizabeth
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, match referee
Mike Denness
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Scotland did not have a representative international team at the time of Denness' career, so he could only play ...
fined four Indian players for excessive appealing, as well as fined the Indian captain
Sourav Ganguly
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for not controlling his team. Tendulkar was given a suspended ban of one game by Denness in light of alleged
ball tampering
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. Television cameras picked up images that suggested Tendulkar may have been involved in cleaning the seam of the cricket ball. This can, under some conditions, amount to altering the condition of the ball. Denness found Sachin Tendulkar guilty of ball tampering charges and handed him a one Test match ban. The incident escalated to include sports journalists accusing Denness of racism, and led to Denness being barred from entering the venue of the third Test match. The ICC revoked the status of the match as a Test as the teams rejected the appointed referee. The charges against Tendulkar and Sehwag's ban for excessive appealing triggered a massive backlash from the Indian public.
Injuries and decline amid surpassing Bradman's haul
Sachin Tendulkar continued performing well in Test cricket in 2001 and 2002, with some pivotal performances with both bat and ball. Tendulkar took three wickets on the final day of the famous
Kolkata Test against Australia in 2001, including the key wickets of
Matthew Hayden
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and
Adam Gilchrist
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, who were centurions in the previous Test. His three wickets haul helped India win the match. In the five-match ODI series that followed, he took his 100th wicket in ODIs, claiming the wicket of then Australian captain
Steve Waugh
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in the final match at the
Fatorda Stadium
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in
Goa
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.
In the 2002 series in the West Indies, Tendulkar started well, scoring 79 in the first Test. In the second Test at Port of Spain, Sachin Tendulkar scored 117 in the first innings, his 29th Test century in his 93rd Test match, to equal Sir
Donald Bradman
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's record of 29 Test hundreds. He was gifted a Ferrari 360 Modena by Fiat through
Michael Schumacher
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for achieving this feat.
Decline phase of career
Then, in a hitherto unprecedented sequence, he scored 0, 0, 8 and 0 in the next four innings. He returned to form in the last Test scoring 41 and 86, one half century. However, India lost the series. In this period, in the third Test match against England in August 2002, Sachin scored his 30th Test century to surpass Bradman's haul, in his 99th Test match.
2003 Cricket World Cup
Tendulkar made 673 runs in 11 matches in the
2003 Cricket World Cup
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, helping India reach the final. While Australia retained the trophy that they had won in 1999, Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award.
He continued to score heavily in ODI cricket that year, with two hundreds in a tri-series involving New Zealand and Australia. As a part-time bowler, he dismissed an exhausted centurion, Matthew Hayden in the tri-series final.
2003 tour of Australia
The drawn series as India toured Australia in 2003–04 saw Tendulkar making his mark in the last Test of the series, scoring 241 not out from 436 balls with 33 fours at a strike rate of 55.27 in
Sydney
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, putting India in a virtually unbeatable position. He spent 613 minutes at the crease during the innings. He followed this up with an unbeaten 60 in the second innings of the Test. Prior to this Test match, he had had an unusually horrible run of form, failing in all six innings in the preceding three Tests. It was no aberration that 2003 was his worst year in Test cricket, with an average of 17.00 and just one fifty.
Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 194 against Pakistan at
Multan
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in the following series. Indian captain Rahul Dravid declared before Tendulkar reached 200; had he done so it would have been the fourth time he had passed the landmark in Tests. Tendulkar said that he was disappointed and that the declaration had taken him by surprise. Many former cricketers commented that Dravid's declaration was in bad taste. After the match, which India won, Dravid said that the matter had been discussed internally and put to rest.
A
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injury then took its toll on Tendulkar, leaving him out of the side for most of the year, coming back only for the last two Tests when
Australia
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toured India in 2004. He played a part in India's victory in Mumbai in that series with a fast 55, though Australia took the series 2–1.
On 10 December 2005 at
Feroz Shah Kotla
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, Tendulkar scored his record-breaking 35th Test century, against the
Sri Lankans
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. After this, Tendulkar endured the longest spell of his career without a Test century: 17 innings elapsed before he scored 101 against Bangladesh in May 2007.
Tendulkar scored his 39th ODI hundred on 6 February 2006 in a match against Pakistan. He followed with a 42 in the second One-Day International against Pakistan on 11 February 2006, and then a 95 in hostile, seaming conditions on 13 February 2006 in Lahore, which set up an Indian victory. On 19 March 2006, after being dismissed for only one run against
England
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in the first innings of the third Test in his home ground,
Wankhede, Tendulkar was booed off the ground by a section of the crowd, the first time that he had ever faced such flak. Tendulkar ended the three-Test series without a half-century to his credit, and the need for a shoulder operation raised more questions about his longevity.
Tendulkar's comeback came in the DLF cup in
Malaysia
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and he was the only Indian batsman to shine. In his comeback match, against West Indies on 14 September 2006, Tendulkar responded to his critics who believed that his career was inexorably sliding with his 40th ODI century. Though he scored 141 not out, West Indies won the rain-affected match by the
D/L method.
2007 Cricket World Cup failure
During the preparation for the
2007 World Cup, Tendulkar's attitude was criticized by Indian team coach
Greg Chappell
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. Chappell reportedly felt that Tendulkar would be more useful down the order. In contrast, the latter felt that he would be better off opening the innings, the role he had played for most of his career.
Chappell also believed that Tendulkar's repeated failures were hurting the team's chances. In a rare show of emotion, Tendulkar hit out at the comments attributed to Chappell by pointing out that no coach had ever suggested his attitude towards cricket was incorrect. On 7 April 2007, the Board of Control for Cricket in India issued a notice to Tendulkar asking for an explanation for his comments made to the media. Chappell subsequently resigned as coach but said that this affair had no bearing on his decision and that he and Tendulkar were on good terms.
