Sachin Tendulkar
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Full name | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 24 April 1973 Bombay , Maharashtra , India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Master Blaster, Tendulkar, Little Master | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Types of batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Types of bowling | Right-handed leg spin , off spin , medium pace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduction | Batsman , Captain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 15 November 1969 vs Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last test | 14 November 2013 vs West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI Debut | 16 December 1969 vs Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | March 17, 2012 vs Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Only T20I (Cap 11 ) | December 1, 2006 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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196 | Cricket Club of India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
198-2013 | Mumbai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992 | Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007-2013 | Mumbai Indians | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo.com , 26 December 2017 |
Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian Cricketer. He is recognized worldwide as the highest ranked batsman in the history of cricket. Tendulkar was just 16 years old in Test cricket against Pakistan. He made his debut and for the next twenty-four years he played cricket for India at the international level .
He holds several world records, including the highest number of centuries in Test cricket and one-day international cricket . He became the first cricketer to score a century in a combination of one-day international cricket and Test cricket. He set the record in the 2012 Asia Cup four-nation cricket match against Bangladesh .
He is the first double-century scorer in the history of one-day international cricket. On 5 October 2013, he became the first Indian to score a total of 50,000 runs in all recognized cricket.
A 2002 Wisden article named him the second best Test cricketer in the world after Sir Don Bradman and the second best ODI cricketer in the world after Viv Richards.] He was a member of the Indian cricket team that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup . In 2013, on the occasion of Wisden's centenary, he became the only Indian to be named in the all-time World Test XI squad.
He won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award , India's highest sporting award for 1996-1997, and the Padma Shri award in 1999 . In 2006, he was awarded India's second highest award, the Padma Bhushan . In 2010, Tendulkar was awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy of the Year by the ICC. In 2012, he was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha . Tendulkar was the first Indian player to be promoted to the rank of Captain of the Indian Air Force .
Tendulkar retired from one-day international cricket on 23 December 2012, and from international T20 cricket in May 2013. 013 AD on December 16 in Mumbai, the city's Wankhede Stadium against West Indies in 00 Test matches won, who retired from Test cricket. Shortly after his retirement, the Indian government announced that Sachin would be awarded India's highest award, the Bharat Ratna , on January 26, 2014.
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Birth and childhood
Sachin Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1983 at Nirmal Nursing Home. His father Ramesh Tendulkar was a Marathi novelist. His mother Rajini Tendulkar worked in an insurance company. Ramesh named him Sachin after the famous Indian composer Sachin Devvarman . Sachin's two grandfathers Nitin and Ajit and sister Sabita are the children of Ramesh's first wife. In his early life, Sachin lived in the Sahitya Sahabas Co-operative Housing Society in the Bandra (East) region.
Early cricket
As a child, Sachin was attracted to the game of tennis following the example of John McEnroe , but his grandfather Ajit took him to the famous cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar in the Shivaji Park area of Dadar in 1984 . At Achrekar's instruction, Dadar's Sachin was admitted to Shardashram Vidyamandir High School and Achrekar started teaching him cricket. In 1986, at the age of fourteen, he went to the MRF Pace Foundation in Madras to train for fast bowling . Australian fast bowler Dennis Lilly asked him to concentrate on batting. Tendulkar played as a substitute for the Pakistan cricket team led by Imran Khan in an exhibition match marking the Golden Jubilee of the Cricket Club of India at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on January 20, 1986. He played as a batsman in the 1986 Cricket World Cup match between India and England.During this time Sachin helped his school win the Matunga Gujarati Seva Mandal Shield. He is also the Bombay Cricket Club kanga league competitions, John Bright and the Cricket Club of India played.
In 1986, Tendulkar scored hundreds in every innings. In 1986, he and his friend Vinod Kambli formed a record partnership of 74 runs against St. Xavier's High School in the Lord Harris Shield inter-school competition. In this game, Sachin scored an unbeaten 328 * in 6 innings and scored more than one thousand runs in the entire competition.
