Happy Birthday Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar’s birthday is a special moment for his fans, and on the legend’s 46th birthday, lets revisit some of his most memorable quotes.

Source: HT

Happy B’day to the GOD of Cricket

• The cricketing genius was born into an intellectual family. His father was a writer and a poet. His brother is also talented at the artwork.
• Sachin Tendulkar was named after famous music director Sachin Dev Burman in a hope that he will pursue art as his passion. However, Sachin was not a bit closer to those expectations.
• Sachin Tendulkar was sent to cricket coaching class as a punishment exercise by his mentor Ajit Tendulkar.
• At the age of 14, Sachin Tendulkar served as the ball-boy in 1987 India and Zimbabwe World Cup.
• Sachin Tendulkar always aspired to be a fast bowler and joined the MRF Pace Academy. However, he got rejected by Dennis Lillie due to underperformance.
• Sachin Tendulkar fully justifies his nickname ‘run machine’. He has gained this nickname by scoring 1000 Test runs in– 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008 and 2010.
• Sachin Tendulkar has played more than three Tests in a year 19 times. In 17 of those, his yearly average has been more than 40, and in the other 2, his yearly average was over 55.
• In 2008, Sachin appeared in an Australian reality television series An Aussie Goes Bolly.
• ‘Band-Aid’ was Sachin Tendulkar’s first ever product endorsement assignment.
• Sachin Tendulkar’s was first seen in in the Bollywood movie titled ‘Stumped’ in 2003 in a guest appearance.
• In 2010, Sachin Tendulkar was offered a deal worth the US $3,250,000 (INR 20 crore) for endorsing an alcohol brand but the cricketer, keeping the promise made to his father when he was 16, turned down the contract. Sachin promised his father Ramesh Tendulkar to never endorse alcohol.
• In 1990, a teenage Sachin Tendulkar became the first overseas-born player to represent Yorkshire, a county that had never selected cricketers from another country before.

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Considered by fans across the globe as the god of the cricket, Sachin Tendulkar has set, broke and rebroke multiple records throughout his 24-year playing career.
As the Little Master turn 46, here’s a look at all the records Tendulkar holds:

• Most One-Day Internationals: 463
• Most Man of the Match awards: 62
• Most Man of the Series awards: 15
• Longest ODI career: 22 years 91 days
• Only one to accomplish rare ODI triple: 15000 runs (18426), 100 wickets (154) and 100 catches (140)
• Most ODI runs: 18426 (ave.44.83) in 463 matches
• Most ODI centuries: 49
• Most hundreds against any team: 9 vs Australia
• Only batsman to register 8 or more hundreds against two nations: 9 vs Australia and 8 vs Sri Lanka
• Most fours: 2016
• Most 50-plus innings: 195 (49 centuries and 96 fifties)
• Most runs in a calendar year: 1894 (ave.65.31) in 34 matches in 1998
• Most hundreds in a calendar year: 9 in 34 matches in 1998
• Most times to score 1000 runs in a calendar year: 7 times
• Most 90s in a career: 18
• Most runs against Australia: 3077 at an average of 44.59 in 71 matches
• Most runs against Sri Lanka: 3113 (ave.43.84) in 84 matches.
• Most runs against South Africa: 2001 runs at an average of 35.73 in 57 matches
• Most runs against Pakistan: 2526 (ave.40.09) in 69 matches
• First batsman to score an ODI double hundred: 200 not out against South Africa on Feb.24,2010
• Most runs in World Cups: 2278 runs at an average of 56.95 in 45 matches
• Most centuries in World Cups: 6 in 44 innings
• Most runs in a single World Cup: 673 at an average of 61.18 in 11 matches in 2002-03
• Most number of Test runs – 15,921
• Most number of Tests played -200
• Most number of Test centuries – 51
• Most 90s made in Tests – 10 (Jointly holds the record with Steve Waugh and Rahul Dravid)\
• Most fifties in Tests – 68
• Fastest to 10,000 runs in Tests (195 innings – joint with Brian Lara and Kumar Sangakkara) 17. Fastest to 14,000 runs in Tests – 279 innings 18. Fastest to 15,000 runs in Tests – 300
• Fastest to 14,000 runs in Tests – 279 innings
• Fastest to 15,000 runs in Tests – 300

Oof can’t believe I don’t even remember his birthday any more. Anyway, happy birthday legend. Indeed a God, especially of Indian cricket.

This guy defined my childhood days. This guy was the reason why my school ranking took a massive hit. Cricket became everything for me, only because of this guy.

I think everyone in the 30s or above knows what he was on the field. The lone person, who carried India single handed so many times that’s no one kept a count. It was Sachin vs the opposite team, not India vs the opposite team.

Back then when cricket was cricket, a game played by men, watched by men, in the true and proper form of cricket, how cricket should be played. Not some junk ass highly paid old ass morons playing 20-20 nonsense.

Yes, I have heard about his off the field stuffs with taxes and shite like that. Really? Like there’s a 100% honest person existing? Stop bringing political shites everywhere. Otherwise I’ll mention how our prime minister (or whatever they call him) kept posing for just one another random photo session of his after hearing about Pulwama. So simply GTFO of here.

He was a legend. He is a legend. He’s gonna remain one, forever. Anyone who insults him is a plain moron and shouldn’t call himself/herself an Indian. If you’re the 20-20 IPL watching bunch, you never watched cricket anyway.

@asoka meeting him ?