At the World Cup in the West Indies, Tendulkar and the Indian cricket team led by Rahul Dravid had a dismal campaign. Tendulkar, who was pushed to bat lower down the order had scores of 7 against
Bangladesh
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. As a result, former Australian captain
Ian Chappell
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, brother of Greg, called for Tendulkar to retire in his newspaper column.
After the loss against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Tendulkar suffered depression and thought to retire from cricket, but Viv Richards and Ajit Tendulkar stopped him. According to Sachin, 23 March 2007, the loss against minnows Bangladesh is one of the worst days of his cricketing career.
Return to old form and consistency
In the subsequent Test series against Bangladesh, Tendulkar returned to his opening slot and was chosen as the Man of the Series. He continued by scoring 99 and 93 in the first two matches of the Future Cup against South Africa. During the second match, he also became the first to score 15,000 runs in ODIs. He was the leading run scorer and was adjudged the Man of the Series.
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On the second day of the Nottingham Test on 28 July 2007, Tendulkar became the third cricketer to complete 11,000 Test runs.
In the subsequent one-day series against England, Tendulkar was the leading run scorer from India with an average of 53.42. In the ODI Series against Australia in October 2007 Tendulkar was the leading Indian run scorer with 278 runs.
Tendulkar was dismissed five times in 2007 between 90 and 100, including three times at 99, leading some to suggestions that he struggles to cope with nervousness in this phase of his innings. Tendulkar has got out 27 times in the 90s during his international career. In a five-ODI series against Pakistan, he was caught by
Kamran Akmal
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...
off the bowling of
Umar Gul
Umar Gul (Urdu: , ps, عمر گل) (born 15 October 1982 ) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who is the current bowling coach of Quetta Gladiators.
He played all three formats of the game as a right arm fast medium bowler for ...
for 99 in the second match at
Mohali
Mohali, officially known as Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, is a planned city in the Mohali district in Punjab (India), Punjab, India, which is an administrative and a commercial hub lying south-west of Chandigarh. It is the headquarters of the Moh ...
, and in the fourth match of that series, he got out in the 90s for a second time, scoring 97 before dragging a delivery from Gul on to his stumps.
2007–08 tour of Australia
In 2008 India's tour of Australia, at Sydney Test
Andrew Symonds
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accused
Harbhajan Singh
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for
racist
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comments, Symonds accused Harbhajan Singh for calling him a monkey. This matter is dubbed as "Monkeygate" by Australian media. Singh was suspended by the match ICC referee after hearing. Sachin Tendulkar was standing on non-striker's end, at that moment, when Symonds claimed racist comments happened. In the hearing of match referee, Sachin said to the ICC match referee
Mike Procter
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, he can not say exactly what "Bhajji" (Singh) said to Symonds but in next hearing Tendulkar changed his stance and said to match referee that Harbhajan did not said Symonds "Monkey" but said, "''Teri Maa Ki...''" in Hindi it means, 'Your mother's...' . On this matter In his autobiography "Playing my way" Sachin Tendulkar wrote, "''Teri Maa Ki...'', It is an expression we often use in
North India
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to vent our anger and to me it all part of the game". The matter became big in following days and nearly led to cancellation this tour.
Referee suspended Singh for 3 Test but after appeal and Sachin's statement in hearing the suspension was overturned. Andrew Symonds later said in ''Monkeygate- Ten years on'', a documentary that was based on this matter, "When I began to play for Mumbai Indians, IPL franchise, once Harbhajan Singh came to me and apologised." Symonds said in the documentary, "We go to a very wealthy man's place for a barbecue, drinks, and dinner one night, and the whole team's there, and he had guests there, and Harbhajan said 'mate, can I speak to you for a minute out in the garden out the front?' He goes, 'look, I've got to say sorry to you for what I did to you in Sydney. I apologise."
Herald sun
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quoted, Tendulkar is still not "forgiven" by some Aussie players for changing his account on Monkeygate, dubbed Sachin as Indian "
demigod
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".
In the
Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2007–08, Tendulkar showed exceptional form, becoming the leading run scorer with "493 runs in four Tests, despite consistently failing in the second innings. Sachin scored 62 runs in the first innings of the first Test at the
MCG
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hem ...
in
Melbourne
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, but could not prevent a heavy 337-run win for Australia. In the
controversial New Years' Test at Sydney, Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 154, even though India lost the Test. This was his third century at the
SCG and his 38th Test century overall, earning him an average of 326 at the ground at the time of completing the innings. In the third Test at the
WACA cricket ground in
Perth
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, Sachin was instrumental in India's first innings score of 330, scoring a well-compiled 71. India went on to record a historic triumph at the WACA, ending Australia's run of 16 consecutive wins. In the fourth Test at the
Adelaide Oval
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, which ended in a draw, he scored 153 in the first innings, being involved in a crucial 126-run stand with
V.V.S. Laxman for the fifth wicket to lead India to a score of 282 for 5 from 156 for 4. He secured the Man of the Match award.
In the One-Day International Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series involving India, Sri Lanka and Australia, Tendulkar became the only batsman to complete 16,000 runs in ODIs. He achieved this feat against Sri Lanka on 5 February 2008 at the
Gabba in
Brisbane
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. He started the series wth scores of 10, 35, 44 and 32. His form dipped a bit in the middle of the tournament, but Tendulkar came back strongly in India's must-win game against Sri Lanka at the
Bellerive Oval
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in
Hobart
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, scoring 63 off 54 balls. He finished the series with a match winning 117 not out off 120 balls in the first final, and 91 runs in the second final. Both the knocks were nominated to be the ODI Batting Performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo.
