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Sachin Tendulkar

This article contains the achievements of Sachin Tendulkar, an Indian cricketer, who
has set various records and received numerous awards for his cricketing skill, particularly
in batting. Below is a list of some of the achievements he has made in his career thus far.

Contents
[hide]

• 1 Records
o 1.1 Test Cricket
o 1.2 ODI
o 1.3 Combined (ODI & Test) records
• 2 Awards
o 2.1 Official Awards
o 2.2 Media Awards
o 2.3 Others
o 2.4 Match awards
• 3 See also
• 4 References

• 5 External links
 [edit] Records

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Tendulkar's Test match batting career, showing runs

scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

[edit] Test Cricket

Game Appearances:

• On his Test debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y 205d).
Mushtaq Mohammad (15y 124d) and Aaqib Javed (16y 189d) debuted in Test
matches younger to Tendulkar. Since then, there have been 2 players who were
younger than Sachin on their Test Cricket debut: Hasan Raza - Pakistan (14y
227d), the current youngest debutant, and Mohammad Sharif - Bangladesh (15y
128d).[1]

• Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (177).

Runs Scored:

• Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 14692* Test runs.

File:Sachin celebrates his 12000 test runs.JPG

Sachin became the highest run scorer in Test Cricket when he surpassed Brian Lara's
previous record of 11,953 runs.

• Career Average (1989–2010, 177 Tests, 14,692 runs) at 56.94

• Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third
International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. Lara took 213 innings,
Sachin 223 and Border 259.[2]

• Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
 • Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket
history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.[3]

• Sachin Tendulkar (8145) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.

• Sachin Tendulkar (29) world record of Centuries in Tests away from home.

• First player to reach 12,000-13,000-14,000 Test runs.

• Holds the record for scoring most 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. He has done
it Six times - 2010 (1562*), 2008 (1063), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs),
2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).

• Sachin Tendulkar is the fourth highest run-getter in a single calender year in Test
History. He has scored 1562 runs in 2010 and is behind Mohammad Yousuf
(1788 runs in 2006), Viv Richards (1710 runs in 1976) and Graeme Smith (1656
runs in 2008).

Centuries:

• Highest number of Test centuries(51), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record (34).

On October 10, 2010 in Bengaluru (Bangalore) against Australia in the Border-
Gavaskar trophy's second and final Test match Sachin Tendulkar reached a
milestone. With a single to third man, Tendulkar reached his 6th double century
and his 49th test century.

• Highest number of 150+ score in Test Cricket (20)

• When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest
to score a century. Only Mushtaq Mohammad had scored a century at a younger
age by 1990. Tendulkar's record was bettered by Mohammad Ashraful in 2001/02
season.[4] The record for previous youngest Indian centurion was held by Kapil
Dev.

• Tendulkar's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.

[4]

• Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the
highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side.[5] Gavaskar
held the previous record (205 against West Indies in Bombay - 1978/79 season)

• Tendulkar has scored centuries against all Test playing nations.[6] He was the third
batsman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten. The
current list also includes Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis,
Adam Gilchrist and Marvan Atapattu.
 Batting[7] Fielding[8]

High
Opposition Matches Runs Average 100s Catches
score

Bangladesh 7 820 136.66 248* 5 6

England 24 2150 54.42 193 7 19

Australia 31 3151 60.59 241* 11 19

New
22 1532 49.41 217 4 10
Zealand

Pakistan 18 1057 42.28 194* 2 8

South
25 1741 42.46 169* 7 13
Africa

Sri Lanka 25 1995 60.45 203 9 12

West Indies 16 1328 57.73 179 3 14

Zimbabwe 9 918 76.50 201* 3

Overall 177* 14692* 56.94* 248* 51 106

[edit] ODI

Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:

Game appearances:
 • Matches Played: 444 ( Joint record with Sanath Jayasuriya )
o Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185[9]
o Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds

• Inning appearances: 431 ( Most ). First to appear in 400 innings in ODI matches.
• On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant. Only Aaqib
Javed debuted in ODI matches younger than Sachin Tendulkar. Since then, there
has been 4 players who were younger than Sachin on their ODI debut: Hasan
Raza (Pakistan) - the current youngest debutant, Mohammad Sharif (Bangladesh),
Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) and Ramveer Rai (UAE)

Runs scored:

• Most runs in an ODI Innings: Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for maximum
number of runs scored in one ODI innings. He is the only batsman to score 200
runs (147ball 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa.[10][11]

File:Sachin looks to the heavens after scoring 200.jpg

Sachin looks to the Heavens after scoring the first ever Double Hundred in ODI history.

