Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (
pronunciation (help·info);
born 24 April 1973) is an
Indian cricketer widely considered
by many to be one of the greatest
batsmen of all time. He is the leading run-scorer and
century maker in
Test
and
one-day international
cricket.
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He is the first player to score a double century in
ODI cricket.
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In 2002, just 12 years into his career,
Wisden ranked him the 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.
[7]
Tendulkar was a part of the
2011 Cricket World Cup winning
Indian team in the later part
of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for
India.
[8]
He is currently nominated for receiving the
Bharat
Ratna award.
[9]
Tendulkar is the only cricketer to accomplish the feat of scoring a
hundred centuries in international cricket which includes 49 ODI and 51
Test centuries.
[10]
He is also the only player to score fifty centuries in Test cricket,
[11]
and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket
combined. On 17 October 2008, when he surpassed
Brian
Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test cricket, he also
became the first batsman to score 12,000, 13,000, 14,000 and 15,000 runs
in that form of the game,
[12]
having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs
in Test cricket.
[13]
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-Gavaskar Trophy 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.
[14]
Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November
2009. On 24 February 2010, Tendulkar became the first man to score a
double century (200*) in an ODI against South Africa. On 8 November
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.
496 Cr ($ 124
m) during the auction on January 24, 2008. The franchise was eventually
named the Mumbai Indians. The RIL bid made the Mumbai Indians the most
expensive franchise in the 2007 IPL auction till 2010 edition. In 2011
team auction saw the Sahara Pune Warriors bought by Subroto
Roy taking that title worth 1726 Cr ($ 375.2 m).
