Sachin Tendulkar

Early years and personal life

Sachin Ramesh Tendulakar Indian Cricketer widely Considered to be the greatest batsmen of all time. Tendulkar was born into a Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin family,in Bombay (now Mumbai). His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry, and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist. At 14, Tendulkar was a ball boy for the India versus Zimbabwe game at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup. When he was 14, former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads. "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," Tendulkar said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries.

 Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997) and Arjun (born 24 September 1999). Anjali is six years his senior. At the age of 13, Tendulkar made his debut in club cricket for Cricket Club of India. On 11 December 1988, aged just 15 years and 232 days, Tendulkar scored 100 not out in his debut first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on first-class debut. Raj Singh Dungarpur is credited for the selection of Tendulkar for the 1989 Indian tour of Pakistan.Tendulkar played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989 aged just 16.

Achievment
He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.He has been recommended for the receipt of the Bharat Ratna award, in fact it has been speculated that the criteria for the award of the Bharat Ratna was changed to allow him receive the award. He is also a member of Rajya Sabha of Parliament of India. Tendulkar has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award. India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

 India's highest sporting honour. Tendulkar became 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. He has received honorary doctorates from University of Mysore and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. Sachin Tendulkar was nominated for the ICC People's Choice award for the third time. Sachin Tendulkar was conferred with the membership in the Order of Australia.

Contributer:
Apart from a successful professional career, he also made great contributions to the society; currently he is the man who sponsors around 200 underprivileged children every year through a Mumbai Based NGO. Sachin has been the campaigns brand ambassador for Support My School campaign which aims at the betterment of water, sanitation and infrastructural provisions for schools across India. A small requst from sachin tendulkar on twitter, raised Rs.10 million on cancer Charity.Tendulkar raised Rs 10.25 million Cancer Affected Children in just two week.

 Tendulkar scored his much awaited 100th international hundred on 16 March 2012, at Mirpur against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup. He became the first person in history to achieve this feat. Incidentally, it was Tendulkar's first ODI hundred against Bangladesh. Sachin is the 1st player who make thae 200 scored in ODI. And also play the highest no of matches in ODI and Test cricket.

Fan-Following :
One of the most popular sayings by his fans is "Cricket is my religion and Sachin is my God. Matthew Hayden said "I have seen God. He bats at no. 4 in India in Tests. Sachin is also million of fan following in Twitter. Really his God Of The Cricket..

Thank you.