Domestic
November 14, 1987 AD, Tendulkar Ranji Trophy tournament in Mumbai cricket team is the first team to play a match, but not her. During the New Zealand tour of India , Tendulkar was given an opportunity to bat against the ball of Indian captain Kapil Dev, who was training in the nets at the Wankhede Stadium, and was easily played by Mumbai cricket team captain Dilip Bangsarkar . On December 11, 1986, at the age of just 15 years and 232 days, Sachin became the first member of the Gujarat Cricket Team to play for the Gujarat Cricket Team.He made his debut as the youngest Indian cricketer to score a century in first-class cricket with an unbeaten 100 *. He later scored hundreds in the Deodhar Trophy and Dilip Trophy.
In the 1986-89 season, Sachin became Mumbai's highest run-getter. also at the beginning of the 1989-90 season Irani Trophy tournament, left India in Delhi's cricket team against the unbeaten century. Tendulkar visited England twice, in 1986 and 1989.
He scored his first double century (204 *) for the Mumbai cricket team against the Australian national cricket team that toured India in 1997. He scored an unbeaten 233 * against the Tamil Nadu cricket team in the semi-finals of the Ranji Trophy in April 2000 .
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International
Early
Tendulkar in international cricket | ||||||
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Match | Win | Rate | Draw | Tie | No results | |
Test cricket | 200 | 72 | 57 | 72 | 0 | - |
One Day International | 463 | 234 | 200 | - | 5 | 24 |
Twenty20 International | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
After just one first-class cricket season, In 1969, Raj Singh Dungarpur selected Sachin as a member of the Indian team for the tour of India against Pakistan. He made his international Test debut in ovember 1989 at the age of just 18 years and 223 days in the Karachi Test. He was bowled by Walker Yunus for just fifteen in this match. In the Sialkot Test, he continued to play despite being hit in the nose by Walker Yunus. In a 20-over exhibition match in Peshawar , Tendulkar scored 53 off just 18 balls. He scored 26 runs in one over by Pakistan's famous leg-spinner Abdul Qadir. debut Test series, and his game, he scored 215 at an average of 35.83 with a single one-day international matches without any runs, he was dismissed
He then went on to tour New Zealand, India , scoring a total of 118 runs at an average of 29.25 in Tests, including six in an innings in the second Test. New Zealand one-day international cricket match against the two, he was out for 0 and 36 runs. He became the second youngest cricketer in the world to score the first Test century of his life (119 *) in the second Test against England in 1990. Just before the 1992 Cricket World Cup tour of Australia, Tendulkar earned the respect of the cricketing world by scoring an unbeaten 146 * in the third Sydney Test and 114 in the final Perth Test.
The rise of
Tendulkar made his ODI debut in 1994 against New Zealand in Auckland . He scored 82 off 49 balls. On 9 September 1994, he scored the first international century of his life in one-day international cricket against Australia in Colombo , Sri Lanka . He became the highest run scorer in the 1998 Cricket World Cup with two centuries.
In preparation for the 1998 tour of the Australian cricket team to India , Sachin defeated Australia by an unbeaten 204 * in a three-day match against the Ranji Trophy- winning Mumbai cricket team against the famous spin bowler Shane Warne. Tendulkar helped India win the tournament with two Test centuries, a century in ODI cricket in Kanpur and five wickets in Kochi . And in Sharjah in the tri- 1998 Coca-Cola Cup competition in two important centuries India has won the cup. 1998Tendulkar scored 141 against Australia in the ICC quarter-finals in Dhaka and took India to the semifinals with four wickets in hand.
