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Highest Run scorer in the ODI
Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
Most number of nineties in the ODI
Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
Most number of 100's in test's 38
He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match.. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44.Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
