Sachin Tendulkar: 2 (records, factoids, tributes)
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TENDULKAR IN TESTS
Most centuries (51).
Highest run-aggregate - 15,837 at an average of 53.86 in 198 matches.
Most centuries on foreign soil (29 in 106 Tests).
Most international centuries (100; 51 in Tests and 49 in ODIs), 29 more than Ricky Ponting (71).
Scored 150-plus more than 20 times, a world record.
World record of 11 scores of 150-plus runs overseas.
Most runs overseas — 8705 (ave.54.74) — in 106 Tests.
Six innings of 200 or more, sharing an Indian record with Virender Sehwag.
70 Tests in a winning cause - the most by a player from the subcontinent. Averaged 62.36 in those Tests.
Completed a hundred with a six 6 times - another world record.
Registered 7 hundreds in a calendar year (2010), an Indian record.
Completed 1000 runs in a calendar year 6 times - a record.
Recorded 11 hundreds against Australia, the most by a player from the subcontinent.
Shares 20 century stands with Rahul Dravid, a world record for most century partnerships with one player.
Shares 18 double century stands - an Indian record and the second highest overall, next only to Kallis (20).
14 Man of the Match awards is the most by an Indian record.
With 5 Man of the Series awards, he shares an Indian record with Virender Sehwag.
Shares a record with Brian Lara and Kumar Sangakkara for reaching 10,000 runs in least number of innings (195).
Shares a record for reaching 12,000 runs in least number of innings (247) with Ricky Ponting.
Holds a record for reaching 13,000 runs in least number of innings (266).
Has appeared in 198 Tests, the most in Test annals.
Only player to have recorded 2000 fours (2044), apart from 69 sixes.
Managed 1,000 runs or more against seven opponents, sharing a world record with Rahul Dravid.
40 facts you didn't know about Sachin Tendulkar
TNN | Oct 11, 2013
NEW DELHI: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has announced his retirement from Test cricket, leaving his millions of fans disappointed. His 200th Test, to be played against the West Indies, will be his last. TOI presents to you 40 facts you didn't know about this living legend.
1: Named after legendary music director Sachin Dev Burman by his father
2: Grew his hair and tied a band around it to copy idol John McEnroe. Was even called 'McEnroe' by his friends. Admires Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Diego Maradona.
3: Wanted to be a fast bowler and even went to the MRF Pace Academy but head coach Dennis Lillee asked him to concentrate on batting.
4: Has scored big runs on Indian festivals like Gokulashtmi, Raksha Bandhan, Holi and Diwali
5: Loved to have 'I-can-eat-more-vada-pavs-than-you' competitions with cricket buddies Vinod Kambli and Salil Ankola
6: Loves sea food. Owned a restaurant.
7: Loves playing at Sydney Cricket Ground.
8: Loves Kishore Kumar and rock group Dire Straits. Was extremely possessive about his personal stereo.
9: A devout worshipper of Lord Ganesha, he often visits Siddhivinayak temple in the early hours of the morning.
10: Wears his left pad first. Has the Tri-colour pasted inside his kit bag.
11: Remembers every dismissal and even the bowler who dismissed him.
12: Likes to dunk his glucose biscuits into his tea and have them with a spoon.
13: He is ambidextrous. Bats with his right hand but autographs and eats with his left.
14: Used to sleep with his cricket gear on during his junior days.
15: Refused to shoot for a soft-drink ad that showed him smashing cricket balls with a fly swatter. He reportedly told film-maker Prahlad Kakkar, "That would make me greater than the game." The ad was modified: he hit the balls with a stump.
16: Loves to zoom across Mumbai in his swanky cars in the wee hours.
17: Fell from a tree one Sunday evening during his summer vacations, when the movie 'Guide' was showing on national TV. It infuriated brother (and mentor) Ajit, who packed him off to cricket coaching class as a punishment!
18: Came back from the four-month tour of Australia after the 1992 World Cup and turned up to play for Kirti College in April 1992.
19: Was without a bat contract during the 1996 World Cup in which he emerged highest run-getter. A famous tyre company promptly signed him on soon after.
20: His coach at Shardashram, Ramakant Achrekar, used to offer a one rupee coin as prize to any bowler who dismissed him. If he remained not out, the coin belonged to Sachin. Still has a good bunch of those coins.
