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Sachin Tendulkar
Source: [1], December 30 2006

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar pronunciationⓘ (Marathi: सचिन तेंडुलकर; born 24 April, 1973) is an Indian cricketer who was rated in an article by Wisden in 2002 as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman[1]. He holds several key batting records, including the most Test centuries, most ODI centuries and the most runs in ODI cricket. He is also the most capped player currently playing international cricket. He received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, for 1997-1998, and the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999. Tendulkar was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997.

Personal life

Born in Bombay, no known as Mumbai, into a middle-class Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins family, Tendulkar was named after his family's favourite music director Sachin Dev Burman. His late father Ramesh Tendulkar was a Marathi novelist. He was encouraged to play cricket by his elder brother. Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali Mehta, the paediatrician daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta, in 1995, some years after they were introduced by mutual friends. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997) and Arjun (born 23 September, 2000). Tendulkar sponsors 200 under-privileged children, every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. He is reluctant to speak about this, or other charitable activities, choosing to preserve the sanctity of his personal life despite the overwhelming media interest in him.

Career

Early days of cricket

He attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir School where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor Ramakant Achrekar. While at school, he was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli, who also went on to represent India. At the time, this was a record partnership in any form of cricket and in 2006 it was broken by two junior cricketers in a match held at Hyderabad in India.

Domestic career

In 1988/1989, he scored 100 not-out in his first first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat. At 15 years and 232 days he was then the youngest cricketer to score a century on his first-class début.

Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to score a century while making his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debut.

International career

Sachin played his first international match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989, facing the likes of Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Abdul Qadir, and Waqar Younis. He made just 15 runs, being bowled by Waqar Younis, who also made his debut in that match. It was an inauspicious start, but Tendulkar followed it up with his maiden Test fifty a few days later at Faisalabad. His One-day International (ODI) debut on December 18 was equally disappointing, where he was dismissed without scoring a run, again by Waqar Younis. The series was followed by a tour of New Zealand in which he fell for 88 in the Second Test. John Wright, who later became the coach of India, took the catch that prevented Tendulkar from becoming the youngest centurion in Test cricket. His maiden Test century came in next tour, to England in August 1990 at Old Trafford. Tendulkar further enhanced his development into a world-class batsman during the 1991-1992 tour of Australia that included an unbeaten 148 in Sydney (the first of many battles against Shane Warne who made his debut in the match) and a brilliant century on the fast and bouncy track at Perth. He has been Man of the Match 11 times in Test matches and Man of the Series twice, both times in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.

Tendulkar's performance through the years 1994-1999, coincided with his physical peak, at age 20 through 25. Tendulkar was told to open the batting at Auckland against New Zealand in 1994 [2]. He went on to make 82 runs off 49 balls. His first ODI century came on September 9, 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It had taken Tendulkar 79 ODIs to score a century.

Tendulkar's rise continued when he was the leading runscorer at the 1996 Cricket World Cup, topping the batting averages whilst scoring two centuries.

This was the beginning of a period at the top of the batting world, culminating in the Australian tour of India in early 1998, scoring three consecutive centuries. These were characterised by a pre-meditated plan to target Australian spinners Shane Warne and Gavin Robertson, to whom he regularly charged down the pitch to drive over the infield. Following the series Australian spinner Shane Warne ruefully joked that he was having nightmares about his Indian nemesis[3].

A chronic back problem flared up when Pakistan toured India in 1999, with India losing the historic Test at Chepauk despite a gritty century from Tendulkar himself. Worse was to come as Professor Ramesh Tendulkar, Tendulkar's father, died in the middle of the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Tendulkar flew back to India to attend the final rituals of his father, missing the match against Zimbabwe. However, soon he returned back to the World cup scoring a century (unbeaten 140 off 101 balls) against Kenya in Bristol[4].

Tendulkar, succeeding Mohammad Azharuddin as captain, then led India on a tour of Australia, where the visitors were comprehensively beaten 3-0 [5] by the newly-crowned world champions. 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.

