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Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 32 years 81 days
Major teams India, ACC Asian XI, Mumbai, Yorkshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak googly
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 123 198 21 10134 248* 57.25 34 41 40 77 0
ODIs 348 339 32 13642 186* 44.43 15834 86.15 38 69 1437 144 104 0
First-class 219 340 36 18537 248* 60.97 58 87 144 0
List A 428 417 46 16937 186* 45.65 48 86 136 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 123 3216 1807 37 3/10 3/14 48.83 3.37 86.91 0 0 0
ODIs 348 7139 6017 139 5/32 5/32 43.28 5.05 51.35 4 2 0
First-class 219 6503 3662 61 3/10 60.03 3.37 106.60 0 0
List A 428 9303 7630 186 5/32 5/32 41.02 4.92 50.01 4 2 0
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Test debut Pakistan v India at Karachi - Nov 15-20, 1989 scorecard
Last Test India v Pakistan at Bangalore - Mar 24-28, 2005 scorecard
ODI debut Pakistan v India at Gujranwala - Dec 18, 1989 scorecard
Last ODI India v Pakistan at Delhi - Apr 17, 2005 scorecard
First-class span 1988/89 - 2004/05
List A span 1989/90 - 2004/05
Notes : Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1997
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
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