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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai,Maharashtra, India, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded

as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Testbatsman of all time next only to Sir Donald Bradman, and

the second greatest one-day international (ODI) batsman of all time next only to Sir Viv Richards. The list was later

revised to make him the greatest one-day international(ODI) batsman of all time. In September 2007, Shane

Warne, the world-record breaking Australian leg spinner,rated Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest player he hasplayed with or against. Sachin Tendulkar was the only

player of the current generation to be included inBradman's Eleven, the dream team of Sir Donald Bradman,published in his biography. He is sometimes referred to As

the Little Master or the Master Blaster



After Sir Don Bradmanclaimed Sachin to be his

replica in Test Cricket, onewould not make any mistakesto keep the little master out of their top-10 list of best Test

batsmen ever. But it seemedthat the ICC thought the other

way round when it not onlykept the Indian Star out of thetop-10, but also the top-20 of

its list of the new ³ICC BestEver Ratings´.



According to ICC, theMumbaikar did not deserve tobe placed above than the 26th

rank in the new ³best ever´ratings issued by the board.

Whereas Kumara Sangakara,Matthew Hayden, Mike

Hussey, Kevin Pietersen andNeil Harvey could easily find a

berth for themselves in thetop-25.

The only Indian who couldsqueeze himself into the top-

20 was Sunil Gavaskar who is just ahead of West Indies¶

George Headley.



Sachin Tendulkar wasmade the icon player and captain for his

home side, the MumbaiIndians in the inauguralIndian Premier League

Twenty20 competition in2008. As an icon player,he was signed for a sumof US$1,121,250, 15%more than the second-highest paid player in

the team, SanathJayasuriya. But despiteSachin heroic his team

Mumbai Indians notqualified for the semis of

the IPL tournament.



Sachin personal life

Sachin was born in Bombay. His father, RameshTendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after hisfavourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman.

Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to playcricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin,and sister Savitai. In 1995, Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali (born November 10, 1967), a paediatrician anddaughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta. They

have two children, Sara (born October 12, 1997), and Arjun (born September 24, 1999).



Sachin was born in Bombay.

His father, Ramesh Tendulkar,a Marathi novelist, named

Tendulkar after his favouritemusic director, Sachin DevBurman. Tendulkar's elder

brother Ajit encouraged him toplay cricket. Tendulkar has two

other siblings: a brother Nitin,and sister Savitai. In 1995,Sachin Tendulkar married

Anjali (born November 10,1967), a paediatrician and

daughter of Gujaratiindustrialist Anand Mehta.

They have two children, Sara(born October 12, 1997), and

Arjun (born September 24,1999 .



Sachin first to score 12,000 run

Sachin is the highest run scorer in bothTest matches and ODIs, and also the

batsman with the most centuries ineither form of the game. Master Blaster

Sachin Tendulkar has become theworld record Test runs scorer,

surpassing Brian Lara's previous bestmark of 11,953. Tendulkar, 35, needed15 runs to overtake West Indies legendLara in the standings on the first day of

the second Test against Australia in

Mohali. And despite being forced to goto tea on 13 not out, the 'Little Master'

came out after the interval to hit Australian debutant Peter Siddle's first

ball of the session for three runs tospark wild celebrations in the ground.



On October 17, 2008, when Sachin surpassed Brian Lara'srecord for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also

became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form

of the game, having also been the third batsman and firstIndian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket. He was also thefirst player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals,and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. Inthe fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against

Australia, Sachin surpassed Australia's Allan Border tobecome the player to cross the 50-run mark the most

number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second

ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia,after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years

back. Sachin has been honored with the Padma Vibhushanaward, India's second highest civilian award, and the RajivGandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honor.



Sachin early years of cricket

Sachin attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (HighSchool), where he began his cricketing career under theguidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar.

During his school days he attended the MRF PaceFoundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast

bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Testwickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.

When he was young, Sachin would practice for hours onend in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar

would put a one-Rupee-coin on the top of the stumps,and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get thecoin. 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.



Sachin at schoolWhile at school, he developed a reputation as a child prodigy. He

had become a common conversation point in Mumbai circles,where there were suggestions already that he would become oneof the greats. His season in 1988 was extraordinary, with

Tendulkar scoring a century in every innings he played. He wasinvolved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris

Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod

Kambli, who would also go on to represent India. The destructivepair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the

opposition unwilling to continue the game. Tendulkar scored 326*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 in India.When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar gave him

a pair of his own ultra light pads. "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," he said nearly 20 years later after

surpassing Gavaskar's top world record of 34 Test centuries. This

was in the same year as his first-class debut. Tendulkar never played for any Under-19 teams, crossing straight into the seniors.



Sachin Domestic career

On December 11, 1988, aged just 15 yearsand 232 days, Sachin scored 100 not-out in

his debut first-class match for Mumbaiagainst Gujarat, making him the youngest

cricketer to score a century on his first-classdebut. His first double century was for

Mumbai while playing against the visiting Australian team at the Brabourne Stadium

in 1998.Sachin is the only player to score a century

in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep

Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts.



