Here are some facts about Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, whose name has reached all corners of the world in the field of cricket, where he is considered as a god. The more we write about him, the less it is:
1. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar as we all know is named after the legendary music director Sachin Dev Burman. We also know that he is also known as the Master Blaster, the Bombay Bomber, the Little Champion
2. Interestingly, he made both his test and ODI debut in
3. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years and the only cricketer and one of the first sportsmen (along with Vishwanathan Anand ) to receive Padma Vibhushan (2008), the second highest civilian honor of India. He has also been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
4. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts. Tendulkar has also scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major cricketing nations.
5. He also has the interesting records of most stadium appearances-at 90 different grounds and the most number of consecutive ODI’s (185 of them).
6. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wickets and more than 17000 runs in ODI’s and he is the only player who has 40 wickets and more than 11000 runs in Tests.
7. And now the most important one....Sachin Tendulkar is the only cricketer in the 39 year history of ODI Cricket (including 60 over matches) to have scored a double hundred! He has now all the major ODI world records to himself. These include: Most runs, Most number of hundreds and fifties, Most number of Man of the Matches, Highest individual score, Highest number of matches played e.t.c and the list is endless.
Regarding point 5, I don't think he's the only person to have 100 first-class tons. Jack Hobbs, if I remember right, was the first man to get to that mark, and there have been quite a few others since.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. there have been many others like Jack Hobbs and the most recently Mark Ramprakash too achieved the feat. Thanks for the suggestion.
ReplyDeleteI have now deleted the fact. I think the source from which I got it was wrong.
Sachin is not the only cricketer to get the rajiv gandhi khel ratana award as it had been awarded to mahendra singh dhoni also in the recent past.
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