Home series against South Africa
South Africa toured in
March and April 2008 for a three-Test series. Tendulkar scored a five-ball duck in his only innings of the series; he sustained a groin strain in the match and as a result was forced not only to miss the second and third Tests, but also the tri-series involving Bangladesh, the
2008 Asia Cup
The 2008 Asia Cup (also called Star Cricket Asia Cup) was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament, held in Pakistan from 24 June to 6 July 2008, at two venues. The six teams which took part in the tournament were India, Pakistan, Sri Lan ...
, and the first half of the inaugural season of the
IPL
The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 franchise cricket league of India. It is annually contested by ten teams based out of seven Indian cities and three Indian states. The leagu ...
.
Sri Lanka series
Before the
Indian cricket team's tour of Sri Lanka in July 2008, Tendulkar needed 177 runs to go past Brian Lara's record of Test 11,953 runs. However, he failed in all six innings, scoring a total of 95 runs. India lost the series and his average of 15.83 was his worst in a Test series with at least three matches.
Return to form and breaking Brian Lara's record
In the following ODI series against Sri Lanka, Tendulkar was sidelined due to injury. However, during the following Australia tour of India, he returned to fitness and form, scoring 13 and 49 in the first Test before making 88 in the first innings of the second Test, breaking the record for most Test runs held by Brian Lara. He also reached the 12,000-run mark when he was on 61. He described the achievement as the biggest in 19 years of his career on the day he achieved the record. He made a fifty in the third Test and 109 in the fourth, as India won the series 2–0 and regained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
ODI and Test series against England
Tendulkar was again out of the first three ODIs of a seven-match ODI series at home against England due to an injury, but he made 11 in the fourth ODI and 50 in the fifth, before the series was called off due to the
2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
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, the scoreline being 5–0 to India.
England returned for a two-match Test series in December 2008, and the first Test, which was originally planned to be held in Mumbai, was shifted to Chennai following the terror attacks.
Chasing 387 for victory in that match, Tendulkar scored 103 not out and shared a 163-run unbroken fifth wicket partnership with
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh (born 12 December 1981) is a former Indian international cricketer who played in all formats of the game. He is an all-rounder who batted left-handed in the middle order and bowled slow left-arm orthodox . He has won 7 Player of ...
. This was his third century in the fourth innings of a Test match, and the first which resulted in a win. He dedicated this century to the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks. The knock was nominated to be one of the Test Batting Performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo. Tendulkar scored poorly in the second Test at
Mohali
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, which ended in a draw. India won the series 1–0.
2009–2010
In early 2009, India revisited Sri Lanka for five ODIs, as the Pakistan series had been cancelled due to the security situation in Pakistan and the attacks in Mumbai. Tendulkar scored 5, 6 and 7 in the first three matches, being dismissed
leg before wicket
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in all of them, and did not play in the remaining two matches.
India's next assignment was an away series against New Zealand, consisting of three Tests and five ODIs. In the ODI series, Tendulkar made an unbeaten 163 in the third match before stomach cramps forced him to end his innings. India made 392, won the match and eventually won the series 3–1. Tendulkar made 160 in the first Test, his 42nd Test century, and India won. He made 49 and 64 in the second Test and 62 and 9 in the third, in which play was halted on the last day due to rain with India needing only two wickets to win. India won the series 1–0.
Tendulkar rested himself for the ODI tour of West Indies, but was back for the Compaq Cup Tri Series between India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand in early September 2009. He made 46 and 27 in the league matches before notching up 138 in the final, as India made 319 and won by 46 runs. This was Tendulkar's sixth century in a final of an ODI tournament and his third consecutive score of over 50 in such finals.
Tendulkar played only one innings in the ICC Champions trophy in South Africa, scoring 8 against Pakistan as India lost. The next match against Australia was abandoned due to rain and he was out with a stomach infection in the third match against the West Indies, as India were eliminated.
Australia returned for a seven-match ODI series in India in October, and Tendulkar made 14, 4, 32 and 40 in the first four games. In the fifth match, with the series tied at 2–2, Australia amassed 350/4 in 50 overs. Tendulkar made his 45th ODI hundred, a 175 off 141 balls. Just when it seemed that he would steer India to the large victory target, he tried to scoop a slower delivery from debutant bowler
Clint McKay
Clinton James McKay (born 22 February 1983) is an Australian former international cricketer. He was a member of the Victoria cricket team, Victoria side and has represented Australian cricket team, Australia at One Day International (ODI) and T ...
over short fine leg only to be caught by
Nathan Hauritz
Nathan Michael Hauritz (; born 18 October 1981) is a former Australian cricketer who has represented Australia in Tests, One-dayers and Twenty20 Internationals. He is mainly noted for his off spin bowling.
After representing Australia at Und ...
, with India needing 19 runs to win with 18 balls and four wickets left. The Indian tail collapsed, and Australia won the match by three runs.
During this match, Tendulkar also became the first player to reach 17,000 ODI runs,
and achieved his personal best against Australia, as well as the third-highest score in a defeat. The knock was voted as the Best ODI Batting Performance of 2009 by ESPNCricinfo.
In the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka in 2009–10, Tendulkar scored 69, 43, 96 not out and 8 in the first four matches, with the fifth match being abandoned as the pitch was deemed unfit and potentially dangerous. India won the series 3–1. In the Test series that followed, he scored a 100 not out in the first Test, which was drawn, and 40 and 53 in the second and third Tests, respectively, as India clinched innings victories in both the Tests, to win the series 2–0.
Sachin rested himself for the ODI tri-series in Bangladesh in 2010, but played in the subsequent Test series. He made 105 not out and 16 in the first Test, and 143 in the second. India won both the Tests.
