Saturday 16 November 2013

 
 
 
 
 
13) 90 Different Venues

Sachin Tendulkar practicing

In 24 years, Tendulkar has played in 90 different venues which is a record.

12) 150 Wickets and 15,000 Runs in ODIs


Sachin Tendulkar


Tendulkar remains the only cricketer to take more than 150 wickets (154) and score more than 15,000 runs (18,426) in ODIs.

11) 1,894 ODI Runs in 1998


Sachin Tendulkar



These are most runs scored by a batsman in any season in ODI cricket. Tendulkar scored 9 centuries that year.

10 2,560 World Cup Runs


Sachin Tendulkar 2011 World Cup



In the six World Cup appearances (1992 to 2011), Tendulkar has amassed 2,560 runs at an average of 56.95 – the most by any player in the history of the event.

9 989 International cricketers

Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar has played with and against 989 international cricketers. That includes 141 Indian cricketers and 848 opponents.
 
8 62 Man of the Match Awards in ODIs


Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar leads the list in ODI cricket. Sanath Jayasuriya with 48 is second. The third on the list is South Africa’s Jacques Kallis with 32 awards.


Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsman of all time. He took up cricket at 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 first player to score one hundred international centuries, the first player to score a double century in a One Day International, and thus far the only to complete 34,000 runs in international cricket.On 5 October 2013, he became the 16th player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs in all recognized cricket (First-class cricket, List A cricket and Twenty20 combined).
In 2002, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India.He was also the recipient of "Player of the Tournament" award of the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa. In October 2013, he became the only Indian cricketer to be named in an all-time Test World XI to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Tendulkar has also been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour. Tendulkar won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. He was also the first sportsperson and the first one without aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force. In 2012, he was named as an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.
On 23 December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIsand from Twenty20 format in May 2013. He retired from cricket on 16th November 2013 after playing his 200th Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai's



7) 15 Man of the Series Awards in ODIs


Sachin Tendulkar


Tendulkar is leading in this category as well. Jayasuriya is second on the list.

6 51 Test Hundreds


Sachin Tendulkar



Sachin Tendulkar has scored 51 Test centuries in his 24-year Test career. He hit his first century against England at Manchester in August 1990 and his last ton was against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2011.

5 49 ODI Hundreds

Sachin Tendulkar


Sachin Tendulkar took five years to score his first ODI hundred. The moment he got his first ton against Australia at Colombo in 1994, the little master’s career took off and he never looked back. His last ODI ton was his hundredth international hundred scored against Bangladesh at Dhaka in 2012.
 
4 200 Test Match Appearances


Sachin Tendulkar guard of honour

Tendulkar comfortably heads this list with Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh being the joint-second having played 168 matches each.

3 463 ODI Appearances


Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar’s 23-year ODI career comprised 463 ODI games. Sanath Jayasuriya with 445 ODIs is second in the list.

2 18,426 ODI Runs


Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar has scored 18,426 ODI runs which is 4,722 runs clear of Ricky Ponting who is second in the list.

1 15,921 Test Runs

Sachin Tendulkar

Tendulkar needed 153 runs in the final innings to score 16,000 Test runs but he missed the mark by 79 runs. Tendulkar has 15,921 runs.

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