Sir Sachin Tendulkar

Just have look at the records held by Sachin Tendulkar. No

wonder why British Prime Minister is suggesting him for the
honor of Sir …….

Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar

1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI

2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI

41

3. Most number of nineties in the ODI

4. Most number of man of the matches

(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series (14)
in ODI's

6. Best average for man of the matches

in ODI's

7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the

ODI

8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the

ODI

9. He is the highest run scorer in the

world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as
on 20 March 2007)

10. Most number of the man of the

matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup
523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an
average of 87.16

12. Most number of runs in the 2003

world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World
Cup, highest by any player in a single
Cricket World Cup

13. He was Player of the World Cup

Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87

15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's

407

16. He is the only player to be in top 10

ICC ranking for 10 years.

17. Most number of 100's in test's 38

18. He is one of the three batsmen to
surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the
first Indian to do so

19. He is thus far the only cricketer to

receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's
highest sporting honor

20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d

No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time
Greatest ODI player

21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the

second greatest Test batsman after Sir
Donald Bradman.

22. He was involved in unbroken 664-run

partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988
with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,

23. Tendulkar is the only player to score

a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy,
Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar
became the first overseas born player to
represent Yorkshire

25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv

Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma
Shri by Indian government. He is the only
Indian cricketer to get all of them.

26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs

in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times

27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in

calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman

28. He is the highest earning cricketer in

the world

29. He has the least percentage of the

man of the matches awards won when team
looses a match. Out of his 56 man of the
match awards only 5 times India has lost.
30. Tendulkar most number man of
match awards (10) against Australia

31. In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar

was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the
country in the sport personalities category in
the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.

32. In November 2006, Time magazine

named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.

33. In December 2006, he was named

"Sports person of the Year

34. The current India Poised campaign

run by The Times of India has nominated him
as the Face of New India next to the likes of
Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among
others.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in
history to score over 50 centuries in
international cricket

36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in

history to score over 75 centuries in
international cricket: 79 centuries

37. Has the most overall runs in cricket,

(ODIs+Tests+ Twenty20s) , as of 30 June
2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs
overall.

38. Is second on the most number of

runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara

39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav

Ganguly hold the world record for the
maximum number of runs scored by the
opening partnership. They have put together
6,271 runs in 128 matches
40. The 20 century partnerships for
opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world
record

41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid

hold the world record for the highest
partnership in ODI matches when they scored
331 runs against New Zealand in 1999

42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved

in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches -
a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly
and Rahul Dravid

43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9

ODI centuries in 1998

44. Only player to have over 100 innings

of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties) (as
of 18th Nov, 2007)

45. The only player ever to cross the

13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
46. Highest individual score among
Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand
at Hyderabad in 1999).

47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth

highest score recorded in ODI matches

48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI

runs against all major cricketing nations.

49. Sachin was the fastest to reach

10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the
highest batting average among batsmen with
over 10,000 ODI runs

50. Most number of Stadium

Appearances: 90 different Grounds

51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185

52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was
the second youngest debutant in the world

53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden

century in 1990, he was the second youngest
to score a century

54. Tendulkar's record of five test

centuries before he turned 20 is a current
world record

55. Tendulkar holds the current record

(217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the
highest score in Test cricket by an Indian
when captaining the side

56. Tendulkar has scored centuries

against all test playing nations. [7] He was
the third batman to achieve the distinction
after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten

57. Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test

cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392
runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs)
and 1997 (1000 runs). [6] Gavaskar is the
only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+
runs

58. He is second most number of seasons

with over 1000 runs in world.

59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar

(5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world
record of runs scored in Tests away from
home

60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the

fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket
history. Both of them achieved this in 195
innings

61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to

make over 10,000 runs in Test matches

62. Became the first Indian to surpass

the 11,000 Test run mark and the third
International player behind Allan Border and
Brian Lara.
63. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of
players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh
(168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane
Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more
games than Tendulkar

64. Tendulkar has played the most

number of Test Matches (144) for India
(Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test
appearances) .

65. First to 25,000 international runs

66. Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in

international cricket include 14,537 runs in
ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the
lone Twenty20 that India has played.

67. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar

made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi
against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil
Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become
the man with the most number of hundreds
in Test cricket.

68. Tendulkar is the only player who has

150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI

69. Tendulkar is the only player who has

40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests

70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds

in the first class cricket
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