grand salute to the god of cricket
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His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... When he goes out to bat , it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God. -- Mathew HaydenTRANSCRIPT
“First man hits 200 runs ever in one day international match”
“Highest Run scorer in the Test Cricket”
“Most number of hundreds in the ODI ”
“Most number of Nineties in the ODI”
“Most number of man of the matches (56) in the ODI’s”
“Most number of man of the series (14) in ODI’s”
“Best average for man of the matches in ODI’s”
“First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI”
“Most number of man of the matches (56) in the ODI’s”
“First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI”
“Highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an avg of 59.87
as on 20th March 2007) ”
“Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup”
“Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the
1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16”
“He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003
Cricket World Cup”
“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”
“Most number of Fifties in ODI’s 87”
“Appeared in Most Number of ODI’s 407”
“He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10
years”
“Most number of 100’s in test’s 38”
“He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs
in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so”
“He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India’s highest
sporting honor”
“In 2003, Wisdenrated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and
Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player”
“In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald
Bradman”
“He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris
Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod
Kambli”
“Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of
his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts”
“In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first
overseas born player to represent Yorkshire”
“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”
“Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year
in ODI’s 7 times”
“Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI’s
most by any batsman”
“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.”
“Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against
Australia”
“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
by Zee News.”
“He is the highest earning cricketer in the World”
“In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkaras one of the Asian Heroes”
“In December 2006, he was named “Sports person of the
Year”
“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”
“Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score
over 50 centuries in international cricket”
“Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score
over 75 centuries in international cricket:79
centuries”
“Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s),
as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000
runs overall”
“He is the batsman who scored most number of runs in test
cricket”
“Sachin Tendulkar with SouravGanguly 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”
“The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with SouravGanguly is a world record”
“Sachin Tendulkar and RahulDravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in
ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New
Zealand in 1999”
“Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run
partnerships in ODI matches –a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul
Dravid”
“Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998”
“Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41
Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)”
“The only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI”
“Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186*
against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999)”
“The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in
ODI matches”
“Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations”
“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”
“Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different
Grounds”
“Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185”
“On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the
world”
“When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to
score a century”
“ Tendulkar’s record of five test centuries before he turned 20
is a current world record”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past
Brian Lara’s (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests
away from home”
“Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195
innings”
“Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over
10,000 runs in Test matches”
“Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run
mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara”
“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”
“Tendulkar has played the most number of Test
Matches(144) for India (KapilDev is second with 131 Test
appearances)”
“First to 25,000 international runs”
“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”
“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”
“Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more
than 15000 runs in ODI”
“Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests”
“Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class
cricket”
“and this God is not tired, he is a living legend who believe in the results driven by passion &
commitment; records will follow and the records
mentioned in the slideshow will soon be painted with the
newer ones”