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Born in Bombay, now known as Mumbai, into a middle-class Rajapur Saraswat Brahmins family, Tendulkar was named after his family's favourite music director Sachin Dev Burman.
His late father Ramesh Tendulkar was a Marathi novelist. He was
encouraged to play cricket by his elder brother. Sachin Tendulkar
married Anjali Mehta, the paediatrician daughter of Gujarati
industrialist Anand Mehta, in 1995, some years after they were
introduced by mutual friends. They have two children, Sara (born 12
October 1997) and Arjun (born 23 September, 2000). Tendulkar sponsors
200 under-privileged children, every year through Apnalaya, a
Mumbai-based NGO
associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. He is reluctant to
speak about this, or other charitable activities, choosing to preserve
the sanctity of his personal life despite the overwhelming media
interest in him.
Test cricket
Highlights of Tendulkar's Test career include:
Rated as the second best batsman of all time (after Don Bradman) by Wisden
Highest number of Test centuries (35)
Played in the highest number of Cricket Grounds - he has played Test Cricket on 52 different grounds,
He is the fastest to score 10, 000 runs in Test cricket history
4th highest tally of runs in Test cricket (10, 469) Career Average 55.39 - Has the highest average among those who have scored over 10, 000 Test runs
Second Indian to make over 10, 000 runs in Test matches.Has 37 Test wickets (14 Dec 2005)
As of January 03, 2007 Sachin Tendulkar(5737) edged past Brian Lara's(5736)
world record of scoring maximum runs in tests away from home.
ODI
Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:
Most runs (14, 479 as of 22nd November, 2006)Most centuries (40)Played most number of ODIs (371), (as of November 22 2006).Played most number of consecutive ODI matches (185)Most Man of the Match (52) awards[Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs as of October, 2006Second most number of Fifties (73). Inzamam-Ul-Haq is the only batsman who has scored more Fifties (83) than Tendulkar. Appeared on the most grounds (90 different grounds)Most ODI runs by any batsman in any given calendar year - 1, 894 ODI runs in 1998.Most Centuries by a player in one year - 9 ODI centuries in 1998Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.Holds the record for scoring 1, 000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He
has done it six times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.Highest batting average among batsmen with over 10, 000 ODI runs (as of October 2006)First cricketer and fastest cricketer to cross 10, 000-run mark,
11, 000-run mark, 12, 000-run mark, 13, 000 run-mark and 14, 000 run-mark
in ODIsOnly cricketer to cross 14, 000-run mark in ODIsOver 100 wickets (142 as of October, 2006)One of only two players to pass 10, 000 runs and take 100 wickets in ODIs (Sanath Jayasuriya the other)Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)Batting through the innings (50 overs) on two occasions.
World Cup
Most runs (1732 at an average of 59.72) in World Cup Cricket History673 runs in 2003 World Cup, highest by any one in a single Cricket World CupPlayer Of The Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Miscellaneous
Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50
centuries in international cricket. In fact, he has now scored 75 (35
in Tests, 40 in ODIs).Tendulkar was the first overseas cricketer to play for Yorkshire CCC in 1993, in more than 100 years of the club's history.Shane Warne
famously remarked after the Australian tour of India, and then Sharjah
in 1998, that his nightmares are full of "Sachin coming, dancing down
the track and lofting me over for yet another six !".Matthew Hayden once said that, "If cricket is a religion in India, then the god of the religion is none other than Sachin Tendulkar".In November 2006, Time magazine rewarded Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