In the
two-Test Series against South Africa, Tendulkar made 7 and 100 in the first Test. He then scored 106 in the first innings of the second Test, which was his 47th hundred in Test cricket. It was also his fourth hundred in successive Tests, and he was the fourth Indian to achieve this feat. In the second match of the subsequent ODI series, Tendulkar scored 200 not out, becoming the world's first batsman to score a double century in ODI cricket and breaking the previous highest score of 194 jointly held by Pakistan's
Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's
Charles Coventry.
2011 Cricket World Cup and after
From February to April, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka hosted the
2011 World Cup. Amassing 482 runs at an average of 53.55 including two centuries, Tendulkar was India's leading run-scorer for the tournament; only
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan ( si, තිලකරත්න මුදියන්සේලාගේ ඩිල්ෂාන්; born 14 October 1976), commonly known as TM Dilshan () is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of th ...
of Sri Lanka scored more runs in the 2011 tournament, and was named in the ICC "Team of the Tournament". India defeated Sri Lanka in the final. Shortly after the victory, Tendulkar commented that "Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. ... I couldn't control my tears of joy."
India were due to tour the West Indies in June, although Tendulkar chose not to participate. He returned to the squad in July for India's
tour of England. Throughout the tour there was much hype in the media about whether Tendulkar would reach his 100th century in international cricket (Test and ODIs combined). However, his highest score in the Tests was 91; Tendulkar averaged 34.12 in the series as England won 4–0 as they deposed India as the No. 1 ranked Test side.
The injury Tendulkar sustained to his right foot in 2001 flared up and as a result he was ruled out of the ODI series that followed.
Tendulkar created another record on 8 November 2011 when he became the first cricketer to score 15,000 runs in Test cricket, during the opening Test match against the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. For his performances in 2011, he was named in the World Test XI by the ICC.
Ian Chappell
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was not happy with Sachin's performance after India's tour of Australia. He says that Sachin's quest for his 100th hundred has proved to be a hurdle for the entire team and has hampered their performance on the Tour of Australia. Former India World Cup winning captain and all-rounder Kapil Dev has also voiced his opinion that Sachin should have retired from ODI's after the World Cup. Former Australian fast bowler, Geoff Lawson, has said that Sachin has the right to decide when to quit although he adds that Tendulkar should not delay it for too long.
The selection committee of BCCI expectedly included Sachin in the national Test squad for the upcoming series against New Zealand commencing in August 2012.
100th international century
Tendulkar scored his 100th international hundred on 16 March 2012, at Mirpur against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup. He became the first person in history to achieve this feat, which was also his first ODI hundred against Bangladesh. He said "It's been a tough phase for me ... I was not thinking about the milestone, the media started all this; wherever I went, the restaurant, room service, everyone was talking about the 100th hundred. Nobody talked about my 99 hundreds. It became mentally tough for me because nobody talked about my 99 hundreds." Despite Tendulkar's century, India failed to win the match against Bangladesh, losing by 5 wickets.
Return to Ranji Trophy
After being bowled out in three similar instances against New Zealand and hitting a slump in form, Tendulkar returned to the Ranji Trophy to get back some form ahead of the England Series at home, in a match for Mumbai against Railways on 2 November 2012. This was his first Ranji Trophy match since 2009. He scored 137 off 136 balls, with 21 fours and 3 sixes, to take his team to 344 for 4 at stumps on day one.
However, because of a poor form in the first two Tests in the series against England, and India being humiliated in the second match of that series by 10 wickets on 26 November 2012, some people have started to question his place in the Indian team. A report by ''
The Hindustan Times
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It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...
'' said that Tendulkar had a discussion with the national chief selector
Sandeep Patil
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, in which he said that he would leave it to the selectors to decide on his future as he is not getting any runs. This speculation, however, was later considered to be false.
Then he decided to play in the knockout stage of the
2012–13 Ranji Trophy. He scored 108 in the quarter final against
Baroda
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before being bowled by
Murtuja Vahora, where Sachin was involved in a 234-run partnership with opener
Wasim Jaffer
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(150) for the 3rd wicket at
Wankhede Stadium.
Mumbai
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eventually piled on 645/9 and won on 1st innings lead. In the semi final against
Services
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at Palam A Ground, with
Mumbai
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reeling at 23/3, Sachin scored 56 from 75 balls and had an 81-run 4th wicket partnership with
Abhishek Nayar
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(70), and Mumbai eventually won on 1st innings lead after the match went into the sixth day due to rain delays. In the final against
Saurashtra, he was run out for 22 following a misunderstanding with
Wasim Jaffer
Wasim Jaffer (born 16 February 1978) is an Indian retired professional cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off-break bowler. He is currently the highest run-scorer in Ranji Trophy cricket, surpassing Am ...
. Mumbai eventually won the Ranji Trophy 2012–13.
He also played in the
Irani Trophy
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for Mumbai, where he scored 140* against Rest of India and helped
Mumbai
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to score 409 in reply to Rest of India's 526. This was also his 81st hundred in first-class cricket, equalling
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: uniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ ; born 10 July 1949), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the grea ...
's Indian record for most first-class hundreds.
Retirement
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Following poor performance in the 2012 series against England, Tendulkar announced his retirement from
One Day International
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s on 23 December 2012, while noting that he will be available for Test cricket.
In response to the news, former India captain
Sourav Ganguly
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noted that Tendulkar could have played the up-coming series against
Pakistan
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, while
Anil Kumble
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said it would be "tough to see an Indian (ODI) team list without Tendulkar's name in it", and Javagal Srinath mentioned that Tendulkar "changed the way ODIs were played right from the time he opened in New Zealand in 1994".
After playing a
Twenty20 International
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in 2006 against South Africa, he said that he would not play the format again. He announced his retirement from the IPL after his team,
Mumbai Indians
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, beat Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on 26 May to win the Indian Premier League 2013.
