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.
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.
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.
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 100th 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.
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’.
Sachin is getting number of awards throughout his career. Here is a few number of them are listed.
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.
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