SACHIN TENDULKAR'S CRICKET PROFILE

Full Name :Tendulkar, Sachin
Date of birth: 24/04/1973
Country: India
Role :Batsman
Batting style: R
Bowling style: Off break

Career summary
- Sachin Tendulkar is a right-handed batsman and bowl's legbreak googly.
- He made his Test debut in 1989 against Pakistan at Karachi, where he showed his bravery and commitment when he played on after he was struck on the head. He was only 16 at the time, India's youngest ever Test player.
- Sachin made his ODI debut later on the same tour at Gujranwala in December, but was dismissed without scoring a run.
- In his debut first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat in the 1988/89 season, he scored 100 not-out aged 15 years 232 days, he was by far the youngest player to score a century on debut.
- Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to score a century while making his debut's in the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy.
- Sachin currently holds the record for the most number of runs in One-Day Internationals, and the most number of centuries scored, both in One-Day Internationals and in Test cricket.
- Tendulkar also holds the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year, having done it six times, in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2003.
- In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, a record for ODI runs by any batsman in a calendar year.
- His highest Test score with the bat is 248 not out, which he got against Australia in 2004 at Sydney.
- He became the first batsman to score 50 centuries in international cricket.
- Was the top run scorer in the 2003 World Cup with 673 runs & passed 50 in 7 of his 11 innings.

* Sachin Tendulkar is the most prolific run scorer in one-day internationals with 16,422 runs.

* With a current aggregate of 12,429 Test runs, Sachin surpassed Brian Lara's previous record tally of 11,953 runs as the highest run scorer in test matches in the second Test of Australia's 2008 tour of India in Mohali. Sachin described “It is definitely the biggest achievement in 19 years of my career” on the day he achieved the record.

* Sachin also holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test and ODI cricket.

* Throughout his career, he has made a strong impact on Indian cricket and was, at one time, the foundation of most of the team's victories.

* In recognition with his impact on sport in a cricket-loving country like India, Sachin has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India.

* Sachin was also elected Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997 and is ranked by the objective scoring method of the Wisden 100 as the second best test batsman and best ODI batsman of all time.

* Sachin has also consistently done well in Cricket World Cups (excluding the 2007 Cricket World Cup in which India were knocked out after only 3 matches). Sachin was the highest run scorer of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and 1996 Cricket World Cup.

* Sachin has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times, and in one of these years he scored 1894 runs, easily the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for one day internationals.

* Sachin is also one of the very few players who are still playing in international cricket from the 1980s.

* Sachin has been Man of the Match 11 times in Test matches and Man of the Series 4 times, out of them twice in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.

Test Matches
Batting
Career Span: 1989 - 2008
Matches: 155
Innings: 256
Not outs: 27
Runs: 12429
Highest Score: 248
Average: 48.55
50s: 51
100s: 37
Ducks: 14
Pairs: 0
Catches: 100
Stumping: 0
Bowling
Innings bowled: 184
Overs: 646.4
Maidens: 81
Runs conceded: 2227
Wickets: 42
5 Wicket Innings: 0
10 Wicket matches: 0
Average: 53.02
Economy Rate: 3.45
Best bowling in Innings: 3/10
ODI Matches
Batting
Career Span: 1989 - 2009
Innings: 408
Not outs: 38
Runs: 16298
Highest Score: 186
Strike-rate: 85.4
Average: 39.95
50s: 89
100s: 42
Ducks: 20
Catches: 126
Stumping: 0
Bowling
Innings bowled: 263
Overs: 1324.5
Maidens: 25
Runs conceded: 6743
Wickets: 154
4 Wicket Innings: 2
Average: 43.79
Economy Rate: 5.09
Best bowling in Innings: 5/32
Twenty20 Matches