He retired from Twenty20 cricket and limited-overs cricket, after playing the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 in September–October 2013 in India for Mumbai Indians.
On 10 October 2013 Tendulkar announced that he would retire from all cricket after the West Indian cricket team in India in 2013–14, two-Test series against West Indies in November.
At his request, the BCCI arranged that the two matches be played at Kolkata and Mumbai so that the farewell would happen at his home ground. He scored 74 runs in his last Test innings against West Indies, thus failing short by 79 runs to complete 16,000 runs in Test cricket, the next man to bat after him was the future captain Virat Kohli.
The Cricket Association of Bengal and the Mumbai Cricket Association organised events to mark his retirement from the sport. Various national and international figures from cricket, politics, Bollywood and other fields spoke about him in a day-long ''Salaam Sachin Conclave'' organised by ''India Today''.
Post-Retirement
In July 2014, he captained the MCC side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.
In December 2014, he was announced ambassador of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 event. It is his second term as he has already held the ambassador of the previous ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. He got the ambassador position of the ICC Cricket world cup in consecutive terms of the cricket world cup (2011 and 2015).
Exhibition matches
Tendulkar organised exhibition cricket matches in partnership with former Aussie cricketer
Shane Warne
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. Cricket All-Stars held in USA in baseball stadiums and had retired players, some of them was Sourav Ganguly,
Shoaib Akhtar
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Ak ...
, Wasim Akram.
He captained the India legends team to victory in the 2020–21 Road Safety World Series and was the leading run scorer for the Indian team in the tournament.
He acted as a coach for the Ponting XI during The Big Appeal. During the innings break, he batted an over against Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland at Perry's request.
Indian Premier League
Tendulkar was made the Icon player and captain for his home side, the
Mumbai Indians
Mumbai Indians are a franchise cricket team based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that competes in the Indian Premier League and is the most successful team of the tournament with 5 titles. Founded in 2008, the team is owned by India's biggest conglo ...
in the inaugural Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition in 2008. As an icon player, he was signed for a sum of US$1,121,250, 15% more than the second-highest paid player in the team, Sanath Jayasuriya.
In 2010 edition of Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians reached the final of the tournament. Tendulkar made 618 runs in 14 innings during the tournament, breaking Shaun Marsh's record of most runs in an IPL season. He was declared player of the tournament for his performance during the season. He also won Best Batsman and Best Captain awards at 2010 Indian Premier League#IPL Awards 2010, 2010 IPL Awards ceremony. Sachin has scored more than 500 runs in IPL in two different seasons as a captain.
Sachin Tendulkar captained Mumbai Indians in 4 league matches of second edition of the league. He scored 68 in the first match and 48 against Guyana. But Mumbai Indians failed to qualify for semifinals after losing the initial two matches. Tendulkar scored 135 runs.
In the 2011 IPL, against Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Tendulkar scored his maiden Twenty20 hundred. He scored 100 not out off 66 balls. In 2013, Sachin retired from Indian Premier League and in 2014 he was appointed as the Mumbai Indian's "Team Icon". His last match for the team was the
final of the 2013 Champions League Twenty20, 2013 Champions League, where he scored 14 runs in an Indians victory. In his 78 matches in the IPL, Tendulkar scored a total of 2,334 runs; at the time of his retirement he was the fifth-highest run-scorer in the competition's history. Mumbai Indians retired his number 10 jersey as a tribute to Tendulkar.
Playing style
![Tendulkar shot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Tendulkar_shot.JPG)
Tendulkar is Cross-dominance, cross-dominant: he bats, bowls and throws with his right hand, but writes with his left hand. He also practices left-handed throws at the nets on a regular basis. Cricinfo columnist Sambit Bal has described him as the "most wholesome batsman of his time".
His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limiting unnecessary movements and flourishes. He appears to show little preference for the slow and low wickets which are typical in India, and has scored many centuries on the hard, bouncy pitches in South Africa and Australia.
He is known for his unique punch style of hitting the ball over square. He is also renowned for his picture-perfect straight drive, often completed with no follow-through. The straight drive is often said to be his favourite shot. In 2008,
Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Marathi pronunciation: uniːl ɡaːʋəskəɾ ; born 10 July 1949), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented India and Bombay from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar is acknowledged as one of the grea ...
, in an article he wrote in the AFP, remarked that "it is hard to imagine any player in the history of the game who combines classical technique with raw aggression like the little champion does". Equipment-wise, his bats tend to be heavier than the average batman.
Sir Donald Bradman, considered by many as the greatest batsman of all time, considered Tendulkar to have a batting style similar to his. In his biography, it is stated that "Bradman was most taken by Tendulkar's technique, compactness and shot production, and had asked his wife to have a look at Tendulkar, having felt that Tendulkar played like him. Bradman's wife, Jessie, agreed that they did appear similar."
![Master Blaster at work](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Master_Blaster_at_work.jpg)
Former Australian cricket team coach John Buchanan (cricketer, born 1953), John Buchanan voiced his opinion that Tendulkar had become susceptible to the short ball early in his innings because of a lack of footwork.
Buchanan also believes Tendulkar has a weakness while playing left-arm pace.
He was affected by a series of injuries since 2004. Since then Tendulkar's batting has tended to be less attacking. Explaining this change in his batting style, he has acknowledged that he is batting differently because, firstly, no batsman can bat the same way for the entire length of a long career and, secondly, he is a senior member of the team now and thus has more responsibility. During the early part of his career, he was a more attacking batsman and frequently scored centuries at close to a run a ball.
Ian Chappell
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, former Australian player, remarked in 2007 that "Tendulkar now, is nothing like the player he was when he was a young bloke".
Tendulkar has incorporated several modern and unorthodox strokes into his repertoire, including the paddle sweep, the scoop over short fine leg and the slash to third man over the slips' heads, especially in his later years. He is often praised for his ability to adapt to the needs of his body and yet keep scoring consistently.
