lit_brit Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Posted March 18, 2015 27. Two wards in Delhi's Tihar Jail were named after Sachin and Vinod Kambli, after the duo shared a 664-run unbroken partnership in a school tournament.
lit_brit Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Posted March 18, 2015 28. Sachin scored a duck on his One Day International debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala on December 18, 1989
lit_brit Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Posted March 18, 2015 29. Sachin’s first man of the match in a Test was at Manchester in 1990 and he got Magnum champagne bottle as the prize. Sachin preserved it for eight years and finally uncorked it on his daughter Sara’s first birthday.
lit_brit Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Posted March 18, 2015 30. He was without a bat contract during the 1996 World Cup in which he emerged as the highest run-getter
Maximus Posted March 18, 2015 Report Posted March 18, 2015 22. London Times' John Woodcock once said: "He is the best I have seen in my life. And unlike most of you, I have seen Bradman" 23. In August 1987, Sachin was ignored for Bombay Cricket Association’s Best Junior Cricketer of the Year award, Sunil Gavaskar then wrote an encouraging letter to the fourteen-year-old with the postscript: ‘Don’t be disappointed at not getting the Best Junior cricketer award from BCA. If you look at the best award winners, you will find one name missing and that person has not done badly in Test cricket!’ ivi chaladu.....
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 31. In 1992, he became the first overseas player to represent Yorkshire county team.
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 32. Aged 19, it made him the youngest Indian to play in county cricket
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 33. On November 14, 1992, playing against South Africa at Kingsmead in Durban, Tendulkar became the first batsman to have been declared run out by a third umpire.
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 34. In 1998 Sachin was chosen for the 1997-98 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 35. When then BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur was asked why was Tendulkar not seen at the presentation after Pakistan won the Chennai Test of 1999 despite a brilliant hundred from Tendulkar, a distraught Raj Singh said: "He is crying in the dressing room."
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 36. Tendulkar refused to do a Pepsi ad because it required him to smash cricket balls with a fly swatter. He told ad-film maker Prahlad Kakkar that this will project him as bigger than the game of cricket. The ad was modified and stumps replaced the fly swatter.
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 37. Launched in 2009 by a company founded by former investment banker Karl Fowler, a book on Sachin Tendulkar - Tendulkar Opus -has 852 pages edged in gold leaf with each page measuring 50cm x 50cm and weighs 37 kg.
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 38. In 2010, Sachin was conferred an honorary rank of the Indian Air Force which made him the first sportsperson to be conferred a rank by the IAF and the first personality with no aviation background to receive the honour.
lit_brit Posted April 3, 2015 Author Report Posted April 3, 2015 39. In the dressing room, he chooses his spot first -Sachin always occupies a corner. Once he has exercised his choice, others rush to take their places.
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