21: Fielded for Pakistan as a substitute during a one-day practice match against India at the Brabourne in 1988.
22: Was a ball boy during the 1987 World Cup match between India and Zimbabwe at Wankhede.
23: The first ad he shot was for sticking plaster.
24: In school, he was once mistaken for a girl by good friend Atul Ranade because of his long curls
25: After watching Deewar and Zanjeer, he became a fan of Amitabh Bachchan
26: Played tennis-ball cricket and darts during rainbreaks
27: Sang and whistled with Vinod Kambli during their 664-run record stand in the Harris Shield in 1988 to avoid eye contact with the coach's assistant, who wanted to declare while the duo wanted to bat on.
28: Teammate Praveen Amre bought him his first pair of international quality cricket shoes.
29: Was a bully at school but was kind to cats and dogs. His first captain, Sunil Harshe, said that he loved to pick a fight. Every time he was introduced to someone, his first reaction was, 'Will I be able to beat him?'
30: Used to go fishing for tadpoles and guppy fishes in the stream that ran through the compound of Sahitya Sahwas, his apartment in Bandra East.
31: Once made his mother look for a frog bhaji recipe.
32: The nanny who looked after him is now universally called Sachuchi bai
33: Colony watchman's son Ramesh Pardhe, who was his playmate, said Sachin would ask him to dip a rubber ball in water and hurl it at him. He wanted to see the wet marks left on the bat to find out whether he had middled the ball correctly
34: An incorrigble prankster, he once put a hose pipe in Sourav Ganguly's room and turned on the tap. Ganguly awoke to find his gear floating. Calls Ganguly 'Babu Moshai'. Sourav calls him 'Chhota Babu'.
35: Great spinner of yarns. If he had a cut on his finger it was because it had been chopped by a helicopter flying low!
36: Sachin Tendulkar's debut Test also was legendary allrounder Kapil Dev's 100th.
37: Sachin faced his first ball in Tests from legendary Pak pacer Waqar Younis, who was also making his debut.
38: Sachin scored the first-ever double hundred in ODIs on February 24, 2010, 22 years to the day that Kambli and Sachin had put on 664.
39: He equalled Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 Test hundreds and went past the record on the same date, December 10. His 34th ton came against Bangladesh in Dhaka on 2004 and the 35th was against Sri Lanka at the Kotla in 2005.
40: During an under-15 tour in Indore, he couldn't sleep and woke up in the middle of the night to shadow practise. As the flooring was wood-based, the noise that emanated from the bat hitting the flooring disturbed the other tenants. As the hotel manager went to complain to coach Vasu Paranjpe, he was ticked off by the coach and told to 'Go and bowl to him'.
The Sachin Tendulkar you didn't know
Reuters HindustanTimes October 10, 2013
Little-known facts about Sachin Tendulkar, who announced on Thursday he was retiring from all forms of cricket after playing his 200th test against West Indies next month.
- Tendulkar has 13 coins from his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He would win a coin if he got through an entire net session without being dismissed.
- Holds the unique distinction of scoring a century on debut in Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy and Duleep Trophy.
- Tendulkar was a ball boy during the 1987 World Cup semi-final between India and England.
- There are two wards in New Delhi's Tihar Jail, one named after Tendulkar and another after Vinod Kambli. The duo shared a 664-run unbroken partnership in a school match.
- Tendulkar was the first player to be given out by the third umpire in an international game.
- Everyone remembers Vangipurappu Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid's (180) 376-run partnership against Australia in a Kolkata test in 2001 after being asked to follow on. But many have forgotten Tendulkar's three wickets in the second innings, including those of Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist, to trigger the collapse.
- Tendulkar was the first individual without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air
Brand value
The century man who scored first Rs 100cr deal
Sachin Tendulkar struck a never-heard-before Rs 100-crore deal with Mark Mascarenhas’s sports management firm WorldTel in 2001, which was the beginning of the phenomenon of brand Sachin.
