Achievements of Sachin Tendulkar
This article contains the achievements of Sachin Tendulkar, a cricket player who has set many records and received many awards for his cricketing skill, particularly in batting. Below is a list of some of his achievements he has made in his career thus far.
Records
Test cricket
Game appearances:
- Sachin has played the most number of Test Matches (184).
Runs scored:
- Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 15,183 Test runs.
- Career average (1989–2010, 182 Tests, 15,183 runs) at 56.02.
- Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
- Sachin Tendulkar (8145) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.
- Sachin Tendulkar (29) world record of Centuries in Tests away from home.
- First player to reach 12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000 Test runs.
- Holds the record for scoring most 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. He has done it six times - 2010 (1562 runs), 2008 (1063 runs), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).
- Sachin Tendulkar is the fourth highest run-getter in a single calendar year in Test History. He has scored 1562 runs in 2010 and is behind Mohammad Yousuf (1780 runs in 2006), Viv Richards (1710 runs in 1976) and Graeme Smith (1656 runs in 2008).
Centuries:
- Highest number of Test centuries(51), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record (34). On October 10, 2010 (Need to verify) in Bengaluru (Bangalore) against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar trophy's second and final Test match Sachin reached a milestone. With a single to third man, Tendulkar reached his 6th double century and his 49th test century.
- Highest number of 150+ score in Test Cricket (20)
- Sachin's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.ame="Testcenturyage"/>
ODI
Highlights of Tendulkar's ODI career include:
Game appearances:
Runs scored:
- Most runs: 18,111 Runs at the rate of 45.16 runs for every time he has gotten out all>(as of 4 April 2011)all>. He is the leading run scorer in the ODI format of the game and the only player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000 and 17,000 run marks.
- First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000-16,000-17,000 and 18,000 ODI runs.
- Most centuries: 48
- Only cricketer along with compatriot Virender Sehwag to ever score a double hundred in the ODI format - against South Africa at Gwalior, India.
- On 8 December 2011, Virender Sehwag scored a double hundred at Indore.
Fifties).
Calendar year record:
- Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.
- Most centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
Partnership records:
- Most runs (2,278 at an average of 56.95 as on 9 April 2011) in World Cup Cricket History including 6 centuries & 15 fifties with a best score of 152* against Namibia in 2003 world cup * 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
- Player Of The World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
- 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16, making him the highest run scorer in the 1996 World Cup and setting the then record for the highest runs by any player in a single Cricket World Cup - subsequently bettered by himself in the 2003 World Cup === Combined (ODI & Test) records === * First batsman in history to score over 90 centuries in international cricket. He now has 99 Centuries(51 in Tests and 48 in ODIs), which is still the record for the highest number of centuries in international cricket.
- First batsman in history to complete the 33,000 runs in (ODIs+Tests). He has now scored 33086 runs [ODI(18111)+Test(14965)+T20(10)].
- Most overall runs in international cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), with 33,000 + runs overall ( in Tests, in ODIs).
Awards
Official awards
Media awards
- In August 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.[7]
- In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year"
Others
He is the only player of current generation who was included by Sir Don Bradman in his squad of playing eleven.
