Sachin Tendulkar- The Little Master
Sachin Tendulkar is a master at cricket and is the greatest batsman of all time in its history.
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There were the past cricket stars. Donald Bradman, who had gotten 12 Test Match cricket double centuries, the world record, and had an average of almost 100. Vivian Richards, who was chosen the greatest ODI cricketer of all time, and took a great role in the invicible 70’s and early 80’s West Indies team. Garfield Sobers, former captian of the West Indies and is widely regarded as the greatest All rounder of all time. Shane Warne, former leg spinner and held the record for most test wickets ever taken, a bit over 700. Around 15-16 years ago, came a young boy at sixteen to the Indian squad, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
A star performer, Tendulkar was born in Mumbai in 1973. His father Ramesh named him after a famous music director, Sachin Dev Burman. He started his training at his high school, by Ramakant Achrekar, who was his mentor.
He used to practice in the nets all day long, and when he got tired his coach placed a one rupee coin on the stumps. The bowler that could dismiss him would get the coin, and if he wasn’t dismissed, Sachin would get the coin. In the end, he earned 13 coins which he calls his most prized possessions.
Only at the age of 15, he scored a 100 not out in his debut first class match for Bombay. Although he only scored 15 in his debut match for international cricket against Pakistan, he is now known as one of the greatest players ever in the history of cricket. Sachin now also holds the record for most ODI matches played, and Sanath Jayasuriya is close behind him. They both have exceeded 400 ODI matches. If you do not think that’s a lot, listen to this. 400+ ODI matches is like standing on a cricket field for a YEAR, continuously playing ten hours a day. Actually, it’s even more than a year. It’s around a year and two months.
Not only a batsman but he also can bowl a bit of leg spin, although he hasn’t been too consistent in it.
But I’m not here to boast on and on about his marvellous career, which is still going on, so let’s end this with a few statistics-
Test Cricket:
Runs: 12, 773
Matches: 159
Innings: 261
Highest Score: 248*
Average: 54.58
100s: 42
50s: 53
One Day Internationals:
Runs: 16, 684
Matches: 425
Innings: 415
Highest Score: 186* (wow)
Average: 44.37
100s: 43
50s: 91 (wow)
You call this brilliant? I call this impossible.
What’s your guess? What do you think of the little master? Will we perform well for his team in the Champions Trophy?
