- Considered the best cricket batsman of his generation - and according to his fans, the best batsman of all time.
- Member of India's cricket team (1989 - 2013).
- Like loads of other cricketers, Sachin is pretty superstitious - he'll always put on his left pad before his right whenever he's getting padded up.
- Sachin was given a pair of pads by his cricket hero Sunil Gavaskar when he was a schoolboy - and he made his Test debut for India against Pakistan aged just 16-years old in 1989 wearing those very pads.
- Captain of the Indian cricket team (1996-1997).
- (May 10, 2010) Merited a position in Time magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" ("Heroes" category) with an homage contributed by friend Deepak Chopra.
- Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards. After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.
- Tendulkar retired from all forms of cricket on 16 November 2013 after playing his 200th Test match, against the West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.
- Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in six World Cup appearances for India.
- Sachin was leading run scorer in 1996 & 2003 World Cup events.
- In 2002, halfway through his career, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.
- He scored his first ODI century on 9 September 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It took him 78 ODIs to score his first century.
- He is the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket. He played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.
- [14 August,1990) Sachin became the second youngest cricketer to score a Test century as he made 119 not out against England.
- In 2010 edition of Indian Premier League, Sachin's Mumbai Indians reached the final of the tournament. Tendulkar made 618 runs in 14 innings during the tournament, breaking Shaun Marsh's record of most runs in an IPL season. He was declared player of the tournament for his performance during the season. He also won Best Batsman and Best Captain awards at 2010 IPL Awards ceremony.
- Sachin won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.
- Sachin been named "Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
- During the second ODI of the bilateral series South Africa in 2010, Tendulkar became first male batsman and 2nd Overall (male or female) to score 200 runs in ODI.
- Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour.
- Tendulkar received the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth and second highest civilian awards.
- After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award. He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.
- In 2019, Tendulkar was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
- Was voted by ESPN Cricinfo as the 7th greatest cricketer of all-time in 2002.
- Represented Yorkshire in English County Cricket.
- Contrary to public opinion, he has been very good friends with his West Indies rival Brian Lara ever since their careers ran in parallel.
- Was selected as a specialist batsman in Wisden Cricket Almanack's All-Time Dream XI on the 150th anniversary of the magazine's edition. Tendulkar and his childhood idol Sir Vivian Richards of the West Indies were the only batsmen from the post World War 2 era and alongside Pakistani pace legend Wasim Akram one of the only two Asian players selected in the team.
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year, 1997 as well as Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for both 1998 and 2010.
- Was voted in a 2013 CNN-IBN polling as the 8th greatest Indian post independence. He is the only sportsperson on the list.
- One of the 3 players shortlisted for the title of Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century, alongside eventual winner Kapil Dev and childhood idol Sunil Gavaskar. Coincidentally, Tendulkar's debut against Pakistan in 1989 was Kapil Dev's 100th test appearance.
- Despite being the most prolific batsman in all cricket history, Tendulkar was surprisingly never the highest run scorer of either of the decades he played in. He was the sixth highest run scorer in tests played during the 1990s, seventh highest during the 2000s and the 39th highest of the 2010s although he retired in 2013.
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