Samidha Sharma, TNN | Oct 11, 2013
MUMBAI: He has, arguably, been one the biggest Indian sports celebrities and an intensely sought after brand ambassador for almost two decades now. It all goes back to the time when Sachin Tendulkar struck a never-heard-before Rs 100-crore deal with Mark Mascarenhas's sports management firm WorldTel in 2001, which was the beginning of the phenomenon of brand Sachin. Since then, the master blaster has been a top endorser for marquee brands including Pepsi, Boost, Adidas and MRF, among many others.
However, things are bound to change for the 40-year-old as he retires from all formats of the game soon and enters a new phase off the field. From charging anywhere between Rs 6 crore and Rs 8 crore annually as endorsement fee, his asking price after retirement is likely to plummet to Rs 2-3 crore, say industry experts. Brand marketers and sports agents say Sachin can live on as a brand to be reckoned with if he reinvents himself and cashes in on his fearless attitude instead of portraying himself as only an athlete.
Over the past two years, due to the uncertainty around his retirement, a few brands like Canon and Castrol pulled the plug on him. Besides, he has not signed any mega deals in the recent past. The last major announcement came in 2011 when Coca-Cola signed him for Rs 12-15 crore. The Coke deal is up for renewal in the first quarter of next year. The cricketer is now managed by the World Sport Group and has 13 brands in his kitty.
"Sachin has a compelling brand value since he is the first Indian sportsperson in the post-cable television era to have achieved unparalleled greatness. He embodies a certain kind of nostalgia for everyone who has grown up seeing him on TV in the '90s. He will have opportunities going forward if he reinvents himself and leverages his iconic status," says Anirban Das Blah, managing partner at celebrity management firm CAA Kwan.
Many of Sachin's existing contracts are ending over the next year and one of the brands that he endorses says his contract would be renewed if he slashes his fee. "The kind of brands he will endorse and his involvement and engagement with them will change going ahead," says Bunty Sajdeh, CEO, Cornerstone Sport & Entertainment, the agency which manages younger crickets like Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan.
Recently, the German sports goods maker signed on 24-year-old Kohli for a record-breaking Rs 10 crore-per-year deal, a sign of how some of the brands that Sachin endorses are looking at younger stars. However, Tushar Goculdas, brand director, Adidas India, says the brand's association with Sachin will continue. "We will celebrate his final cricketing landmark with a campaign — #SRTforever. While he will play his final test match in the three-stripes, he will continue to guide and mentor team Adidas forever."
Toshiba, which went ahead and renewed Sachin's contract this year, is looking to use the cricketing great to co-create its products. Says Abhishek Mehta, head of marketing at the Japanese electronics major, "We want to be seen doing big things with him as his association goes beyond just endorsing the brand for us."
LITTLE MASTER’S BIG BUSINESS
OCT 1995 | WorldTel signs Sachin Tendulkar — marketing agent Mark Mascarenhas is eventually credited with building the master blaster into a multi-million dollar brand
2001 | Mascarenhas’s sport management firm WorldTel signs Tendulkar for a record 5-year contract worth 100cr
2006 | Sachin signs on with the World Sport Group
ENDORSEMENTS as in 2013
Adidas
Toshiba
Aviva
Kaspersky Labs
Audemars
Valuemart
Piguet
Musafir.com
Amit Luminous Enterprises
Livepure
Boost
Royal Bank of Scotland
Coca-Cola
According to Forbes magazine, Tendulkar’s earnings from brand endorsements stood at $18m as of June 2013 and is ranked 51st on the highest paid athletes’ list in the world
Tendulkar charges 5-8cr annually per brand
Versus Brian Lara
In Ricky Ponting's view West Indian legend Brian Lara was a bigger match-winner than India's Sachin Tendulkar but contrary to his belief, statistics of the two batting greats tell a totally different story. Let's have a look.
Tendulkar, who has played 198 Tests, is far ahead of his once contemporary West Indian (131) when statistics of the two are compared.
Tests statistics show that West Indies, in Lara's presence, have won 24.42 per cent matches while with Tendulkar in the side, India have tasted victory in 35.35 per cent of their games.
If the performance in these matches is considered, Lara's contribution to his side's victories have been 24.50 per cent of his total Test runs (11953) while Tendulkar's 37.01 per cent career runs (15837) have benefited India.
Out of the hundred tons Tendulkar has scored in his international career so far, 53 of them have come in matches that India won. 20 of his 51 Test centuries have helped India triumph, which comes to 39.01 per cent.
