Sachin Tendulkar Biography and his Dream

• Born: 24 April 1973 (age 47 years), Mumbai
• Height: 1.65 m
• Education: Kirti M. Doongursee College
• Spouse: Anjali Tendulkar (m. 1995)
• Children: Arjun Tendulkar, Sara Tendulkar
• Movies: Kabhie Ajnabi The

Today let’s get religious and devoted to a deity who is been celebrated, rather worshiped by 1 /5th of the globe’s population, and by worship, I mean it (pun intended). They all belong to a single religion called ‘Cricket’ and he is their God. 

His one hit across the boundary can reanimate a dead Indian and do hesitate to ask what happens if the same ball gets his wicket. Passively speaking I would rather just switch off the TV. His just entry into the field can set the whole stadium on fire. 

People don’t just love him they admire him. He is an institution in himself. And if you are still about to guess who he is? Let me tell you he is the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, a man who was born to change the story of Indian cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer and caption and considered as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of sports. He is the first and only batsman in the history of cricket to make 100 International centuries in his career, setting a benchmark still onerous to catch up.

ORIGIN

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on 24 April 1973 in Mumbai, India, to a middle-class Maharashtrian family. His father Ramesh Tendulkar was a well known Marathi novelist and his mother, Rajani worked in the insurance industry. Sachin was the youngest of his three siblings. As a young boy, He was considered a bully and would often pick up fights with new children in his school. 

Unlikely destiny had something astonishing written for him. To divert Sachin’s attention from being bullied his elder brother Ajit got him enrolled in a cricket Club at Shivaji Park, Dadar. Ajit was extremely fond of cricket and so he wanted his brother to be a cricket lover too. Contrary, Sachin fascinated playing tennis more making John McEnroe, the world's greatest tennis player as his ideal. 

Though Ajit would always keep pushing and encouraging Sachin to play cricket. Finally, when India won the 1983 Cricket World Cup the whole nation cried with joy. Little Sachin was astonished to see the Indian caption excepting the World Cup and the respect, the appreciation the team got. That day marked the beginning of his journey. Sachin wanted to grab the same world cup in his hands.

Sachin and his cricket

Then in 1984, Ajit introduced him to Mr. Ramakant Achrekar, a famous cricket coach and a club cricketer at Shivaji Park, Mumbai. During their first meet, Sachin got intimidated by the fact that someone is assessing his play and disappointed everyone watching his game. But when Ajit explained the coach about the Sachin Self-consciousness the coach agreed for a second chance and this time Sachin made to the club. 

Nobody present over there got the slightest hint of what was coming their way. Tendulkar was a child prodigy. As the days passed Achrekar was quite impressed by the Little Master blaster’s talent. Achrekar plays a major role in grooming this Prodigy that we see today as a legend. On Sachin’s part, he too was ever keen to learn and keep improving, and this engrossed Achrekar to improve his game.

Sachin and his fellows would practice for hours on the net and if they got exhausted, Achrekar would keep a rupee coin on the stumps and any bowler dismissing Tendulkar would get the coin, if the Tendulkar passes the whole session without being dismissed by the bowlers, the coach would give him the coin. 

Sachin’s fame increased day by day and he started becoming a common conversation at local cricket clubs. He consistently played several inter-school and inter-club tournaments where ever he got a chance and this kept on bettering his excellence, making people recognize him because he was not that ordinary guy who would slip off your memory. He also served as a ball boy in the 1987 Cricket World Cup semi-finals where India played against England.

It was 20 January 1987 India was celebrating Golden Jubilee of Cricket Club of India with a Festival exhibition match between India’s and Pakistanis in Bombay, India. So it just happened that Pakistani team was short of a player asking Indians to lend an extra player and that was Sachin who was just 14 at that time playing for Pakistan on Indian soil. Later on 14 November 1987, Tendulkar was selected to represent Bombay in the Ranji Trophy, India’s premier domestic first-class cricket tournament. 

Tough he was not selected in the final eleven Sachin was delighted to be an extra. Just a year later Tendulkar made a debut for Bombay against Gujarat and scored 100 not out in that match, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on his debut in first-class cricket. In this season in 1988, Tendulkar scored a century in every innings he played. In 1989 Tendulkar became Bombay’s highest run-scorer. He is the only player to score a century on debut in all three first-class tournaments (The Ranji, Irani, Duleep Trophies).

Success

Mr. Raj Singh Dungarpur the president of BCCI, who had an eye for cricketers, was quite amazed to see a teenage cricket paragon. Finally, Sachin made his international Test debut against Pakistan in 1989 at the age of 16 becoming India’s youngest Test cricketer. Even though he could not score many runs in the series he got noticed for his batting technique and his dedication to the sport. In the same year, he made his debut in One Day Internationals. 

Tendulkar was living his dream and this boosts his power. Sachin went on with 119 not out against England in 1990 to a pair of centuries in Australia in 1992. Then in the same year, He became the very first international player to sign in with England’s storied Yorkshire club and scored 1070 runs for England. 