Match awards
Man of Series awards
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Opposition |
Matches |
Runs |
Average |
High score |
100s |
Catches |
Bangladesh |
7 |
820 |
136.66 |
248* |
5 |
6 |
England |
24 |
2150 |
54.42 |
193 |
7 |
19 |
Australia |
31 |
3151 |
60.59 |
241* |
11 |
19 |
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# |
Series |
Season |
Series performance |
1 |
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India Test Series) |
1997/98 |
446 (3 Matches, 5 Innings, 2x100, 1x50); 13.2-1-48-1; 2 Catches |
2 |
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India in Australia Test Series) |
1999/00 |
278 Runs (6 Innings, 1x100, 2x50); 9-0-46-1 |
3 |
England in India Test Series |
2001/02 |
307 Runs (4 Innings, 1x100, 2x50); 17-3-50-1; 4 Catches |
4 |
India in Bangladesh Test Series |
2007 |
254 Runs (3 Innings, 2x100, 0x50); 6.3-1-35-2; 2 Catches |
5 |
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India Test Series) |
2010 |
403 (2 Matches, 4 Innings, 1x100, 2x50) |
Man of the Match Awards
S No |
Opponent |
Venue |
Season |
Match performance |
1 |
England |
Old Trafford, Manchester |
1990 |
1st Innings: 68 (8x4); 2 Catches
2nd Innings: 119 (17x4)
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2 |
England |
Chepauk, Chennai |
1992/93 |
1st Innings: 165 (24x4, 1x6); 2-1-5-0
2nd Innings: 2 Catches; 2-1-4-0
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3 |
New Zealand |
Chepauk, Chennai |
1995/96 |
1st Innings: 52 (5x4) |
4 |
Australia |
Chepauk, Chennai |
1997/98 |
1st Innings: 4 (1x4); 1 Catch
2nd Innings: 155 (14x4, 4x6)
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5 |
Pakistan |
Chepauk, Chennai |
1998/99 |
1st Innings: 0; 3-0-10-1
2nd Innings: 136 (18x4); 7-1-35-2
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6 |
New Zealand |
Motera, Ahmedabad |
1999/00 |
1st Innings: 217 (29x4)
2nd Innings: 15 (3x4); 5-2-19-0
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7 |
Australia |
MCG, Melbourne |
1999/00 |
1st Innings: 116 (9x4, 1x6)
2nd Innings: 52 (4x4)
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8 |
South Africa |
Wankhede, Mumbai |
1999/00 |
1st Innings: 97 (12x4, 2x6); 5-1-10-3
2nd Innings: 8 (2x4); 1-0-4-0
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9 |
West Indies |
Eden Gardens, Kolkata |
2002/03 |
1st Innings: 36 (7x4); 7-0-33-0
2nd Innings: 176 (26x4)
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10 |
Australia |
SCG, Sydney |
2003/04 |
1st Innings: 241 (33x4)
2nd Innings: 60 (5x4); 6-0-36-0; 1 Catch
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11 |
Australia |
Adelaide |
2007/08 |
1st Innings: 153
2nd Innings: 13
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12 |
New Zealand |
Hamilton |
2009 |
1st Innings: 160
2nd Innings: DNB
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13 |
Bangladesh |
Chittagong |
2010 |
1st Innings: 105*
2nd Innings: 16
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14 |
Australia |
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
2010 |
1st Innings: 214 (22x4, 2x6)
2nd Innings: 53* (5x4, 2x6)
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Tendulkar has won a record 16 Man of the Series(MoS) and (62 Man of the Match(MoM) awards in ODI Matches.[10] He has the distinction of having won MoM Award against all ICC Full Members (Test Playing Nations). UAE (2 Matches), Netherlands (1 Match) and Bermuda (1 match) are the only teams against whom he has not won a Man of the Match Award in ODI Cricket.
- Highest Run scorer in the ODI
- Most number of hundreds in the ODI 48
- Most number of nineties in the ODI
- Most number of man of the matches(62) in the ODIs
- Most number of man of the series(17) in ODIs
- Best average for man of the matches in ODIs
- First cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
- First cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
- He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (2,278 at an average of 56.95 as on 2 April 2011)
- Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
- Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
- 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
- He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
- Most number of Fifties in ODI's 95
- Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 453
- He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
- Most number of 100's in test's 51
- He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
- He was the first cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India 's highest sporting honor only to be followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
- In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
- In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
- He was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
- Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
- In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
- 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.
- Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
- Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
- He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
- 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.
- Tendulkar most number man of match awards (10) against Australia
- In August 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.
- In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
- In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
- 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.
- Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
- Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
- Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
- Is most number of runs in test cricket surpassing Brian Lara
- 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
- The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
- 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
- Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
- Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
- Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (48 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 14th Nov, 2011)
- the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
- Second highest individual score among Indian batsmen (200* against South Africa at Gwalior in 2011).
- The score of 200* is the second highest score recorded in ODI matches
- Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
- 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
- Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
- Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
- On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
- When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
- Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
- 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
- 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
- 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
- He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
- On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
- Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
- Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
- Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
- 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
- Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(183) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
- First to 25,000 international runs
- Tendulkar's 33,207 runs in international cricket include 18,111 runs in ODI's, 15,086 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
- 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.
- Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wickets and more than 15000 runs in ODI
- Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wickets and more than 11000 runs in Tests
- Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket
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