Little Master

Sachin Tendulkar

    
Sachin Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer. His full name is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. He was born on 24^th April 1973 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Sachin’s father name is Ramesh Tendulkar, he was a Marathi novelist and his mother Rajini, and she worked in an insurance company. He has two brothers and one sister. His brother Ajit introduced sachin to Ramakant Achrekar , he was a cricket coach in shivaji park, Dadar. And he was impressed with sachin talent, so he asks sachin to join in sharadashram vidyamandir high school for his schoolings.

               When he was under the guidance of Ramakant, he keeps a one rupee coin on the stumps and asks the bowlers if any one dismisses sachin would get the coin. And when sachin does not dismissed in that whole session, and then the coin will be sachin’s coin. By this way sachin collected 13 coins from Ramakant.

            In school he becomes a child of highbrow in cricket, and he also played for certain clubs like “Mumbai's premier club” and “Cricket club of India”. In 1987, sachin attended the” MRF Pace Foundation “where they gave training as a fast bowler. But Australian fast bowler “Dennis Lillee” asked sachin to concentrate in batting instead of bowling.

Sachin’s professional career records:

•  At his age of 16, sachin played his debut international match      against Pakistan in Karachi.
•  And in 18 he scored two centuries against Australia.
•  In 1994 he scored 179 in a match against the team West Indies.
•  In 1996 he was 23 and for the world cup match in that year he was made as a captain to lead Indian cricket team.
•  Sachin’s dominance to the cricket was continued for all the upcoming years. 
• In 2005, he placed his 35^th century against srilanka.
• In 2007, sachin was the first player to score 15,000 runs in ODI play.
•  In 2010, he becomes the first player to score 13,000 runs in test matches.
•  After a month in a same year sachin scored a double century against South Africa.
•  In the same year he becomes the “cricketer of the year” by “International Cricket Council”.
•  In 2011, India won the world cup and he becomes the first batsman to gain 2000 runs and 6 centuries in world cup matches.

 Test match:

              Sachin won 5 “Man of the Series” and 14 “Man of the

 Match” awards in test matches.

 Man of the series

SI NO	SERIES NAME	YEAR	AGAINST
1	BORDER- GAVASKAR TROPHY	1997/1998	AUSTRALIA
2	BORDER- GAVASKAR TROPHY	1999/2000	AUSTRALIA
3	ENGLAND IN INDIA TEST SERIES	2001/2002	ENGLAND
4	INDIA IN BANGLADESH TEST SERIES	2007	BANGLADESH
5	BORDER- GAVASKAR TROPHY	2010	AUSTRALIA

Man of the match

SI NO	PLACE	YEAR	AGAINST
1	Manchester	1990	England
2	Chennai	1992/1993	England
3	Chennai	1995/1996	New Zealand
4	Chennai	1997/1998	Australia
5	Chennai	1998/1999	Pakistan
6	Ahmadabad	1999/2000	New Zealand
7	Melbourne	1999/2000	Australia
8	Mumbai	1999/2000	South Africa
9	Kolkata	2002/2003	West Indies
10	Sydney	2003/2004	Australia
11	Adelaide	2007/2008	Australia
12	Hamilton	2009	New Zealand
13	Chittagong	2010	Bangladesh
14	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	2010	Australia

One Day Match:

          
       Sachin won 16 “Man of the Series” and 62 “Man of the 
Match” awards in ODI matches.

Man of the Match

SI NO	AGAINST	TOTAL MATCH	MAN OF THE MATCH
1	Australia	59	12
2	Bangladesh	10	1
3	England	27	2
4	New Zealand	38	6
5	Pakistan	61	8
6	South Africa	50	5
7	Srilanka	65	6
8	West Indies	38	9
9	Zimbabwe	34	8
10	Kenya	10	4
11	Namibia	1	1

Honors:

National Honors

SI NO	AWARD	YEAR
1	Padma Vibhushan	2008
2	Maharashtra Bhushan Award	2001
3	Padma Shri	1999
4	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna	1997-1998
5	Arjuna Award	1994

Other Honors

SI NO	AWARD	YEAR
1	Wisden Leading Cricketer In The World	2010
2	ICC Award – Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy	2010
3	LG People’s Choice Award	2010
4	ICC World Test XI	2009/2010/2011
5	ICC World ODI XI	2004/2007/2010
6	Player Of The Tournament	2003
7	Rajiv Gandhi Award	2005
8	Wisden Cricketer Of The Year	1997
9	Outstanding Achievement In Sport	2010
10	Castrol Indian Cricketer	2011
11	BCCI Cricketer Of The Year	2011
12	Group Captain By Indian Air Force	2010
13	Wisden India Outstanding Achievement Award	2012
14	Honorary Member Of The Order Of Australia	2012

Social Life Contribution:

•     Sachin sponsors 200 underprivileged children each year    through “Mumbai -based NGO” named Apnalaya.
•    Sachin requested on twitter that raised 1.025 crore for the  cancer foundation.
•    He spent 9 hour of 12 hour “Coca – Cola – NDTV Support    My School telethon” that raises 7 crore which is for the basic  facilities in 140 government schools across India.