British were quite impressed by Sachin’s game at the 1990’s Test between India and England where Sachin flaunted his miraculous cricket skills. Tendulkar’s dawn continued when he was the leading run-scorer at the 1996 world cup. Though India didn’t win the semi-finals, that’s not the end of the world, says Sachin.

After Success

This world cup success got Sachin his first every captaincy for Indian National Team. But this didn’t go very well with the success of the India cricket team. Though good on the field Sachin failed to full fill the hopes and expectations as a captain. Finally, Sourav Ganguly took over the captaincy in 2000. However, 

Tendulkar remained the core of the Indian cricket strategy process. In 2008 when BCCI President Sharad Powar personally offered captaincy to Tendulkar he turned it over recommending Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who later proved to be the most successful caption India has ever seen, with 27 wins in his regime.

The day was 2nd April 2011 and the venue was Wankhede stadium and the sight was Sachin in tears. Waving the Indian flag as proudly as ever, shedding the tears of joy. Joy for the win, tears for the immortal support from his fan all through his ups and downs. 

Almost after six world cup appearance, he was living his dream for the first time holding the cup in his hand for his Nation. Yes, India had won the World Cup after 28 years. The crowd went crazy, the Cricket fan went gaga, and the fireworks were all the way glittering the sky. India was the celebration of the biggest party on the planet.

Not everyone’s but Sachin’s success is surely counted in numbers.

• Sachin was the first batsman to appear in 400 innings in ODI Cricket with the highest number of 49 centuries. He was also the most run scorer i.e 18,426 ODI runs and most century scorer i.e 9 centuries in a calendar year in 1998.

• Sachin is involved in six 200 runs partnership with Dravid and Ganguly.

• Sachin has scored 2,278 runs at an average of 56.95 in World Cup history with the highest runs of 673 in 2003 World Cup still an unbeaten record by any the player in a single world cup.

• Sachin not only has 100 centuries but also has 96 unbeaten half-centuries record in his name.

• Sachin has scored a total of 34,000 runs in International cricket.

• He was the first person to score 200 or double century in ODI.

• In 2014 Sachin got the Bharat Ratna which is the highest civilian award in India. Apart from this Sachin has won Padmashree, the 4th highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan the 2nd highest, the Wisden Leading cricketer of the year for years 1997 and 2010.

Learnings

The biggest learning Sachin gave me is to stay calm even if the situation goes wrong. Even if you lose or win doesn’t matter, what matters is your attitude to handle the same. Learn from your every mishap, every drawback, and every mess you made with a smile on your face.
Tendulkar Prolonged victory throughout from Inter-school to international cricket taught us that Shortcut is not an option to have a notable career. 

To have a career of your choice, you have to make a choice, a choice to be dedicated, a choice to be loyal, a choice to accept every hardship coming your way to achieving your passion.

It wonders me every time I see him bat and gift us a century, how blessed he is to serve his country with his dream. But that’s not his fortune that made him here. What took him here is just his dream and the guts he had to make a way for it.

His success lies in the Goosebumps we get by hearing the crowd cheer for him each time he steps in to make us proud. Being human amongst the humans would be his greatest his enlightenment.

 

 

Sachin Tendulkar stats

Batsman
Career Batting Stats
Right-Handed Batsman

Format	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	BF	SR	100s	50s
Test	200	329	33	15921	248*	53.8	29437	379	-	51	68
1989–13
ODI	463	452	41	18426	200*	44.8	21367	147	86.2	49	96
1989–12
T20I	1	1	0	10	10	10	12	12	83.3	0	0
2006
IPL	78	78	11	2334	100*	34.8	1948	66	119.8	1	13
2008–13
1st class	310	490	51	25396	248*	57.9	34205	379	-	81	116
1988–13
List A	551	538	55	21999	200*	45.5	22802	147	-	60	114
1989–12
T20	96	96	11	2797	100*	32.9	2310	66	121.1	1	16
2006–13
Career Bowling Stats
Right-Arm Off Spin Bowler
Format	M	Inn	B	Mdn	Runs	W	BB	Econ	Avg	SR	4W	5W
Test	200	145	4240	83	2492	46	03-Oct	3.52	54.2	92.2	0	0
1989–13
ODI	463	270	8054	24	6850	154	May-32	5.1	44.5	52.3	4	2
1989–12
T20I	1	1	15	0	12	1	01-Dec	4.8	12	15	0	0
2006
IPL	78	4	36	0	58	0	0/7	9.66	-	-	0	0
2008–13
1st class	310	240	7605	170	4384	71	03-Oct	3.46	61.8	107.1	0	0
1988–13
List A	551	326	10230	39	8478	201	May-32	4.97	42.2	50.9	4	2
1989–12
T20	96	8	93	0	123	2	01-Dec	7.94	61.5	46.5	0	0
2006–13
Career Fielding Stats
Format	Catches	Run Outs	Stumpings
Test	115	8	0
1989–13
ODI	140	23	0
1989–12
T20I	1	0	0
2006
IPL	23	3	0
2008–13
1st class	186	8	0
1988–13
List A	175	24	0
1989–12
T20	28	3	0
2006–13