• Most runs: 17,598 Runs at the rate of 45.12 runs for every time he has gotten out
(as of 18 October 2010). He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game
and the only player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000 and 17,000 run marks.

• First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16,000 and

17,000 ODI runs.

• Holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He has done it
seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007

• Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.

• Tendulkar is the only batsman to score over 3000 runs against any opponent
(Australia). Tendulkar is also the only batsman to achieve the feat runs against
two opponents - Sri Lanka is the other team.

• After Sachin crossed the 10,000-run mark in ODIs, only seven other players have
managed to cross the milestone: (Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul
Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Inzamam ul Haq, and Jacques Kallis). Sachin
was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting
average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs

• Tendulkar has scored 1833 runs in finals; Tendulkar also ranks very high in terms
of all-time averages in finals: among those who've scored at least 1000 runs in
finals, only three have a higher average. One of them is India's current coach,
Gary Kirsten - in 20 innings, he scored 1019 runs at an excellent average of 69.73.
 Tendulkar's stats are very similar to those of Viv Richards, who averaged 55.73 at
a strike rate of 84.78 in 17 finals.

• Tendulkar holds the record for the highest individual score in a One Day
International when he scored 200 not out breaking the previous record of 194 in
the India v. South Africa ODI on 24 February 2010. This also saw him become
the first male cricketer in the planet to score a double century in a One Day
International. Earlier Belinda Clark has scored 229* in women cricket.

• Tendulkar holds the record for the most fours ( boundaries ) in an innings. He hit
25 fours in the innings against South Africa on on 24 February 2010 when he
scored double century.

• Only player to score 5, 150+ (186*, 152, 163*, 175 and 200*)scores in ODI
cricket, followed by Sanath Jayasuriya of Srilanka with 4, 150+ scores in ODI

Centuries and Fifties record:

• Most centuries: 46
o Only cricketer to ever score a double hundred in the ODI format - against
South Africa at Gwalior, India.
o Most centuries against an opponent - 9 vs. Australia.
o Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe
and Pakistan.
o Most centuries in Final Matches 6 & India Win All Matches
o Most centuries against One Team - Australia 20 (11 test+9 ODI)
• Most Fifties: 93.
o Highest number of 50+ scores in ODIs - 139 (46 Centuries and 93 Fifties).
o Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs along with Ricky
Ponting
o Most Fifties in World Cup Matches(13)

ODI awards:

• Most Man of the Match Awards: 61 Man of the Match Awards

• Most Man of the Series Awards: 15 Man of the Series Awards

Calendar Year record:

• Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.

• Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998

Partnership Records:
 • Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum
number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,609
runs in 136 matches that includes 21 century partnerships and 23 fifty run
partnerships.[12] The 20 century partnerships for opening pair is also 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 at the LBS, Hyderabad[13]

• Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches -
a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.[14]

• Most runs (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007) in World Cup

Cricket History including 4 centuries & 13 fifties with a best score of 152*
against Namibia in 2003 world cup
• 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket
World Cup
• Player Of The World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

• 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16, making him the
highest run scorer in the 1996 World Cup and setting the then record for the
highest runs by any player in a single Cricket World Cup - subsequently bettered
by himself in the 2003 World Cup

[edit] Combined (ODI & Test) records

• First batsman in history to score over 90 centuries in international cricket. He now

has 97 Centuries(51 in Tests and 46 in ODIs), which is still the record for the
highest number of centuries in international cricket.

• First batsman in history to complete the 31,000 runs in (ODIs+Tests). He now has
32179 (ODI(17598)+Test(14581)).

• Most overall runs in international cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), with

31,000+ runs overall ( in Tests, 17,598 in ODIs).

• Record of getting out the maximum number of times in the 90s in international
matches. He has been dismissed 26 times (18 in ODIs and 8 in Tests) on scores of
90-99. The 18 nineties in ODIs are an ODI record too.[15]

[edit] Awards
[edit] Official Awards

• 1994: Arjuna Award Recipient for achievements in Cricket[16]

 • 1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of
the Year[17]
• 1997/98: India's highest sporting honour - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna[18]
• 1999: Padma Shri - India's fourth highest civilian award[19]
• 2008: Padma Vibhushan - India's second highest civilian award[20]
• 2010: ICC cricketer of the year - Highest award in the ICC listings[21]
• ICC World Test XI: 2009,2010
• ICC World ODI XI: 2004, 2007, 2001, 2010

[edit] Media Awards

• In August 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.[22]

• In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
[23]

• 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.

