Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian Cricketer born on 24 April 1973 in Bombay. His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a Marathi novelist and his mother Rajni worked in the insurance company. Tendulkar has two siblings, a brother Nitin and sister Savita. His elder brother encouraged him to play cricket. Sachin Tendulkar is married to Anjali, a pediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. The couple is blessed with two children, Sara (1997) and Arjun (1999). Anjali is six years elder than Tendulkar.
About School days of Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School), where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Denis Lillee, was unimpressed and suggested Sachin Tendulkar to focus on his batting instead.
While at school, Sachin Tendulkar had developed a reputation of child genius. He had become a center of talk in the Mumbai circles, where there were suggestions that already he would become one of the greats. Sachin Tendulkar’s session in 1988 was extraordinary, as he scored a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664- run partnership in an inter-school game in 1988 with team mate Vinod Kambli. Sachin Tendulkar scored 326 in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament. This was a record until 2006, when it was broken by two under 13 batsmen in a match held at Hydrebad in India.
Sachin Tendulkar is the first and the only player in Test Cricket history to score fifty centuries, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international crickets, he now has 99 centuries in international cricket. He also became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000 and 14,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test Cricket. Sachin Tendulkar was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. Tendulkar passed 33,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. Sachin Tendulkaralso holds the world record for playing highest number of Test and ODI matches.
His first double century was for Mumbai while playing against the visiting Australian team at the Barbourne Stadium in 1988. Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all the three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts.
In the year 1992, at the age of 19, Sachin Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire. So far, he has played 16 first-class matches for the country and scored 1070 runs at an average of 46.52. Sachin Tendulkar’s two tenures as captain of the Indian cricket team were not very successful. Sachin Tendulkar remains an integral part of the Indian team’s strategic process. He is often, seen in discussions with the captain, at times actively involved in building strategies.
Sachin Tendulkar sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law. A request from Sachin on twitter raised Rs.1.025 crore through Sachin’s crusade against Cancer for the campaign against Cancer foundation. Sachin Tendulkar also devoted his nine hours to the twelve hour Coca-Cola NDTV support on 18 September 2011 that helped to raise Rs.7 crore, for the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilet facilities for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.
Sachin Tendulkar has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan award, India’s second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India’s highest sporting honor. Sachin Tendulkar became the first spokesperson and the first person without any aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force. Sachin Tendulkar has also received honorary doctorates from Mysore University and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.
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