Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born : April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Zodiac Sign: Taurus Current age 37 years 76 days

Father’s name : Ramesh Tendulkar Mother’s name : Rajni Tendulkar Brother's : Ajit and Nitin Sister : Savita Wife : Dr. Anjali Son : Arjun Daughter : Sara

Nickname : Tendlya, Little Master,Master Blaster

Major teams : India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire

Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak, googly
Height : 5 ft 5 in
Education : Sharadashram Vidyamandir School

LIKES

Ground : Sydney cricket ground
Movie : Coming to America
Music : Pop
Hobby : Collecting CD's.
Car : Maruti
Actors : Amitabh Bacchan, Nana Patekar
Actresses : Madhuri Dixit
Cricket Heroes : Gavaskar, Viv Richards, Imran Khan and Sandeep Patil
Other Fav. Stars : Maradona, Borris Becker
Drink : Orange / Apple juice and water
Food : Steak
Pastime : Listening to peaceful music with friends
Clothes : Official jacket and tie, else jeans and T-shirt
Magazine : Sportstar
Newspapers : Times of India, Mid-day, Afternoon Dispatch
Restaurant : Bukhara, Maurya Sheraton
Holiday Resort : Yorkshire, Headingley
Hotel : Park Royal Darling Harbour, Sydney
Other Sports : Tennis

FACTS ABOUT SACHIN

Hate : Rumors
Greatest Influence : Family Dream Woman : My wife

Any Changes you desire to have : None
Ambition : To be number one in the world
Worst Day : Losing the fist ODI in RSA in 1992
Memorable Day : Beating Pakistan in the

1992 World Cup
Embarrassing Moment : People asking for my autograph and then asking me my name

BATTING STATASTICS

Matches Innings Not Outs Runs Scored Highest Score Average 100's 50's
Tests 166 271 29 13,447 248* 55.56 47 54
ODIs 442 431 41 17,598 200* 45.12 46 93
T20s 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 0 0

BOWLING STATASTICS

Matches Innings Balls Runs Wickets Average Econ. 5w
Tests 166 130 3994 2299 44 52.25 3.45 0
ODIs 442 267 8020 6817 154 44.26 5.10 2
T20s 1 1 15 12 1 12.00 4.80 0

*RECORDS*

Highest number of Runs in ODIs

Sachin Tendulkar centuries are highest by any batsmen in ODI's.

Highest number of Man of the Match awards.

Most Man of the Series awards.

First cricketer to score 10,000 runs and to get passed 16,000 runs.

Highest number of runs in World Cup matches (1,796 @ 59.87)

Most number of Man of the Match awards in World Cup matches.

Most number of ODI fifties

Most ODIs played

Only player to be in top 10 of ICC rankings for 10 years.

Sachin Tendulkar century has been a unique feature in his debut games of Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. No other batsmen have done it yet.

First overseas player to play for English County Yorkshire .

Only cricketer to receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri and Arjuna Award.

Most runs scored in a single calendar year (1894 runs in the year 1998)

First batsmen to score 50 & 75 international centuries.

Most number of international runs in all forms of the game. (over 29,000 runs in ODI+Test+T20s)

Involved in 6 200+ partnerships in One Day Internationals – most by any batsman.

Most centuries in 1 Calendar year (9 centuries in 1998)

Sachin Tendulkar batting score has been the highest score by an Indian in One Day Internationals (186*)

Least number of innings required by Sachin Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs in One Day Internationals (259). Also, Sachin Tendulkar batting average is highest among the batsmen with more than 10,000 runs.

Played in most number of stadiums around the world. (90)

Most number of successive ODI appearances (185)

When Sachin Tendulkar centuries reached the mark of 5, he was the youngest to do so. This is still a record.

Highest score by an Indian captain in a Test innings (217 against New Zealand )

Highest number of runs scored on foreign soil (over 7,000 runs)

Most number of Test appearances for India

First batsman to score 25,000 international runs

Sachin is the only player to have 150+ ODI wickets and over 15,000 runs

Only player to have taken 40+ wickets and score 11,000 runs in Test Cricket.

Sachin's wax model at Madame Tussauds

It is the first instance in 1754 occasions that a celebrity's wax model has been unveiled outside London.

It took the efforts of 20 people, four months and a budget of 150,000 pounds to realise the model.

Note this.......

(The museum's officials took about 200 measurements and references from various photographs to achieve perfection. Even Tendulkar attended a sitting in Mumbai for the same.)

Sachin Tendulkar's unique shell house