When Sachin's father Ramesh Tendulkar died during the 1999 Cricket World Cup , Sachin returned to India for his father's funeral in the middle of the competition. After the Shraddha ceremony, he rejoined the competition and scored an unbeaten 140 * against Kenya , dedicating the century to his father. In 1999, the 1998-99 Asian Test Championship competition Kolkata 's Eden Gardens ground in the first match, Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar crashed into the audience anger when Sachin Tendulkar was run out to close the game. But after some time, the game started again when the spectators calmed down at Sachin's request. The incident sparked political unrest between India and Pakistan. Tendulkar scored hundreds against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
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Captain
Sachin's record as captain | ||||||
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Match | Win | Rate | Draw | Tie | No results | |
Tests | 25 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 0 | - |
One Day Cricket | 63 | 23 | 43 | - | 2 | 6 |
In 1999, he was elected captain of the Indian cricket team after Sachin Mohammad Azharuddin . But his captaincy life was not a very successful one. After winning the captaincy, India went on a tour of Australia, losing 0-3. Tendulkar resigned as captain after South Africa toured India and beat India 2-0.
Injury and saphalatabihina period
On a tour of the West Indies in 2002, Tendulkar touched Donald Bradman's record by scoring his 29th century in the Port of Spain Test. But in the following innings, India lost the match by 0, 0, 7 and 0 runs respectively. He broke Donald Bradman's record by scoring his 30th Test century against England in August 2002.
He helped India reach the final by scoring 63 runs in 11 matches in the 2003 Cricket World Cup . Though India lost to Australia in the final, Tendulkar was selected as the best in the competition. Although he did not play well in Test cricket in 2003, he scored an unbeaten 241 * against Australia in Sydney in 2004. He scored an unbeaten 194 * in the next Test against Pakistan. After 004 AD, most of elbow pain, Tendulkar did not play cricket.
On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar set a world record by scoring his 35th Test century against Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground . About a year and a half later, in May 2007, he scored his next Test century against Bangladesh. He scored his 49th ODI century against Pakistan on 8 February 2006. On 19 March 2006, he was bowled out for just one run off 21 balls against England at the Wankhede Stadium. Tendulkar's cricketing career was called into question as he did not score a single half-century in the tournament and underwent shoulder surgery. But on September 14, 2006, he recovered and scored his 40th century in an unbeaten 141 * in one-day cricket against the West Indies.
India's coach Greg Chappell said Sachin's repeated failures at the 2006 Cricket World Cup had reduced India's chances of winning. When he asked Tendulkar to step down in the batting order, he also criticized Tendulkar for not complying. Tendulkar reacted emotionally to the incident and the Indian Cricket Board asked him to explain the behavior. Ian Chappell advised him to retire if Tendulkar failed to go down in the batting order as instructed by the coach.
Continuation of the receipt
After failing in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, he reopened the game against Bangladesh and became the best in the competition. He also became the highest run-getter and best in the competition in the Future Cup against South Africa. Tendulkar became the third player in the world to score 11,000 runs in the Nottingham Test on July 26, 2006. He became India's highest run-getter in the next one-day international against England at an average of 53.42. He became India's highest run-getter with 26 runs in the next one-day international against Australia in October 2006. In 2006, Tendulkar was dismissed several times between 90 and 100. He was out for 99 runs three times.
When India toured Australia at the end of 2006, Tendulkar became the highest run-getter with 493 runs in four Tests. Tendulkar averaged 221.33 in the second Test in Sydney. He scored 153 in the fourth Test in Adelaide . Tendulkar completed 16,000 runs in the Commonwealth Bank tri-nation one-day series on 5 February 2006 in Brisbane . In the first final of the competition, he defeated India by an unbeaten 116 * and in the second final by 91 runs.
When South Africa toured India in March 2006, they suffered a groin injury in just one innings. As a result, he missed the remaining two Tests of the tournament and the tri-nation tournament against South Africa and Bangladesh and the 2006 Asia Cup .
India lost the tournament in July 2007 when they scored 95 runs at an average of just 15.63 in three Tests against Sri Lanka . During the tour, Tendulkar had to retire due to injury in one-day cricket. But on the next tour of Australia, he scored a total of 12,000 runs in Tests for Brian Lara Broke the world record for the highest run-getter in Tests. India won the tournament by scoring two half-centuries and one century. But then again injury forced England to withdraw from the first three of the seven one-day internationals on the India tour. India won the Chennai Test against England in December 2006 by an unbeaten 103*. But Tendulkar failed to tour Sri Lanka in early 2009. He then scored his 42nd Test century with an unbeaten 163 in the third ODI and 180 in the first Test on the New Zealand tour. He then led India to a 138-run victory in the tri-nation Compaq Cup final.