Sachin early International career Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in

1989 under the leadership of Kris Srikkanth. According to Cricinfo's Andrew Miller and Martin Williamson, India took an unconventional

approach to combating the Pakistani pace attack by calling up a"baby-faced 16-year-old with one season of first-class cricket to hisname". He made just 15 runs, being bowled by Waqar Younis, whoalso made his debut in that match, but was impressive in how he

handled numerous blows to his body at the hands of the Pakistani

pace attack. Tendulkar followed it up with his maiden Test fifty afew days later at Faisalabad. His One Day International (ODI)debut on December 18 was disappointing. He was dismissedwithout scoring a run, again by Waqar Younis. The series wasfollowed by a tour of New Zealand in which he fell for 88 in theSecond Test. His maiden Test century came in the next tour, to

England in August 1990 at Old Trafford. Tendulkar further enhanced his development into a world-class batsman during the1991±1992 tour of Australia that included an unbeaten 148 in

Sydney (the first of many battles against Shane Warne who madehis debut in the match) and a century on the fast and bouncy trackat Perth. Merv Hughes famously commented to Allan Border at the

time that "This little prick's going to get more runs than you, AB."



Rise of SachinSachin's performance through the years 1994±1999 coincided with his physicalpeak, in his early twenties. On the day of the Hindu festival Holi, Tendulkar wastold to open the batting at Auckland against New Zealand in 1994. He went on

to make 82 runs off 49 balls. He scored his first ODI century on September 9,1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It had taken him 79 ODIs toscore a century.

Tendulkar's rise continued when he was the leading run scorer at the 1996Cricket World Cup, topping the batting averages whilst scoring two centuries.He was the only Indian batsman to perform in the infamous semi-final of that

World Cup.

This was the beginning of a period at the top of the batting world, culminating inthe Australian tour of India in early 1998, with Tendulkar scoring three

consecutive centuries. These were characterized by a premeditated plan totarget Australian spinners Shane Warne and Gavin Robertson, to whom he

regularly charged down the pitch to drive over the infield. This techniqueworked as India beat Australia. The test match success was followed by two

scintillating knocks in Sharjah where he scored two consecutive centuries in a

must-win game and then in finals against Australia tormenting Shane Warneonce again. Following the series Warne ruefully joked that he was having

nightmares about his Indian nemesis. He also had a role with the ball in thatseries, including a 5 wicket haul in an ODI. Set 310 runs to win, Australia werecruising comfortably at 3 for 203 in the 31st over when Tendulkar turned the

match for India taking wickets of Michael Bevan, Steve Waugh, DarrenLehmann, Tom Moody and Damien Martyn for just 32 runs in 10

overs.



Tendulkar single-handedly won theICC 1998 quarterfinal at Dhaka topave way for India's entry into the

semifinals, when he took 4 Australianwickets after scoring 141 runs in just

128 balls.The worst was yet to come asProfessor Ramesh Tendulkar,

Tendulkar's the final rituals of hisfather, missing father, died in the

middle of the 1999 Cricket World Cup.Tendulkar flew back to India to attend

the match against Zimbabwe.

However, he returned with a bang tothe World cup scoring a century

(unbeaten 140 off 101 balls) in hisvery next match against Kenya in

Bristol. He dedicated this century tohis father.



en u ar con nue s goo orm n es cr c e n an , w somepivotal performances with both bat and ball. Tendulkar took three wickets onthe final day of the famous Kolkata Test against Australia in 2001. Tendulkar

took the key wickets of Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist, centurions in theprevious test.

Tendulkar made 673 runs in 11 matches in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, helpingIndia reach the final. While Australia retained the trophy that they had won in

1999, Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award. The drawnseries as India toured Australia in 2003/04 saw Tendulkar making his mark in

the last Test of the series, with 241* in Sydney, putting India in a virtually

unbeatable position. He followed up the innings with an unbeaten 50 in thesecond innings of the test and then an unbeaten 194 against Pakistan at Multanin the following series. The 194 was controversial in that he was stranded prior to reaching his double century as a result of a declaration by Rahul Dravid. Inmeeting with the press that evening, Tendulkar responded to a question on

missing 200 against Pakistan by stating that he was disappointed and that thedeclaration had taken him by surprise.

On December 10, 2005 at Feroz Shah Kotla, Tendulkar scored his record-breaking 35th Test century, against the Sri Lankans. On February 6, 2006, hescored his 39th ODI hundred, in a match against Pakistan. He followed with arun-a-ball 42 in the second one-day international against Pakistan on February

11, 2006, and then a 95 in hostile, seaming conditions on February 13, 2006 inLahore which set u an Indian victor .



