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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer widely considered one of the greatest batsmen ever. He holds numerous batting records including being the only player to score 100 international centuries and the highest run scorer in both Test and ODI cricket. Tendulkar had an illustrious 24-year cricket career representing India and was honored with India's highest civilian awards for his sporting achievements including the Bharat Ratna.

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer widely considered one of the greatest batsmen ever. He holds numerous batting records including being the only player to score 100 international centuries and the highest run scorer in both Test and ODI cricket. Tendulkar had an illustrious 24-year cricket career representing India and was honored with India's highest civilian awards for his sporting achievements including the Bharat Ratna.

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( /stn tndulkr/; born 24 April 1973) is a

former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.[4][5]
[6][7][8]

He 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 Indiainternationally for close to twenty-four years. 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, the holder of the record for the number of runs in both ODI andTest cricket, and the
only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.[9]
In 2002 just half way 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.[10] 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.[11]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.[12][13][14]
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.[15] 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.[16][17] He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the
award.[18][19] He also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC
awards.[20] In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of
the Parliament of India.[21] 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.
[22]

In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia.[23][24]

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