Tendulkar made 673 runs in 11 matches in the 2003 World Cup, helping India reach the final. While Australia retained the trophy that it had won in 1999, Tendulkar was given the Man of the Series award. The drawn series as India toured Australia in 2003-2004 saw Tendulkar making his mark in the last Test of the series, with a double century in Sydney, which was also the last test appearance of one of cricket history's most successful captian Steve Waugh. Tennis elbow then took its toll on Tendulkar, leaving him out of the side for the first two Tests when Australia toured India in 2004. He played a part in the facesaving Indian victory in Mumbai, though Australia had already taken the series 2-1, with the Second Test in Chennai drawn.

On 10 December, 2005, at Feroz Shah Kotla, he delighted fans with a record-breaking 35th Test century, against the Sri Lankans. But doubts were raised once again when he averaged a mere 21 over three Test innings when India toured Pakistan in 2006.

On 6 February, 2006, Tendulkar scored his 39th ODI hundred, in a match against Pakistan. He followed with a run-a-ball 42 in the second ODI against Pakistan on February 11, 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 scoring an unconvincing 1 off 21 balls against England 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[6], the first time that he has ever faced such flak. While cheered on when he came for his second innings, Tendulkar, was the top scorer in the second innings [7] and yet was to end the three-Test series without a single half-century to his credit, and news of a shoulder operation raised more questions about his longevity.

Tendulkar was operated upon for his injured shoulder forcing him to skip the tour of West Indies in 2006.

On 23 May, 2006, after deciding not to undergo a scheduled fitness test, he announced he would miss the tour of the Caribbean for the Test series. However he agreed to play 5 games for Lashings World XI in order to regain fitness for a possible August comeback. He had scored 155, 147(retired), 98, 101(retired) & 105 in the 5 matches for Lashings XI with strike rate of well above 100 and was the top scorer in all the matches.

Also in his first Twenty20 match with international opposition, although unofficial, Tendulkar hit 50 not out off 21 deliveries to blast the International XI to 123 after 10 overs against the Pakistan XI.

However as of July,2006 The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the longest-serving international cricketer has overcome his injury problem following a rehabilitation programme and is available for selection.

He then came for the DLF cup in Malaysia and became the only Indian batsman to shine. In his most recent comeback match, against West Indies on 14th September 2006, Tendulkar responded to his critics who believed that his career was inexorably sliding with his 40th ODI century. Though he scored 141*, West Indies won the rain-affected match by the D/L method. Tendulkar now has 18 more ODI tons than the players who are second on the list of ODI century-makers, Sourav Ganguly and Sanath Jayasuriya [8].


Wisden named Tendulkar one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1997, the first calendar year in which he scored 1,000 Test runs. He repeated the feat in 1999, 2001, and 2002. Tendulkar also holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003. In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, still the record for ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year.

Bowling

While not a regular bowler, Sachin Tendulkar has taken 37 wickets in 132 Tests and 142 wickets in 365 ODIs. He bowls when the specialist bowlers are lacking success, often providing useful breakthroughs. Though his Test bowling average is above 50 and his ODI bowling average above 40, he is considered [9] as the man with the Golden arm [10] who breaks partnerships. [11].

On more than one occasion [12], he has had a strong influence on an Indian victory with his bowling. Notable among his bowling exploits are:

  • 5 wicket haul against Australia[13] at Kochi in the 1997-98 Series . Set 269 runs to win, Australia was cruising comfortably at 203/3 at the 31st over. Sachin turned the match for India taking wickets of Michael Bevan, Steve Waugh, Darren Lehmann, Tom Moody and Damien Martyn for just 32 runs in 10 overs.
  • Final over control against South Africa in 1993 Hero-cup semifinals. South Africa needed 6 runs to win the match in the final over. Sachin bowling 3 dot balls in that over, conceded just 3 runs to help India win the match and reach the Finals of the tournament. [14]
  • Performance of 4/34 in 10 overs against West Indies [15] in Sharjah where the Windies were bowled out for 145.
  • He single handedly won the ICC 1998 QuarterFinals at Dhaka to pave way for India's entry into the Semifinals, when he took 4 Australian wickets after scoring 141 runs in just 128 balls.
  • Tendulkar took three wickets on the final day of the famous Kolkata Test against Australia in 2001, which India won after following on, 274 runs behind on the first innings. Tendulkar took the key wickets of Matthew Hayden — who made a hundred in the previous Test at Mumbai and a double century in the next — and Adam Gilchrist, another centurion at Mumbai.