In the first four matches of Australia's tour of India in October 2009, Tendulkar scored 14, 4, 32 and 40 respectively. In the fifth match, Australia scored 350/4 in 50 overs. In reply, Sachin scored 175 off 141 balls but India lost by only 3 runs due to the failure of the batsmen at the end. In this match, Tendulkar became the first person in the world to score 16,000 runs in one-day international cricket.
Sachin then scored one in Tests against Sri Lanka and two centuries against Bangladesh. During a tour of India in South Africa in late 2009, he scored two centuries in Tests and the first two centuries in one-day international cricket.
Won the World Cup
Test cricket | One day international | |
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Australia | 11 | 9 |
Sri Lanka | 9 | 8 |
South Africa | 7 | 5 |
England | 7 | 2 |
New Zealand | 4 | 5 |
West Indies | 3 | 4 |
Zimbabwe | 3 | 5 |
Pakistan | 2 | 5 |
Bangladesh | 5 | 1 |
Kenya | - | 4 |
Namibia | - | 1 |
Total | 51 | 49 |
In the 2011 Cricket World Cup , Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan became the second highest run scorer in the tournament after scoring 462 runs at an average of 53.55. India defeated Sri Lanka in the final of the tournament to win the World Cup. This was the most significant time in Tendulkar's life.
Hundredth century
After the World Cup , Sachin toured England in July . During the tour, there was a lot of excitement about Tendulkar's chances of scoring his 100th Test and one-day international century in international cricket, but he managed to score a maximum of 91 runs at an average of 34.12. India dropped out of the number one Test rankings in the world, losing the match 0-4. In this competition, Sachin was injured again and withdrew from the one-day international competition. On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar set a world record for the first 15,000 runs in Test cricket when he played against the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground .
On March 17, 2012, Tendulkar set a world record by scoring his long-awaited 100th century against Bangladesh in the 2012 Asia Cup . Even after this record, India lost to Bangladesh.
All
AB de Villiers | 12 |
Viv Richards | 11 |
Gautam Gambheer | 11 |
Virender Sehwag | 11 |
Mominul Haque | 11 |
John Edrich | 11 |
Sachin Tendulkar | 10 |
Source: Cricinfo Qualifications: At least 10 consecutive half-centuries in a player's life . |
Tendulkar announced his retirement from one-day international cricket on December 23, 2012 after failing to play as expected against England. In response to this decision, former India captain Sourav Ganguly felt that Sachin should have played in the upcoming match against Pakistan. Former Indian cricketers Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath paid homage to Sachin.
On October 10, 2013, Tendulkar announced that he would retire from Test cricket after playing the 200th Test of his life. The Indian Cricket Board accordingly organized two Test matches against the West Indies in November of that year in Kolkata and Mumbai .He scored 74 runs in his 200th Test in Mumbai , ending his international career in Test cricket with just 69 runs from 16,000. The Cricket Association of Bengal and the Mumbai Cricket Association organized various events to mark Sachin's retirement .
Twenty20 cricket
Sachin Tendulkar in Twenty20 cricket | ||||||
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Match | Run | Most runs | Hundreds | Half-century | Average | |
Twenty20 International | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 |
Indian Premier League | 78 | 2334 | 100 * | 1 | 13 | 34.63 |
Champions League Twenty20 | 13 | 265 | 69 | 0 | 1 | 20.38 |
After playing only Twenty20 international cricket against South Africa in 2006, he decided not to participate in such international cricket.
