Sachin or 'God of cricket' is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as
one of thegreatest batsmen in the history of cricket . He is the
leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international
cricket .He is the first male player to score a double century in ODI
cricket.In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked himthe
second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman , and
the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time,
behind Viv Richards .Tendulkar was an integral part of the 2011
Cricket WorldCup winning Indian team at the later part of his career,
his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India.Tendulkar is
the first and theonly player in Test Cricket history to score fifty
centuries, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international
cricket combined;he now has 99 centuries (48 ODI & 51 Test cricket )
in international cricket. [ 9 ] On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed
Brian Lara 's record for the most runs scored in Test cricket, he also
became the first batsmanto score 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000
runs in that form of the game,having also been the third batsman and
first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.He 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. In the fourth Test of the
Border-GavaskarTrophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed
Australia's Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark
the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second
ever player to score 11 Test centuries against Australia, tying with
Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously.Tendulkar
passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. On 24
February 2010, Tendulkar became the first man to scorea double century
(200*) in anODI against South Africa. On 8November 2011, Tendulkar
became the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in Test Cricket. He also
holds the world record for playing highest number of Test and ODI
matches.and Rajiv GandhiUniversity of Health Sciences He won the 2010
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC
awards.Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award,
India's second highest civilian award,and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
award, India's highest sporting honour. Tendulkar became 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 .
He has received honorary doctorates from University of Mysore.
But for any criclover , with his humbleness in smile and
aggressiveness in bat 'little master' sachin is really the god of
cricket!
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