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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 in cricket history. He holds numerous records including being the highest run scorer in international cricket and the only player to score 100 international centuries. Tendulkar had a 24 year long career playing for India domestically and internationally, during which he helped India win the 2011 World Cup. He has received many civilian honors from the Indian government for his sporting achievements, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

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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 in cricket history. He holds numerous records including being the highest run scorer in international cricket and the only player to score 100 international centuries. Tendulkar had a 24 year long career playing for India domestically and internationally, during which he helped India win the 2011 World Cup. He has received many civilian honors from the Indian government for his sporting achievements, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar 

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


international cricketer of India who served as captain of the Indian national team. He is widely
regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.[6] He is the highest run scorer of all
time in international cricket, and 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] 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.[8][9][10] He is
affectionately known as "Little Master" or "Master Blaster".[11][12][13][14]
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.[15] 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.[16] He had previously been named "Player of the Tournament"
at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa.
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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