Tendulkar was born on 24 April
1973. His father was a reputed novelist and his mother worked in the insurance
industry.
Tendulkar was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris
Shield inter-school game in1988 with Vinod Kambli. Tendulkar scored 326 (not
out) in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament.his was a
record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006.
Tendulkar's rise continued when he was the leading run scorer at the 1996 World
Cup, scoring two centuries. He was the only Indian batsman to perform in the
infamous semi-final against Sri Lanka.
Tendulkar single-handedly won the ICC 1998 quarterfinal at Dhaka to pave way for
India's entry into the semifinals, when he took four Australian wickets after
scoring 141 runs in just 128 balls.
Career achievements
Sachin Tendulkar is the most prolific run scorer in one-day internationals with
18,426 runs. With a current aggregate of 15,470 Test runs, he surpassed Brian
Lara's previous record tally of 11,953 runs as the highest run scorer in test
matches. He also holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test
(51) and ODI (49) cricket. (49). On 16 March 2012, Tenduklar scored his 100th
international hundred.. He was also chosen as one of the five Wisden Cricketers
of the Year in 1997 and is ranked by the Wisden 100 as the second best test
batsman and ODI batsman of all time.
He was the highest run scorer of the 1996 Cricket World Cup and 2003 Cricket
World Cup and also became the player to hit most number of centuries in Cricket
World Cups with six centuries and the first player to score 2000 runs in World
Cup cricket. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7
times, and in 1998 he scored 1894 runs, easily the record for the highest number
of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for one day
internationals. Tendulkar is also one of the very few players who are still
playing in international cricket from the 1980s. On 24 February 2010, Tendulkar
broke the previous world record for highest individual innings in an ODI, and
became the first cricketer to score a double-century in one-day cricket. He made
200 runs and broke the previous record of 194 runs.
He has been Man of the Match 13 times in Test matches and Man of the Series four
times,[215] out of them twice in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.
The performances earned him respect from Australian cricket fans and players
Similarly he has been Man of the Match 60 times in One day International matches
and Man of the Series 14 times.He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in
Test and ODI. He is the first player to score a double century in ODI cricket.
He also holds the world record for playing highest number of Test and ODI
matches. Tendulkar is the only cricketer to accomplish the feat of scoring a
undred centuries in international cricket which includes 49 ODI and 51 Test
centuries. He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket,
and the first to score fifty onal cricket combined. On 17 October 2008, when he
surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test cricket, he also
became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 runs having
also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test
cricket. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day
internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run
mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test against
Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan Border to become the player to
cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also
the second ever player to score 11 Test centuries against Australia. On 24
February 2010, Tendulkar became the first man to score a double century (200*)
in an ODI against South Africa. On 8 November 2011, Tendulkar became the first
batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test Cricket.