His life seems to be a stillness in a frantic world... When he goes out to bat , it is beyond chaos - it is a frantic appeal by a nation to one man. The people see him as a God. -- Mathew Hayden
21. “He is one of the three
batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs
in Test cricket, and the first
Indian to do so”
22. “He is thus far the only cricketer
to receive the Rajiv Gandhi
Khel Ratna, India’s highest
sporting honor”
23. “In 2003, Wisden
rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and
Richards at No. 2 in all time
Greatest ODI player”
24. “In 2002, Wisden rated him as
the second greatest Test
batsman after Sir Donald
Bradman”
25. “He was involved in unbroken
664-run partnership in a Harris
Shield game in 1988 with
friend and team mate Vinod
Kambli”
26. “Tendulkar is the only player to
score a century in all three of
his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy
and Irani Trophy debuts”
27. “In 1992, at the age of 19,
Tendulkar became the first
overseas born player to
represent Yorkshire”
28. “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”
31. “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.”
33. “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.”
34. “He is the highest earning
cricketer in the World”
35. “In November 2006, Time
magazine named Tendulkar
as one of the Asian Heroes”
37. “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”
38. “Tendulkar was the first
batsman in history to score
over 50 centuries in
international cricket”
39. “Tendulkar was the first
batsman in history to score
over 75 centuries in
international cricket:79
centuries”
40. “Has the most overall runs in
cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s),
as of 30 June 2007 he had
accumulated almost 26,000
runs overall”
41. “He is the batsman who scored
most number of runs in test
cricket”
42. “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”
43. “The 20 century partnerships
for opening pair with Sourav
Ganguly is a world record”
44. “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”
45. “Sachin Tendulkar has been
involved in six 200 run
partnerships in ODI matches –
a record that he shares with
Sourav Ganguly and Rahul
Dravid”
55. “On his debut, Sachin
Tendulkar was the second
youngest debutant in the
world”
56. “When Tendulkar scored his
maiden century in 1990, he
was the second youngest to
score a century”
57. “ Tendulkar’s record of five test
centuries before he turned 20
is a current world record”
58. “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”
59. “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”
60. “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”
61. “On 3 January 2007 Sachin
Tendulkar (5751) edged past
Brian Lara’s (5736) world
record of runs scored in Tests
away from home”
62. “Tendulkar and Brian Lara are
the fastest to score 10,000 runs
in Test cricket history. Both of
them achieved this in 195
innings”
64. “Became the first Indian to
surpass the 11,000 Test run
mark and the third
International player behind
Allan Border and Brian Lara”
65. “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”
66. “Tendulkar has played the
most number of Test
Matches(144) for India (Kapil
Dev is second with 131 Test
appearances)”
68. “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”
69. “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”
70. “Tendulkar is the only player
who has 150 wkts and more
than 15000 runs in ODI”
71. “Tendulkar is the only player
who has 40 wkts and more
than 11000 runs in Tests”
73. “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”