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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (: Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian international cricketer who is considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He holds the records for most runs and centuries scored in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket. Some of his many honors and awards include being named Player of the Tournament at the 2003 Cricket World Cup, receiving India's highest civilian awards like the Bharat Ratna, and being the first and only sportsperson to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air Force.

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (: Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian international cricketer who is considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He holds the records for most runs and centuries scored in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket. Some of his many honors and awards include being named Player of the Tournament at the 2003 Cricket World Cup, receiving India's highest civilian awards like the Bharat Ratna, and being the first and only sportsperson to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air Force.

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (/ˌsʌtʃɪn tɛnˈduːlkər/ ( listen); born 24 April 1973) is a former

international cricketer from India and a former captain of the Indian national team. He is widely


regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.[5] He is the highest run scorer of all
time in International cricket. Considered as the world's most prolific batsman of all time,[6] he is the
only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double
century in a One Day International (ODI), the holder of the record for the most runs in both Test and
ODI cricket, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.[7]
Tendulkar took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989
against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically
and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. 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.[8] Later in his
career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win in
six World Cup appearances for India.[9] He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament" at
the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer
included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack.[10][11][12] He is colloquially known as Little Master or Master Blaster.[13][14][15][16]
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.
[17]
 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.[18][19] He is the youngest
recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award.[20][21] He also won the 2010 Sir
Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.[22] In 2012, Tendulkar was
nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.[23] He was also the first
sportsperson and the first person without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank
of group captain by the Indian Air Force.[24] In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the
Order of Australia.[25][26]

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