Profile and Life History of Sachin Tendulkar

Indian Cricketer

Who is called Sachin Tendulkar?

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar widely known as Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian former international cricketer. He is also the former captain of the Indian national team. He is considered as one of the greatest batsmen in the cricket history. In the International Cricket, he is the highest run scorer of all time.                                                                                             

Personal life:

Sachin Tendulkar was born on April 24 1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra. His father was Ramesh Tendulkar and his mother was Rajni Tendulkar. During his school days, he was trained under Ramakant Achrekar. His nickname was Tendya. He also does shift schools to be in part of the best cricket team.  On his early days, he attended the MRF pace foundation in Chennai to practice fast bowling. But Dennis Lillee advised him to take practice in batting.

Career:

On the age of 16, in the year 1989 Sachin got debuted internationally. On the Ranji trophy 1988, he scored 583 runs on the average of 67. And on 1990 Ranji trophy he scored a 75 ball 96 run knock against Haryana. It created an opportunity for India to lift the cup. On 1990, Sachin Tendulkar becomes the second youngest to score a century in test match. Thus saved his team from defeat against England in Old Trafford Manchester. In Sydney against a bouncy Australian team, Sachin beaten 148 runs and cemented his place in the Indian team in 1992.

He was called the Master Blaster because of his score he made in ODI after 78 games against Australia in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the year 1994. Then on 1996, succeeding Azharuddin he was appointed as the captain of the Indian team. On 1998 ICC 1998 quarterfinal at Dhaka because of Scahin’s play India entered into semi-finals. He scored 141 runs from 128 balls and took four Australian wickets. Then in the Cheppauk stadium India played against Pakistan in attest match in which he scored 136 runs from first of a two-Test series. Tendulkar, however, won the player of the series award. He also becomes the player of the match in one of the games. Tendulkar resigned his captaincy after his defeat against South Africa on 2000. And the capitancy was took over by Sourav Ganguly.

Sachin Tendulkar the Master Blaster:

As of 2003, Sachin made 673 runs in 11 matches on the Cricket World Cup, helping India reach the final. But 2003 was also one his bad year in his career. He failed in all six innings and scored only an average of 17.5 and only one 50. Tendulkar scored his record-breaking 35th Test century, against the Sri Lankans On 10 December 2005 at Feroz Shah Kotla . On 6 February 2006 in a match against Pakistan Tendulkar scored his 39th ODI century. Indian team coach Greg Chappell used to criticize Tendulkar. On April 7 2007, the board of cricket sent him a notice to explain him about his comments to the media. On 2008, he achieved the record of biggest achievement in 19 years of careers.

Because he broke a lot of records made by Brain Lara and also got the run mark of 12,000. On 2011, he told that winning the world cup is the proudest moment of my life and I couldn’t control my tears of joy. He told this after winning the world cup by defeating Srilanka and becoming the India’s leading run scorer. On 2012 match against Bangladesh Asia Cup at Mirapur he scored his 100^th international century. But after his poor performance in 2012 England test series he announced his retirement from the one day Internationals on 23 December 2012. He would be available for Test cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar Retirement:

On 10 October 2013 Tendulkar announced his retirement. That is he would retire from all the cricket matches after participating the two-Test series against West Indies in November. As per his request BCCI arranged that matches in Kolkata and Mumbai so that he would get retired from his home ground. He also got retired from the Indian Premier League. Later on 2014, he was appointed as the Mumbai Indian’s ‘Team Icon’.

Achievements of Sachin Tendulkar:

1. On 2003 Cricket World Cup, he was the player of the tournament.
2. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha on 2012. He served in that until 2018.
3. Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord’s on July 2014, he captained the MCC side.
4. Sachin was praised for his magnum heart. Tendulkar used to sponsor a number of 200 children every year through a Mumbai based NGO association Apnalaya in partner with his mother in law, Annabel Mehta.

Honors of Sachin Tendulkar:

• On 1997, he was honored as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year.
• Then on 2002 he was gifted a Ferrari 360 Modena from the F1 world champion Michael Schumacher. Because he equaled Don Bradman’s 29 centuries in Test Cricket. So Ferrari invited him to its paddock in Silverstone on the eve of the British Grand Prix on 23 July 2002.
• After that he played for the ICC World ODI XI on 2004, 2007, 2010. Then he played for ICC World Test XI on 2009, 2010, 2011.
• On 1998 and 2010 he was honored as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World.
• Indian Air Force on 2010 made him an honory group captain.
• Australian Government on 2012 made him the Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.
• He was also honored with the lifetime membership on Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on 2012.
• On 2013, Indian Postal Service released a post for him. By that he has become the second Indian to have a stamp released for him on his lifetime itself.
• ESPNCricinfo announced him as the Cricketer of the Generation on 2014.

Awards for Sachin Tendulkar:

Sachin is getting number of awards throughout his career. Here is a few number of them are listed.

1. For recognition of his outstanding achievements, Government India awarded him Arjuna Award on 1994.
2. Then on 1998, the highest achievement award for the sports person called Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna is awarded to him.
3. Followed by Padma Shri on 1999 which is the India’s fourth highest civilian award.
4. On 2001, Maharashtra State’s highest Civilian Award called Maharashtra Bhushan Award was awarded to him.
5. After that on 2006, he got the Polly Umrigar Award for International cricketer of the year.
6. Then on 2008, he got the India’s second highest civilian award called the Padma Vibhushan.
7. Next on 2010, ICC awarded him the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy representing him the cricketer of the year.
8. Later on the same year that is 2010, he got the peoples choice of award from LG.
9. He got the people’s choice award at The Asian Awards in London on 2010 for his Outstanding Achievement in Sport.
10. Then on 2011, he got the BCCI Cricketer of the Year award. On the same year Castrol awarded him the Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year award.
11. Next on 2012 he got the Wisden India Outstanding Achievement award.

On 2014, he got the highest civilian award of India called Bharat Ratna. Recently on 2017, he got the Asian Awards Fellowship Award at the 7th Asian Awards.