My favourite cricketer

2. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born April 24,
1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is an
Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the
greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In
2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest
Test batsman of all time next only to Sir
Donald Bradman, and the second greatest
one-day international (ODI) batsman of all
time next only to Sir Viv Richards. The list was
later revised to make him the greatest one-day
international (ODI) batsman of all time. In
September 2007, Shane Warne, the worldrecord
breaking Australian leg spinner, rated
Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest player he has
played with or against. Sachin Tendulkar was
the only player of the current generation to be
included in Bradman's Eleven, the dream
team of Sir Donald Bradman, published in his
biography. He is sometimes referred to As
the Little Master or the Master Blaster.

4. Sachin -the master blaster
is not top batsman?
After Sir Don Bradman
claimed Sachin to be his
replica in Test Cricket, one
would not make any mistakes
to keep the little master out of
their top-10 list of best Test
batsmen ever. But it seemed
that the ICC thought the other
way round when it not only
kept the Indian Star out of the
top-10, but also the top-20 of
its list of the new “ICC Best
Ever Ratings”.

5. Sachin Tendulkar - The master
blaster in IPL
Sachin Tendulkar was made
the icon player and captain
for his home side, the
Mumbai Indians in the
inaugural Indian Premier
League Twenty20
competition in 2008. As an
icon player, he was signed
for a sum of US$1,121,250,
15% more than the secondhighest
paid player in the
team, Sanath Jayasuriya. But
despite Sachin heroic his
team Mumbai Indians not
qualified for the semis of the
IPL tournament.

6. Sachin personal life
Sachin was born in Bombay. His
father, Ramesh Tendulkar, a
Marathi novelist, named
Tendulkar after his favourite
music director, Sachin Dev
Burman. Tendulkar's elder
brother Ajit encouraged him to
play cricket. Tendulkar has two
other siblings: a brother Nitin,
and sister Savitai. In 1995, Sachin
Tendulkar married Anjali (born
November 10, 1967), a
paediatrician and daughter of
Gujarati industrialist Anand
Mehta. They have two children,
Sara (born 12 October, 1997), and
Arjun (born 24 September, 1999).

7. Sachin Tendulkar - The Little
master
Sachin Tendulkar is an
Indian cricketer, widely
considered to be one of the
greatest batsmen of all time.
He currently holds the
records for the most
cumulative runs in One-Day
Internationals, and the most
number of centuries scored
in both One-day
Internationals and Test
cricket. He made his
international debut against
Pakistan in 1989 at the age of
sixteen, becoming India's
youngest Test player.

8. Master by his adoring fans.
Sachin first to score 12,000 run.
Sachin is the highest run scorer in both
Test matches and ODIs, and also the
batsman with the most centuries in
either form of the game. Master Blaster
Sachin Tendulkar has become the world
record Test runs scorer, surpassing Brian
Lara's previous best mark of 11,953.
Tendulkar, 35, needed 15 runs to
overtake West Indies legend Lara in the
standings on the first day of the second
Test against Australia in Mohali. And
despite being forced to go to tea on 13
not out, the 'Little Master' came out
after the interval to hit Australian
debutant Peter Siddle's first ball of the
session for three runs to spark wild
celebrations in the ground.

9. Sachin as Captain
Tendulkar's two tenures as captain of the
Indian cricket team were not very
successful. When Tendulkar took over as
Captain in 1996, it was with huge hopes and
expectations. However, by 1997 the team
was performing poorly. Azharuddin was
credited with saying "Nahin jeetega! Chote
ki naseeb main jeet nahin hai!", which
translates into: "He won't win! It's not in the
small one's destiny". Tendulkar, succeeding
Azharuddin as captain for his second term,
then led India on a tour of Australia, where
the visitors were comprehensively beaten 3-
0 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.