• In February 2010, Sachin Tendulkar was declared "Sports Icon of the Year for 21
years" by NDTV at the NDTV Indian of the Year Awards.[24]

[edit] Others

He is the only player of current generation who was included by sir Don Bradman in his
squad of playing eleven.

[edit] Match awards

Main article: List of ODI Awards for Sachin Tendulkar

Man of Series Awards

# Series Season Series Performance

Border-Gavaskar Trophy 446 (3 Matches, 5 Innings,
1 (Australia in India Test 1997/98 2x100, 1x50); 13.2-1-48-1; 2
Series) Catches
2 Border-Gavaskar Trophy 1999/00 278 Runs (6 Innings, 1x100,
(India in Australia Test 2x50); 9-0-46-1
 Series)
England in India Test 307 Runs (4 Innings, 1x100,
3 2001/02
Series 2x50); 17-3-50-1; 4 Catches
India in Bangladesh Test 254 Runs (3 Innings, 2x100,
4 2007
Series 0x50); 6.3-1-35-2; 2 Catches
Border-Gavaskar Trophy
403 (2 Matches, 4 Innings,
5 (Australia in India Test 2010
1x100, 2x50)
Series)

Man of the Match Awards

S
Opponent Venue Season Match Performance
No
1st Innings: 68 (8x4); 2
Old Trafford, Catches
1 England 1990
Manchester
2nd Innings: 119 (17x4)
1st Innings: 165 (24x4,
1x6); 2-1-5-0
2 England Chepauk, Chennai 1992/93
2nd Innings: 2 Catches;
2-1-4-0
New
3 Chepauk, Chennai 1995/96 1st Innings: 52 (5x4)
Zealand
1st Innings: 4 (1x4); 1
Catch
4 Australia Chepauk, Chennai 1997/98
2nd Innings: 155 (14x4,
4x6)
1st Innings: 0; 3-0-10-1
5 Pakistan Chepauk, Chennai 1998/99
2nd Innings: 136
(18x4); 7-1-35-2
1st Innings: 217 (29x4)
New Motera,
6 1999/00
Zealand Ahmedabad 2nd Innings: 15 (3x4);
5-2-19-0
7 Australia MCG, Melbourne 1999/00 1st Innings: 116 (9x4,
1x6)
 2nd Innings: 52 (4x4)
1st Innings: 97 (12x4,
2x6); 5-1-10-3
South Wankhede,
8 1999/00
Africa Mumbai
2nd Innings: 8 (2x4); 1-
0-4-0
1st Innings: 36 (7x4); 7-
Eden Gardens, 0-33-0
9 West Indies 2002/03
Kolkata
2nd Innings: 176 (26x4)
1st Innings: 241 (33x4)
10 Australia SCG, Sydney 2003/04
2nd Innings: 60 (5x4);
6-0-36-0; 1 Catch
1st Innings: 153
11 Australia Adelaide 2007/08
2nd Innings: 13
1st Innings: 160
New
12 Hamilton 2009
Zealand
2nd Innings: DNB
1st Innings: 105*
13 Bangladesh Chittagong 2010
2nd Innings: 16
1st Innings: 214 (22x4,
2x6)
M. Chinnaswamy
14 Australia 2010
Stadium
2nd Innings: 53* (5x4,
2x6)

Tendulkar has won a record 16 Man of the Series(MoS) and (61 Man of the
Match(MoM) awards in ODI Matches.[25] He has the distinction of having won MoM
Award against all ICC Full Members (Test Playing Nations). UAE (2 Matches),
Netherlands (1 Match) and Bermuda (1 match) are the only teams against whom he has
not won a Man of the Match Award in ODI Cricket.

Man of the Match Awards—Sachin

Tendulkar
# Opponent Total Home Away Neutral
1 Australia 11 5 1 5
 (59
Matches)
Bangladesh
2 (10 1 0 0 1
Matches)
England
3 (27 2 0 1 1
Matches)
New
Zealand
4 5 4 1 0
(38
Matches)
Pakistan
5 (61 7 1 1 5
Matches)
South
6 Africa (50 4 3 1 0
Matches)
Sri Lanka
7 (65 5 1 1 3
Matches)
West Indies
8 (38 9 3 1 5
Matches)
Zimbabwe
9 (34 8 0 4 4
Matches)
Kenya (10
10 4 2 0 2
Matches)
Namibia (1
11 1 0 0 1
Matches)
TOTAL
(381 56 19 10 27
Matches)

[edit] See also

• Sachin Tendulkar
• List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar
• Cricket
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[edit] External links

• http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/35320.html
• Sachin Tendulkar's Five Best Test Centuries; And those that didn't make the cut
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