Indian Premier League tournament $ 008 1121250 Sachin AD Agreement Mumbai Indians captain is selected. The Mumbai Indians reached the final of the 2010 Indian Premier League. In this competition, Sachin scored 718 runs in 14 innings and won the award for the best, best batsman and best captain of the competition. 011 Indian Premier League tournament Kochi Kerala taskarsa against just 66 balls, Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 100, his only century of the Twenty-0. He scored a total of 1,623 runs in this competition. 2013 Indian Premier League. He announced his retirement from the Indian Premier League after defeating Mumbai Indians Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs in the final on May 26 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Tendulkar retired from Twenty20 cricket after playing in the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 .
Business receipts
Due to the popularity of cricket, Tendulkar's contribution to the capital in the past when he was away from any commercial agreements in 1995 oyarldatelera with ₹ , 30, million ( fall back to US $ 4 And .05 million) was signed. It was later renewed for another 5 years in 2001 for ₹ 60 million ( US $ 10.8 million) .
006 Saatchi and sacira to ₹ of 180 million ( fall back to US $ 4 .3 million) three-year deal. Tendulkar used his popularity to launch two restaurants - Tendulkar's , Colaba, Mumbai and Sachin's , Mulund, Mumbai. The restaurant is being jointly operated by Mars Restaurant owner Sanjay Narang. Also, he will open a new restaurant called Sachin’s in Bangalore . In 2006, Sachin Future GroupAnd set up a joint venture group with Manipal Group to announce the launch of a product called 'S Drive & Sach' aimed at physical fitness in healthcare and sports. Virgin Comics plans to publish a comic book featuring Sachin as Mahabir .
Advertising
As a living legend and one of the best batsmen in the world, Sachin Tendulkar participated in advertisements for the following products and companies : -
Serial No. | Product name | Duration |
(1) | Pepsi | 1992 to present |
(2) | Canon | 2008 to 2009 |
(3) | Airtel | 2004-2006 |
(4) | Nazara Technologies | 2005-2006 |
(5) | Britannia | 2001-2006 |
(2) | Hometrade | 2001-2006 |
(2) | Sunfist | 2007-2013 |
(2) | National Egg Coordinating Committee | 2003-2005 |
(9) | Boost | 1990 to present |
(10) | Action shoes | 1995-2000 |
(11) | Adidas | 2000-2010 |
(12) | Fiat Palio | 2001-2003 |
(13) | Reynolds | 2006 to present |
(14) | TVS | 2002-2005 |
(15) | ESPN Star Sports | 2002 to present |
(17) | G-Hanz | 2005-2006 |
(17) | Sanio BPL | 2006 to present |
(17) | AIDS: Awareness Exhibition | 2005 |
(19) | Colgate-Palmolive | |
(20) | Phillips | |
(21) | MRF | |
(22) | Visa | |
(23) | Aviva | |
(24) | Royal Bank of Scotland Group | |
(25) | Toshiba |
Books
Sachin Tendulkar has been discussed in various books. Also, the following books have been written about Tendulkar's cricketing life: -
- Sachin: The Story of the World's Greatest Batsman by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Global. ISBN 97-0-14-302654-3
- The A to Z of Sachin Tendulkar by Gulu Ezekiel. Publisher: Penguin Global. ISBN 97-81-648-530-6
- Sachin Tendulkar-a definitive biography by Vaibhav Purandare. Publisher: Roli Books. ISBN 61-6437-380-2
- Sachin Tendulkar - Masterful by Peter Murray, Ashish Shukla. Publisher: Rupa. ISBN 61-617-606-6
- If Cricket is a Religion, Sachin is God by Vijay Santhanam, Shyam Balasubramanian. Publisher: HarperCollins India ISBN 97-81-6223-621-6
- Master Stroke: 100 Centuries of Sachin Tendulkar by Neelima Athalye. Publisher: Sakal Publications. ISBN 97-93-60561-64-3
- Sachin Tendulkar: Masterful by Peter Murray, Ashish Shu
- kla. Publisher: Murray Advertising.
