Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Born: 24^th April, 1973, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Nickname: Tendlya, Little Master

Height: 5ft 5 inch

Batting Style: Right-hand Bat

Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly

Major Teams: India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire

Test Debut: 15^th November 1989 v Pakistan

ODI Debut: 18^th December 1989 v Pakistan

T20I Debut: 1^st December 2006 v South Africa

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar sometimes known as Little Master or Master Blaster is one of the greatest cricketer India have ever produced. He is the leading run scorer and century maker in both format of the game (one day international and test cricket). In 2002, Wisdem ranked Sachin second greatest test batsman of all time next to Sir Donald Bradman and the second greatest ODI batsman next to Sir Vivian Richards.

On the tour of Australia to India in 2006-07, Shane Warne rated Sahcin Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar also holds the record of scoring more than fifty centuries combining all format of the game.

On November 14 2009, he also completed his 20 international year in Cricket. On November 30^th he also gets passed 30,000 runs in international cricket. In the test series against Bangladesh he get passed 13000 runs mark in test cricket.

With such greatness in his batting ability Indian selectors decided to give him the captaincy in 2005 but without much success, so he left the captaincy job and decided to concentrate on his batting.

Sachin Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award, India’s second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honour.

Sachin Tendulkar on his day can destroy any bowling attack; the recent example was in the ODI series against Australia when India was chasing 351 runs for victory. With wickets falling around he decided to take the fight to the opposition and almost single handedly guided India home with his blistering knock of 175 runs of 141 balls but unfortunately for India he got out at crucial stage of the game and India lost the game by 3 runs and later went on to loose the series.

So far he has played five World Cup for India but his dream is still not fulfill as he would like to win a World Cup for his country. Hopeful in 2011 Cricket World Cup he will be able to achieve that.

Sachin Tendulkar also achieved another milestone in his cricketing career which none of the batsman able to do it in the 39 years history of ODI cricket by hitting an unbeaten double century in ODI cricket. He achieved this feet in the 2^nd ODI played at Gwalior on February 25^th 2010.

Sachin Tendulkar Cricket Statistics
Batting Records	Tests	ODI’s	T20’s
Matches	169	442	1
Innings	276	431	1
Runs Scored	13837	17598	10
Batting Averages	56.02	45.12	10.00
Strike Rates		86.26	83.33
100s	48	46	0
50s	56	93	0
6s	57	185	0
Highest Score	248*	200*	10
Bowling Records
Balls Overs Bowled	3994	8020	15
Wickets	44	154	1
Bowling Average	52.25	44.26	12.00
Economy Rate	3.45	5.10	4.80
Best Bowling	3/10	5/32	1/12
Catches	106	134	1