Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (/?s?t??n t?n?du?lk?r/; born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, popularly holding the title "God of Cricket" among his fans. Some commentators, such as former West Indian batsman Brian Lara, have labelled Tendulkar the greatest cricketer of all time. He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut against Pakistan at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. 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. and the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs or more in all forms of domestic and international recognised cricket.In 2002 just half way through his career, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards. Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India. He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards. After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award. He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. He was also the first sportsperson and the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air Force. In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs. He retired from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013 and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Tendulkar played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.
Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri, Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, ICC ODI Team of the Year, Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World, Maharashtra Bhushan Award, LG People's Choice Award, Outstanding Achievement in Sport, Arjuna Award for Cric...
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Sachin: A Billion Dreams
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Taurus
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I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It's been trained to react for years.
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Maybe they all think it's my last tour.
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Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.
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How you take off has nothing to do with how high you will fly!
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Sachin was given a pair of pads by his cricket hero Sunil Gavaskar when he was a schoolboy - and he made his Test debut for India against Pakistan aged just 16-years old in 1989 wearing those very pads.
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Like loads of other cricketers, Sachin is pretty superstitious - he'll always put on his left pad before his right whenever he's getting padded up.
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Once in a BBC interview when asked about his dream women, Sachin answered 'my wife' without batting an eyelid.
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(May 10, 2010) Merited a position in Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" ("Heroes" category) with an homage contributed by friend Deepak Chopra.
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The first and one of the only three cricket players in the world's second most-watched team sport to score 200 runs in a One Day International match (2010).
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Member of India's cricket team (1989 - 2013).
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Considered the best cricket batsman of his generation - and according to his fans, the best batsman of all time.
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