Saturday, January 14, 2012

Sachin Tendulkar

Early Life 

Sachin Tendulkar was born on 24th of April, 1973 in Mumbai to a Marathi Novelist, Ramesh Tendulkar. Sachin got inspired to play cricket from his elder brother Ajit, and started playing the game at an early age in his school, Sharadashram Vidya Mandir. Under the guidance of his coach, Ramakant Achrekar, he learnt the basics of the game and showed his prowess along with his school mate and another future batsman of the Indian team, Vinod Kambli. 



Test and ODI Debut 

Sachin Tendulkar made his Test Cricket debut with a Test match played against Pakistan in Karachi in the year 1989, in which he scored 15 runs before being bowled out by Waqar Younis, a yet another Cricketer who debuted with this match. He began his ODI Cricket career in a match against Pakistan played on 18th of December 1989 at Gujranwala, Pakistan. He could, though, not make a single run in this match and just after facing 2 balls was caught by Wasim Akram on a Waqar Younis ball. 





Remarkable Achievements 

Tendulkar has shown some of his best batting performances against the Cricket team of Australia, one of the strongest teams during his period. As a matter of fact, the legendry Sir 


Donald Bradman had at one time reportedly told her wife that the playing style of Sachin reminded him of his own game in his youth.

Sachin has always created new records and destroyed innumerable of them that had been already established. At the age of 17 years he scored his first Test century, and by the age of 25 he had scored 16 of them. At the moment he is the Cricketer with largest number of Test and ODI centuries to his credit, and outclassed Brian Lara as the biggest Test scorer in the year 2008. 



Overall Performance 

In his overall Test Career, Sachin Tendulkar has played 186 Test matches and has scored 15409 runs in them, including 51 centuries and 65 half-centuries, with an average of 56.03 runs and a highest score of 248 Not Out. In these matches, he also grabbed 45 wickets giving away 2445 runs at an average of 54.33 runs. 

In his One Day International (ODI) Cricket career, however, Sachin has played 453 matches till date, and scored 18111 runs including 48 centuries and 95 half-centuries, with an average of 45.16 runs and a highest score of 200 Not Out. 




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