2006

Tendulkar hitting a six off Sri Sreesanth

Tendulkar has missed four Tests and eleven ODIs through injury in 2006. However, he has done well in the ODIs that he has played, hitting two centuries and two fifties. He was the top scorer in 6 of the past 11 matches he has played this year. His Test form has been uncharacteristically poor, having failed to reach a single century this year, and only 1 test fifty. In fact, Tendulkar has not hit a half-century in his last 11 innings - the longest he has gone without reaching fifty since making his Test debut in 1989. The longest he has gone without a Test hundred is 13 innings. In the He top scored in the second One day International against South Africa.

He has scored at least one half century in a test match every year, since 1992.

Criticism

Of late, as Wisden has noted, Tendulkar has not been as aggressive or cavalier as he was in his younger days. Expert opinion is divided on whether this is due to his increasing years or the lingering after-effects of injuries over 17 years at the highest level. He somewhat silenced these doubts by scoring a comeback hundred and a half-century in Malaysia tri-series in September 2006.

Despite his record of scoring the most Test centuries, none of Tendulkar's innings found a place in the Wisden 100, a statistics-based list released by Wisden in 2001 of the 100 "greatest Test batting performances". Wisden stated that most of his best performances had come in draws and defeats, and so received a much lower weighting as they did not majorly contribute to a victory[16].

Controversies

His two tenures as captain of the Indian cricket team didn't go too well. During his second run, after constantly complaining that the national selectors weren't giving him the team he wanted, he resigned after a disastrous tour of Australia where India lost 0-3 in the Tests and managed to win only one of 8 ODIs.Incidentally, he was named man of the series for the Test matches.

During India's historic tour of Pakistan in 2004, he went public with his disappointment in not being able to score his 200 against Pakistan, when Rahul Dravid the acting captain of India declared the match with 16 overs remaining on Day 2 when Sachin was still on 194 NO. The controversy was so huge that it completely overshadowed one of Indian cricket's landmark innings by a young Virender Sehwag - a score of 309 which is the highest ever by an Indian in Tests. Many former cricketers [17] commented [18] that Dravid's declaration was in bad taste. The media noted at the time that the decision had apparently been made by Ganguly [19], and Ganguly himself later admitted that it had been a mistake, [20] the wording of the statement indicating that it had not been Dravid's call.

Famous innings

Test cricket

Runs Against Venue (Year) Result
119 not out England Manchester (1990) Drawn
148 not out Australia Sydney (1991-92) Drawn
114 [*] Australia Perth (1991-92) Australia
111 South Africa Johannesburg (1992) Drawn
122 England Birmingham (1996) England
169 South Africa Cape town (1996-97) South Africa
155 not out Australia Chennai (1997-98) India
136 Pakistan Chennai (1998-99) Pakistan
116 Australia Melbourne (1999-00) Australia
155 South Africa Bloemfontein (2001-02) South Africa
176 West Indies Kolkata (2002-03) Drawn
241 not out Australia Sydney (2004) Drawn

[*] Tendulkar rates this innings of 114, played on a bouncy WACA pitch when he was only 18 years old, as his best batting performance.

One-day cricket

Runs Against Venue (Year) Result
90 [21] Australia Mumbai (1996 WC+) Australia
104 Zimbabwe Benoni (1997) India
143 Australia Sharjah (1998) Australia
134 Australia Sharjah(1998) India
124 Zimbabwe Sharjah (1998) India
186 not out New Zealand Hyderabad(1999) India
98 Pakistan Centurion (2003 WC) India
141 Pakistan Rawalpindi (2004) Pakistan
123 Pakistan Ahmedabad (2005) Pakistan
93 Sri Lanka Nagpur (2005) India
145 not out West Indies Kuala Lumpur (2006) India

+WC-World Cup

Achievements

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Sachin Tendulkar's career performance graph.

