Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India. He went to Shradashram Vidyamandir, a high school in Mumbai, where he began his cricketing career under his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He attended the MRF Pace Foundation during his schooldays to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who saw him training, was not much impressed and suggested that Tendulkar should focus on his batting instead. As a young boy, Tendulkar would practice for hours at the net, and was driven hard by his coach Achrekar.While at school, his extraordinary batting skills got noticed by the sports circuit. People felt that the young boy would soon become one of the greats in cricket. In the 1988 season, he scored a century in every inning that he played. In one of the inter school matches that year, he had an unbroken 664-run partnership with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar a great Indian batsman of that time, gave him a pair of his own light pads. This touching gesture greatly encouraged the budding cricketer, who 20 years later broke Gavaskar’s world record of 34 Test centuries.
In 1988, when he was just under 16, he scored 100 not out in for Bombay against Gujrat. This was on his first-class debut. He then scored a century in his first appearance in the Deodhar and Duleep Trophy. Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar picked him up after seeing him batting Kapil Dev in the nets. That season he was Bombay’s highest run-getter. In the Irani Trophy final, He made an unbeaten century. He scored a century in all three of his Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy debuts, and became the first player to do so. He was selected for the tour of Pakistan next year.
At the very young age of 16, Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989. In this Test, he received several blows to his body at the hands of Waqar Younis, a pace bowler. He made just 15 runs. In the last test in Sialkot, he had a bloody nose from a bouncer, but he went on playing. He scored better in the subsequent games, scoring 53 runs of 18 balls at Peshawar.
In the 1990 Test in England he scored a century at Old Trafford. The English were highly impressed by his disciplined display of immense maturity. He played many types of strokes. His off-side shots from the back foot greatly impressed the English. Though short in height, he confidently faced short deliveries from the English pace bowlers. His great performance made him look the embodiment of Gavaskar, India’s former famous opener.
During the 1991-1992 tour of Australia Tendulkar scored and unbeaten 148 in Sydney and another century on a bouncing pitch a Perth.
At the age of 19, Tendulkar was in England, playing for Yorkshire in 1992. He scored 1070 runs at an average of 45.25 while playing for the English county as the first overseas player.
In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he made 873 runs in 11 matches which enabled India reach the final. Although Australia won the trophy Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award.
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Media Awards
* In August 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
* In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
* In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"
* The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
* In February 2010, Sachin Tendulkar was declared "Sports Icon of the Year for 21 years" by NDTV at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards.
Sachin Tendulkar Statistics
How would an article on Sachin Tendulkar records in cricket be complete without a tabular representation of his ODI and Test batting and bowling statistics? For those of you who believe in numbers, this should satisfy you.
Sachin Tendulkar Batting Statistics
| Matches | Innings | Not Outs | Runs Scored | Highest Score | Average | 100's | 50's | |
| Tests | 177 | 290 | 32 | 14,692 | 248* | 56.94 | 51 | 59 |
| ODIs | 446 | 435 | 41 | 17,777 | 200* | 45.12 | 47 | 93 |
| T20s | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10.00 | 0 | 0 |
Sachin Tendulkar Bowling Statistics
| Matches | Innings | Balls | Runs | Wickets | Average | Econ. | 5w | BB (Inng) | |
| Tests | 177 | 135 | 4096 | 2388 | 45 | 53.06 | 3.49 | 0 | 3/10 |
| ODIs | 442 | 267 | 8020 | 6817 | 154 | 44.26 | 5.10 | 2 | 5/32 |
| T20s | 1 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 12.00 | 4.80 | 0 | 1/12 |
Recently, the Maestro added another feather to his cap during the 3rd edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He was awarded the 'Orange Cap' for emerging as the highest run-getter of the tournament. The 618 runs that Sachin Tendulkar scored during the course of the tournament was also a new record for the highest run aggregrate in a single edition of the IPL (erasing the previous record of 616 runs scored by Shaun Marsh in IPL 2008).
