Just have look at the records held by Sachin Tendulkar. No wonder why
British
Govt has awarded him the honor of "Sir" ........
Records Held by Sachin Tendulkar
1. Highest Run scorer in the ODI
2. Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
3. Most number of nineties in the ODI
4. Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
5. Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
6. Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
7. First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
8. First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
9. He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an
average of
59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
10. Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
11. Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996
Cricket World
Cup at an average of 87.16
12. 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
13. He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003
Cricket World
Cup.
14. Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
15. Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
16. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10
years.
17. Most number of 100's in test's 38
18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in
Test cricket,
and the first Indian to do so
19. He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv
Gandhi Khel
Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
20. In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at
No. 2 in
all time Greatest ODI player
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test
batsman after Sir
Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris
Shield game
in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
23. Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three
of his
Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
24. In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first
overseas born
player to represent Yorkshire
25. 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.
26. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in
ODI's 7 times
27. Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's
most by any
batsman
28. He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
29. 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.
30. Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against
Australia
31. 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.
32. In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of
the Asian
Heroes.
33. In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
34. 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.
35. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50
centuries
in international cricket
36. Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75
centuries
in international cricket:79 centuries
37. Has the most overall runs in cricket,
(ODIs+Tests+
June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
38. Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just
after Brian
Lara
39. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly 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
40. The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav
Ganguly is a
world record
41. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for
the highest
partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New
Zealand in 1999
42. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run
partnerships in ODI
matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
43. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
44. Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41
Centuries and 87
Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
45. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000
run marks IN
ODI.
46. Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against
New Zealand
at Hyderabad in 1999).
47. The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded
in ODI
matches
48. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major
Cricketing
nations.
49. 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
50. Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
51. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
52. On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest
debutant in the
world
53. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the
second
youngest to score a century
54. Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned
20 is a
current world record
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in
world.
59. On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian
Lara's
(5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
60. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000
runs in Test
cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
61. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs
in Test
matches
62. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark
and the
third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
63. 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
64. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144)
for India
(Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances)
65. First to 25,000 international runs
66. 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.
67. 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.
68. Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than
15000 runs
in ODI
69. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than
11000 runs
in Tests
70. Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket
Regards,
Anwar Ahmed
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