2. Full name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born: 24 April 1973,
Nirmal Nursing
Home
He took up cricket at the age of eleven
Made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the
age of sixteen
His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a well-known Marathi
novelist and his mother, Rajni, worked in the insurance industry
Ramesh named Tendulkar after his favorite music director,
Sachin Dev Bur man
Talash (1969) Devdas (1955)
Prem Nagar (1974)Tyaag (1976)
3. On 14 November 1987, Tendulkar was selected to represent Mumbai in
the Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic First-class cricket tournament, for the
1987–88 season.
However, he was not selected for the final eleven in any of the matches, though
he was often used as a substitute fielder
Raj Singh Dungarpur is credited for the selection of Tendulkar for the Indian
tour of Pakistan in late 1989,and that too after just one first class season.
T he Indian selection committee had shown interest in selecting Tendulkar
for the tour of the West Indies held earlier that year, but eventually did not
select him, as they did not want him to be exposed to the dominant fast
bowlers of the West Indies so early in his career
He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first
batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, the only player to
complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket
4. Tendulkar's results in international matches
Matches Won Lost Drawn Tied No result
Test 200 72 56 72 0 –
ODI 463 234 200 – 5 24
T20I 1 1 – – – –
5. National honors
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 honor 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.On 24 May 1995,at the age of 22, Tendulkar married Anjali,
Anjali is a pediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist
Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta.
Sachin's father-in-law, Anand Mehta, is a seven-time
national bridge champion. Anjali is six years his senior
In April 2012, Tendulkar accepted the
Rajya Sabha nomination proposed by the President of
India and became the first active sports person and
cricketer to have been nominated
6. Tendulkar's shot to reach 14,000 Test runs. He was batting against Australia in
October 2010.
Tendulkar's two tenures as captain of the Indian cricket team were not very successful.
When Tendulkar took over as captain in 1996
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