#Players Profile #Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (India)

Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra

Current age 38 years 148 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.

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	181	298	32	14965	248*	56.25			51	61		64	108	0
ODIs	453	442	41	18111	200*	45.16	20980	86.32	48	95	1981	193	136	0
T20Is	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	12	83.33	0	0	2	0	1	0
First-class	285	451	48	23884	248*	59.26			78	107			176	0
List A	541	528	55	21684	200*	45.84			59	113			171	0
Twenty20	60	60	8	2069	100*	39.78	1659	124.71	1	13	268	26	23	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	181	137	4132	2416	45	3/10	3/14	53.68	3.50	91.8	0	0	0
ODIs	453	269	8044	6838	154	5/32	5/32	44.40	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	285		7497	4308	70	3/10		61.54	3.44	107.1		0	0
List A	541		10220	8466	201	5/32	5/32	42.11	4.97	50.8	4	2	0
Twenty20	60	8	93	123	2	1/12	1/12	61.50	7.93	46.5	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Pakistan v India at Karachi, Nov 15-20, 1989 scorecard
Last Test	England v India at The Oval, Aug 18-22, 2011 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, Dec 18, 1989 scorecard
Last ODI	India v Sri Lanka at Mumbai, Apr 2, 2011 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1988/89
Last First-class	England v India at The Oval, Aug 18-22, 2011 scorecard
List A debut	1989/90
Last List A	Sussex v Indians at Hove, Aug 25, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians at Chennai, May 27, 2011 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
21	Indians	v Sussex	Hove	25 Aug 2011	List A
0/11, 23, 91	India	v England	The Oval	18 Aug 2011	Test # 2004
1, 0/17, 40	India	v England	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011	Test # 2003
16, 56	India	v England	Nottingham	29 Jul 2011	Test # 2001
34, 12	India	v England	Lord's	21 Jul 2011	Test # 2000
26	Indians	v Somerset	Taunton	15 Jul 2011	First-class
40	Mumbai	v Bangalore	Chennai	27 May 2011	Twenty20
36	Mumbai	v Kolkata	Mumbai	25 May 2011	Twenty20
38	Mumbai	v Kolkata	Kolkata	22 May 2011	Twenty20
31	Mumbai	v Rajasthan	Mumbai	20 May 2011	Twenty20

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 in 2010 became the first player to score 50 Test centuries.

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, and he seems to be untouched by age: at 36 years and 306 days he broke a 40-year-old barrier by scoring the first double-century in one-day cricket. It now seems inevitable that he will become the first cricketer to score 100 international hundreds, which like Bradman's batting average, could be a mark that lasts for ever.

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. 

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