![Sachin Tendulkar bowling right-arm leg-spin 26 January 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Sachin_Tendulkar_bowling_right-arm_leg-spin_26_January_2008.JPG)
While Tendulkar was not a regular bowler, he could bowl medium pace, leg spin, and off spin. He often bowled when two batsmen of the opposite team had been batting together for a long period, as he could often be a useful partnership breaker. With his bowling, he helped secure an Indian victory on more than one occasion. He took 201 international wickets—46 in Tests, 154 in ODIs where he is India's twelfth-highest wicket taker, and one wicket in
Twenty20 International
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...
s.
Reception
![A Cricket fan at the Chepauk stadium, Chennai](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/A_Cricket_fan_at_the_Chepauk_stadium%2C_Chennai.jpg)
Tendulkar's consistent performances earned him a fan following across the globe, including amongst Australian crowds, where Tendulkar has consistently scored centuries.
One of the most popular sayings by his fans is "Cricket is my religion and Sachin is my God".
''Cricinfo'' mentions in his profile that "... Tendulkar remains, by a distance, the most worshipped cricketer in the world."
During the Australian tour of India in 1998
Matthew Hayden
Matthew Lawrence Hayden (born 29 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer. His career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed batting order (cricket)#opening batsman, opening batsm ...
said "I have seen God. He bats at no. 4 in India in Tests." However, on God, Tendulkar himself is reported to have said "I am not God of cricket. I make mistakes, God doesn't." Tendulkar made a special appearance in the Bollywood film Stumped (film), ''Stumped'' in 2003, appearing as himself.
On 24 February 2010, ''Cricinfo'' site could not handle the heavy traffic experienced after Tendulkar broke the record for the highest individual male score in a
One Day International
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match against South Africa, also becoming the first player to score 200* in the history of ODIs as more than 5 million fans visited the website at a time.
There have been many instances when Tendulkar's fans have undertaken extreme activities over his dismissal in the game. As reported by many Indian newspapers, a young man Suicide by hanging, hanged himself due to distress over Tendulkar's failure to reach his 100th century.
At home in Mumbai, Tendulkar's fan following has caused him to lead a different lifestyle.
Ian Chappell
Ian Michael Chappell (born 26 September 1943) is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation. Born ...
has said that he would be unable to cope with the lifestyle Tendulkar was forced to lead, having to "wear a wig and go out and watch a movie only at night".
In an interview with Tim Sheridan, Tendulkar admitted that he sometimes went for quiet drives in the streets of Mumbai late at night when he would be able to enjoy some peace and silence. Tendulkar has had a presence in the popular social networking site Twitter with the user name since May 2010.
Post-playing career
Cricket Advisory Committee
In 2015 he was appointed by BCCI into the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC). He was one of three in the committee along VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly. He resigned from this job after allegations of conflict of interest on him. CAC was formed by BCCI to appoint a head coach for Indian cricket team. On 23 June 2016, CAC appointed Anil Kumble as national team's head coach.
In 2019, Tendulkar made his debut as a Cricket commentator during 2019 Cricket World Cup, 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Indian Premier League
In the 2021 Indian Premier League, 2021 IPL, season he worked for Mumbai Indians team as a mentor.
Legacy
![Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Wax Statue in Madame Tussauds London](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Sachin_Ramesh_Tendulkar_Wax_Statue_in_Madame_Tussauds_London.jpg)
Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in Tests, with 15,921 runs, as well as in One-Day Internationals, with 18,426 runs.
He is the only player to score more than 30,000 runs in all forms of international cricket (Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals).
He is the 16th player and the first Indian to score 50,000 runs in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket (First-class cricket, First-class, List A cricket, List A and Twenty20 cricket, Twenty20). He achieved this feat on 5 October 2013, during a 2013 Champions League Twenty20, Champions League Twenty20 match for his
IPL
The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 franchise cricket league of India. It is annually contested by ten teams based out of seven Indian cities and three Indian states. The leagu ...
team
Mumbai Indians
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against Trinidad and Tobago cricket team, Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2012, Tendulkar was ranked number 8 in Outlook (Indian magazine), Outlook India's poll of the Greatest Indian.
He also holds the record of the highest number of centuries in both Tests (51) and ODIs (49) as well as in Tests and ODIs combined (100). On 16 March 2012, Tendulkar scored his 100th international hundred. It came against
Bangladesh
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in the league matches of 2012 Asia Cup, Asia Cup 2012. 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. He also holds the world record for playing the highest number of Test matches (200) and ODI matches (463).
Tendulkar has been part of most wins by an Indian in both Test cricket with 72 wins and
ODIs with 234 wins and is third in the world in ODI victories after Ricky Ponting (262 wins), Mahela Jayawardene (241 wins).
Tendulkar has scored over 1,000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times, and in 1998 he scored 1,894 runs, the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for One-Day Internationals.
He is the first male cricketer to score a double-century in one-day cricket.
He has been Man of the Match 13 times in Test matches and Man of the Series four times, out of them twice in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against
Australia
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. The performances earned him respect from Australian cricket fans and players.
Similarly he has been Man of the Match 62 times in One day International matches and Man of the Series 15 times.
He became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 runs in Test cricket, having also been the third batsman and the first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in that form of the game. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1,000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test of the Australian cricket team in India in 2008–09, 2008–09 Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia at Nagpur on 6 November 2008, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's
Allan Border
Allan Robert Border (born 27 July 1955) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test ma ...
to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most 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. On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test Cricket.
Tendulkar has consistently done well in Cricket World Cups. He was the highest run scorer of the 1996 Cricket World Cup with a total of 523 runs and also of the
2003 Cricket World Cup
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with 673 runs. After his century against England during group stages of
2011 Cricket World Cup
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, he became the player to hit most centuries in Cricket World Cups with six centuries and the first player to score 2000 runs in World Cup cricket.
