Sachin Tendulkar | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | Master Blaster | The Little Master, God of Cricket, Indian Cricketer

                         Sachin Tendulkar (Master Blaster) was a former Indian Cricketer wide acknowledged in concert of the best batsmen of all time .Tendulkar was named when his father Ramesh Tendulkar's favorite music musician Sachin Dev Burman. Sachin attended Indian Education society New English School. His childhood was not much easier as he was interested in cricket from his childhood. His elder brother Ajit Tendulkar had played cricket alongside as former India wicketkeeper.  Sachin   Was titled as “Master Blaster”.

Now lets compile quicks facts about Sachin:

·         Sachin Tendulkar Full name is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.

·         Sachin Tendulkar Born on April 24, 1973, in Mumbai.

·         Sachin Tendulkar Awarded with Bharat Ratna 2014.

·         Sachin Tendulkar has two brothers and a sister.

·         Sachin Tendulkar named after legendary Indian music director Sachin Dev Burman

·         Sachin Tendulkar nicknames are Little Master, Tendlya, The Little Champion, Master Blaster, God of Cricket.

·         Sachin Tendulkar height just 5ft 5ins tall.

·         Sachin Tendulkar right-handed batsman.

·         Sachin Tendulkar right-handed spin bowler too.

·         Sachin Tendulkar writes with his left hand.

Some of the amazing Facts of Sachin Tendulkar are:-

1.       Anjali the wife of Sachin Tendulkar, met her in 1990 at mumbai airport for first time while returning from the tour of England at the age of 17. And married with her at the age of 22 with Anjali.

2.       Sachin has one son and one daughter. Sara is named after the first tournament as sachin won Sahara cup in 1997 as captain.

3.       Pairs of Ultra-light pads was gifted by Sunil Gavaskar to Sachin at the age of 14, pads were later stolen while Sachin was at the under-15 national camp.

4.       Sachin was rejected by Dennis Lillie when he went to the MRF Pace Foundation to become a fast bowler.

5.       Tendulkar made his international debut at the age of 16 years. Sachin is still the youngest debutant for India both in ODIs as well as in Tests. 

6.       Sourav Ganguly and Sachin met for the first time at the under-15 national camp.

7.       Sachin scored his life first debuts century (100) for Shradashram Vidyamandir against the Don Bosco School, Matunga, in the Harris Shield quarter-final at Shivaji Park.

8.       Tendulkar was a ball-boy throughout the 1987 tournament.

9.       Sachin alone with Waqar Younis, Salil Ankola and Shahid Saeed made their international debuts together in the year 1989 at Karachi Test.

10.   Tendulka scored a duck in his ODI debut, which was against Pakistan, Sachin’s debut Test was Kapil Dev’s 100^th Test.

11.   Sachin made his home international debut in 1990, against Sri Lanka.

12.   Tendulka was the first batsman to be given out by a third umpire in the year 1992 Test series during South Africa, the third umpire was Karl Liebenberg.

13.   Sachin Tendulka scored his first century on Indian soil in 1993, against England.

14.   T-shirt was once autographed by Andrew Symonds especially for Sachin. It read: “To Sachin, the man we all want to be.”

15.   Sachin and Rahul Dravid has been involved in 20 century partnerships, over 6000 runs.

16.   The only Test-playing nation, where Sachin has never scored a Test century is Zimbabwe in his careers.

17.   Sachin carries India’s national flag in his cricket bag and also sports it on his own helmet.

18.   Sachin visited London’s museum Madame Tussauds for the first time in 1988. Twenty years later, the museum had his wax statue.

19.   Sachin, Steve Waugh and Brian Lara all had MRF as their bat sponsors. Lara’s bat was called ‘Wizard’, Waugh’s ‘Champion’ and Sachin’s ‘Genius.’ Named by MRF.

20.   Sachin Tendulkar play his last Test as Wankhade Stadium against the West Indies in 2013, November 14.

21.   Playing for his school Sharadashram against St. Xavier’s at the Azad Maidan in February, 1988, he was associated in the then world record unbroken stand of 664 runs with Vinod Kambli for the third-wicket partnership.Both of them remained unbeaten on 326 and 349 respectively.

22.   The first ball Sachin faced in international cricket was bowled by Waqar Younis. 

23.   Sachin has played 146 Tests with Rahul Dravid, 122 with Anil Kumble, 120 with VVS Laxman and 103 with Sourav Ganguly together.

24.   Sachin has never batted at number 3 in his entire Test career. He has opened once, batted 273 times at number 4, 29 times at number 5, 20 times at number 6 and 4 times at number 7 in his life careers.

25.   Sachin played 84 consecutive Tests without a break between November 1989 and June 2001.

26.   Sachin has played on 59 different Test grounds around world– more than anyone else players.

27.   Sachin runs: 18426 runs at an average of 44.83.

28.    Sachin  last test was against west indies 2013, November 14.