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100 Things You Should Know About Sachin 100 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SACHIN: The century that the whole of India was awaiting finally arrived in Mirpur on March 16, 2012. We celebrate the occasion by presenting a century of facts about Sachin Tendulkar. 1 Sachin's father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a professor of Marathi language and literature in Mumbai, and also a Marathi poet. 2 Ramesh Tendulkar named his son after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. 3 Sachin attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir where he was coached by the legendary Ramakant Achrekar whose other wards included Balwinder Sandhu, Vinod Kambli, Ajit Agarkar, Praveen Amre, Paras Mhambrey, Chandrakant Pandit and Sameer Dighe. 4 Achrekar took his pupils through their paces at Shivaji Park in Dadar. Sachin revealed that a 'late cut' (slap) from Achrekar for skipping a match changed his life by making him practice harder and put in more hours into his game. 5 During his school days Sachin visited the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai to train as a fast bowler. It did not take long for Dennis Lillee to advise him that he would be better off focusing on his batting. 6 At the age of 14, Sachin was a ball boy for the match between India and Zimbabwe at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup. 7 Sachin fielded for Pakistan as a substitute in an exhibition match between Pakistan XI and Cricket Club of India Golden Jubilee XI at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai in 1987-88. 8 In the semi-finals of the Harris Shield in 1988, Sachin was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli against St Xavier's High School at Azad Maidan. Sachin made 326 not out while Kambli made 349 not out. 9 Sachin went on to make another triple hundred - 346 - in the final. He averaged over a thousand runs in the tournament that year! 10 On 11 December 1988, aged 15 years and 232 days, Sachin scored 100 not out for Bombay against Gujarat, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on first-class debut. He is the only player to score centuries on debut in the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy. 11 Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989 aged just 16 - he is the fifth youngest player in Test history. He made 15 runs before being bowled by Waqar Younis, who also made his debut in that match. In all, he scored 215 runs at an average of 35.83 in the Test series. 12 In the final Test in Sialkot, he was hit on the nose by a Waqar bouncer, but declined medical assistance and continued to bat even as blood gushed from the wound. 13 In an exhibition game in Peshawar during that tour, Sachin made 53 runs off 18 balls, including an over in which he scored 28 runs off Abdul Qadir, hitting him for 6, 4, 0, 6, 6 & 6. 14 Sachin was dismissed without scoring a run in the first two One Day Internationals he played - the first in Pakistan and the second in New Zealand. 15 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 later said. When he became the second youngest cricketer - at 17 years and 107 days - to score a Test century with an unbeaten 119 against England at Old Trafford in 1990, he was wearing Gavaskar's pads. 16 When Sachin made his legendary 114 in Perth in the 1991-92 series, Merv Hughes had the foresight to tell Allan Border, 'This little prick's going to get more runs than you, AB. 17 Sachin played a solitary season of county cricket in 1992 when he became Yorkshire's first ever overseas player. In 16 first class matches for the county, he made 1070 runs at an average of 46.52 with one century. He's also played club cricket in England for Lashings. 18 Sachin holds the record for the most Test centuries as a teenager - five. 19 Sachin was the first batsman to be given out by the third umpire after being run out by Jonty Rhodes in a Test against South Africa at Durban during the 1992-93 series. 20 In the 1993 Hero Cup final, South Africa needed just six runs from the final over of the match. Sachin was handed the ball by skipper Mohd Azharuddin and conceded just three runs as India romped home. 21 On the day of the Holi festival in 1994, Sachin was told to open the batting against New Zealand at Auckland. It was a career-defining moment. He went on to make a colourful 82 runs off 49 balls. 22 He scored his first ODI century in September 1994 against Australia in Sri Lanka at Colombo. It had taken him 79 ODIs to reach three figures and open the flood gates. 23 In 1995, Sachin married Anjali, a pediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. 24 He was chosen as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1997. 25 After losing the Chennai Test to India in 1997, Australian captain Mark Taylor said, 'We did not lose to a team called India. We lost to a man called Sachin. 26 He was the first cricketer to win the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - for the year 1997-98. MS Dhoni would emulate him by winning the award ten years later. 27 During the Australian tour of India in 1998, Matthew Hayden said 'I have seen God. He bats at no. 4 in India in Tests. 28 1998 was truly Sachin's annus mirabilis. He scored the most ODI runs by any batsman in a calendar year - 1,894 - and for good measure the most ODI centuries by any batsman in a calendar year - 9. In 34 ODIs during the year he had a strike rate of over 100 - 102.15 to be precise. 29 The successive centuries in Sharjah in 1998 when he tore apart an Aussie attack that included a demoralised Shane Warne are part of Indian cricket folklore. Warne was so shell-shocked that he admitted he would go to bed with nightmares of Sachin hitting him for a six. 30 Sachin's fastest international century came off just 71 balls in an ODI against Zimbabwe at Sharjah in 1998. He finished on an unbeaten 124 which included 12 fours and 6 sixes. India won the game by 10 wickets with fellow opener Sourav Ganguly remaining unbeaten on 63. 31 Sachin has opened the innings only once in Tests against New Zealand in Ahmedabad in 1999 when he was captain. India was seeking quick runs in the second innings before a declaration. He was bowled by Chris Cairns for 15. 32 Sachin 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 186 , Dravid 153). In the course of that knock, Sachin smashed 24 runs off an over by Chris Drum. 33 Sachin has rated Mumbai's victory over Tamil Nadu in the semi-final of the Ranji Trophy at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai in the 1999-2000 season as his most memorable moment in the tournament. Sachin made his highest score in the Ranji Trophy - an unbeaten 233 off just 234 balls - to help Mumbai gain the vital first innings lead in the company of the No.11 batsman. 34 According to Sachin, he has only sledged once. The victim was Glenn McGrath during the quarter final of the ICC knockout tournament in Kenya in 2000. “The first thing I said was ‘Today I will hit you out of the ground’. He got really angry and sprayed the ball around. This was exactly what we wanted.” India won by 20 runs. 35 Sachin was given a suspended ban of one game by match referee Mike Denness for alleged ball tampering in South Africa in 2001 after television cameras picked up images that suggested Tendulkar may have been involved in cleaning the seam of the cricket ball. 36 Although Sachin failed with the bat in the legendary Kolkata Test against Australia in 2001, he was an able foil to Harbhajan Singh with the ball, grabbing 3/31 in the second innings. His three victims - Hayden, Gilchrist and Warne - were all lbw. 37 Sachin has been stumped in Tests only once, by James Foster off Ashley Giles, in Bangalore in 2001. He was on 90 at the time. 38 Sachin was gifted a Ferrari 360 Modena by Michael Schumacher on behalf of Fiat in 2002 after passing Bradman's tally of 29 Test centuries. The government's decision to waive duty on the car attracted flak. Sachin went on to sell the car to a businessman from Surat in 2011. 39 Sachin has made 14 ducks in Tests and 20 in ODIs. In the 2002 Test series in the West Indies, after making 79 and 117 in the first two Tests, he made thee ducks in his next four innings, with scores of 0, 0, 8 and 0. 40 ‘Tujhe pata hai tune kiska catch chhoda hai?' Wasim Akram asked Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin during their clash in the 2003 World Cup. Sachin went on to make 98 to help India beat their arch rival for the fourth successive time in the World Cup. 41 Sachin's highest score in Tests (and in first class cricket) is 248 not out against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2004/05.
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