Tendulkar was also one half of the most prolific Test cricket partnership to date, alongside
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Sharad Dravid (; born 11 January 1973) is an Indian cricket coach and former captain of the Indian national team, currently serving as its head coach. Prior to his appointment to the senior men's national team, Dravid was the Head of ...
. Batting together, they scored 6920 runs for India at a partnership average of over fifty runs.
National honours
India
* List of Arjuna Award recipients (1990–1999), 1994 –
Arjuna Award
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, by the Government of India in recognition of his outstanding achievement in sports.
* 1997–98 –
Khel Ratna Award
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, India's highest honour given for achievement in sports.
* List of Padma Shri award recipients (1990–1999), 1999 –
Padma Shri
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, India's fourth-highest civilian award.
* 2001 – Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra state's highest civilian award.
* List of Padma Vibhushan award recipients, 2008 –
Padma Vibhushan
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, India's second-highest civilian award.
* 2014 –
Bharat Ratna
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, India's highest civilian award.
Australia
* 2012 –
![AUS Order of Australia (civil) BAR](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/AUS_Order_of_Australia_%28civil%29_BAR.svg)
Honorary Member of the Order of Australia, given by the Australian government.
Other honours
* 1997 – Wisden Cricketer of the Year.
*1998, 2010 – Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World.
*2001 – Mumbai Cricket Association renamed one of
Wankhede Stadium's stand after Sachin Tendulkar.
*2002 – In commemorating Tendulkar's feat of equalling
Don Bradman
Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has bee ...
's 29 centuries in Test Cricket, automotive company Ferrari invited him to its paddock in Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone on the eve of the 2002 British Grand Prix, British Grand Prix on 23 July, to receive a Ferrari 360 Modena from the F1 world champion
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (; ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis ...
.
* 2003 – Player of the tournament in
2003 Cricket World Cup
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.
* 2004, 2007, 2010 – ICC ODI Team of the Year, ICC World ODI XI.
*2006–07, 2009–10 – Polly Umrigar Award for International cricketer of the year
* 2009, 2010, 2011 – ICC Test Team of the Year, ICC World Test XI.
* 2010 – Outstanding Achievement in Sport and the People's Choice Award at The Asian Awards in London.
* 2010 –
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
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for cricketer of the year.
* 2010 – ICC Awards, LG People's Choice Award.
* 2010 – Made an Honorary Group captain (India), Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.
* 2011 – Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year award.
* 2012 – Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award.
* 2013 – India Post released a stamp of Tendulkar and he became the second Indian after Mother Teresa to have such stamp released in their lifetime.
* 2014 – ESPNCricinfo Cricketer of the Generation.
* 2017 – The Asian Awards Fellowship Award at the 7th Asian Awards.
*2019 – Inducted into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame recognises "the achievements of the legends of the game from cricket's long and illustrious history". It was launched by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in Dubai on 2 January 2009, in association with the Fed ...
*2020 – Laureus World Sports Award for Best Sporting Moment (2000–2020)
Personal life
Family
On 24 May 1995, Tendulkar married Anjali Mehta (b. 1967), a paediatrician of Gujarati people, Gujarati origin, whom he had first met in 1990; his wife became a full time housewife following their marriage.
They have a daughter Sara and a son Arjun Tendulkar, Arjun. Tendulkar lives in a bungalow in the Mumbai suburb of Bandra.
Beliefs
Tendulkar is a Hindu. He is a devotee of the deity Ganesha and of the guru Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, whom he visited for the first time in 1997. The death of Sai Baba on Tendulkar's 38th birthday caused him to cancel his celebrations.
Business interests
Tendulkar's popularity has led him to be a pioneer in India on cricket business dealings when he signed a record sports management deal with WorldTel in 1995, the value of the deal being over five years. His next contract with WorldTel in 2001 was valued at over five years. In 2006, he signed a contract with Saatchi and Saatchi's ICONIX valued at over three years.
Tendulkar has opened two restaurants: ''Tendulkar's'' (Colaba, Mumbai) and ''Sachin's'' (Mulund, Mumbai) and Bangalore. Tendulkar owns these restaurants in partnership with Sanjay Narang of Mars Restaurants.
Tendulkar co-owned the Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League Association football, Football in association with PVP Ventures owned by Prasad V. Potluri till 2017. The team has been named as Kerala Blasters FC, Kerala Blasters after his nickname "Master Blaster".
He also jointly owns the badminton team Bengaluru Blasters which participates in the Premier Badminton League.
In 2013, Tendulkar was listed at 51st position in Forbes' list of world's highest-paid athletes, with his total earnings estimated to be US$22 million. In October 2013, the net worth of Tendulkar was estimated at US$160 million by Wealth-X, making him India's wealthiest cricket player.
He started Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Sports Management Pvt Ltd', sports management organisation. It manages all social and commercial work of Tendulkar.
Rajya Sabha nomination
In April 2012, Tendulkar accepted the
Rajya Sabha
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nomination proposed by the President of India and became the first active sportsperson and cricketer to have been nominated as Member of Parliament (MP).
He took the oath of office on 4 June. He refused to take the bungalow allotted to him in New Delhi calling it "waste of taxpayers' money" as he resides in Mumbai. He met with controversy over his absence in Rajya Sabha proceedings. In 2019, Tendulkar contributed Rs. 22 lakh from his Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) funds allotted to him during his stint as Rajya Sabha MP for the renovation of a Children's Park in East Bandra. In the past six years as a Rajya Sabha MP, Sachin had drawn nearly Rs 90 lakh in salaries and other monthly allowances. He donated this entire salary and allowances to the Prime Minister Relief Fund. The PMO has also issued a letter of acknowledgement which states: "Prime Minister acknowledges this thoughtful gesture and conveys his gratitude. These contributions will be of immense help in providing assistance to the persons in distress.
