Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

India

Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 33 years 309 days
Major teams India, ACC Asian XI, Mumbai, Yorkshire
Nickname Tendlya, Little Master
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
Height 5.05 ft
Education Sharadashram Vidyamandir School

Batting and fielding averages

class	mat	inns	no	runs	hs	ave	bf	sr	100	50	4s	6s	ct	st
Tests	135	217	22	10668	248*	54.70			35	43		41	85	0
ODIs	381	371	36	14783	186*	44.12	17259	85.65	41	76	1579	155	115	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	12	83.33	0	0	2	0	1	0
First-class	233	363	37	19241	248*	59.02			60	89			152	0
List A	468	456	50	18335	186*	45.16			52	94			150	0
Twenty20	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	12	83.33	0	0			1	0

Bowling averages

class	mat	balls	runs	wkts	bbi	bbm	ave	econ	sr	4	5	10
Tests	135	3409	1926	38	3/10	3/14	50.68	3.38	89.71	0	0	0
ODIs	381	7685	6472	147	5/32	5/32	44.02	5.05	52.27	4	2	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	15	12	1	1/12	1/12	12.00	4.80	15.00	0	0	0
First-class	233	6714	3791	62	3/10		61.14	3.38	108.29		0	0
List A	468	9861	8100	194	5/32	5/32	41.75	4.92	50.82	4	2	0
Twenty20	1	15	12	1	1/12	1/12	12.00	4.80	15.00	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Pakistan v India at Karachi - Nov 15-20, 1989
Last Test	South Africa v India at Cape Town - Jan 2-6, 2007
ODI debut	Pakistan v India at Gujranwala - Dec 18, 1989
Last ODI	India v Sri Lanka at Margao - Feb 14, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v India at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006
First-class span	1988/89 - 2006/07
List A span	1989/90 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2006/07

Notes

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1997

Profile

When he became the first batsman to score 50 hundreds in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar established himself as the greatest of all Indian cricketers. Recognised by Sir Donald Bradman as his modern incarnation, Tendulkar has a skill - a genius - which only a handful have possessed. It was not a skill that he was simply born with, but one which was developed by his intelligence and an infinite capacity for taking pains. If there is a secret, it is that Tendulkar has the keenest of cricket minds. At times in a Test series he looks mortal. But he learns every lesson, picks up every cue, dominates the opposing attack sooner or later, and nearly always makes a hundred. His bravery was proved after he was hit on the head on his Test debut in Pakistan, when he was only 16; and his commitment to the Indian cause has never been in doubt. If captaincy - or rather the off-field management of men less skilled than himself - was beyond him at his first attempt, his reading of the game, and his manifold varieties of bowling, have shown the same acute intelligence. His cricket has been played in the right way too, always attacking, and because he knew that was the right way rather than because he was a child of the one-day age, as he himself modestly said. The awe of opponents was as great as that of crowds. But the finest compliment must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds - or a game - until Tendulkar was out. Surpassed Sunil Gavaskar, his guru, as the leading century-maker in Test cricket with his 35th three-figure score in November 2005.