Sachin Ramesh Tendulakar Biography

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40. Sachin follows Roger Federer and Formula 1 and understands music and medicine. Is fond of seafood and can hold a conversation on the merits of different wines.

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41. The team has a system of monetary fines for players coming late (to the bus or a meeting or a function) and for flouting the dress code. But Tendulkar has never had to pay up in 23 years.

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42. Sachin bats right-handed, bowls with his right-arm, but writes with his left hand

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43. In 2002 cricket bible Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman, behind Sir Don Bradman

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44. In 2003 Wisden rated Sachin the greatest ever ODI player

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45. In 2010 he won the ICC Award-Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for cricketer of the year

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46. He is the first cricketer to receive Rajiv Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honour

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47. Sachin features in Bradman’s all time Test XI, the only player from the current generation

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48. Sachin is the only Indian to find a place in Wisden’s all-time World XI.

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49. The Don, rated by many as the greatest batsman of all time, considered Tendulkar to have a batting style similar to his. "Bradman was most taken by Tendulkar's technique, compactness and shot production, and had asked his wife to have a look at Tendulkar, having felt that Tendulkar played like him. Bradman's wife, Jessie, agreed that they did appear similar,” his biography records

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50. Tendulkar has been on Twitter since May 2010, tweeting as @sachin_rt

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51. In less than a year Sachin hit the one million follower mark to become the only Indian in the million-follower club.

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52. He is the only Indian cricketer to have a waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s

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53. He is one of the first sportsmen, along with Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand to receive Padma Vibhusan in 2008, which is Indian’s second highest civilian honour

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54. Sachin scored a hundred (100*) for Mumbai against Gujarat at Mumbai in 1988-89 season on his first class debut, to then become the youngest to do so on debut in Indian first class cricket and the second youngest to score a hundred at the age of 15 years & 232 days.