Born: 24 April 1973 {age 48 years}, Mumbai
Height: 1.65 m { 5 ft 5 in}
Wife: Anjali Tendulker {m. 1995}
Bat Style: Right Handed Bat
Awards: Bharat Ratna, Wisden Cricketers of the years, Padma Vibhushan.
Role: Batsman
Nickname: Little Master,[Master Blaster]
Relations: Arjun Tendulkar {son}
Ramesh Tendulkar {father}
Rajni Tendulkar {Mother}
Number: 10 [India national cricket team], 10 [ Mumbai Indians/ Batsman]
Test Debut {cap 187}: 15 November 1989 v Pakistan
ODI debut {cap 74}: 18 December 1989 v Pakistan.
The God of Indian Cricket
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar is a god in India and people believe luck shines in his hand,' Australia's opening batsman Matthew Hayden told the Sydney Sun- Herald in April 2001, shortly after returning from a tour of India. `It is beyond chaos- it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man.'
The question was then put to Tendulkar by an Indian journalist: Are you God? `I don't think anyone can become God or even come close to it,' was the response.
Quite right. But in a country of a billion plus (with many millions more in the Indian diaspora) where the `unity in diversity' mantra of the state machinery has begun to ring hollow, Tendulkar has emerged as perhaps the nation's sole unifying force.Columnist C.P. Surendran had this to say about what the batting maestro means to Indians everywhere: Every time he walks to the wicket,' a whole nation, tatters and all, marches with him to the battle arena. A pauper people pleading for relief, remission from the lifelong anxiety of being Indian...seeking a moment's liberation from their India- bondage through the exhilarating grace of one accidental bat' ( An Anthropologist Among the Marxists and Other Essays by Ramachandra Guha.)
Family and Lifestyle
sachin tendulkar was born to a brahmin family on 24 April, 1973 in Dadar, Mumbai. That is he belongs to renowned Saraswat Brahmin Family. His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a Marathi poet and novelist. His mother was Rajni who worked in the insurance industry. He has two half-brothers namely Nitin and Ajit and one half-sister Savita. His formative years were spent in the "Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society" in Bandra (East). He did his schooling from the Sharadashram Vidyamandir High School. In the school days, he attended the M.R.F.Pace Foundation to train himself to be a fast bowler. But as per the suggestion of Dennis Lillee, the fast bowler from Australia, he concentrated on batting. Sachin Tendulkar also likes playing tennis. At the age of 14, he scored 326 out of a world-record stand of 664 in a school match and became famous in Bombay schoolboys.
College Prodigy
If the Kanga League is the heart and soul of Mumbai cricket, the Harris and Giles Shield inter- school tournaments are its roots. When Sachin was growing up, the school scene was dominated by the likes of sharadashram Vidyamandir, Balamohan, St. Mary's, Don Bosco, St. Xavier's and Anjuman- E- Islam.
Sharadashram has produced four Test cricketers-- Chandrakant Pandit ,Pravin Amre, Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli. By the 1980s it had overtaken Anjuman- E- Islam as the winner of the most inter- school tournament titles.
Pandit (a wicketkeeper- batsman) and Lalchand Rajput (opening batsman) were in Ruia College with Ajit Tendulkar and were coached by Ramakant Achrekar, the official Sharadashram coach. Achrekar also ran a few cricket clubs,including the Sassanian Cricket Club and the kamat Mamorial Cricket Club for whom he kept wickets in Kanga League matches well into his 40s.
World Cup Record
The Harris Shield semi- final against St. Xavier's Fort (Sunil Gavaskar's old school) was played at the Sassanian Cricket Club ground on Azad Maidan on 23- 25 February 1988, and it was this match that propelled Sachin into the world record books for the first time.
St. Xavier,s had in their ranks leg- spinner Sairaj Bahutule, a future Test cricketer, while defending champions Sharadashram had Vinod Kambli and Amol Muzumdar besides Tendulker in their team. Muzumdar would go on to captain Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy; he holds the world record for the highest score by a debutant in first- class cricket (260).
Sachin won the toss and took first strike. Opening bowler Sanghani picked up the wickets of openers Atul Ranade (42) and R.Mulye (18) and the score was 84 for 2 whan Sachin joined Vinod, who had by then reached 29. At the end of the first day's play, Vinod was batting on 182 and Sachin on 192. the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Scorers of India, this feat was recognized as a world record, and the boys got planty of coverage. they were thrilled to see their names in both the Guinness Book of World Records and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Into the Cauldron of Test Cricket
The selection of the team to Pakistan for what turned out to be the last Test tour by an Indian team (till mid- 2002), generated more then the usual share of controversy. The team would be captained in Tests for the first time by Tamil Nadu opening batsman Krishnamachari Srikkanth. His elevation had come under remarkable circumstances, even for Indian cricket, where unusual happenings are commonplace. India had been beaten 3-0 in five Tests in the Caribbean and swept away 5-0 in the one- day series. After the West Indies debacle, the Indian captain Dilip Vengsarkar had given a taped interview to Mudar Patherya of Sportworld {May 1989} in which he blamed everyone but himself, despite his woeful batting from. To make things worse, he had gone on to the United States, with several other cricketers, to play exhibition matches which had been specifically forbidden by the BCCI.
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