Famous 2001 tour of Africa - Mike Denness incident

In the second test of India's 2001 tour of South Africa, match refereeMike Denness fined four Indian players for excessive appealing as well

as the Indian captain Sourav Ganguly for not controlling his team.Tendulkar was given a suspended ban of one game in light of allegedball tampering. Television cameras picked up images that suggestedTendulkar may have been involved in cleaning the seam of the cricket

ball in the second test match between India and South Africa at StGeorge's Park, Port Elizabeth. This can, under some conditions,

amount to altering the condition of the ball. The match referee MikeDenness found Sachin Tendulkar guilty of ball tampering charges andhanded him a one Test match ban. The incident escalated to include

allegations of racism, and led to Mike Denness being barred fromentering the venue of the third test match. After a thorough

investigation, the International Cricket Council revoked the officialstatus of the match and the ban on Tendulkar was lifted. Tendulkar'sball tampering charges and Sehwag's ban for excessive appealing

triggered a massive backlash from the Indian public and even theIndian parliament.



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 firstinnings of the first Test at the MCG in Melbourne, but couldn't prevent a heavy

337-run win for Australia. In the controversial New Years Test at Sydney,Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 154 as India lost the Test. This was his thirdcentury at the SCG, earning him an average of 221.33 at the ground. In the

third Test at the WACA in Perth, Sachin was instrumental in India's first inningsscore of 330, scoring a well compiled 71, only to be dismissed by what was

later confirmed to be a questionable LBW decision. India went on to record a

historic triumph at the WACA. In the fourth Test at Adelaide, which ended in adraw, he scored 153 in the first innings, involving in a crucial 126 run stand withV.V.S. Laxman for the fifth wicket to lead India to a score of 282 for 5 from 156

for 4. He secured the Player of the Match award.In the One-Day International Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series involving Sri

Lanka and Australia, Tendulkar became the first and only batsman to complete16,000 runs in ODIs. He achieved this feat against Sri Lanka on February 5,2008 at Brisbane. He started the CB series well notching up scores of 10, 35,

44 and 32, but could not convert the starts into bigger scores. His form dipped abit in the middle of the tournament, but Sachin came back strongly in India's

must-win game against Sri Lanka at Hobart, scoring 63 off 54 balls. He finished

the series with a match winning 117 not out of 120 balls in the first final, and 91



Sachin Style of play

Sachin is ambidextrous: He bats, bowls, and throws with his righthand, but writes with his left hand. He also practices left-handedthrows at the nets on a regular basis. Cricinfo columnist Sambit Balhas described him as the "most wholesome batsman of his time".His batting is based on complete balance and poise while limitingunnecessary movements and flourishes. He appears to show littlepreference for the slow and low wickets which are typical in India,and has scored many centuries on the hard, bouncy pitches in theCaribbean Islands and Australia. He is known for his unique punchstyle of hitting the ball over square. He is also renowned for hispicture-perfect straight drive, often completed with no follow-through.Recently, legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar, in an article hewrote in the AFP, remarked that "it is hard to imagine any player inthe history of the game who combines classical technique with rawaggression like the little champion does".



Sachin is ambidextrous: He bats, bowls, and throws with his righthand, but writes with his left hand. He also practices left-handedthrows at the nets on a regular basis. Cricinfo columnist SambitBal has described him as the "most wholesome batsman of histime". His batting is based on complete balance and poise whilelimiting 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 the Caribbean Islands 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, oftencompleted with no follow-through. Recently, legendary Indian

batsman Sunil Gavaskar, in an article he wrote in the AFP,remarked that "it is hard to imagine any player in the history of thegame who combines classical technique with raw aggression like

the little champion does".



Sir Donald Bradman, thegreatest batsman of all time,

considered Tendulkar to

have a batting style similar to his. In his biography, it isstated that "Bradman wasmost taken by Tendulkar's

technique, compactness andshot production, and had

asked his wife to have a lookat Tendulkar, having felt thatTendulkar played like him.

Bradman's wife, Jessie,agreed that they did appear

similar."



Sachin new style of playing

He was affected by a series of injuries since 2004. Sincethen Tendulkar's batting has tended to be less attacking.Explaining this change in his batting style, he hasacknowledged that he is batting differently due to thatfact that (1) No batsman can bat the same way for theentire length of a long career and (2) He is a senior member of the team now and thus has moreresponsibility. During the early part of his career he wasa more attacking batsman and frequently scoredcenturies at close to a run a ball. Ian Chappell, former

Australian player, recently remarked that "Tendulkar now, is nothing like the player he was when he was ayoung bloke". However, during the latest tour of Australiain 2008, Tendulkar displayed glimpses of his attackingstyle with several masterful innings, dominating attacksin a manner reminiscent of his younger days.



Sachin the good man

Sachin sponsors 200underprivileged childrenevery year through

Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated

with his mother-in-law, Annaben Mehta. He isreluctant to speak abouthis charitableactivities[citation needed],choosing to preserve the

sanctity of his personal lifedespite the media interestin him.

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