Test cricket

Highlights of Tendulkar's Test career include:

  • Rated as the second best batsman of all time (after Don Bradman) by Wisden [1][22]
  • Highest number of Test centuries (35), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record (34) on 10 December, 2005 vs Sri Lanka in Delhi.
  • Played in the highest number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds, ahead of Azharuddin (48), Kapil Dev (47), Inzamam-ul-Haq (46) and Wasim Akram (45).
  • He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. He holds this record along with Brian Lara. Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings.
  • 4th highest tally of runs in Test cricket (10,469)
  • Career Average 55.39 - Has the highest average among those who have scored over 10,000 Test runs
  • Second Indian to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
  • Has 37 Test wickets (14 Dec 2005)
  • Fourth fastest player to reach 9,000 runs (Rahul Dravid made 9000 runs in 176 innings, Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting made 9000 in 177 innings, Sachin in 179.)

ODI

Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:

  • Most runs (14,479 as of 22nd November, 2006)
  • Most centuries (40)
  • Played most number of ODIs (371), (as of November 22 2006).
  • Played most number of consecutive ODI matches (185)[23]
  • Most Man of the Match (52) awards[24]
  • Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of October, 2006
  • Second most number of Fifties (73). Inzamam-Ul-Haq is the only batsman who has scored more Fifties (83) than Tendulkar. [25]
  • Appeared on the most grounds (90 different grounds)
  • Most ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year - 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.
  • Most Centuries by a player in one year - 9 ODI centuries in 1998
  • Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
  • Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.
  • Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs (as of October 2006)
  • First cricketer and fastest cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark, 11,000-run mark, 12,000-run mark, 13,000 run-mark and 14,000 run-mark in ODIs
  • Only cricketer to cross 14,000-run mark in ODIs
  • Over 100 wickets (142 as of October, 2006)
  • One of only two players to pass 10,000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs (Sanath Jayasuriya the other)
  • Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)
  • Batting through the innings (50 overs) on two occasions.

World Cup

Miscellaneous

  • Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket. In fact, he has now scored 75 (35 in Tests, 40 in ODIs).
  • Tendulkar was the first overseas cricketer to play for Yorkshire CCC in 1993, in more than 100 years of the club's history.
  • Shane Warne famously remarked after the Australian tour of India, and then Sharjah in 1998, that his nightmares are full of "Sachin coming, dancing down the track and lofting me over for yet another six !".
  • Matthew Hayden once said that,"If cricket is a religion in India, then the god of the religion is none other than Sachin Tendulkar".[citation needed]
  • In November 2006, Time magazine rewarded Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes. [26]

Man of the Match awards

10 Awards in Test cricket

# Date Against Venue
1 August 9 1990 England Old Trafford
2 February 11 1993 England Chidambaram Stadium
3 October 25 1995 New Zealand Chidambaram Stadium
4 March 6 1998 Australia Chidambaram Stadium
5 January 28 1999 Pakistan Chidambaram Stadium
6 October 29 1999 New Zealand Sardar Patel Stadium
7 December 26 1999 Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground
8 February 24 2000 South Africa Wankhede Stadium
9 October 30 2002 West Indies Eden Gardens
10 January 2 2004 Australia Sydney Cricket Ground

15 Awards in ODI

# Date Against Venue
1 1990-91 Srilanka Pune
2 1991-92 West Indies Sharjah
3 1991-92 South Africa Kolkata
4 1991-92 West Indies Melbourne
5 1991-92 Pakistan Sydney
6 1991-92 Zimbabwe Hamilton, New Zealand
7 1993-94 New Zealand Auckland
8 1994 Australia Colombo
9 1994-95 New Zealand Vadodara
10 1994-95 New Zealand Delhi
11 1994-95(Wills World Series Final) West Indies Kolkata
12 1994-95 (Pepsi Asia Cup) Srilanka Sharjah
13 March 16 2004 Pakistan Rawalpindi
14 July 21 2004 Bangladesh Sinhalese Sports Club Ground
15 September 14 2006 West Indies Kuala Lumpur[27]