In Lara's case, only eight of his 34 Test hundreds (23.52 per cent) have guided the West Indies to victory.
It is argued that Lara's effort was often not complimented by his teammates, which resulted in his side's defeat in 63 Tests (48.01 per cent) out of the 131 matches he played. Lara's contribution in these matches was 44.47 per cent of his total runs. Interestingly, 14 hundreds from the Caribbean southpaw have come in losing cause.
When compared to Tendulkar, India have faced defeat in 56 Tests which is just 28.28 per cent of his total matches. Tendulkar has made 4088 runs, including 11 hundreds, in these encounters.
In the 72 matches that have ended in a draw for India in Tendulkar's presence, the little master has scored 5887 runs with 20 centuries to his credit, while West Indies drew 36 matches with Lara getting 3708 runs including 12 scores of hundred and above.
Lara scored 751 runs with three hundreds in the eight matches won by West Indies against Australia in his presence. Against England, his team won nine games with just a hundred to his name while playing India he featured in four wins, two each versus South Africa and Sri Lanka, but all without centuries.
In Tendulkar's case, India have witnessed 16 wins over Australia accumulating 1407 runs with four centuries. Tendulkar has scored three centuries each in the 11 and nine victories against Sri Lanka and England respectively. Tendulkar has scored a century against every country on a winning occasion.
West Indies have won four matches in Australia with Lara making 211 runs at an average of 35.16, while in Tendulkar's presence India have emerged victorious Down Under in two matches, with the right-hander contributing just 122 runs.
In one-day internationals, Lara's hundreds have contributed more to his team's success. He has 19 centuries against his name of which West Indies have tasted victories in 16 matches. On the other hand, out of 49 ODIs in which Tendulkar has scored a century, India won 33 clashes.
In Tendulkar's presence, India won 50.53 per cent of their ODIs, while in Lara's case the figure goes down to 46.48 per cent.
Out of Tendulkar's whopping 18426 runs in 463 ODIs, 11157 (60.55 per cent) of them have helped India register victories while Lara is little ahead with 62.97 per cent (6553) of his runs getting his side home. Lara made 10405 runs in 299 ODIs he played for the West Indies.
Chepauk and Sachin
The Chepauk stays special
Prasad Ramasubramanian | TNN
Chennai: One can’t help but wonder at the role MA Chidambaram Stadium at Chepauk here has played in Sachin Tendulkar’s glittering career. Out of his 10 Tests here, he has amassed 970 runs at an average of 88.18.
However, what stands out is the fact that Sachin has essayed some of his career’s most memorable knocks at this ground. Sachin’s first century at Chepauk, 165 against England in 1993, set the stage for his romance with the ground. Five years later, Sachin decimated Shane Warne & Co. in an exhibition of strokeplay that continues to reverberate at the ground.
Veteran curator PR Viswanathan vividly recalled that innings. “Before that game, Sachin asked former India leg-spinner L Sivaramakrishnan to bowl at him on the rough outside the leg stump. That session gave Sachin enough confidence. When the time came to face Warne, he was more than ready and the shots he essayed on the leg side were out of the world,” Viswanathan told TOI.
What makes Chepauk Sachin’s favorite hunting ground? “Chepauk offers true bounce. Once a player gets used to it, he begins to score freely. I guess that’s what happened with Sachin at the MAC. He has played some fantastic innings here,” Viswanathan said.
In 1999, Sachin’s monumental 136 against Pakistan saw him battle a back injury, cramps and some high-quality bowling as he took India to the doorstep of victory, before his dismissal saw his side fall short of what could have been a great win. Sachin’s next century (126) here came against Oz that saw India complete a 2-1 series win.
In Dec 2008, in the backdrop of the horrific Mumbai attacks, Sachin delivered yet another stunning show here, an unconquered 103, helping India to overhaul England’s target of 387.
Tributes and fond memories
Steve Waugh
He was the Don Bradman of our times
Sachin was always a favourite with Australian crowds and cricketers because he was fiercely competitive, never backed off from a contest and never gave up
Steve Waugh
The first time I saw Sachin Tendulkar play in February 1992, I had all the time in the world to study him and analyze his technique. I had been dropped from the Australian side, and was watching him on television as he was on his way to scoring a remarkable century in Perth. The schoolboy with an unruly mop announced himself as a special talent, on one of the fastest pitches, against a very good pace attack.
