Grand Salute to the God of Cricket

“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”