Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 40 years 37 days
Major teams India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians,Yorkshire
Nickname Tendlya, Little Master
Playing role Top-order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly
Height 5 ft 5 in
Education Sharadashram Vidyamandir School
In a nutshell Perhaps the most complete batsman and the most worshipped cricketer in the world, Tendulkar holds just about every batting record worth owning in the game, including those for most runs and hundreds in Tests and ODIs, and most international runs.
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 198 | 327 | 33 | 15837 | 248* | 53.86 | 51 | 67 | 69 | 115 | 0 | |||
| ODIs | 463 | 452 | 41 | 18426 | 200* | 44.83 | 21367 | 86.23 | 49 | 96 | 2016 | 195 | 140 | 0 |
| T20Is | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10.00 | 12 | 83.33 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| First-class | 307 | 486 | 50 | 25228 | 248* | 57.86 | 81 | 114 | 186 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 551 | 538 | 55 | 21999 | 200* | 45.54 | 60 | 114 | 175 | 0 | ||||
| Twenty20 | 91 | 91 | 11 | 2727 | 100* | 34.08 | 2239 | 121.79 | 1 | 16 | 351 | 36 | 28 | 0 |
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 198 | 142 | 4198 | 2461 | 45 | 3/10 | 3/14 | 54.68 | 3.51 | 93.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODIs | 463 | 270 | 8054 | 6850 | 154 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 44.48 | 5.10 | 52.2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| T20Is | 1 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 1/12 | 1/12 | 12.00 | 4.80 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 307 | 7563 | 4353 | 70 | 3/10 | 62.18 | 3.45 | 108.0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| List A | 551 | 10230 | 8478 | 201 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 42.17 | 4.97 | 50.8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 91 | 8 | 93 | 123 | 2 | 1/12 | 1/12 | 61.50 | 7.93 | 46.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Test debut | Pakistan v India at Karachi, Nov 15-20, 1989 | |||
| Last Test | India v Australia at Delhi, Mar 22-24, 2013 | |||
| ODI debut | Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, Dec 18, 1989 | |||
| Last ODI | India v Pakistan at Dhaka, Mar 18, 2012 | |||
| Only T20I | South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 | |||
| First-class debut | 1988/89 | |||
| Last First-class | India v Australia at Delhi, Mar 22-24, 2013 | |||
| List A debut | 1989/90 | |||
| Last List A | India v Pakistan at Dhaka, Mar 18, 2012 | |||
| Twenty20 debut | South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 | |||
| Last Twenty20 | Mumbai Indians v Sunrisers Hyderabad at Mumbai, May 13, 2013 |
| Bat & Bowl | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match Date | Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38* | Mum Indians | v Sunrisers | Mumbai | 13 May 2013 | T20 |
| 15 | Mum Indians | v Warriors | Pune | 11 May 2013 | T20 |
| 48 | Mum Indians | v KKR | Mumbai | 7 May 2013 | T20 |
| 15 | Mum Indians | v Super Kings | Mumbai | 5 May 2013 | T20 |
| 14 | Mum Indians | v Sunrisers | Hyderabad (Deccan) | 1 May 2013 | T20 |
| 9 | Mum Indians | v Kings XI | Mumbai | 29 Apr 2013 | T20 |
| 23 | Mum Indians | v RCB | Mumbai | 27 Apr 2013 | T20 |
| 2 | Mum Indians | v KKR | Kolkata | 24 Apr 2013 | T20 |
| 54 | Mum Indians | v Daredevils | Delhi | 21 Apr 2013 | T20 |
| 1 | Mum Indians | v Royals | Jaipur | 17 Apr 2013 | T20 |
Profile
Sachin Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, the most prolific runmaker of all time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon the game has ever known. His batting is based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality given only to geniuses - anticipation. If he doesn't have a signature stroke - the upright, back-foot punch comes close - it is because he is equally proficient at each of the full range of orthodox shots (and plenty of improvised ones as well) and can pull them out at will.
There are no apparent weaknesses in Tendulkar's game. He can score all around the wicket, off both front foot and back, can tune his technique to suit every condition, temper his game to suit every situation, and has made runs in all parts of the world in all conditions.
Some of his finest performances have come against Australia, the overwhelmingly dominant team of his era. His century as a 19-year-old on a lightning-fast pitch at the WACA is considered one of the best innings ever to have been played in Australia. A few years later he received the ultimate compliment from the ultimate batsman: Don Bradman confided to his wife that Tendulkar reminded him of himself.
Blessed with the keenest of cricket minds, and armed with a loathing for losing, Tendulkar set about doing what it took to become one of the best batsmen in the world. His greatness was established early: he was only 16 when he made his Test debut. He was hit on the mouth by Waqar Younis but continued to bat, in a blood-soaked shirt. His first Test hundred, a match-saving one at Old Trafford, came when he was 17, and he had 16 Test hundreds before he turned 25. In 2000 he became the first batsman to have scored 50 international hundreds, in 2008 he passed Brian Lara as the leading Test run-scorer, and in the years after, he went past 13,000 Test runs 30,000 international runs, and 50 Test hundreds.
He currently holds the record for most hundreds in both Tests and ODIs - remarkable, considering he didn't score his first ODI hundred till his 79th match. Incredibly, he retains a divine enthusiasm for the game: at 36 years and 306 days he broke a 40-year-old barrier by scoring the first double-century in one-day cricket. In 2012, when just one month short of his 39th birthday, he became the first player to score 100 international centuries, which like Bradman's batting average, could be a mark that lasts for ever. Later that year, though, he announced his retirement from ODIs after a disappointing 18 months in international cricket.
Tendulkar's considerable achievements seem greater still when looked at in the light of the burden of expectations he has had to bear from his adoring but somewhat unreasonable followers, who have been prone to regard anything less than a hundred in each innings as a failure. The aura may have dimmed, if only slightly, as the years on the international circuit have taken their toll on the body, but Tendulkar remains, by a distance, the most worshipped cricketer in the world.
We miss him a lot!