One of the many innings of Sachin that I remember was in November 2009, when he was on his way to a spectacular 175, and once again I felt that I was watching a player who comes but once in a century. It can be said that he was the Bradman of our times, and I do feel privileged to have played a lot of cricket against him.
Sachin always brought with him an amazing sporting presence. It was a captain’s nightmare to set a field when he was in full flow. It was akin to getting stuck in a tornado — the noise made it impossible to communicate with the fielders, the bowlers looked demoralised and could sense that Sachin himself was delighted at the disarray he created in the opposition. Whether in India or elsewhere, there were always enough fans to create a deafening din whenever he was at his best.
On his day, Sachin could take a game away from under your nose very quickly. His uncanny ability to find gaps, his running between the wickets and his sheer presence at the wicket were unsettling for the opposition. Sachin rarely got into verbal duels, and soon we too realised that sledging him only helped strengthen his concentration and resolve. No wonder then that some of the most talkative Australians went quiet when Sachin was in the middle. There have been occasions when he did indulge in some chat himself, but on the whole he was quiet, focused and seriously tough.
Like many cricketers who were involved in that tournament, my favourite Sachin knock came in Sharjah 1998, in what is now known as the ‘sandstorm innings’. Not only did he single-handedly get his team into the finals, he then went on to try and win the game from an impossible situation. Allan Border was stand-in coach for that series, and I remember him saying that that knock was one of the best he had witnessed.
The final was on Sachin’s birthday, and he scored 140-odd and won the tournament for his team. Those two knocks were gems — works of pure genius.
Sachin was always a favourite with Australian crowds and had the unreserved respect of Australian cricketers because he possesses many traits that we respect and value among sportsmen. He was fiercely competitive, never backed off from a contest, never gave up but was always fair. His innate decency had always shone through his ruthlessness on the field. Mostly, he’s wanted to dominate the bowler and stamp his supremacy on the opposition.
Sachin is at the summit of a monumental career, in terms of runs, years and milestones. However, none of this would have captured the imagination of a billion Indians if it were not for the personality of Sachin. I will not claim to know him well, but in our limited interactions, he comes across as a shy, decent, humble person. I know that Sachin has learnt to embrace the pressure and expectations that 1.2 billion fans place on him. He seemed to thrive on their goodwill, and has rarely mentioned it as a burden.
(This article first appeared in the Times of India ‘Crest’ edition dated Nov 14, 2009)
Imran Khan
SACHIN’S PASSION SET HIM APART
If there was one area in which Tendulkar was ahead of his contemporaries, it was focus. His concentration, discipline and unquestioned ability all made him one of the best players of his generation…
Imran Khan
When I first bowled to Sachin Tendulkar, I almost felt sorry for this small-built 16-year-old, who looked 14. It was an India-Pakistan encounter and we were playing hard, yet it almost seemed unfair when we saw young Sachin and I for one was tempted to go easy on him.
The wickets were tailormade for us, and they remained green for two full days. Batting against quality pace bowling was really hard in that series. But it's hard to say how I would have bowled to him at my peak, because when he made his debut against us 20 years ago, I was at the end of my career. However, both Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis — who too made his debut in the same Test as Sachin — were bowling at a fiery pace.
My memories of that 1989 series are that we virtually played four-day Tests because of the light, which is why a very strong Pakistan side had to be content with a draw against a relatively weaker, inexperienced Indian side.
As far as Sachin was concerned, there was one shot he played right through that series that has stayed in my mind. It was off the backfoot between point and cover. The pitches were green, the ball was moving and it struck me that it was remarkable how he was timing this drive and getting it right so often.
More evidence that he was special came during a practice game in Peshawar. Abdul Qadir was at the peak of his bowling then. Sachin hit him for one six, after which I teased Qadir that a schoolboy was launching into him. The wily leg-spinner gave me a wink to suggest it was a trap. Sachin went on to hit another one over the boundary and I gave Qadir the look. After the fourth six, the smile was gone from Qadir's face, and later that evening he told me that this boy was an extraordinary talent.
