Friday, October 24, 2008

Sachin Tendulkar - Records





Some remarkable achievements of his career are:

* Highest tally of runs in test cricket (12037)

* Most runs (over 16361) and centuries (42) in one-day internationals

* Most Number of Man of the Matches in one-day internationals

* Most Number of Runs in World Cup Cricket History

* First cricketer to cross 10,000-run mark in ODIs

* Only second Indian to cross 10,000 runs in Test matches.

* He has the most centuries in ODI cricket against Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

* He is the fastest to score 10,000 runs in test cricket history. He holds this record along with Brian Lara. Both of them achieved this feat in 195 innings.

* To go with this he has 39 hundreds in Test cricket at an average of 54.22. An average above 50 distinguishes a batsman as an all time great.

*1994: Arjuna Award Receipient for achievements in Cricket

*1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year *1997/98: India's highest sporting honour - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

*1999: Padma Shri - India's civilian medal of recognition

*2008: Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.

*In August 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.

*In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.

*In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"

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