In 2016, when Tendulkar was a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Rajya Sabha MP, on the request letter for fund from a school, ''Swarnamoyee Sasmal Shiksha Niketan'' of West Midnapore, West Bengal, Tendulkar released 70-76 lakh rupees from his Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme fund to the school.
As a member of parliament in Rajya Sabha, Tendulkar was one of the worst performers. he remained absent from the parliament's discussions sessions most of the times and was one of the least present MP among nominated MPs. He faced criticism for absence from house. Fellow MPs from various parties as well as nominated MPs criticized Tendulkar for absence and asked question, 'why the nominated MPs Tendulkar and Rekha not coming to the parliament?'. According to the Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times's report dated 24 July 2014, he didn't spend a penny of his 15 crore MP Local Area Development Scheme fund for public welfare. In defence Tendulkar said that he was absent because of personal issues. Tendulkar was nominated in April 2013, in first year he did not attended a single day of budget or winter session, attendance on monsoon session was 5%. In his career as MP he asked 22 questions and did not participated in any debates. He was part of the Standing Committee on Information Technology. Overall his attendance in his six years term was merely 8%.
Role in public awareness and philanthropy
Tendulkar has been associated with UNICEF. He lent his support to spread AIDS awareness World AIDS Day. In 2003, he worked for UNICEF's initiative to spread awareness about Polio, Polio disease and promote Polio prevention in India. Since 2008 he is involved in UNICEF's initiative to create and promote hygiene and sanitation.
He was one of the first nine celebrities appointed by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spread awareness regarding cleanliness and make Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission) a people's movement. The cricketer accepted the nomination and posted a video of Street sweeper, sweeping a street with his friends in Mumbai. In 2017, he helped sanitation workers to clean the Bandra Fort to contribute in ''Swachhata Hi Seva'' (cleanliness is service) campaign of clean India movement and to spread awareness and encourage people for this Clean India movement. In 2019, he was awarded the most effective ''Swachhta'' () Ambassador by India Today Group, India Today Group's fifth edition of ''Safaigiri'' () awards for using his popularity and fame to promote cleanliness and ensure the country achieves its goal of a ''Swachh Bharat''. On the occasion of the World Nature Conservation Day 2020, the cricketer took to twitter to spread message about the preservation of biodiversity.
Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. A request by him on Twitter raised through Sachin's crusade against cancer for the Crusade Against Cancer Foundation. Sachin Tendulkar spent nine hours on the 12-hour "Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon" on 18 September 2011 that helped raise to more than the target—for the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilets for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.
8 February 2020, he played in a charity match organised in Australia to raise fund for 2020 Australian bushfires, Australian bushfire victims. The match named as 'Bushfire Cricket Bash'.
In March 2020, he donated 25 lakh rupees to the Prime Minister Relief Fund and 25 lakh rupees for Chief Minister Relief Fund of Maharashtra in the initial months of COVID-19 spread. He was one of the first few sportspersons of India who came forward to donate money to relieve the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
On 15 June 2021, on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day, he donated blood in a hospital and used social media to appeal people to donate blood. He urged everyone who can to donate blood to do so, and he asked to spread awareness for blood donation.
On 29 April 2021, during second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, he donated 1 crore rupees to buy oxygen concentrator devices. He donated to a Mission Oxygen group, who have set up a fundraising initiative to import Oxygen concentrator devices and donate it to the hospitals all over the India.
In November 2021, he donated retinal cameras to a hospital in Assam of Northeast India. This device can be used to diagnose Retinopathy of prematurity.
Amid COVID-19 outbreak he provided undisclosed amount to 4000 underprivileged peoples including children's of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation schools.
* Sachin Tendulkar Foundation – Established for bringing, work together with the people, institutions and resources for social change. The foundation claim it work for underprivileged children.
Autobiography
Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography, ''Playing It My Way'', was released on 6 November 2014. It was listed in the 2016 Limca Book of Records for breaking the record for adult hardback pre-publication orders, with 150,289. It was written by a ghostwriter Boria Majumdar.
Pandora Papers
In October 2021, Sachin Tendulkar was List of people named in the Pandora Papers, named in the Pandora Papers leak. His representatives, however, stated that Tendulkar's investments have been legitimate and fully taxed.
Bibliography
Books
Sachin Tendulkar has been the subject of various books. The following is the listing of books focused on Tendulkar's career:
* ''Playing It My Way'' an autobiography book in English.
* ''Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman'' by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Books, Penguin Global.
* ''Sachin Tendulkar Opus''
* ''The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar'' by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Books, Penguin Global.
* ''Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography'' by Vaibhav Purandare. Publisher: Roli Books.
* ''Sachin Tendulkar – Masterful'' by Peter Murray, Ashish Shukla. Publisher: Rupa Publications.
* ''If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God'' by Vijay Santhanam, Shyam Balasubramanian. Publisher: HarperCollins India
* ''Master Stroke: 100 Centuries of Sachin Tendulkar'' by Neelima Athalye. Publisher: Sakal Publications.
* ''Dhruvtara'' (), a book on cricket of Tendulkar, was launched as an audio book on Monday, 15 October 2012 to mark ''White Cane Day''.
* ''Sachin Ke Sau Shatak'' by Dharmedra Pant, a book on Tendulkar's 100 centuries written in Hindi.
* ''Sachin: A Hundred Hundreds Now'' by V. Krishnaswamy
In media
A docudrama film was released in 2017 about Tendulkar, featuring interviews of number of former Cricket players and sports commentators. The film received mixed reviews.
Television appearance
Notes
References
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