However, it was only over the years that I began to realize that Sachin was a special talent. This has nothing to do with the fact that his entry into international cricket was relatively quiet. It’s because I need to be convinced of a player’s temperament and technique before I rate him. I have seen many talented cricketers not achieve what they could because they lacked the other key ingredients that transform talent into success.
Fortunately for India, Sachin’s passion was what set him apart from the rest. When one is passionate about one’s game, hard work becomes fun, and those long hours at the nets seem interesting and challenging rather than routine and monotonous. This passion helped Sachin tighten his technique and gave him the temperament to manage his innings well. Sachin's concentration, his discipline and his unquestioned ability, all made him one of the best players of his generation. He had the gift of timing when he played the quicker bowlers, but he was also exceptional against spin, proof of which lies in his famous battles with Shane Warne.
Over the years, Sachin remained remarkably consistent and acquired more records than anybody I can remember. His talent and versatility were unquestioned, which is why the only question that rankles is why he did not win enough games for his team. Very often, he took his team to the brink of a famous win before getting out.
I have two explanations for this. The first one is that Sachin often took the whole burden of team responsibility and expectation squarely on his shoulders. This often reflected itself as worry on his face, and his body language betrayed a sense of anxiety. A good bowler is a predator and once he senses this pressure in the batsman, he goes in for the kill. Perhaps if Sachin had developed the tunnel vision, which made him focus on one ball at a time, he might have been able to convert more games into wins for his side.
The other major problem was that for the better part of his career, India did not have a bowling attack that could take 20 wickets, especially outside India. If he had match-winning bowlers to back up his own excellence, many of his knocks would have become match-winning ones.
Sachin has had the misfortune of seeing some of his best efforts come in a losing cause. Perhaps that is the one aspect of his career that he might look back at with some regret. Maybe he would feel that for a player of his ability and stature, he should have been able to pull off a few more victories in his long, illustrious career.
If there was one area in which Sachin was ahead of his contemporaries, it was focus. Inzamam-ul Haq was possibly even more gifted, but Sachin was more successful due to his commitment and focus. Inzamam had an exceptional ability to play off both feet and on both sides of the wicket — something Ricky Ponting also did so well. However, despite the long and distinguished career that he had, I still feel Inzamam could have done even more. Besides, Sachin never backed away from responsibilities, while Inzamam was always reluctant to bat up the order in ODIs.
Sachin did fill in a space that had been vacated by Gavaskar’s retirement. It’s hard to compare the two because both were the products of their respective generations, and their circumstances were different. Gavaskar came in at a time when cricketers from the subcontinent were not rated very highly.
Gavaskar changed all that thanks to his unwavering temperament, an area where I would rate him higher not only than Sachin but also many of his own great contemporaries. He had an incredible ability to soak pressure, and the only other player who comes close to him in this regard is Ian Chappell. Therefore, while Sachin was certainly the more versatile, freeflowing and talented batsman, I would still choose Gavaskar as the man I would want in a crisis situation.
In the end, Tendulkar was too proud a cricketer to hang around if he was not meeting the high standards he had set himself over these last two decades. GAMEPLAN (This article first appeared in the Times of India Crest edition on Nov 14, 2009)
Fitness routine
His fitness routine has no room for error
Ramji Srinivasan
It really is a different ball game when it comes to Sachin’s physical and mental abilities.
The special quality about Sachin is his ability to adapt, assimilate and apply the things he has learnt. He has truly remarkable control over his body. His fitness routines are precise and well-organized, with no room for error. He has constantly defied pundits on sports medicine, physios and even fitness experts. He has made huge comebacks every time he has been written off. That explains a lot about him.
His fitness schedule is very specific to his needs. A lot of things are out of the box. His understanding of the biodynamics of exercise and the kinematics involved is astounding. His spatial awareness while doing a particular regime has in fact made youngsters look at him in awe. His training methodologies vary according to the format of the game.
Apart from his sessions in the gym, his speed, agility and core strength is amazing. He is always innovative and full of ideas. His discipline is impeccable, like a Navy Seal when it comes to fitness and eating patterns during a tour or off it. He is a complete athlete.
Ramji Srinivasan is a fitness trainer closely associated with Team India. He helped Tendulkar recover from a major shoulder surgery in 2006.