Legacy
In 2012, Tendulkar was ranked number 8 in Outlook India's poll of the Greatest Indian.Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in Tests, with 15,921 runs, as well as in One-Day Internationals, with 18,426 runs. He is the only player to score more than 30,000 runs in all forms of international cricket (Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals). He is the 16th player and the first Indian to score 50,000 runs in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket (First-class, List A and Twenty20). He achieved this feat on 5 October 2013, during a Champions League Twenty20 match for his IPL team Mumbai Indians against Trinidad and Tobago.
He also holds the record of the highest number of centuries in both Tests (51) and ODIs (49) as well as in Tests and ODIs combined (100). On 16 March 2012, Tendulkar scored his 100th international hundred. It came against Bangladesh in the league matches of Asia Cup 2012. He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined. He also holds the world record for playing the highest number of Test matches (200) and ODI matches (463). Tendulkar has been part of most wins by an Indian in both Test cricket with 72 wins and ODIs with 234 wins and is third in the world in ODI victories after Ricky Ponting (262 wins), Mahela Jayawardene (241 wins).
Tendulkar has scored over 1,000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times, and in 1998 he scored 1,894 runs, the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for One-Day Internationals. He is the first male cricketer to score a double-century in one-day cricket.
He has been Man of the Match 13 times in Test matches and Man of the Series four times, out of them twice in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. The performances earned him respect from Australian cricket fans and players Similarly he has been Man of the Match 62 times in One day International matches and Man of the Series 15 times. He became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 runs in Test cricket, having also been the third batsman and the first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in that form of the game. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1,000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test of the 2008–09 Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia at Nagpur on 6 November 2008, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 11 Test centuries against Australia, tying with Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously. On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar became the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test Cricket.
Tendulkar has consistently done well in Cricket World Cups. He was the highest run scorer of the 1996 Cricket World Cup with a total of 523 runs and also of the 2003 Cricket World Cup with 673 runs. After his century against England during group stages of 2011 Cricket World Cup, he became the player to hit most centuries in Cricket World Cups with six centuries and the first player to score 2000 runs in World Cup cricket.
Tendulkar was also one half of the most prolific Test cricket partnership to date, alongside Rahul Dravid. Batting together, they scored 6920 runs for India at a partnership average of over fifty runs.
National honours
- 1994 – Arjuna Award, by the Government of India in recognition of his outstanding achievement in sports.
- 1997–98 – Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest honour given for achievement in sports.
- 1999 – Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award.
- 2001 – Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra State's highest Civilian Award.
- 2008 – Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award.
- 2014 – Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.
Other honours
- 1997 – Wisden Cricketer of the Year.
- 1998, 2010 – Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World.
- 2002 – In commemorating Tendulkar's feat of equalling Don Bradman's 29 centuries in Test Cricket, automotive company Ferrari invited him to its paddock in Silverstone on the eve of the British Grand Prix on 23 July, to receive a Ferrari 360 Modena from the F1 world champion Michael Schumacher.
- 2003 – Player of the tournament in 2003 Cricket World Cup.
- 2004, 2007, 2010 – ICC World ODI XI.
- 2006-07, 2009-10 - Polly Umrigar Award for International cricketer of the year
- 2009, 2010, 2011 – ICC World Test XI.
- 2010 – Outstanding Achievement in Sport and the Peoples Choice Award at The Asian Awards in London.
- 2010 – Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year.
- 2010 – LG People's Choice Award.
- 2010 – Made an Honorary group captain by the Indian Air Force.
- 2011 – Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year award.
- 2012 – Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award.
- 2012 – Honorary Member of the Order of Australia, given by the Australian government.
- 2013 – Indian Postal Service released a stamp of Tendulkar and he became the second Indian after Mother Teresa to have such stamp released in their lifetime.
- 2014 – ESPNCricinfo Cricketer of the Generation
- 2017 – The Asian Awards Fellowship Award at the 7th Asian Awards.
- 2019 – Inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
- 2020 – Laureus World Sports Award for Best Sporting Moment (2000–2020)