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Full Name
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born
April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Age
51y 131d
Nicknames
Tendlya, Little Master
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak, Legbreak Googly
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Height
5ft 5in
Education
Sharadashram Vidyamandir School
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Sachin Tendulkar was the most complete batter of his time, the most prolific run-maker of all time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon the game has ever known.
His batting was based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality given only to genius batters - anticipation. If he didn't have a signature stroke (though the upright, back-foot punch comes close) it was because he was proficient at so many and could pull them out at will.
There were no apparent weaknesses in Tendulkar's game. He could score all around the wicket, off both feet, could temper his game to suit every situation, and made runs in all parts of the world, in all conditions.
Some of his finest performances came against Australia, the 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 that country. A few years later he received the ultimate compliment from the ultimate batter: Don Bradman confided to his wife that Tendulkar reminded him of himself.
Blessed with the keenest of cricket minds, and driven by a loathing for defeat, Tendulkar established his greatness early. He was only 16 when he made his Test debut, and was hit in the face by Waqar Younis in that game, but continued to bat. 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 batter 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 50 Test hundreds.
He holds the record for most hundreds in both Tests and ODIs - remarkable, considering he didn't score his first ODI hundred until his 79th match. At just under 37 years of age, he made the first double-century in one-day cricket. In 2012, a month short of his 39th birthday, he became the first player to score 100 international centuries, which, like Bradman's batting average, might be a mark that lasts for ever. Later that year, though, he announced his retirement from ODIs after a disappointing 18 months in international cricket. And on November 16, 2013, he retired from Test cricket after a memorable 200th Test, against West Indies.
Tendulkar's considerable achievements seem greater still when looked at in the light of the burden of expectation he had to bear from his adoring but somewhat unreasonable followers, who were prone to regarding anything less than a hundred in every innings as a failure. He still remains, by a distance, the most worshipped cricketer in the world.
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Match | Bat | Date | Ground | Format |
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IND Legends vs SL Legends | 0 | 01-Oct-2022 | Raipur | OTHERT20 |
IND Legends vs AUS Legends | 10 | 28-Sep-2022 | Raipur | OTHERT20 |
IND Legends vs BAN Legends | -- | 25-Sep-2022 | Dehradun | OTHERT20 |
IND Legends vs ENG Legends | 40 | 22-Sep-2022 | Dehradun | OTHERT20 |
IND Legends vs NZ Legends | 19* | 19-Sep-2022 | Indore | OTHERT20 |
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