Sachin Tendulkar ; A brief report

 Tendulkar was born on 24th April, 1973. He made his Test debut against Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989 aged just 16 years and 223 days. He scored his first ODI century on 9 September 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It had taken him 79 ODIs to score a century. Tendulkar Became the captain of Indian team for the 1st time in 1996.

Sachin Tendulkar's last test was against Australia and last ODI was against Pakistan.

 

Records

 

 Longest ODI career - 22 years and 91 days (from December 18, 1989 to March 18, 2012) 

 

 Most number of runs - 18,426 

 

Highest run scorer in Test Cricket 

 

Most number of overall runs - 34,182

 

Highest partnership in ODI matches (331 against New Zealand)- Sachin and Rahul Dravid

5 test centuries before turning 20

Scored centuries against all test playing nations

 

Second Indian, after Sunil Gaasker to score over 10000 runs

 

Most hundreds - 49

 

 Most fifties - 96

 

 Most matches - 463

 

 Most balls faced - 21,392

 

Only player to have 150 wickets and 15000+ runs in ODI

 

Only player to have 40 wickets and 15000+ runs in Test

 

 Most fours - 2,016 (only batsman to hit more than 2,000 boundaries)

 

 Most runs in World Cup history - 2,278

 

 Most hundreds in World Cup - 6 

 

Most fifties in World Cup - 15 

 

Most runs in a single edition of World Cup - 673 in 11 matches (2003) 

 

 Youngest Indian to make ODI debut - 16 years, 238 days 

 

 Most Man-of-the-match awards - 62

 

Most number of man of matches recieved when he played against Australia

 

 

 Most Man-of-the-series awards - 15 

 

 Most consecutive ODIs for India - 185 (from April 25, 1990 to April 24, 1998)

 

 Most centuries in a calendar year - 9 (1998) 

 

 Fastest to reach 10,000 ODI runs and onwards (11,000 to 18,000)

 

 Most hundreds against one team - 9 Vs Australia 

 

Most times in nineties - 18 

 

 Joint record holder of most World Cup appearances - 6 (1992 to 2011) Javed Miandad 6 (1975 to 1996) 

 

 Second highest number of World Cup matches played - 45 (Highest 46 by Ricky Ponting)

 

 Involved in most century and above stands - 100

Only player to be in the top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years

1st and Only cricketer to get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Awards , Padma vibhusan

Only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts