SACHIN TENDULKAR - "Lord Of Cricket"

Sachin Tendulkar

Born April 24, 1973, the former Indian cricketer is considered the greatest batsman of the modern generation. The Mumbai batsman made his Test debut when he was 16 and is the only player to have scored 100 international centuries in the history of the game. Tendulkar is the first batsman to score a double century in a one-day international. He retired from international cricket in 2013 after scoring 18,426 ODI runs and 15,921 runs in Tests. Tendulkar was awarded the Bharat Ratna - India's highest civilian award - in 2014 for his outstanding sporting achievements. He is considered one of India's greatest sports icons.

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Sania remains confident about medal chances after doubles loss Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards.[11] After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.[12][13] He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.[14][15] He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.[16] In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.[17] He was also 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.[18] In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.[19][20] source- wikipedia,toi		Sania remains confident about medal chances after doubles los Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen ever, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is the mainstay of Indian batting line-up for more than two decades. He is the world's leading run-scorer in both Test (14,692) and ODI (18,111) cricket. In 2011, Tendulkar finally achieved his dream of winning the Cricket World Cup at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. It took six World Cup appearances for the 'Little Master' to win the coveted trophy. Tendulkar is the leading century maker in both Test and ODI and has so far scored 99 (51 Test + 48 ODI) international centuries. He also has played highest number of Test and ODI matches. Among many laurels he had won - the most prominent ones are: Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour. Surprisingly after playing for more two decades, Tendulkar won his first ICC cricketer of the year award in 2010. Tendulkar described ‘2010’ as among the best ever in his cricketing career. In February 2010, he became the first batsman to break the 200-run barrier in the one-day cricket. Tendulkar made his Test debut as a 16-year-old against Pakistan at Karachi in November 1989. He then played his first one-day match against the same team in the next month.