"Sir" Tendulkar

"Sir" Tendulkar
J ust 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..

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.

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 (200* against
SA at in 2010).
47. The score of 200* is listed the 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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