Sachin Tendulkar Profile
Batsman
Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
The Legend
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Legbreak googly
Test debut: Pakistan v India at Karachi - Nov 15-20, 1989
ODI debut: Pakistan v India at Gujranwala - Dec 18, 1989
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1997
Rated as the second best batsman of all time
Played more matches than any other cricketer
- Fourth highest tally of runs in test cricket (10,134) at an outstanding average of 57.25 (highest among those who have scored over 8,500 test runs) as of March 2005
- Most runs (over 13642) and centuries (38) in one-day internationals Only person to have scored over 11,000 ODI runs and over 25 ODI centuries as of April 28, 2005
- Highest ODI batting average among Indian batsmen and among all batsmen who have scored over 7,500 ODI runs (as of April 3, 2005)
- Most Number of Man of the Matches in one-day internationals
- Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs in ODIs as of April 2005 Most Number of Runs in World Cup Cricket History
- First cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark in ODIs
- Has equalled Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 test centuries.
- Among those who have played over 100 test matches, he is the only one with a batting average above 55.
- Only second Indian to cross 10,000 runs in Test matches.
- He has the most centuries in ODI cricket against Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
- He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in test cricket history. He holds this record along with Brian Lara. Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings.
- To go with this he has 34 hundreds in Test cricket at an average of 57. An average above 50 distinguishes a batsman as an all time great.
- Highest individual score in ODIs among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)
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