Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded
as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.[4][5][6][7][8] He took up cricket
at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan
in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically
and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player
to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score
a double century in a One Day International, the holder of the record for the
number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, and the only player to complete
more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.[9]
In 2002 just half way through his career,
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all
time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time,
behind Viv Richards.[10] Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the
Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup
appearances for India. He had previously been named "Player of the
Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa.
In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI
named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994
for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in
1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan
awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest
civilian awards.[15] After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013,
the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat
Ratna, India's highest civilian award.[16][17] He is the youngest recipient to
date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.He also won
the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC
awards. In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper
house of the Parliament of India. He was also the first sportsperson and
the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank
of group captain by the Indian Air Force. In 2012, he was named an Honorary
Member of the Order of Australia.
In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his
retirement from ODIs. He retired from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013
and subsequently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket,
retiring on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match,
against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.Tendulkar played 664
international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.
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