Trivia

  • Tendulkar has been seen taking his Ferrari 360 Modena for late-night drives in Mumbai. (Gifted by Fiat through Michael Schumacher, the car became notorious when Tendulkar was given customs exemption; Fiat paid the dues to end the controversy.)
  • During India's 1999-2000 tour to Australia, he was declared out LBW after ducking and being hit by bouncer that kept low, which lead commentators to coin the term "shoulder before wicket".[28][29]
  • Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to have been declared run out by a third umpire in 1992 against South Africa in South Africa.
  • Tendulkar is ambidexterous. He writes with his left hand but bats & bowls right-handed.
  • During his early days as a schoolboy cricketer he went to the MRF pace academy to train as a pace bowler but was sent back home.
  • Owns a restaurant, Tendulkar's in Colaba, Mumbai. Tendulkar's is one of India's very few personality-themed restaurants.
  • On December 4, 2006, Tendulkar was featured in a question on the American game show Jeopardy! The clue was "Sachin Tendulkar of India is a leading bowler in this sport."[30]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b The Tribune http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20021214/sports.htm#4. Dec 14, 2002
  2. ^ Cricinfo Ind v NZ Mar 27, 1994 match report http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1993-94/IND_IN_NZ/IND_NZ_ODI2_27MAR1994.html
  3. ^ SportNetwork.net http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s119/st62164.htm. Down Memory Lane - Shane Warne's nightmare. Nov 29, 2004
  4. ^ http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC99/SCORECARDS/GROUP-A/IND_KENYA_WC99_ODI15_23MAY1999_CI_MR.html
  5. ^ Cricinfo match report AUS v IND 3rd Test 26-30 Dec 1999 http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1999-2000/IND_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/IND_AUS_T2_26-30DEC1999.html
  6. ^ India Daily http://www.indiadaily.org/entry/sachin-tendulkar-booed-by-wankhede-crowd/ Mar 20, 2006
  7. ^ http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/ENG_IN_IND/SCORECARDS/ENG_IND_T3_18-22MAR2006.html
  8. ^ http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/ODIS/BATTING/ODI_MOST_100S.html
  9. ^ http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/93592.html
  10. ^ http://www.bangladeshobserveronline.com/new/2004/08/02/sports.htm
  11. ^ http://www.cricket.org.pk/db/ARCHIVE/1998-99/IND_IN_NZ/SCORECARDS/IND_NZ_ODI1_09JAN1999_CI_MR.html]
  12. ^ http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2004-05/PAK_IN_IND/SCORECARDS/PAK_IND_ODI1_02APR2005.html
  13. ^ http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1997-98/OD_TOURNEYS/PTC/IND_AUS_PTC_ODI1_01APR1998.html
  14. ^ http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1993-94/OD_TOURNEYS/CAB/IND_RSA_CAB_ODI-SEMI1_24NOV1993_MR
  15. ^ http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1991-92/OD_TOURNEYS/WLSTPY/WI_IND_WLSTPY_ODI5_22OCT1991.html
  16. ^ http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/96675.html
  17. ^ http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/30miandad.htm
  18. ^ http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/30alam.htm
  19. ^ http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2004/mar/29tendulkar.htm
  20. ^ http://www.hindu.com/2004/04/30/stories/2004043000932100.htm
  21. ^ Cricinfo match report. World Cup, 1995/96, India v Australia 27 Feb 1996 http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC96/WC96-MATCHES/GROUP-A/AUS_IND_WC96_ODI19_27FEB1996.html
  22. ^ rediff.com http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2002/dec/13wisden.htm Tendulkar second-best ever: Wisden. Dec 14, 2002
  23. ^ http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/ODIS/INDIVIDUAL/ODI_CONSECUTIVE_MATCHES.html
  24. ^ http://www.cricinfo.com/db/STATS/ODIS/INDIVIDUAL/ODI_INDIV_MOST_MOM.html
  25. ^ http://www.cricmania.com/cricket/DB/score/user/us03/type/O/base/50
  26. ^ http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/index.html
  27. ^ >http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/dlfcup/engine/match/256607.html
  28. ^ http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1999-2000/IND_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/IND_AUS_T1_10-14DEC1999_CI_MR.html
  29. ^ http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/255913.html
  30. ^ http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1424
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