Sachin Tendulkar - The Master Blaster

Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Date of Birth: April 24, 1973
Place of Birth: Mumbai
Major Teams: India, Mumbai Indians
Batting Style: Right -Hand Batsman
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium, Leg Break, Right Arm Off Break
ODI Debut : India v Pakistan at Gujranwala, 2nd ODI, 1989/90
Test Debut : India v Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90
Height : 5'5


Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket.
Tendulkar was born in Mumbai. His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director,Sachin Dev Burman.. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket.
Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School),[1] where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor,Ramakant Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.

When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours on end 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 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 was getting famous day by day. In 1988 session he scored century in every innigs he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.Tendulkar(326* runs).
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 world record of 34 Test centuries. On 24 May 1995, Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997), and Arjun (born 24 September 1999)..
Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta
Some remarkable achievements -:
. He is the only player to score a double century in an innings in the history of ODI cricket.
In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, behindViv Richards
In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or againstTendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman's Eleven
Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has 93 centuries in international cricket. On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.
He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals.
He was first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history.
In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously.
Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009, and has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour.
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!",[49] 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, then led India on a tour of Australia, where the visitors were comprehensively beaten 3–0 by the newly crowned world champions.[51]Tendulkar, however, was at his usual best and won the player of the tournament 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 took over as captain in 2000.

BUSINESS MAN…SACHIN
Tendulkar's immense popularity has led him to numerous profitable business dealings in the past. He currently has the most sponsorships out of all players in world cricket. Sachin Tendulkar was an early pioneer in India on cricket business dealings when he signed a then record sports management deal with Worldtel in 1995, the value of the deal being 30 crore rupees over five years.[94] His next contract with WorldTel in 2001 was valued at 80 crores over five years.[95] In 2006, he signed a contract with Saatchi and Saatchi's ICONIX values at 180 crores over three years.[96] He is the highest earning cricketer in the world.
Making use of his popularity, Tendulkar has opened two restaurants: 'Tendulkar's'[97] (Colaba, Mumbai) and 'Sachin's'[98] (Mulund, Mumbai). Sachin owns these restaurants in partnership with Sanjay Narang of Mars Restaurants. He has also got a new restaurant in Bangalore called Sachin's.
In 2007, Tendulkar also announced a JV with the Future Group and Manipal Group to launch healthcare and sports fitness products under the brand name 'S Drive and Sach'.[99] A series of comic books by Virgin Comics is also due to be published featuring him as a superhero

Product and brand endorsements
Sachin Tendulkar endorses the following products:
Pepsi: 1992–Present
Canon: 2006–2009
Airtel: 2004–2006
Nazara Technologies: 2005–2008. License for Mobile Content development based on Sachin.
Britannia: 2001–2007
HomeTrade: 2001–2002
Sunfeast: 2007–2013/14
National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC): 2003–2005
Boost: 1990–Present
Action Shoes: 1995–2000
Adidas: 2000–2010
Fiat Palio: 2001 to 2003
Reynolds: 2007–Present]
TVS: 2002–2005
ESPN Star Sports: 2002–Present
G-Hanz: 2005–2007
Sanyo BPL: 2007–Present
AIDS Awareness Campaign: 2005
Colgate-Palmolive[,Philips,MRF,VISA,Aviva,Royal Bank of Scotland Group

BIOGRAPHIES
Sachin Tendulkar has been the subject of various books. The following is the listing of books focused on Tendulkar's career:
 Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Global.
 The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Global.
 Sachin Tendulkar-a definitive biography by Vaibhav Purandare. Publisher: Roli Books.
 Sachin Tendulkar – Masterful by Peter Murray, Ashish Shukla. Publisher: Rupa.
 If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God by Vijay Santhanam, Shyam Balasubramanian Publisher :HarperCollins India


Individual honours and appreciations
 Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, 2008.
 ICC World ODI XI: 2004, 2007
 Rajiv Gandhi Awards – Sports: 2005
 Player of the tournament in 2003 Cricket World Cup
 Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra State's highest Civilian Award in 2001
 Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, 1999
 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest honour given for achievement in sports, 1997–98.
 Wisden Cricketer of the Year: 1997
 Arjuna Award, by the Government of India in recognition of his outstanding achievement in Cricket, 1994









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